Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Kate Manlik
- Lecturer
- kate.manlik@jcu.edu.au
Rosita Henry
- Adjunct Professor
- rosita.henry@jcu.edu.au
Michael Ackland
- Adjunct Professor
- michael.ackland@jcu.edu.au
Roger Osborne
- Roderick Associate Professor of English Literature
- roger.osborne@jcu.edu.au
Claire Hansen
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer
- claire.hansen3@jcu.edu.au
Zoe Wang
- Senior Lecturer, Development Studies
- zoe.wang@jcu.edu.au
Karen Cheer
- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
- karen.cheer@jcu.edu.au
Katherine Woo
- Adjunct Research Fellow
- katherine.woo@jcu.edu.au
Michele Barnes
- Adjunct Associate Professor
- michele.barnes@jcu.edu.au
Maddy McAllister
- Senior Lecturer, Maritime Archaeology
- madeline.mcallister@jcu.edu.au
Interactive governance analysis of the Beche-de-mer 'Fish Chain' from Papau New Guinea (Old ID 22287)
This project proposal is to generate knowledge about whole beche-de-mer supply chains through to consumption in end markets, focusing first on the PNG end and moving on to international connections later in the project. This knowledge will be developed within the conceptual framework of 'interactive governance' - focusing on the various actors involved in the supply chain and their networked influences at different scales affecting the way the fishery operates. This knowledge will form the basis for a set of recommendations to improve sustainability in PNG's sea cucumber fishery, to complement existing recommendations developed by the PNG government and community and conservation organisations.
Constructed Seascapes: Understanding Fishtrap Construction, Use, Condition and Future in the Wellesley Islands Region, Gulf of Carpentaria
This project is a partnership between the Wellesley Islands Rangers (WILSSED) and the PhD candidate Lucy Hughes (enrolled at James Cook University, Cairns) to investigate stone-walled fishtrap construction, use, condition, and futures in the Wellesley Islands region. The project will use existing data previously collected from the Wellesley Island region, including aerial photos, drone imagery, LiDAR and on Country survey recordings.
Emerging Black Gold: Coffee Production, Cross-Border Trade, and Ethnic Minorities on China’s Southwest Borderlands
Investigating coffee production in Yunnan, China. PI- Prof. Po-Yi Hung, National Taiwan University.
Coral Discovery
This project is engaged in digitally mapping all scientific expeditions that entered the Indian or Pacific Oceans before 1834. While it was originally envisioned as supporting the review of coral taxonomy it has wider implications including the establishment of environmental baselines, identifying museum collections relevant to Pacific locations, and examining the impact of European contact over time.
Walking through Time: Australia-Japan Symposium and History Trail
This project delves into the rich history shared by Australia and Japan, with a specific focus on northern Queensland. Townsville is the site of Australia’s first Japanese Consulate (1896-1908), and the project’s primary location, which highlights the unique opportunity of this project.
The project involves a one-day symposium bringing together eminent scholars from both countries, presented in-person and online. Their presentations will explore diverse aspects of Australia-Japan history focused on northern Australia. This public symposium is complemented by a guided walking tour of significant sites of Australia-Japan’s shared past in Townsville, bringing these place-based histories to life.
To ensure long-term impact, the project partners will collaborate on a digital resource documenting the history trail. This online platform will showcase these key Australia-Japan sites, alongside photographs and information, making the project accessible to a wide audience. Through co-creation and public outreach, this project will foster deep appreciation for Australia-Japan’s shared histories and inspire further education, research, and collaborations.
The project will coincide with the Australian Historical Association conference held in Townsville in 2025, thereby capitalising on opportunities for networking and knowledge exchange among historians, educators, and heritage professionals. Ultimately, this initiative will strengthen Australia-Japan partnerships through education, engagement, and cultural exchange.
Building Community Economic Capacity through Understanding Insurance Levels (Old ID 26741)
This research will assist in understanding the vulnerability and resilience of the Cairns Community to major natural disaster events such as cyclones. Using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research, the project will collect data on how communities across Cairns insure their property and what levels of under or noninsurance there is. In doing so, the project will provide one of the first attempts to quantify and qualify under/noninsurance in the Cairns region to date. This research will also build on former similar research conducted through James Cook University (Osbaldiston, McShane and Oleszek, 2019).
The Nakanai Caves Cultural Heritage Project (Old ID 21247)
This project will document and integrate the natural and cultural values of the Nakanai Caves in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, in preparation for a cultural landscape World Heritage nomination. Our novel methodology incorporates community knowledge with archaeological and anthropological evidence to link natural and cultural values and define the landscape from local perspectives. Local input into the research will be prioritised. By emphasizing local participation and management of World Heritage listing processes we address an identified gap in World Heritage methodologies. Our approach allows for a subtle, nuanced definition of cultural landscapes under the World Heritage Convention.
Improving food security in the northern uplands of Lao PDR: Identifying drivers and overcoming barriers (Old ID 21945)
Despite strong economic growth in the last decade, food insecurity in Lao PDR remains high (around 22%) and more or less unchanged. The drivers of food insecurity are largely unknown. This project asks: 1) What are the past drivers, and current constraints and enhancers, of food security status, and 2) What are the impacts of interventions to address food insecurity, in the Northern Uplands of Lao PDR? The project will use a variety of mixed methods to produce an analysis of household strategies towards income generation and stabilisation under a range of market conditions.
Tropical Rainforest in Expedition Journals
This proposal is to conduct a comparative analysis of Ellis Rowan’s memoir The Flower Hunter: The adventures, in Northern Australia and New Zealand, of flower painter Ellis Rowan (1898) about her experience of visiting tropical rainforest in Queensland, Australia, with the journals of two people who travelled through the forests of the Congo in 1908 and 1909. This will allow consideration and analysis of perspectives of tropical rainforest in two countries in a comparable era. The latter journals are held in the Smithsonian libraries of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA). They are: A.B. Rendle, E.G. Baker and S. LeM. Moore’s An account of the plants collected by the Ruwenzori Expedition (1910) and M. W. Hilton-Simpson’s Land and peoples of the Kasai being a narrative of a two years’ journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo (1911). A third journal is M. W. Hilton-Simpson’s Journal of the Congo expedition: Containing narrative of the journey, personal notes, geographical notes (1909), which is available as a digital resource, a format that will enable me to begin my research before travelling. This project is designed to build on a major grant application submitted in March through the Australian Research Council to study rainforest representation in Australian fiction and life writing. The Smithsonian proposal does this by expanding the scope internationally. Should the DECRA be successful, this Fellowship would coincide with and support the literature review phase of that project.
Success and failure in climate (im)mobility policy solutions around the Indo-Pacific
There is a prescient and ongoing need to better understand the drivers, patterns, and required support structures for people, households, and communities engaging with decisions around climate-related (im)mobilities. What we also know is that in these spaces of climate and disaster governance, preparation is exponentially more cost-effective than rapid response.
We propose two key activities to manage the problem of understanding success and failure in climate policy possibility solutions in the Indo-Pacific.
The first aspect is developing a baseline of climate (im)mobility policy solutions. This would involve developing a typology of climate (im)mobilities policy clusters to both highlight the diversity of mobility types that exist within this broad governance area and provide clarity towards what policy and practice should focus on for improved outcomes for people and communities.
The second aspect of this project extends beyond its academic research-based roots to share the findings with policymakers and practitioners across the region. Therefore, we will directly engage with key stakeholders, sharing policy-focused interpretations of the findings and opening up a dialogue to understand the barriers to putting in place the practices we argue for. After these consultations, we will progress to a short, impactful monograph that brings together the academic and the practical to express both the state of climate mobilities governance across Oceania and where the field is heading in the future.
Challenging the orthodoxy : an alternative strategy for the tertiary teaching of piano.
- 2005
- Researchers:Ryan Daniel
Self-assessment in performance
- 2001
- Cambridge University Press
- Researchers:Ryan Daniel
Avoiding 'Aborigines': Paul Hasluck and the Northern Territory Welfare Ordinance, 1953
- 2005
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Researchers:Russell McGregor
'Breed out the colour' or the importance of being white
- 2002
- University of Melbourne
- Researchers:Russell McGregor
Governance, not genocide: Aboriginal assimilation in the Postwar Era
- 2004
- Berghahn Books
- Researchers:Russell McGregor
Assimilation as acculturation: A.P. Elkin on the dynamics of cultural change
- 2005
- API Network
- Researchers:Russell McGregor
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