Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Research and exchange

Australia-Netherlands Exchange Program

Grant awardees from previous years
Netherlands

2010

Dr Sara Charlesworth, Centre for Applied Social Research at RMIT
Topic: To consult and collaborate will colleagues and gather data for projects which address gender equality in employment and in working time regulations
Host: Utrecht School of Law, Utrecht University

Dr Joost Coté, Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University
Topic: Researching the Dutch East Indies during World War II, including at the Dutch Institute for War Documentation and the Dutch National Archives.
Host: Netherlands Institute for War Documentation

2009

Dr Fiona Mackay of the University of Liverpool and Dr Louise Chappell of the University of Sydney

Associate Professor E. Anne Bardoel, Deputy Director on the Australian Centre for Research in Employment and Work at Monash.
Topic: To consult with Dutch researchers on a cross cultural comparison of determinants of employer involvement in flexible work arrangements.
Host: Nijmegen School of Management at The University of Nijmegen.

Dr Nonja Peters, Director of the Migration, Ethnicity, Refugees and Citizenship Research Unit at Curtin University of Technology.
Topic Maritime, military and migration research, heritage studies and digitisation with a view to constructing a virtual web and portal for the preservation of Dutch Australians' cultural heritiage.

2008

Dr Toby Burrows, Digital Services Director, Australian Research Council Network for Early European Research, School of Humanities, University of Western Australia.
Topic: To investigate the application of semantic Web techniques in the provision of cultural heritage information across libraries, museums and archives.
Host: Dr Lora Aroyo, Department of Computer Science, Free University of Amsterdam.

Dr Stephen Wheatcroft, Professor of History in the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne
Topic: Soviet History; The 1945 period of famine in the Netherlands.
Host: Professor M. Ellmann, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.

Dr Lenore Lyons, Director, Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, University of Wollongong.
Topic: To engage in collaborative research in the field of Border Studies.
Host: Dr Manon Osseweijer, Coordinator of Academic Affairs, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden.

2007

Dr Lorraine Elliott, Senior Fellow in International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
Topic: Global governance, including global environmental governance, Asia Pacific regionalism and non-traditional.
Host: Professor Frank Biermann, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Dr Johannes Pols, Director of the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney.
Topic: Medicine, Medical Education and Public Health in Colonial and Modern Indonesia.
Host: Peter Boomgaard, KITLV, Leiden; Amsterdam School of Social Science Research.

Dr Bob Pokrant, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director, South Asia Research Unit, Curtin University, Western Australia.
Topic: Fisheries Governance in South Asia.
Host: Dr Maarten Bavinck, Director of the Centre for Maritime Research(MARE), University of Amsterdam.

2006

Kumi Kato, School of Language and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland.
Topic: To conduct a case study on innovative approaches to community initiatives in environmental landscape conservation.

Eric Beerkens, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. Topic: 'Knowledge and Innovation in the Asian Competition State', focusing on innovation policies and higher education policies in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Julie Hatfield, Senior Research Fellow, NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre, University of NSW.
Topic: To participate in a multi-centre laboratory study to compare the psychometric properties of several measures of noise sensitivity and to hold discussions on a research project in the area of safety and housing.

2005

Sonia Mycak, Australian Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council, Department of English, University of Sydney, met researchers engaged in the empirical and institutional study of literature.

Jeffrey Neilson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, undertook research on the historical geography of the South Sulawesi coffee industry.

 

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