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
Uncovering the deep history of Indigenous fisheries on the Great Barrier Reef: Expanding knowledge with novel high-resolution collagen fingerprinting (Old ID 27260)
Ariana Lambrides
01 Jan 2021 - 30 Jun 2022
This project aims to document Indigenous interactions with the fish resources of the northern Great Barrier Reef (Queensland, Australia) over the past 6,500 years. Using novel analyses of archaeological fish remains, this project expects to generate new knowledge on how people’s actions transformed marine systems and modified fish communities. Expected outcomes include a long-term cultural history of the sustainability of Indigenous fisheries practices in the region, and baseline ecological data for the period prior to European occupation.
Monitoring and Evaluation for JUTE Theatre Company Transport Main Roads Dare 2 Dream Project. (Old ID 27924)
Theresa Petray
01 Aug 2022 - 30 Jun 2026
The purpose of this research is to conduct monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for JUTE Theatre Company’s ‘Remote Road Safety Road Show’. The research will be used to improve future project delivery by JUTE Theatre Company, and to produce scholarly outputs.
Colonial Commemorative Landscapes in Australia
Claire Brennan
11 Aug 2024 - 03 Dec 2024
This project contributes to the team’s research program relating to historical memory and digital mapping. Stevenson and Brennan have complementary strengths and seek to build their collaborative capacity towards a future ARC DP application. Stevenson is a feminist historian of social movements with prior experience in the digital humanities through The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of transatlantic suffrage postcards from the 1910s. As a PI on a current ARC Discovery Project about the history of archiving social movements, she is working on historical memory and digital archiving. Brennan is an environmental historian, specialising in European exploration and digital history. Brennan’s work on the Coral Discovery Project involves digitally mapping all the European scientific voyages to the Pacific between 1768 and 1834. This new research project builds on their co-authored journal article (Minor Revisions) under consideration with a Radical History Review Special Edition: “Memory Over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials and Intangible Heritage.”
The team’s new project aligns directly with the Centre for Heritage and Culture theme of “storied landscapes.” Digitally mapping colonial commemorative sites strengthens the CHC’s strategic research about storied landscapes. The team’s previous map of Cook monuments revealed that Captain Cook has become an indelible figure in Australia’s commemorative landscape with little connection between sites of historical significance and commemorative infrastructure. This method of digital historical inquiry enables the team to uncover, interpret, and translate the past to create new stories about the history and legacy of colonial figures. Digital mapping will allow the team to clearly tease out the tensions between historical knowledge and historical memory across these storied landscapes.
Responding to Violent Assaults Against Police (Old ID 22949)
Mark David Chong
01 Sep 2016 - 31 Dec 2017
The proposed research is a collaboration between Queensland Police Services (QPS) and James Cook university and will lead to a sustainable and mutually beneficial relationship due to the Chief Investigators role as the invited JCU representative on the newly formed Community Policing Board which was introduced by the state government this year. The purpose of the Community Policing board is to foster partnerships between the major community groups and QPS in order to identify community based strategies to combat crimes which threaten the property and personal safety of local citizens. This is an opportune initiative considering that Townsville currently has the highest levels of youth crime in the state.
Townsville's Timeline, our history and it's media (Old ID 22168)
Claire Brennan
01 Sep 2015 - 31 Dec 2016
We are seeking funding from the T150 scheme for our research time and the putting on of an exhibition at the Museum of Tropical Queensland. We have support in kind from James Cook University, the Museum of Tropical Queensland, and the Townsville Bulletin. We learn about our community and region partly through the local and community media. In addition history is recorded through the reports of our media. This project will be unique in documenting and drawing together numerous events to reflect on how our local media has shaped our community and identity. The project will complement the work of the T150 Townsville Bulletin projects.
Traditional Knowledge about Climate and Food Security in Kwaio, Malaita, Solomon Islands (Old ID 27270)
Karen Cheer
08 Jun 2021 - 30 Apr 2022
This project will be implemented in conjunction with Baru Conservation Alliance in Malaita, Solomon Islands. Traditional Knowledge and experience of weather, the seasonal interaction of plants, animals and people will be explored and documented. The use of tradiitional 'disaster food' after natural disasters will also be documented. The local scale production of flour from locally grown fuits and vegetables will be piloted; usage and spoilage monitored, and dishes made from flour trialled for acceptability and feasibility with Kwaio tribal groups. The project links food security, health and ecological sustainability to inform local level disaster and climate resilience measures in Malaita, Solomon Islands.
Townsville's Prioneering Road: Objects, histories and stories from pasture to port and prosperity (Old ID 22179)
Nigel Chang
01 Jul 2015 - 30 Jul 2016
Townsville's success over Port Denison (Bowen) and Cardwell was due to the Townsville-Dalrymple road, constructed by Melton Black, connecting the port in Ross Creek to the interior. This project highlights the road and its role in Townsville's story through objects excavated from archaeological sites found along it including Stanton House (Flinders St East), the Range Hotel (Hervey's Range) and the Cape River goldfield. The objects will be presented in an online, 'virtual' museum with 3D images. The project will use the objects to stimulate a creative writing workshop and will also include electronic education packs for primary school students.
Enhancing District Delivery and Management of Agriculture Extension in Lao PDR (Old ID 20602)
Simon Foale
01 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2016
The primary purpose of this project is to improve management of agricultural extension services in Lao PDR. A JCU team is partnering with the Government of Lao's Department of Agriculture Extension and Cooperatives to research and implement ways of strengthening extension. Organization development and participatory action research methodologies will be used to engage stakeholders from villages, Districts, Provinces and relevant government agencies in the co-creation and implementation of: (a) extension guidelines to match new extension interventions to local needs and opportunities; and (b) Extension Management System tools to assist District Agriculture and Forestry Offices to plan and manage services.
Re-Curating the Tropics in the era of climate change: Indigenous relationships with natural science collections in the Queensland Museum (Old ID 23071)
Simon Foale
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.
Language emergence in multilingual contexts (Old ID 23509)
Luca Ciucci
01 Jan 2018 - 28 Feb 2020
As European colonisation spread around the world, European languages infiltrated numerous areas, giving rise to new language varieties. Bringing indigenous people from various language groups together — on plantations, in missions and boarding schools — has resulted in creating new forms of dominant languages for inter-group communication, among them European-based Creoles (such as Tok Pisin, the English-based Creole, and the previously undescribed Unserdeutsch, a creolized variety of German, in PNG). New blended languages emerge, as communities come to live together. We focus on areas of high linguistic diversity covering New Guinea, Amazonia, and East Asia, in the context of multilingual situations.
Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains
- 2018
- National Academy of Sciences
- Researchers:Andrew HoeyGeorgina Gurney
The Second Australasian Mental Health and Higher Education Conference: conference information and book of abstracts
- 2018
- James Cook University
- Researchers:Margaret CarterAbraham Francis
2nd Australasian Mental Health and Higher Education Conference: conference information and book of abstracts
- 2018
- James Cook University
- Researchers:Margaret CarterAbraham Francis
Re-visioning child protection management embedded in family empowerment
- 2018
- Cambridge University Press
- Researchers:Debra MilesAbraham Francis
Croc safari: why selling licences to rich hunters isn’t fair
- 2016
- The Conversation Media Group
- Researchers:Claire Brennan
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