Honorary appointments
An Honorary Appointment is a voluntary arrangement which entitles esteemed researchers and academics to actively engage with Northern Institute (NI) staff and students.
Our Honoraries contribute their expertise by collaborating on joint social and policy research projects and/or publications, supervising or mentoring Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students, providing lectures, seminars or workshops in their area of expertise or fostering strategic relationships between NI and its academic, professional, governmental, business, industrial and community partners.
Alphabetical listing
Dr Alana Brekelmans
Honorary Fellow
PhD, BFA(Hons), BA
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University
: Darwin/ Melbourne
- Environmental anthropology
- Creative and experimental methodologies
- Affect and embodiment
- Narrative
- Postcolonial studies
Alana’s research draws on ethnographic and creative methods to examine the ways affect, environment, and narrative interface with power structures in the processes of worlding. This has involved exploring perceptions of belonging, settler-colonial legacy and the environment in Outback Queensland and, more recently, decision-making for conservation and development on the Tiwi Islands. She is the recipient of the 2021 Australian Anthropological Society Thesis Prize. Learn more at alanabrekelmans.com.
Dr Alexandra Marley
Alexandra is a post-doctoral fellow at the Australian National Herbarium (NRCA, NCMI) at the CSIRO. She is currently working with Indigenous communities in West Arnhem and CSIRO botanists to link species concepts and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK).
The Australian National Herbarium (ANH) has an extraordinary collection of Australian flora, yet these specimens are named using Western scientific principles, making them inaccessible to anyone not versed in botanical nomenclature. Her work aims to expand the function of the ANH collection so that it may support language and IEK maintenance and transmission in Indigenous communities.
Dr Alison Reedy
University Fellow
Profile coming soon
Professor Allan Dale
University Fellow
: +61 418 736 422
: The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
Cairns, QLD
Allan has a strong interest in integrated natural resource policy and management in northern Australia. He has both extensive research and policy expertise in governance systems and integrated natural resource management. He is Chair of Regional Development Australian Far North Queensland and Torres Strait. His past research helped inform the policy and investment foundations for the nation’s regional natural resource management system, and he was also responsible for natural resource policy in Queensland Government. Allan has also been the CEO of the Wet Tropics Regional NRM Body before returning to this international research role. As Leader – Tropical Regional Development at The Cairns Institute of JCU, he also accesses an international network of research expertise in the governance field, with particularly strong linkages throughout Charles Darwin University, Griffith University and CSIRO.
Dr Ana Vuin
University Fellow
: +61 8 8946 6547
: Casuarina campus, CDU
Ana has a PhD in Human Geography and is interested in researching regional, rural, and sparsely populated areas and communities. For her dissertation topic, Ana examined in-migration to depopulating SPAs in three different countries through a conceptual framework that explored the in-migration effects on the migrant, place, and community. During her PhD Candidate, Ana spent one semester as a visiting scholar at the Arctic Research Centre at Umea University and collaborated with The Centre for Rural Medicine (GMC) in Northern Sweden. During her time in Sweden, she gained teaching experience delivering a master’s degree course (Qualitative Research Methods: Data Collection and Analysis) with her co-supervisor.
Ana is currently collaborating on several papers looking into the medical education programs and their applicability to rural-based health professions, the implications of attempted revitalization strategies and activity bursts in rural areas, COVID-19 mobility restrictions and implications and COVID-19 impact on the international workforce in the EU.
Dr Anne Lindblom
University Fellow
: Karlstad University, Sweden
Dr Anne Lindblom (born Sjögren) was born in Karlstad, Sweden, in 1958 and moved to Vancouver, Canada, with her parents in 1959, where they lived until 1972. It was during these years her interest in the outdoors, wildlife and people was sparked during a happy childhood in close connection with the ocean, mountains and the diverse community. After moving back to Sweden at the age of 14, her first education was hairdressing, and she opened her own salon. Many years, jobs and courses later, she began her academic career and got her teaching qualification at the age of 40. Her interest in research awoke during her studies in music therapy, and it took 19 years to get the academic credentials and experience to get accepted for doctoral studies. In April 2017, she defended her doctoral dissertation: Stepping out of the Shadows of colonialism to the beat of the drum: The meaning of music for five First Nations children with autism in British Columbia, Canada, in the subject of Psychology at the University of Eastern Finland. Through her family ties with stepmother and sisters of the Lake Babine Nation in BC, she has been educated on the topics of colonization, systemic racism, residential schools and the historical trauma that affects the everyday lives of Indigenous peoples in Canada and worldwide.
Dr Anne Poelina
Adjunct Professor
: +61 (0)408 922 155
: Madjulla Inc. Broome, WA
Dr Anne Poelina is the Managing Director of Madjulla Inc., an Indigenous not-for-profit non-government community development organisation; Deputy Chair of the Nyikina Mangala Aboriginal Corporation, Deputy Chair of the Northern Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Indigenous Water Policy Group and is an inaugural member of the recently formed National First Peoples Water Council.
An indigenous woman raised in Western Australia, Anne is passionate about sharing her life experiences with all people to demonstrate how marginalised people can overcome difficult situations by building their capacity to engage with others. She has a strong history of working to improve the disadvantaged lives experienced by Indigenous Australians and a strong academic background with diplomas in Nursing (RN), Aboriginal Studies and Health Education, three master's degrees in Education, Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Indigenous Social Policy.
Barbara White
University Fellow
Profile coming soon
Dr Benxiang Zeng
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Dr Benxiang Zeng holds a PhD in the area of International Tourism Management from the University of Queensland, Australia. Dr Zeng is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University (CDU). He is based in Alice Springs, The Northern Territory, Australia.
Professor Bruce Prideaux
University Fellow
: 0403 936 146
: Central Queensland University
Cairns, QLD
Bruce holds the position of Director of the Centre for Tourism and Regional Opportunities at the Cairns campus of Central Queensland University and is the program director of the Masters of Sustainable Tourism Management. He has a wide range of research interests, including coral reef tourism, protected area tourism, rural tourism, remote area tourism, indigenous tourism, urban tourism, river and canal tourism and climate change. Other active areas of research include military heritage, mobilities and ecotourism. He has authored over 300 journal articles, book chapters and conference papers on a range of tourism-related issues. He has also authored or co-authored ten books, the most recent of which looks at climate change issues and global rainforest tourism. Current projects include a co-edited book that will investigate aspects of coral reef tourism and a co-authored book that examines opportunities in agricultural areas.
Dr Catherine Koerner
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Profile coming soon
Dr Catherine Williams
Adjunct Research Fellow
Profile coming soon
Professor Cathy Robinson
University Fellow
: +61 4 3717 0024
: Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO, Brisbane, QLD
Research interests: Cross-cultural monitoring | Responsible innovation| Digital inclusion | Healthy country Planning and evaluation
Cathy has been part of the Northern Institute for over 10 years. She spent time as a Director of the CSIRO:CDU Northern Australia Research Alliance and is now leading projects with CDU-CSIRO research fellows and staff. See her CSIRO profile for details.
Cathy Robinson is a geographer based at CSIRO and shares the Northern Institute's interest in the design of scientifically rigorous and socially robust decision-support frameworks that are capable of translating scientific and local knowledge into environmental policy decision making in addition to the barriers and opportunities facing Indigenous people in their efforts to contribute to environmental planning objectives and receive co-benefits from the delivery of carbon and water management projects.
Professor Robinson has led a highly successful program of research focused on the integration of knowledge and governance systems into environmental decision-making and management with a particular focus on Northern Australia. She is well known and accepted in many Northern Australian Indigenous and industry-based communities. This body of work has had a substantial scientific impact and has been funded by the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre, the Tropical Savannas Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), the Desert Knowledge CRC, and the National Heritage Trust (II) program.
David Guerrero Beltran
Visiting Fellow
Profile coming soon
Dr Christine Doran
University Fellow
Profile coming soon
Dr Daile Lynn Rung
Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Daile Lynn Rung MEd, PhD, is a research fellow at Menzies. Before coming to Menzies, Daile was the senior policy officer with the Northern Territory Government’s Office of Gender Equality and Violence Reduction. She has also worked as an education lecturer and researcher at Charles Darwin University and as an ESL teacher in South Korea and Thailand.
Dr Delyna Baxter
Adjunct Research Fellow
: delyna.baxter@uqconnect.edu.au
: +61 448 488 999
: Perth, WA
Delyna Baxter studied the lived experience of Aboriginal pastoral workers across northern Australia as part of an initiative by the Australian Stockmen’s Hall of Fame, Longreach Queensland. She travelled across north Australia to locate and interview around 200 Aboriginal people who had worked in the pastoral industry. Delyna visited remote, rural and regional towns, communities and pastoral stations to record their stories and important events in their lives. Her work revealed many themes and significant experiences of people’s life on stations, which became a primary focus of her Social Anthropology PhD, which she was awarded in 2021.
Delyna lived in Alice Springs, Northern Territory and worked as a social well-being researcher in Indigenous communities for both Tangentyere Aboriginal Council and Central Australian Aboriginal Congress. In these roles, she worked with a team of Aboriginal researchers on projects endorsed by Aboriginal boards on Health and Social Justice issues affecting Central Australian Aboriginal people. Delyna remains dedicated to recording Aboriginal people’s lives and experiences on stations, with her current project in the Pilbara. Delyna sees this as an essential part of Aboriginal people’s history and the shared national history of Australia.
Dr Dermot Smyth
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
: +61 438 915 408
: Atherton, North QLD
Born in Dublin, Ireland, I emigrated to Australia with my family in 1959 at the age of 10. That experience of travelling halfway around the world on a ship to settle in a new country set in motion the trajectory of my life – my love of the sea, my interest in travel and cultures around the world and, later, my work supporting Indigenous land and sea management in Australia.
Dr Don Zoellner
University Fellow
- Vocational Education and Training (VET)
- Public Policy Making
- Policy Implementation
- Markets for Government Services and Products
Dr Don Zoellner has worked in the school, vocational and higher education sectors in the Northern Territory since 1973. He served as the Executive Director of Centralian College in Alice Springs and Pro Vice-Chancellor VET and Community Engagement at Charles Darwin University. He was a director of the Enterprise and Career Education Foundation, Chairperson of the Australian Principals’ Associations Professional Development Council and a panel member of the Shergold Review of Senior Secondary Pathways in 2019-20.
Dr Zoellner has served on numerous advisory committees, reviews and evaluations of education and training at both NT and national levels. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators and former Group Training NT board chair. He currently serves as the independent chair of the Industry Skills Advisory Council Northern Territory board, was the NT representative on the Australian Industry and Skills Committee until the end of 2022, and is a member of the National VET Regulator Advisory Council.
Dr Zoellner completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 2013 by describing the development and implementation of VET policy in Australia and continues to research, present and publish in the area.
Dr Eileen Cummings
University Fellow
: Darwin, NT
Eileen has long-standing connections across NT Aboriginal communities, the Federal and NT Government after her time as a senior bureaucrat in the Aboriginal social policy area. Eileen ensures the research is developed according to the highest standards of research in Western and Aboriginal contexts; Eileen presents and publishes the research outcomes with CDU researchers and supports the engagement of Aboriginal people as researchers in evaluation projects.
Professor Elizabeth Povinelli
University Fellow
: +1 212 854 1467
: New York, USA
Beth's writing has focused on developing a critical theory of late liberalism that would support an anthropology of the otherwise. Informed primarily by the traditions of American pragmatism and continental immanent theory and grounded in the circulation of values, materialities, and socialities. This potential theory has unfolded primarily from within a sustained relationship with Indigenous colleagues in north Australia and across five books, numerous essays, and three films with the Karrabing Film Collective.
Emily Ford
Adjunct Research Associate
: Darwin, NT
Emily Ford graduated with a Certificate IV in Business Governance in May 2017 and currently studying for a Diploma of Arts at Charles Darwin University. She works with senior research fellow Dr Linda Ford on Indigenous research projects, Aboriginal Cosmology, New ways for old ceremonies: an archival research project, ARC Discovery Indigenous Project and land management & land revitalization projects. Emily was awarded the Darwin Young Citizen of the Year in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the Darwin community at the City of Darwin Australia Day Awards in January 2020.
Dr Endre Danyi
: Visiting Professor, 'Biotechnologies, Nature and Society' working group, Department of Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Science and Technology studies
- Political sociology
- Social theory
- Ethnography
- Actor-network theory
Endre Dányi is Visiting Professor at the 'Biotechnologies, Nature and Society' working group at the Department of Sociology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and University Fellow at the Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Australia. Educated in Budapest, London and Lancaster, Endre is a sociologist interested in the spatial-material conditions of democratic politics. His PhD was an ethnographic study of the Hungarian Parliament, whereas his Habilitation project focuses on situations where parliamentary logic breaks down or reaches its limits. His recent publications have appeared in Social Studies of Science; Science, Technology & Human Values; and the Sociological Review. Endre is co-founder and co-editor of Mattering Press - an Open Access book publisher specialised in Science and Technology Studies, Mattering Press.
Dr Gary Manison
Profile coming soon
Dr George Tan
Profile coming soon
Dr Glenn Morrison
Profile coming soon
Professor Harry Blagg
: +61 8 6488 2842
: UWA Law School, The University of Western Australia
Crawley, WA
Harry Blag is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the UWA Law School. Harry Blagg has a national and international reputation as a leading criminologist specializing in Indigenous people and criminal justice, young people and crime, family and domestic violence, crime prevention, diversionary strategies, policing and restorative justice. He has over 20 years of experience in conducting high-level research with Aboriginal people across Australia (including urban, rural and remote locations) on justice-related issues. From 2001/2006, Harry was Research Director of the West Australian Law Reform Commission’s reference: Aboriginal Customary Laws. This project explored whether Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal forms of law can be harmonized and integrated.
He has developed a specific focus on remote communities – particularly in the Kimberley Region of WA and the Northern Territory - and has been involved in research, consultancy and policy development around community justice, night patrols, men's and women’s safe places, youth justice and family violence.
Dr Heather Gibb
: +61 413 580 317
: Adelaide, SA
Heather’s current research spans the areas of ageing and support for ageing in rural and remote contexts. She is particularly interested in developing and evaluating integrated service models to ensure successful ageing in remote places. Heather has a mixed career in nursing and psychology and an overarching interest in resilience across the lifespan. She has held the position of Professor of Nursing, Aged Care at the University of Technology, Sydney (joint appointment with South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service) and Professor of Rural and Remote Health with the faculty of Nursing at Charles Sturt University (joint appointment with Mid Western and Macquarie Area Health Services in rural NSW).
Dr Hitesh Khanna
: 0400 004 698
: Casuarina campus, CDU
Hitesh Khanna is currently working as a Principal Analyst within the Economic Group of the NT Government’s Department of Treasury and Finance. In his present role, he developed the NT population projection model in collaboration with the Demography and Growth Planning team at CDU’s Northern Institute. The latest set of NT population projections produced using this model was released in 2019. His previous role was as Financial Policy Analyst, also with the Department of Treasury and Finance.
Dr Ilonka Guse-Brennfleck
Profile coming soon.
Dr Jacquelyn Escarcha
: jacquelyn.escarcha@cdu.edu.au
: +61 8 8946 6659
: Casuarina campus, CDU
Jacquelyn Escarcha received her PhD from Charles Darwin University and a double master’s degree in Sustainable Development in Agriculture from Montpellier SupAgro-France and the University of Catania in Italy.
She works with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations based in the Philippines as a food supply chain specialist in joint research on “Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Adaptive Measures Practiced in Metro Manila”. Her prior position includes being an assistant scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in the South East Asia region.
Dr Jagath Pathirage
: + 61 8 8946 7468
: Casuarina campus, CDU
Jagath Bandara Pathirage completed his first degree in sociology at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka and an MSc in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. He was a research consultant for the University of Sussex in the UK from 2007 to 2008 and then a senior research fellow at MARGA Institute in Sri Lanka from 2008- 2011. He holds a teaching position at the Department of Sociology at the University of Colombo.
Dr Jan Richardson
: 0414227499
: Casuarina campus, CDU
Jan worked for 15 years as a community worker in remote area Indigenous communities in the Pilbara 1968-1969 (Don McLeod and the 1946 strikers), East Kimberley 1970-1975) (Wyndham), West Kimberley 1975-1980 (Fitzroy Crossing) and NT 1983-1987) (Gurindji at Dagaragu). In Wyndham, I assisted Indigenous women in forming their organisation to care for their children, produce their newspaper, create employment for their youth, feed their school children, and form the first Indigenous basketball team. Stan Davey assisted their people in returning to their country and establishing their community, Oombulgurri. In Fitzroy Crossing, employed part-time by the Department of Community Welfare, which allowed me to introduce a new concept of community women’s networks and part-time employment known as the Homemaker Service. It became a powerful movement of Indigenous Kimberley women to improve their living conditions and protect Women’s Law. Supported women establishing organisations in five communities, creating a newspaper and reading news in the language, developing social support systems, attending courts to advise magistrate on women’s perspectives, developing systems to control dogs and keep them healthy, training women drivers and buying women’s cars. At Daguragu, assisted women in organising to look after older adults and establish laundry systems. Trained bookkeepers to manage their Council finances and run the ANZ bank in the community.
Dr Jocelyn Davies
Jocelyn's appointment to the Northern Institute in 2015 as a University Fellow continues collaboration over the past decade following Jocelyn’s move to Alice Springs in 2004 and her appointment as Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO from 2005 to 2015. Jocelyn was previously based at The University of Adelaide’s Roseworthy Campus (1996 -2002) and then was self-employed in natural resource management planning. Her PhD, completed in 1995, applied action research methods in community-based planning for Aboriginal land management. This laid the foundation for her teaching, research and consultancy services to focus on Indigenous Australians and environmental management, including co-management of protected areas and native title claim resolution. Her earlier career positions as a ranger and protected area planner have ensured her social research is well grounded in physical geography and ecology and is applied.
Professor John Guenther
: john.guenther@batchelor.edu.au
: 08 8946 7355
: Research Leader, Education and Training, Batchelor Institute
CDU, Casuarina Campus, Darwin, NT
- International development
- Development economics
- Program evaluation
- Realist evaluation
John is currently the Principal Research Leader for the Remote Education Systems project within the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation and Flinders University. This project is finding ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders living in remote communities can gain more benefits from education. Before this, he worked as a research and evaluation consultant with interests in education, training, employment, families and children, child protection, domestic violence and justice.
John Greatorex
Profile coming soon.
Dr John Mansfield
: john.mansfield@unimelb.edu.au
: 0487 470027
: Casuarina campus, CDU
Dr John Mansfield's research explores the diversity of the world’s languages, with a particular focus on the processes of change that have resulted in languages being the way they are. By understanding the processes of language change, we can understand how linguistic structures emerge, evolve and how this is constrained. The catalogue of diverse linguistic structures becomes a window into the cognitive and social forces shaping language evolution.
Kim Grey
: Canberra ACT
Kim Grey has worked on the evaluation of social policy for about 20 years, covering employment, training, welfare reform, education, safety and well-being. She is an active member of the Australasian Evaluation Society, especially in Canberra, where she lives and works for the Australian Government. Kim has a Master's in Evaluation from the University of Melbourne and is interested in theory-based evaluation (particularly realist evaluation), evaluation systems within organisations and Indigenous evaluation capability and approaches. In 2020, Kim is a Visiting Fellow at RegNet at the Australian National University.
Dr Knut Olawsky
Profile coming soon.
Dr Kuntal Goswami
Kuntal started his career in the field of hospitality marketing (India) followed by retail management (Oman) and institutional marketing (India). After migrating to Australia, he worked as a finance tutor at a University, then shifted to the South Australian Local Councils and worked as senior finance officer/ finance manager for different local councils. After completing his honours, he started his PhD at the Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University.
In 2015 he enrolled in the ANU-CDU Joint PhD program through RegNet, Australian National University (ANU). In 2018-19 he completed his ANU-CDU Joint PhD Program. He is a member of the Institute of Public Accountants (MIPA), Australia, the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting (CSEAR), University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK and the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ).
Professor Lawrence Craw AM
Profile coming soon.
Dr Leonie Norrington
Profile coming soon.
Professor Lyn Fasoli
Profile coming soon.
Dr Matthew Campbell
: +61 8 8946 4907
: Darwin, NT
Matt has spent most of his time in the past 20 years working with Aboriginal people on land, research and livelihood issues. He is interested in how people of different cultures find ways to work together productively, something he is pursuing through his PhD research.
Dr Margaret Ayre
Ph.D
: 0435 961 804
: Melbourne, VIC
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
Margaret holds a Bachelor of Forest Science (Hons) and doctorate (History and Philosophy of Science) from The University of Melbourne. Her doctoral thesis was on the development of contemporary, cross-cultural and sea management strategies on Yolngu Aboriginal estates in North Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.
Dr Samantha Disbray
Ph.D (Linguistics), B.A. (Hons)
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
I am a linguist and researcher on the Remote Education Systems (RES) Project, with the Co-operative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation. The RES project is investigating innovative education models for remote contexts, responsive to community goals and aspirations for education. My particular research interest in project is language in education and community-based learning. I am also conducting research on language in legal contexts, funded through a grant from the NT Law Society and collaborate with the Centre of Excellence, Dynamics of Languages at the Australian National University on a Warumungu language project.
Dr Sathyapriya Govindarajulu
MBA, PhD.
: +61 480 153061
: Melbourne, Australia
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
Dr. Sathya has achieved her PhD in Finance in 2020. She has published 2 International Journals, 3 National Journals and has presented her articles in 10 conferences widely including Latrobe University, Melbourne. Her research article won the Best Paper Award - Finance Track in the Southern Regional Conference on Management Education, India.
She assisted MBA students with DR. Sonny Ariss, Dean & Professor, University of Toledo, USA. ACSDRI organisation grant funding for her post-doctoral research work.
Her research which focusses on conceptualising a Fintech application to advance financial inclusion in Charles Darwin University will support financially stressed individuals in Australia. She is currently supervising the students in Organizational Leadership at the level of Co-Supervisor.
Dr Sharon Harwood
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Charles Darwin University; Master of Applied Science, James Cook University; Bachelor of Leisure Studies (hons), Griffith University
: sharon@harwoodplanning.com.au
: 0429 006 431
: Cairns, QLD
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
With a background in urban/regional and social planning, Sharon is passionate about working with communities to develop place-based solutions to development challenges. She has leveraged her planning knowledge and skills to become an award-winning leader with expertise in corporate governance, land use planning, social infrastructure, policy development, and Board-level and stakeholder engagement across the public, private, Indigenous and NFP sectors.
Professor Sigmund Gronmo
: Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Bergen
Oslo, Norway
- Economic sociology
- Social networks
- Social science methodology
- Research and education for Indigenous Peoples
Professor Grønmo has published numerous books and a large number of journal articles, book chapters and papers, especially within economic sociology, the sociology of time, social network analysis, and social science methodology. He has extensive experience in teaching social research methods at universities and colleges in Norway and several other countries.
He has been a Visiting Professor at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada; Illinois State University, USA; University of California, Berkeley, USA; University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; James Cook University, Cairns, Australia; and University of Cambridge, UK. Professor Grønmo is an elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Academiae Europaea, and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.
Professor Simon Feeny
: Professor, Development Economics
RMIT University, Melbourne
- International development
- Development economics
- Program evaluation
- Realist evaluation
Simon Feeny is a Professor of Development Economics and founder of the Centre for International Development at RMIT University. He has more than 20 years of experience working in international development with expertise in foreign aid allocation and effectiveness, child labour and child sponsorship, program evaluation, poverty and well-being, and vulnerability and resilience to shocks and climate change. He has also researched health economics, Australian housing, and firm performance. Professor Feeny has demonstrated expertise in the analysis of macroeconomic data as well as collecting and analysing household-level and qualitative data. Professor Feeny has published 100 books, book chapters and journal articles. His work has been cited almost 3,000 times and has an H-index of 29. Professor Feeny is currently an editor for Australian Economic Papers and Economies. He is a former editor of the Journal of International Development. In 2016, The Australian newspaper identified him as the country’s top development economist.
Dr Supriya Mathew
Ph.D, M.Tech, M.Sc
: +61 8 8959 5449
: Alice Springs, NT
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
Supriya is a multi-disciplinary researcher whose research interest is in addressing the research gap between climate sciences and adaptation decision-making. She is currently examining suitable adaptation pathways for industries and communities in Australia. Prior to joining CDU, she worked in a NCCARF funded project at Macquarie University, Sydney to develop an excel-based decision-making tool to assist local governments’ prioritise adaptation options. Her doctoral research involved local government collaborators in Australia and India and developed a decision framework that enabled adaptation decision-making to extreme climatic events.
Professor Martin Jarvis
Professor Marie Carla Dany Adone
: +49 (0) 221 470 2829
: Centre for Australian Studies, University of Cologne
Cologne, Germany
- Indigenous Languages and Cultures
- Language Endangerment
- Environmental Justice
- Decolonising Methodologies
- Intercultural (Mis)communication
Dr Dany Adone is Professor and Chair of Applied English Linguistics at the University of Cologne. In Australia, she is also a Visiting Professor at AIATSIS, a Visiting Scholar at the Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gearing Language and Culture Centre in Kununurra, and an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, where she is also a member of the Sydney Indigenous Research Network and Sydney Centre for Language Research. Since 2013, Prof. Adone has been a University Professorial Fellow affiliated with the Northern Institute/CDU.
She has lived in Arnhem Land/NT, Australia, for over five years and has worked in several countries, including Mauritius, Seychelles, Jamaica and the Solomon Islands, on several projects, some of which are concerned with the development of the Indigenous sign languages. Professor Adone is working on three community-driven projects in Australia, two in the Northern Territory and one in Western Australia.
Dr Mirriam-Rose Ungunmerr Baumann
Momoe Malietoa von Reiche
Tom Bolton
Profile coming soon.
Dr Ritu Bhatia
: Mumbai, India
Ritu is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development at Smt. P.N Doshi Women’s College (Affiliated to S.N.D.T Women’s University, Mumbai). She is also holding the position of Department Head for one of the vocational courses at her current working place.
She has had a teaching career spanning since 2003, teaching degree courses in the subjects of Human Development and Early childhood education. She worked at various colleges in Mumbai at the beginning of her career. She also worked for a couple of years as a translator and assistant editor for the Lions International Club secretariat office in Mumbai for Lions India Magazine. She is actively involved in research work, and her research inclination is towards in community education. She has been planning research projects for current social & community issues.
Professor Tony Barnes
M.Sc, B.Sc
: +61 8 8999 7406
: NT Department of Treasury & Finance
Darwin, NT
Tony's career, spanning 41 years, has been primarily a combination of quantitative research in many different subject matter areas and professional statistician/ demographer in government service. The primary focus of the past two decades has been Indigenous statistics and the demography of the Northern Territory. During his career, Tony has published about 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles and large numbers of book chapters and papers in conference proceedings.
Vale Dr Marthen Luther Ndoen
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Estimation techniques for small populations
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
- Creating software to help practitioners prepare key demographic inputs.
Marthen was born in Rote island in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. He finished his undergraduate in economics from Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana. He then went to Cornell University in USA to earn his Masters in Southeast Asian studies, and completed his PhD in Regional Economics from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Marthen currently served as Director of Development Graduate Studies at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana. He was also a research fellow at the Center for Institutional Studies and research fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana.