Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Year elected: 1994
Panel: A
Discipline: Geography

Professor Dean Forbes is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) and Professor of Geography at Flinders University. Professor Forbes specialises in urban and regional issues in the Pacific Asian region, with a special focus on megacities. His current research focuses on the new knowledge and space economies of Pacific Asia, and especially the internationalisation of cities and universities.

• Chair, Flinders University International Committee, Intensive English Language Institute Ltd
• Vice-President, Flinders Alumni Association; Board Member, National Institute of Labour Studies
• Flinders Consulting Pty Ltd
• IEN Pty Ltd
• IEN Consulting (Hong Kong) Ltd. Consultancies for UNDP, UNFPA, ILO, AusAID, NT government.

• Dean Forbes and Cecile Cutler (2000) Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, In Southeast Asia: Development and Diversity. Thomas Leinbach and Richard Ulack (eds.). New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, pp 508-548.
• Dean Forbes (2000) Reading texts and writing geography, In Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography. Iain Hay (eds.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp 122-143.
• Dean Forbes (1999) Globalisation, postcolonialism and new representations of the Pacific Asian metropolis, In Globalization and the Asia Pacific. Kris Olds, Peter Dicken, Philip Kelly, Lily Kong and Henry Y (eds.). London: Routledge, pp 238-254.
• Dean Forbes and Mike Lindfield (1998) Urbanisation in Asia. Canberra: International Development Issues No 51, AusAID.
• Dean Forbes (1996) Asian Metropolis. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

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