Malaysia and Singapore Society
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Member's Contact Details and Research Interests
Allan Bruce
Head, Dept of Visual Arts
University of Southern Queensland,
PO Darling Heights
Toowoomba QLD 4350
Email brucea@usq.edu.au
Research interests: Drawing; the nexus between Eastern and Western Asian
Art; Islamic Art & Architecture including Early Mosques of the Malaysian
Peninsula.
Dr. Fadzilah Majid Cooke
Research Fellow
Resource Management In Asia and the Pacific Project
Department of Human Geography
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
tel:+61 2 6125 9925 fax+61 2 6125 4896 email:fadzilah.cooke@anu.edu.au
Research interests: natural resource policy and community based alternatives, social movements, gender, environmentalism, native rights and Malaysian business in Papua New Guinea
Assoc. Prof. Rob Cramb
Reader in Agricultural Development
School of Natural & Rural Systems Management
University of Queensland
St Lucia,QLD 4072
Tel (07) 3365 2967; Fax (07) 3365 9016; email; R.Cramb@mailbox.uq.edu.au
Research interests: agricultural and rural development in Sarawak, especially evolution of Iban agriculture and land tenure and changes in government land development policy.
Professor Ian Metcalfe
Deputy Director, Asia Centre
Concurrently Wellcome Trust Research Fellow
Asia Centre/School of Economics
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351, Australia
Tel: (02) 6773-2380/3499 Fax: (02) 6773-3596 Email: imetcalf@metz.une.edu.au
Web pages: http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~imetcalf/index.html
Research interests: Geological evolution and resources of Malaysia and East and Southeast Asia. Environmental and social impacts of resource development. Women workers in industrialising Asia.
Associate Professor N. Prakash
Botany Building
University of New England
Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.
Phone: +61-2-6773 2323Fax: +61-2-6773 3283 Email: nprakash@une.edu.au
Web: http://www.une.edu.au/botany/npres.htm
Research interests: In collaboration with Professor Lim Ah Lan of the University of Malaya, I am studying aspects of wood anatomy and embryology - development of anther and pollen; formation of male and female gametes; fertilisation; growth of the embryo and the nutritive tissue; seed and fruit structure - in a range of vascular plants including species of legumes, orchids, grasses, mangrove plants and citrus from Malaysia. Although the work is mainly phylogenetic and laboratory based, we do make extensive field observations and try, where relevant, to solve problems in plant reproduction such as sterility and other constraints to the breeding of cultivated plants.
Brian Ridge
Dept of Humanities & International Studies
USQ, Toowoomba, Qld 4350
email: ridge@usq.edu.au
phone 07 46 311091
fax 07 46 311100
Research interests: language policies issues in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, particularly in the context of largely IT-led globalisation. This often means focussing on how English language competence is viewed, work on and for, and likely impacts in terms of identity, or layers of identity, in the wider communities.
A/Prof. Peter Wicks
Dept of Humanities & International Studies
University of Southern Queensland
Tel. (07)46311050
email:wicksp@usq.edu.au
Research interests: modern literature and history of Malaysia and Singapore, with particular focus on the works of K S Maniam, Lloyd Fernando, Philip Jeyaretnam and Catherine Lim.