Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences

Kate Manlik

Kate Manlik

Rosita Henry

Rosita Henry

Michael Ackland

Michael Ackland

Roger Osborne

Roger Osborne

Claire Hansen

Claire Hansen

Zoe Wang

Zoe Wang

Karen Cheer

Karen Cheer

Katherine Woo

Katherine Woo

Michele Barnes

Michele Barnes

Maddy McAllister

Maddy McAllister

How midwifery students at a university in PNG understand, experience and manage the provision of care to women following stillbirth. (Old ID 22522)
Karen Cheer
01 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2016
This study will describe and theorise the understanding of stillbirth and experiences of providing care to women following stillbirth with a cohort of midwifery students at a univeristy in Papua New Guinea. The study will document social, cultural, spiritual and professional factors that inform the provision of care from the perspective of midwifery students who have been maternal healthcare providers prior to enrolment. The study will contribute to the body of knowledge on stillbirth experiences in resource limited and complex social and cultural settings, and enhance collaboration between JCU and Pacific Adventist University.
Migration and Environmental Risks: A Case Study into Perceptions of Risk Factors for Coastal Living in the Cairns Northern Beaches (Old ID 22936)
Nick Osbaldiston
01 Sep 2016 - 31 Dec 2017
This project investigates the impact of population churn in the Cairns Northern Beaches. The aim is to understand who is moving into the area and what factors attracted them. It further aims to understand how migrants negotiate environmental risks, what equity concerns there might be between them and extant community members, and how policy can respond to produce equitable outcomes. The research will promote understanding of highly mobile tropical communities with diverse demographics and the future planning risks inherent in a climate changed environment. It will add to the growing need to incorporate environmental risks into migration theory within scholarship.
10,000 years of Indigenous fisheries informs future Great Barrier Reef (Old ID 26940)
Ariana Lambrides
19 Mar 2021 - 18 Mar 2024
This project aims to document the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in shaping the fish resources of the Great Barrier Reef over millennia. Using novel analyses of archaeological faunal remains, this project expects to generate new knowledge on how people’s actions transformed marine systems and modified fish communities. Expected outcomes include establishing pre‐ European baseline data essential for managing contemporary fish populations, and a long‐term perspective on human exploitation of a shifting Great Barrier Reef. Benefits include a framework for integrating Indigenous fisheries management into conservation agendas and foregrounding the deep human history of the Reef to support future social‐ecological resilience.
Regional Economic Development Through Creative Industries (Old ID 21751)
Ryan Daniel
01 Nov 2014 - 31 Jan 2016
The creative industries are recognised as a key contributor to both developed and developing economies. Supply and demand factors relevant to this sector remain elusive and under-researched, particularly in relation to regional economies in northern Australia. Using the tropical city of Townsville as a case study, this project seeks to identify and map the current capacity of the creative industries (supply), the use of these services (demand), as well as issues affecting the development and retaining of the creative workforce. One of the key outcomes will be a detailed picture of what impact the supply and demand aspects of creative industries have on regional economies.
Hidden histories of the teeth: The key to unlocking ancient secrets in prehistoric central Myanmar (Old ID 26945)
Anna Willis
01 Jul 2021 - 30 Jun 2027
The aim of this project is to examine isotopes in the teeth of individuals from three sites in prehistoric central Myanmar to examine diet, the movement and migration of people, and potential patterns in post-marital residence, which are all intricately linked. Built on a strong conceptual framework this project seeks to generate new information in the field of archaeological science. The research outcomes of this project will expand our current archaeological knowledge of this focal but under-researched area, which will be of particular benefit in understanding Myanmar in relation to surrounding regions and the wider Southeast Asian context, and in fostering continued collegiality and collaboration with Myanmar scholars and communities.
Understanding long-term Indigenous uses of the Great Barrier Reef: Re-excavating the Freshwater Bay Midden, Lizard Island (Old ID 27472)
Ariana Lambrides
01 Apr 2022 - 31 Mar 2023
This project aims to document Aboriginal Late Holocene use of Great Barrier Reef offshore islands through the re-excavation of Freshwater Bay Midden on Lizard Island. After extensive physical surveys and recording of cultural places across the Lizard Island Group over the past decade it has been determined that Freshwater Bay Midden is the only remaining site with significant sub-surface deposits intact that has not yet been excavated using modern archaeological techniques. Expected outcomes include a comprehensive framework from which to consider offshore island use in northeast Australia, as well as documenting the dynamic history of Lizard Island occupation.
Re-Curating the Tropics in the era of climate change: Indigenous relationships with natural science collections in the Queensland Museum (Old ID 23071)
Rosita Henry
01 Dec 2016 - 31 Dec 2017
That Aboriginal people have made significant contributions to natural science collections in museums is little known and poorly understood. We explore relationships between natural species collectors and Aboriginal people who often helped create those collections. Our focus is no culturally significant tropical species in museum collections and how these species are represented in artefact collections. We will explore ideas about environmental change evidenced in museum practices (collecting, archiving, curating) and Aboriginal artists' responses to these ways of representing nature. In collaboration with Aboriginal artists and curators, we will begin to develop an analytical exhibition concerning environmental change in the tropics.
Improving technical and institutional capacity to support development of mariculture based livelihoods and industry in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (Old ID 23279)
Simon Foale
01 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2019
The overall aim of this project is to provide a sustainable basis for the further development of a mariculture sector in PNG and to further build capacity within country partner organisations and coastal communities to support this development. Specific research objectives are: * to further develop culture and husbandry protocols for target species; * to develop community-based sea cucumber culture methodology to a level potentially supporting income generation; and * to continue building long term institutional mariculture capacity in PNG. Given the significant community benefits expected from this project, detailed economic and socio-economic assessments will be undertaken to describe project impacts.
Unravelling the mystery of the Plain of Jars, Laos (Old ID 21895)
Nigel Chang
01 Jan 2015 - 14 Jan 2020
Since their discovery in the 1930s the mysterious collection s of giant stone jars scattered throughout central Laos have remained one of the great prehistoric puzzles of SE Asia. It is thought that the jars represent the mortuary remains of an extensive and powerful Iron Age culture. This project seeks to determine the true nature of these sites which date to a dynamic period of increasing complexity in Se Asia (c.500BCE-500CE). This will be achieved through extensive reconnaissance, precision mapping, archaeological excavation and analysis of associated burial material. Using a suite of cutting-edge archaeological technologies this project will have far-reaching benefits for archaeology, science, Laos and World Heritage.
Smart Islands Program: Fostering Collaboration between Australians and Polynesians (Old ID 26900)
Florence Boulard
01 Jun 2020 - 31 Jul 2024
This project primarily aims at contributing to the French Polynesian Smart Islands program, a spearhead initiative of the Polynesian Government. Research wise, the objective is to focus on two of the four core pillars of the program: Tourism and the Circular Economy. While applied research and transfer of expertise remain the catalyst of our contribution as a team, the project also involves broader aspects: education to issues specific to the Pacific (e.g. climate change) and student exchanges (DFTA NCP); commercial relations through the French Polynesia Regional Group and institutional partnership with Tahiti Business School, of key importance to diplomatic funding.

Multiscale determinants of social adaptive capacity in small-scale fishing communities

Ecological and socioeconomic impacts of marine protected areas in the South Pacific: assessing the evidence base

  • 2020
  • Springer
  • Researchers:Patrick Smallhorn-WestGeorgina Gurney

The case for a Torres Strait Islander‐driven, long‐term research agenda for environment, health and wellbeing

Lessons from history point to local councils’ role in Australia’s recovery

Indigenous knowledge in the time of climate change (with reference to Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia)

Urbanization alters ecosystem service preferences in a Small Island Developing State

Planter inertia: the decline of the plantation in the Herbert River Valley

The day the falls stopped flowing: devastation and resilience in tropical Queensland

Small farmers, their association, and the transformation of the Australian sugar industry

The Herbert River Museum Gallery: a documentation of the current attempt to establish a museum in the Hinchinbrook Shire

Title: PhD, James Cook University
Reseracher: Theresa Petray (Associate Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2007
End Date: 01 Jan 2011
Title: Bachelor of Arts with Honours, St. Lawrence University
Reseracher: Theresa Petray (Associate Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2002
End Date: 01 Jan 2006
Title: W.K Hancock Prize, Australian Historical Association
Reseracher: Russell McGregor (Adjunct Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 1998
Title: Shortlisted for the National Biography Award
Reseracher: Russell McGregor (Adjunct Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2020
Title: NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History
Reseracher: Russell McGregor (Adjunct Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2012
Title: Shortlisted for Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
Reseracher: Russell McGregor (Adjunct Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2012
Title: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Reseracher: Rosita Henry (Adjunct Professor)
Title: World Anthropological Union (WAU)
Reseracher: Rosita Henry (Adjunct Professor)
Title: Supervisory panel of the year for David Crowe's PhD thesis
Reseracher: Ryan Daniel (Adjunct Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2020
Title: Supervisory panel of the year for Brett Levine's PhD thesis
Reseracher: Ryan Daniel (Adjunct Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2018