Coordinator:
Dr Rebecca Spence, MA Hons (Edin), M.Litt (NE), PhD (NE)
Peacebuilding in post-conflict situations; Reconciliation processes in Bougainville; Northern Ireland and South Africa; NGO effectiveness in post-conflict situations and making peace keepers more effective.
rspence1@metz.une.edu.au
Members:
Dr Helen Andreoni, BA (Hons) (Syd), PhD (Auck), GradDipEd Studies, GradDipEd (Armidale CAE)
Areas of multicultural education; language planning and policy; isolated rural immigrant women, multiculturalism and the arts and multiculturalism in developing countries.
handreo2@une.edu.au
Dr Bob Boughton, BA (Hons) (Syd), PhD (La Trobe), DipEd (SAust)
Popular education and social movements; Indigenous adult and vocational education; adult education history and theory and social determinants of health.
bob.boughton@une.edu.au
Dr Margaret Brooks, B Ed (Early Childhood), M Ed (Early Childhood) University of Alberta, PhD (Interdisciplinary degree with the Departments of Art and Design and Elementary Education) University of Alberta
Young children's use of drawing in their learning; socio-cultural learning theories; project work; visual ethnography and the teacher as researcher.
mbrooks3@une.edu.au
Dr Mary Cruickshank, BAppSci (Adv.Nsg) (La Trobe), MedSt (Monash), PhD (UWS) FRCNA
Palliative care research; health care policies and issues; quality management practices in health care; quality management practices in higher education; organisational culture; human resource management and leadership and clinical research and systems research.
mmacarty@pobox.une.edu.au
Professor Anne-Katrin Eckermann, BA (Hons), MA, PhD (Qld)
Methodological issues in the social sciences; educational philosophy/practice; minorities and power and powerlessness; cross-cultural education; Aboriginal studies; community development; Aboriginal health and Native Title research.
aeckerma@une.edu.au
Dr Helen Edwards, PhD (UNE), Grad Dip ContEd (UNE), MEd (UNE), B Occ Thy (UQ), Cert Adult Training (RAAF-AIRTC), Cert Community-Based Projects Skills Training Program (Conflict Resolution Network), Cert Occupational Health & Safety (TAFE), Basic Methods of External Teaching (TAFE), Cert IV Assessment & Workplace Training (UNEP)
Aboriginal education; quality assurance in early childhood settings; early intervention; clumsy children; adult and life long learning; learning in rural and remote environments.
helen.edwards@une.edu.au
Associate Professor Rafat Hussain, MBBS (Karachi), MPH (North Carolina), PhD (ANU)
Reproductive and sexual health; women's health; health promotion; population genetics; developmental disabilities and health services research.
rhussain@une.edu.au
Professor Gisela Kaplan, BA (Hons), MA, PhD, DipEd (Monash)
Theoretical issues related to gender and racism; the politics of multiculturalism and discrimination and minority status in education.
gkaplan@metz.une.edu.au
Dr Adeel Khan, BA, MA (Canberra), PhD (Wollongong)
Political and health sociology especially social theory and critical thinking.
akhan4@une.edu.au
Ms Glenda Kupczyk-Romanczuk, BA (Hons)(EAnglia), MA (Kent), CertEd TEFL (NWales)
Teaching English to speakers of Other Languages (TESOL); regional varieties of English; English language dictionaries; language across the curriculum and language and culture.
gkupczyk@metz.une.edu.au
Ms Ruth Nicholls, BA (Hons)(Syd), DSLA (Paris III), DipMigTeach (Armidale CAE), MA (Hons)(NE), GradCertHighEd (NE)
Teaching English to speakers of Other Languages (TESOL); language development and learning styles and literacy.
rnicholl@metz.une.edu.au
Ms Glenda Parmenter, RN, BSocSci (UNE), MLitt (Psychology) (UNE)
Palliative care; dying and bereavement; community nursing; residential aged care; the effect of massage on chemotherapy-related nausea and visiting in rural Australian nursing homes.
gparment@pobox.une.edu.au
Ms Christine Stafford, BA (Hons) (NE)
Interdiciplinary approaches to the study of the social sciences, particularly the ways in which social, political and legal institutions effect Indigenous peoples; comparative race relations and structural violence.
cstaffor@metz.une.edu.au
Honorary Research Associates
Dr Greg Carroll, BSc (Ed) (Melb), MA (Columbia), PhD (Monash)
Curriculum and instruction, particularly within urban, postcolonial and post-conflict contexts, internationalisation and globalisation of educational policy and practice, uses of technology in curriculum and instruction, higher education and the democratisation of education, environmental ethics and public policy, theoretical construction/s of environmental education.
gcarroll@une.edu.au
Dr Lynette Toni Dowd, BA, RN (UNSW), GDES (Aboriginal Education) (Armidale CAE), MSc (International Health and Cross Cultural Nursing)(San Fran.), PhD (U of QÕld), FRCNA
Research into cultural differences and health.
toni@crossculture.com.au
Dr Kumie Fujimori, BA (Hons), MLitt (NE), DipEd (Chuo/Tokyo), DipSocSc (NE), PhD (NE)
Research into cross-cultural values, socialisation practices and language, Japanese culture and language.
kfujimor@metz.une.edu.au
Dr Jonathan Makuwira, Dip. Ed. (Malw), B.Ed.(Hons), M.Phil. (Nottingham), PhD (New England)
Peace (Education) Studies; Community Development Studies in developing countries; Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) and policy analysis and advocacy; Indigenous Studies.
Mrs Lynette Nixon, ADAS (UNE), Indigenous Junior Research Fellow
Mrs Nixon was employed through the ARC Linkage Grant Aboriginal Children’s Adaptation to School: Case Studies from SW Queensland. Her particular research interests relate to Indigenous languages (particularly Gunggari), cross-cultural communication and community development.
Dr Mariel Tisdell, BEd (Lueneburg/Germany), PhD (ANU), GdEd (Newcastle), MAppLing (USQ)
Applied linguistics, community language schools and LOTE methodologies.
marieltisdell@bigpond.com
Adminstration
Ms Sue Whale, BFinAdmin (NE)
Provides administrative and technical support to the Centre and participants.
swhale2@une.edu.au