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ANNUAL REPORT
2016
ALFRED-DEAKIN-INSTITUTE
ADI would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land
on which we work and meet. We pay our respects to their Elders,
past and present, and Elders from other communities.
Increasing the quality of research outputsADI’s growing reputation for research excellence is reflected in the excellence of our research outputs and in our increased success in nationally competitive grants schemes. In 2016 ADI researchers were recognised as leaders in their field, and received significant funding from the ARC and other sources. These and other prestigious grants, the details of which can be found within this report, reflect the benefit and significance of the research conducted within ADI, both nationally and internationally.
The Institute has continued to expand its international research footprint through formal and informal linkages with overseas institutions, as well as by hosting a number of leading international scholars. ADI has also supported and celebrated Institute researchers who have taken up prestigious visiting fellowships overseas aimed at fostering international collaboration of the highest calibre.
Building research capacityADI has continued to collaborate in research partnerships with Australian and overseas governments, their agencies and embassies, as well as non-government agencies and not-for-profit organisations. These partnerships are key to ADI’s capacity to develop sustainable research programs which inform policy and meaningfully impact lived human experiences. One such partnership, with the Australian Intercultural Society and the Selimiye Foundation has created a newly endowed Research Chair in Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue. The research program of this Chair, led by Professor Ihsan Yilmaz, reflects the joint vision and values of the partners’ commitment to fostering intercultural dialogue and social inclusion.
ADI’s research streams and networks continued to create opportunities for research collaboration and engagement within core thematic areas of excellence.
As the interdisciplinary engine room of research in ADI, research streams underpin the development of new big ideas as well as mentoring and research training. The ambitious research programs of streams support ADI’s overarching narrative as a vibrant community of active researchers committed to conducting research of high excellence and impact.
Enhancing impactADI convened a number of high profile conferences, symposia and fora during 2016 which put the Institute at the forefront of policy debates and provided our communities and partners with informed research-driven insights. Our vibrant calendar of activities included academic conferences, orations and lectures, and the inaugural ADI Public Policy Forum.
ADI’s research was used to inform policy-agendas and public discourse, particularly in the area of racism and Indigenous politics, and notably a public discussion of doctoral research into the cost of racism to the Australian economy.
As the higher-education landscape continues to shift, ADI has remained focused on our vision and strategy to produce high-impact research through innovation and collaboration. We have invested in high-quality researchers and doctoral students who contribute to a diverse and intellectually-ambitious research agenda focused on tangible world problems. In this way, policy and best-practice programs pertaining to global and domestic socio-political challenges will continue to be informed by ADI’s cutting edge, multidisciplinary research.
Alfred Deakin Professor Fethi Mansouri Director, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation UNESCO Chair, Cultural Diversity and Social Justice
DIRECTOR’S REPORT
The re-emergence of far-right parties, the increased salience of Islamophobia, continued conflict in the Middle East, the unprecedented mass movement of people across Europe and the election of Donald Trump in the United States, all pose many questions central to ADI’s work around citizenship, democracy, diversity, social inclusion and globalisation.
ADI’s 2015-2020 Strategic Plan outlines our vision for a world-class research institute which informs how emerging social and cultural problems are understood and addressed by leaders, policy-makers, key opinion makers and practitioners. As we reflect upon our achievements in the second year of our strategic plan, events in 2016 have underscored the urgency, importance and relevance of work done by ADI’s researchers and the questions they strive to answer.
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The Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI) is an internationally recognised and highly regarded social sciences and humanities research institute.
ADI researchers create cutting-edge knowledge about citizenship, diversity, inclusion and globalisation which informs scholarship, debate and policy.
ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
ADI aims to create a vibrant research environment which supports excellence, innovation and collaboration amongst theorists and problem-oriented researchers who examine contentious and critical social issues. The Institute supports its members through mentoring and training schemes, and helps to develop career pathways for our early career and doctoral researchers.
CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
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The Institute is committed to a genuinely worldly research agenda which reflects an empirical reality that the social, political and cultural issues Australia faces are interconnected with international influences and processes. Our approach to research and capacity-building reflects this global awareness as we endeavour to foster collaboration and partnerships with universities, civil society organisations and government agencies around the world. Specifically, the Institute has a concentration of expertise on the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa, and Europe, and actively pursues collaborative interdisciplinary research with many partners in these regions.
GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT
RESEARCH AGENDA
THE FOUR RESEARCH STREAMS
The Institute’s research agenda is concerned with complex and often contradictory meanings of citizenship, social inclusion and globalisation at the local, national and transnational levels. The Institute’s research streams and support structures foster the study of complex social problems from a number of academic vantage points.
In this way, the differing manifestations of migration; tensions of transnational governance; viability of the nation-
The problems the Institute researches are complex and interconnected requiring systematic and holistic exploration. Researchers collaborate across one or more of our four themes:
state; impact of globalising processes on concepts and experiences of identity, belonging, heritage and citizenship; lived politics of inclusion and exclusion; tensions in the human rights’ discourse; critical importance of cultural heritage; and related questions of justice and development are explored systematically and holistically.
>���Development, Inequality and Well-being
>���Diversity and Identity
>���Governance, Justice and Security
>���Heritage, Indigeneity and Sustainability
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We seek to contribute to knowledge construction and influence research developments, public debates and policy agendas.
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ADVISORY BOARD
Dr B. (Hass) Dellal (AO) Chair, ADI Advisory Board
Dr B. (Hass) Dellal AO is the Executive Director of the Australian Multicultural Foundation and Deputy Chairman of the SBS Board of Directors. He has over 25 years experience in policy, management, community development and programming for cultural diversity.
Mr Ahmet KeskinExecutive Director of the Australian Intercultural Society
Ahmet Keskin is the Executive Director of the Australian Intercultural Society. He was one of the co-founders of the NSW-based Affinity Intercultural Foundation and a NSW Centenary ANZAC Ambassador.
Professor Jane Den Hollander (AO)Vice-Chancellor and President of Deakin University
Professor Jane den Hollander, AO, has been Vice-Chancellor and President of Deakin University since July, 2010. At Deakin, Professor den Hollander introduced LIVE the future, an aspiration for Deakin to drive the digital frontier in higher education, harnessing the power, opportunity and reach of new and emerging technologies in all that it does.
Mr Frank McGuire MPMember of Parliament
Frank McGuire is a Member of Parliament, internationally acclaimed social innovator, businessman and dual-winner of Australian journalism’s most prestigious honour, the Walkley Award.
Professor Peter HodgsonDeputy Vice-Chancellor Research at Deakin University
Professor Peter Hodgson is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research at Deakin University. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research provides academic leadership to advance Deakin’s distinctive research and research training both nationally and internationally. This includes research development, industry-focused research and commercialisation and research promotion.
Ms Inga Peulich MPMember of Parliament
Inga Peulich is an experienced Member of Parliament and is the current Shadow Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Shadow Minister for Scrutiny of Government. Inga brings a depth of experience in government and opposition and across both chambers of the parliament.
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Professor Brenda CherednichenkoExecutive Dean (Arts and Education), Deakin University
Professor Brenda Cherednichenko is currently Executive Dean, Arts and Education at Deakin University. Her previous role was as the Executive Dean Faculty of Education and Arts and University Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Engagement, Equity and Indigenous at Edith Cowan University (2007-2011) where she was concurrently Associate Dean, International (2010) and Acting Head, Kurongkurl Katitjin (2008).
Professor Fazal RizviProfessor in Education University of Melbourne
Fazal Rizvi is a Professor in Education at the University of Melbourne, as well as an Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has previously held academic and administrative appointments at a number of universities in Australia.
Alfred Deakin Professor Fethi Mansouri Director, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Alfred Deakin Professor Fethi Mansouri holds a Deakin University Alfred Deakin Research Chair in migration and intercultural studies and is the Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. In 2013 he was appointed Chair-holder, UNESCO Chair in comparative research on ‘Cultural Diversity and Social Justice’.
Ms Padmini Sebastian (OAM) Manager, Immigration Museum - Museum Victoria
Padmini Sebastian (OAM) leads the award-winning Immigration Museum, Museum Victoria located in Melbourne, Australia. She has worked extensively in the cultural and community sectors and has established national and international partnerships and networks.
Ms Carmel Guerra (OAM)Member, ADI Advisory Board
Carmel Guerra (OAM) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY). Carmel has over 25 years’ experience in the community sector and trained as a Youth Worker in the 1980s. She sits on a number of government committees on issues as diverse as youth mentoring to illicit drug use.
Professor Peter SpearrittProfessor of Urban History University of Queensland
Born in Melbourne, and educated at North Sydney Boys High School, the University of Sydney and ANU, Peter Spearritt is Professor of Urban History at the University of Queensland.
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THE ALFRED DEAKIN INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENSHIP AND GLOBALISATION
DIRECTORATE
Director, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation UNESCO Chair, Cultural Diversity and Social JusticeAlfred Deakin Professor Fethi Mansouri
Deputy Director (International) Research Professor, Middle East and Central Asian PoliticsProfessor Shahram Akbarzadeh
Deputy Director (Research) Chair, Race RelationsAlfred Deakin Professor Yin Paradies
Deputy Director (Governance) Professor, Cultural Heritage and Museum StudiesProfessor Andrea Witcomb
EXECUTIVE GROUP
(Chair) Director, ADI UNESCO Chair, Cultural Diversity and Social JusticeAlfred Deakin Professor Fethi Mansouri
Deputy Director (International) and Globalisation Research. Professor, Middle East and Central Asian PoliticsProfessor Shahram Akbarzadeh
Deputy Director (Research) Chair, Race RelationsAlfred Deakin Professor Yin Paradies
Deputy Director (Governance)Professor, Cultural Heritage and Museum StudiesProfessor Andrea Witcomb
Member, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation Professor of Australian Studies, School of Humanities and Social SciencesProfessor Louise Johnson
Member, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts and EducationProfessor Jack Reynolds
Member, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social SciencesAssociate Professor Chad Whelan
EX OFFICIO MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVEExecutive Dean, Arts and EducationProfessor Brenda Cherednichenko
Head of School, School of Humanities and Social SciencesProfessor Matthew Clarke
Executive Officer, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and GlobalisationMs Cayla Edwards
INTERNATIONAL REFERENCE GROUPFounding Director, University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship University of Bristol, United KingdomProfessor Tariq Modood
Director of the Centre for the Study of Culture and Politics Swansea University, United KingdomProfessor Roland Axtmann
Professor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership Studies Antioch University, United States of AmericaProfessor Philomena Essed
Chair of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Welfare Augustana College, United States of AmericaProfessor Peter Kivisto
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Presidential Professor, Graduate Centre City University of New York, United States of AmericaProfessor Bryan Turner
Director, Global Governance Programme European University Institute, ItalyProfessor Anna Triandafyllidou
University Research Chair in Socio-Cultural Changes in Canada University of Ottawa, CanadaProfessor Patrick Imbert
Professor of Religious Studies Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandProfessor Paul Morris
ADMINISTRATION TEAMExecutive OfficerMs Cayla Edwards
Strategic Communications OfficerMs Sandra Kingston
Administration AssistantMrs Arlene Pacheco
RESEARCH ONLY STAFFProfessor Shahram Akbarzadeh, Research Professor
Professor Jon Altman, Research Professor
Professor Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics
Professor Linda Hancock, Personal Chair and Professor of Politics and Policy Studies
Professor Anita Harris, Research Professor
Professor Emma Kowal, Professor
Professor Mark McGillivray, Research Professor of International Development
Alfred Deakin Professor Yin Paradies, Chair in Race Relations
Professor John Powers, Research Professor
Professor Tim Winter, Research Chair of Cultural Heritage
Professor Ihsan Yilmaz, Research Chair in Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue
Associate Professor Melinda Hinkson, Future Fellow
Dr Michele Lobo, DECRA Senior Research Fellow
Dr Zahid Ahmed, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Virginie Andre, Research Fellow
Dr Rebecca Barlow, Senior Research Fellow
Dr James Barry, Associate Research Fellow
Mr Matthew Caulfield, Associate Research Fellow
Dr Amanuel Elias, Associate Research Fellow
Dr Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona, Associate Research Fellow
Dr Taghreed Jamal Al Deen, Associate Research Fellow
Dr Amelia Johns, Research Fellow
Dr Ali Mozaffari, Research Fellow
Ms Paula Muraca, Associate Editor, Journal of Intercultural Studies
Dr Yamini Narayanan, DECRA Senior Research Fellow
Dr Timothy Neale, Research Fellow
Dr Natalie Ralph, Associate Research Fellow
Dr Filip Slaveski, DECRA Research Fellow
Dr Victoria Stead, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Sabra Thorner, Research Fellow
Dr David Tittensor, Research Fellow
Dr Matteo Vergani, Associate Research Fellow
Dr Daniela Voss, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Jessica Walton, DECRA Research Fellow
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SCHOOL-BASED MEMBERS
Professor Christoph Antons, Chair in Law
Dr Sam Balaton-Chrimes, Lecturer in International Studies
Dr Sean Bowden, Lecturer in Philosophy
Ms Kristal Buckley, Lecturer in Cultural Heritage
Dr Peter Chambers, Lecturer in Criminology
Dr Danielle Chubb, Senior Lecturer in International Relations
Professor Matthew Clarke, Head of School, Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Steven Cooke, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies
Dr Joanna Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in History
Dr Eugenia Demuro, Senior Lecturer in Spanish
Professor Chris Doucouliagos, Chair in Economics
Dr George Duke, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Dr Peter Ferguson, Lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies
Dr Anna Halafoff, Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Dr Diarmaid Harkin, Lecturer in Criminology
Professor Baogang He, Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in International Relations
Dr David Hundt, Senior Lecturer in International Relations
Associate Professor Benjamin Isakhan, Associate Professor of Politics and Policy
Professor Louise Johnson, Professor of Australian Studies
Dr Costas Laoutides, Senior Lecturer in International Relations
Dr Renata Lemos Morais
Dr Vince Marotta, Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Dr Adam Molnar, Lecturer in Criminology
Dr John Morss, Senior Lecturer
Dr Amy Nethery, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies
Dr Zim Nwokora, Lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies
Associate Professor Darren Palmer, Associate Professor of Criminology
Associate Professor Chengxin Pan, Associate Professor of International Relations
Dr Antonia Pont, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Literature
Professor Jack Reynolds, Associate Dean (Research)
Dr Jonathan Ritchie, Senior Research Fellow
Associate Professor Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Dr Tiffany Shellam, Senior Lecturer in History
Associate Professor Andrew Singleton, Associate Head of School (Research)
Associate Professor Steven Slaughter, Associate Professor in International Relations
Professor Karen Starr, Chair in School Development and Leadership
Dr Patrick Stokes, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Dr Gillian Tan, Lecturer in Anthropology
Dr Anthony Ware, Senior Lecturer in International and Community Development
Dr Ian Warren, Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Associate Professor Chad Whelan, Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Dr Ben Wilkie, Lecturer in Australian Studies
Dr Cai Wilkinson, Associate Head Of School
Professor Andrea Witcomb, Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies
Dr Linda Young, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies
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AFFILIATE MEMBERSProfessor Georgina Tsolidis
Professor Sanjay Srivastava
Professor James Williams
Dr Michele Lobo
EMERITUS PROFESSORSAlfred Deakin Professor William Logan, Emeritus Professor
Alfred Deakin Professor David Walker, Emeritus Professor
Panelists exchange insights during the Symposium.
HONORARY FELLOWS Dr David Carpenter
Associate Professor Kevin O’Toole
Dr Scott Phillips
Dr Anthony Shorrocks
Professor Tom Stanley
Professor Howard White
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2016 FINANCIAL STATEMENT
ACCOUNT 2016 ACTUAL 2016 BUDGET 2016 VARIANCE
INCOMEOTHER INCOME
0 0 (0)
TOTAL INCOME
EXPENSESEMPLOYMENT COSTSNON SALARY EXPENSES
0
334,297 30,704
0
593,050 31,950
(0)
(258,753)(1,246)
TOTAL EXPENSES 365,000 625,000 (260,000)
NET SURPLUS / DEFICIT (365,000) (625,000) 260,000
ACCOUNT 2016 ACTUAL 2016 BUDGET 2016 VARIANCE
INTERNAL RESEARCHTOTAL INCOMEINTERNAL RESEARCH EXPENDITURE
3,932 3,835,861
0 4,095,185
3,932 (259,324)
SURPLUS / DEFICIT
OTHER & INITIATIVESOTHER
(3,831,929)
324,502
(4,095,185)
(16,879)
263,256
341,381
SURPLUS / DEFICIT 324,502 (16,879) 341,381
TOTAL ADI OTHER ACTIVITIES (3,507,427) (4,112,064) 604,637
ADI SRC
ADI OTHER ACTIVITIES
(3,872,427) (4,737,064) 864,637
TOTAL ADI
CATEGORY 1 ACTUAL
CATEGORY 2-4 ACTUAL
2016 ACTUAL CATEGORY 1 TARGET
CATEGORY 2-4 TARGET
2016 TARGET 2016 VARIANCE
1,874,347 2,149,476 4,023,823 1,304,346 1,372,752 2,677,098 1,346,725
EXTERNAL RESEARCH
INCREASING THE QUALITY OF RESEARCH OUTPUTS
By 2020 ADI will achieve in excess of $3m research income annually including at least $1.5m generated from partnerships with industry and community.
RESEARCH INCOMEIn 2016 ADI showed strong growth in Category 1 and Category 2-4 funding
Category 1 Category 2 - 4
2015 $1,292,925 $188,650
2016 $1,874,347 $2,159,476
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Category 1 Category 2 - 4
2015 $1,292,925 $188,650
2016 $1,874,347 $2,159,476
Institute researchers awarded more than $2.5m in nationally competitive grants in 2016.
GROWING OUR SUCCESS RATE IN OBTAINING COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS
Expertise from Professor Andrea Witcomb, Dr Tiffany Shellam, Professor Jon Altman and Associate Professor Melinda Hinkson (successful in Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) funding) and Associate Professor Andrew Singleton (Discovery scheme) will be used by colleagues in other universities as part of their successful ARC funding bids.
Projects by ADI researchers – Professor Emma Kowal, Dr Ali Mozaffari, Professor Anita Harris, Professor Christoph Antons, Professor Mark McGillivray and Professor Andrea Witcomb, were endorsed as being in the national benefit – attracting more than $2.5m in Australian Research Council (ARC) funding during 2016.
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Professor Emma Kowal, was awarded a prestigious Future Fellowship which will investigate how biological knowledge about Australia’s First Nation’s peoples was produced across the 20th Century.
The project has implications for the role of biology in Aboriginal studies and investigates what has happened to the biological samples – blood, bone and hair - on which that knowledge was created. The Future Fellowship scheme aims to attract and retain the best and brightest mid-career researchers by funding research of critical national and international importance.
Professor Kowal was also one of only 12 women to receive the “highly cited early to mid-career Australian female researcher” award at the inaugural “Women in Research” Citation Awards, hosted by Thomson Reuters IP and Science.
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Dr Ali Mozaffari was awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Award (DECRA) to support his research which will focus on the role pre-Islamic heritage plays in contemporary Iran and its potential to create a more stable Middle East.
Since the late 1980s, the Islamic Republic has reconsidered its relationship to the past, claiming Iran’s pre-Islamic heritage and enlisting it in official narratives of collective identity.
This project looks at the sub-region of Parsa-Pasrgadae (Parsa) in Iran where, despite competing historical, cultural and political factors converging, the people in the region have a shared identity.
DR ALI MOZAFFARI
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Professor Anita Harris’ ARC Discovery Project will look at the impact transnational mobility has on young people’s economic opportunities, social and familial ties, capacity for citizenship and transitions to adulthood.
She is leading the project with partner investigators at the University of Western Australia and Western Sydney University. Professor Harris’ argument is that we know that young people are increasingly traveling for work and education, both to and from Australia, to enhance their skills, experience and qualifications and improve their opportunities to succeed in a global economy.
This research will answer whether mobility delivers on its promise, or if it throws up other challenges for young people as they try to make life plans and imagine futures while on the move.
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Professor Mark McGillivray will be part of an ARC Discovery Project led by another Deakin University colleague Professor David Lowe.
This project will analyse Australian motives and their connectedness to the allocation of foreign aid since the Second World War.
PROFESSOR MARK MCGILLIVRAY
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Professor Andrea Witcomb with Professor Alistair Patterson from the University of Western Australia will jointly lead a team examining Western Australia’s history of collecting from pre-colonial to modern times collecting at a local, national and international
scales in order to understand how collecting has framed the state’s place in the world.
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ADI’s Dr Tiffany Shellam is also part the team.
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ADI HAS PRIORITISED BUILDING MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS WITH RESEARCH PARTNERS AND COLLABORATORS IN AUSTRALIA, AND INTERNATIONALLY, IN ORDER TO GENERATE CUTTING-EDGE, WORLD-LEADING RESEARCH WHICH MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN PEOPLE’S LIVES.
STRATEGIC RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
ADI RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS RECEIVED FUNDING OF MORE THAN $2.1M FOR NEW PROJECTS INVESTIGATING NATIONAL AND GLOBAL QUESTIONS OF SIGNIFICANCE.
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Dr David Hundt and Dr Jess WaltonInternational collaborative research grant from the Academy of Korean Studies. Experiences and perspectives of Koreans in Australia and New Zealand.
ADI researchers Dr David Hundt and Dr Jessica Walton lead research supported by a grant from the Academy of Korean Studies. This study will gather information about how Koreans migrating to Australia and New Zealand have been received by their host communities. The researchers’ inclusion on the team reflects their expertise on Korea and experience and understanding of Australian society.
Although Koreans have historically predominantly migrated to North America and Europe, little is known about increased Korean migration to Australia. Similarly, there is a significant amount of research on Korean adoptees to other countries such as the U.S. but less research on Korean adoptees in Australia and New Zealand. This research will address this gap in knowledge.
The Institute received two grants from the Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR) of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to support international collaboration.
A CAAR supported symposium Post-Arab Spring Tunisia: Decentralisation and Local Democracy, hosted by Professor Fethi Mansouri with Professor Greg Barton and Dr David Tittensor put the spotlight on Tunisia’s continuing efforts to create a stable political and economic environment in the face of its next political milestone – local elections.
The Symposium brought Tunisians together with Indonesians who have been actively engaged in shaping their own country’s political future, to share experiences and draw on the expertise of the pioneering Australia-Indonesia Electoral Support Program (AIESP). Speakers included Najla Abbes from the League of Tunisian Women Voters; Belhassen Turki from the Tunisian Local Governance Project; Ghazoua Ltaief from Sawty; Saber Houchati from the National Federation of Tunisian Cities; Ines Ben Youssef from the Tunisian League for Human Rights and Free Patriots,
Tunisia; Hadar Gumay from the Election Commission of Indonesia, Indonesia; Admira Dini Salim from the International Foundation for Electoral Systems and Dr Dina Afrianty from the Australian Catholic University.
CAAR also supported visits by overseas scholars hosted by Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh including Dr Amna Guellali from Human Rights Watch; Dr Ibrahim Fraihat, Acting Director and senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution’s Doha Center and Professor Mark Farha, Assistant Professor of Politics at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
Professor Fethi Mansouri, Professor Greg Barton, Dr David Tittensor, Professor Shahram AkbarzadehInternational experts and collaborators from the Middle East and North Africa. Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR) of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
Dr Jessica Walton
Dr David Hundt
ADI Director, Professor Mansouri, with the Symposium speakers.
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Professor Anita Harris, Dr Amelia Johns, Ms Lara ElmaoulaUnderstanding social cohesion and digital resilience amongst young people aged 12 to 17. The Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner.
The research, funded by The Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner, responds to three megatrends predicted by the CSIRO and VicHealth to most significantly impact youth over the coming 20 years - cultural diversity, the virtual world and mental well-being.
In their report, Professor Anita Harris, Dr Amelia Johns and Ms Lara Elmaoula called for more attention to be paid to developing interconnected programs linking online and offline worlds so social cohesion can be built among young people– particularly CALD, migrant and refugee youth.
They argued that doing so would help to recognise the ways young people use digital media, address its capacity to foster social division and conflict, but also embrace the ways it can be used to empower CALD, refugee and migrant youths’ participation and voice in the community. By doing so such programs would foster social connectedness and belonging.
They found current policy and research approaches to addressing the intersection of the digital environment and the challenges of diversity for social cohesion were siloed.
The research highlighted a need for a ‘middle ground’ – where effective digital resilience strategies need to be challenged and tested in the real and online worlds for their ability to foster social cohesion among vulnerable CALD, migrant and refugee youth as well as mainstream youth.
ADI researchers Dr Costas Laoutides and Dr Anthony Ware received a research grant from the Gerda-Henkel Foundation’s Special Program on Security, Society and the State for their project on the Rakhine-Rohingya conflict in Myanmar.
In this project, the expertise of Drs Laoutides and Ware will inform the Myanmar government’s and various agencies’ understandings of how an emerging democracy can also be peaceful and secure after many years of separatist and intercommunal conflict.
Dr Costas Laoutides and Dr Anthony WarenyRakhine-Rohingya conflict in Myanmar Gerda-Henkel Foundation’s Special Program on Security, Society and the State.
Professor Fethi Mansouri and Dr David TittensorDoing Diversity: Revitalising Multiculturalism via Deliberative Interventions. Research Institute on Social Cohesion (RIOSC).
Professor Mansouri with Dr David Tittensor received funding from the Research Institute on Social Cohesion, of the Department of Premier and Cabinet to investigate how the emerging social realities of security risks affect our daily engagement with diversity.
In partnership with the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria and the Australian Intercultural Society, researchers are assessing whether intercultural understanding strategies engender multicultural renewal.
Data generated from this project will contribute to the Victorian Government’s Strategic Framework to Strengthen Victoria’s Social Cohesion and the Resilience of its Communities and will feed into innovative policy frameworks.
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Dr Sophie Matthiesson, Curator, International Art at the National Gallery of Victoria took the visitors on a tour.
Dr Steven CookeCapacity Building for Indonesian Museum Professionals. Australia Awards Fellowships, Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Indonesian Museum professionals are developing their curatorial and leadership skills thanks to a capacity-building grant awarded to Dr Steven Cooke by the Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australia Awards Fellowships program.
This grant reflects Deakin University’s long standing track record of excellence in cultural heritage professionals’ development in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Fellows, who came from museums throughout Indonesia, visited Deakin and developed their ‘big idea’: a project to be implemented, with online support by Deakin staff, when they returned to their home institution.
The benefits of this approach allowed participants to incorporate the learning from the program into their everyday working lives and demonstrate its impacts.
A follow up symposium will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, so that the Fellows can share the learnings from the implementation of their ‘big idea’ projects, which will then be uploaded onto a specially designed website as case studies to share the learning to the broader Indonesian sector.
Associate Professor Benjamin Isakhan Faculty of Arts and Education. Research Award for Industry Collaboration Research.
Associate Professor Benjamin Isakhan’s leadership in research collaboration with industry was recognised at both University and Faculty level.
Associate Professor Isakhan received a Highly Commended in the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research
Partnerships and the Faculty Research Award for Industry Collaboration Research.
These awards were made to Associate Professor Isakhan for demonstrating significant leadership in the Deakin/Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (Department of Defence) research partnership that has helped shape the current national policy framework in the protection of cultural property during military operations.
Associate Professor Benjamin Isakhan
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New endowed Research Chair in Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue. Selimiye Foundation and the Australian Intercultural Society (AIS).
A partnership between Deakin University, the Selimiye Foundation and the Australian Intercultural Society (AIS) was deepened with the creation of an endowed Research Chair in Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue.
In his first lecture for the Institute, inaugural Chair-holder Professor Ihsan Yilmaz set out an ambitious research agenda focused on the Muslim World’s crisis of knowledge production, and an agenda to address a global lack of understanding about Islam which lies at the heart of violent extremism and Islamophobia.
Professor Yilmaz is an internationally renowned expert in Muslim politics, nation-building, citizenship and legal pluralism. His appointment builds upon existing expertise in the Institute on diversity and intercultural dialogue.
In launching the Chair, the Institute and its partners reaffirmed joint commitment to promote intercultural dialogue as an important tool to promote understanding, peace, stability and economic development.
“ The Chair will lay the groundwork for discourse and cooperation among different faiths that is so important if we are to maintain the open communication essential for achieving peace in our increasingly unpredictable world.” Deakin University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jane den HollanderProfessor Ihsan Yilmaz
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ADI USED HIGH IMPACT SYMPOSIA, SEMINARS, PUBLIC LECTURES, AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATION CHANNELS TO FOSTER DEEPER CONNECTIONS WITH COMMUNITIES, POLICY MAKERS AND OTHER INFLUENCERS.
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Among the highlights were ADI’s first public policy forum which discussed the recognition of Australia’s first nations peoples, the 2016 UNESCO Chair’s Oration and presentations by high profile visitors including rapper Mèdine and Mohawk scholar Associate Professor Audra Simpson.
Inaugural policy forum-Treaty: Victorian leadership on a national project of restorative justice.
More than 100 people turned out for ADI’s inaugural Public Policy Forum Treaty: Victorian leadership on a national project of restorative justice. The Institute’s Public Policy Forum series hosts important and engaging conversations with informed experts, practitioners and stakeholders in order to inform public debate and policy.
Forum attendees learnt from the panelists that proper representation will be critically important to the process and that there is enormous goodwill among
Victorian First Nations peoples towards the Victorian Government’s openness to Indigenous aspirations (unlike the Commonwealth). From the discussion, the audience gained a sense that positive and sustainable outcomes could result from a Treaty or series of Treaties.
The event demonstrated that recognition and reconciliation is a possibility only if Indigenous peoples are allowed to coalesce and represent their diverse aspirations in an equitable negotiation process with the State Government.
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Author and human rights advocate Dr Arnold Zable used a tapestry of interwoven stories to give a human face to Australia’s marginalised in the 2016 UNESCO Chair’s Oration entitled Here is Where We Meet: The Humanising Power of Story.
A packed room was held spellbound as Dr Zable powerfully illustrated the many people with different backgrounds who make up multicultural Australia.
2016 was the fourth year of the UNESCO Chair’s Oration series which is delivered by a pre-eminent thinker in social justice, cultural diversity and human
rights. Other Orators have included Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr Rigoberta Menchú and Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission. Orators in the series speak to topics which are key to our place in the world and speak to the focus of the UNESCO Chair which aims to ensure cultural diversity and social justice is accepted and embraced as a core tenet of humanity
UNESCO Chair Orator calls on us to meet and hear the story of the ‘other’
ADI Director, Professor Fethi Mansouri, joined Monash European and EU Centre Deputy Directors Dr Natalie Doyle and Dr Ben Wellings, and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Tim Soutphommasane from the Australian Human Rights Commission for a panel discussion looking at belief and belonging.
Panellists considered the extent to which identity and nationhood impact belonging and the future of multiculturalism.
Big ideas – Belief and Belonging
Call for key influencers to go beyond stereotypes in debate about Islam and links to violent extremism
The Chair of the Victorian Multicultural Commission, Ms Helen Kapalos, called for leadership among Australia’s key influencers in the debate surrounding Islam and its links to violent extremism and radicalisation in her opening address at the Third Australasian Conference – Refuting the Theological Foundations of Violent Extremism and Radicalisation. Ms Kapalos, who is a former journalist, presenter and executive producer, called upon news editors and journalists to go beyond easy stereotyping in their coverage.
The conference, co-convened by ADI Director Professor Fethi Mansouri with colleagues from the Islamic Sciences and Research Academy of Australia; the Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt University; the Australian Catholic University and the Australian Intercultural Society came at a critical time as public discussion around Islamic belief, ritual and practice— and its connection to Australian citizenship—becomes ever more volatile.
Impetus for the conference had come from concern at the way Islam was being manipulated by extremists to create a distorted public perception of the religion. Most claims and perceptions of Islam and violence are borne out of misconceived understandings around the contested theological foundations of Jihad and Sharia.
Conference delegates discussed empirical and theoretical research and made an informed contribution to the polarised discussion by clarifying the theological foundations and sociological explanations surfacing in the public debate.
Chair of the Victorian Multicultural Commission, Ms Helen Kapalos opens the Third Australasian
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Deakin University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jane den Hollander, Dr Arnold Zable, Deakin University Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Peter Hodgson and ADI Director, Professor Fethi Mansouri at the 2016 UNESCO Chair’s Oration.
From left to right: Deputy Director of the Monash European and EU Centre, Dr Natalie Doyle, Deputy Director of the Monash European and EU Centre, Dr Ben Wellings, ADI Director, Professor Fethi Mansouri, and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Tim Soutphommasane from the Australian Human Rights Commission.
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Associate Professor Audra Simpson
Associate Professor Audra Simpson, a Mohawk scholar from Columbia University, challenged thinking on state recognition of Indigenous peoples during a visit hosted by ADI and The Wheeler Centre.
Associate Professor Simpson, whose book Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States won the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, spoke to a capacity crowd.
Her visit to Australia came at a pivotal time as Australia debated constitutional recognition of its First Nations peoples and researchers and politicians questioned the precepts on which recognition is based.
Associate Professor Simpson also participated in a two-day workshop involving researchers from the Institute and other invited guests from various Australian universities, and ran a Masterclass with PhD students during her visit.
Watch the full lecture here: http://www.wheelercentre.com/broadcasts/audra-simpson
Recognition or refusal? Visiting scholar argues Indigenous peoples could take alternate route.
ADI’s Professor Emma Kowal in conversation with Associate Professor Audra Simpson at The Wheeler Centre.
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WHY SO SILENT? IMPACT THROUGH CONVERSATION.
TWITTER@DEAKIN_ADI
In 2016 the Institute introduced a series of filmed discussions between ADI researchers on key issues including asylum seekers, Indigenous poverty, countering violent extremism, racism and the US elections to inform and stimulate public debate.
The videos were published on YouTube and promoted through ADI’s social media channels including Twitter and Facebook. Videos which received
ADI’s grew its digital networks in 2016 increasing its Twitter following and generating engaging content for the platform. Via increasing interactions including retweets, trending hashtags and click through to the Institute website, the Institute effectively uses Twitter to engage in and stimulate public debate as well as disseminate research.
the most views included a discussion between Professor Yin Paradies and Dr Timothy Neale on how to respond to racists, and a conversation between Professor Jon Altman and Dr Victoria Stead on Indigenous poverty.
ADI’s Greg Barton was an authoritative commentator on international events in national and international print and broadcast media with opinion pieces published in leading outlets including the Herald Sun and Australian Financial Review.
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The Institute introduced a multi-authored blog during 2016 providing a one-stop website for commentary by Institute researchers on current events.
ADI members also contributed more than 36 articles to the research- focused news and commentary website - The Conversation.
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THE ADI FACEBOOK COMMUNITY
ADI’s community on Facebook also grew significantly in size, reach and engagement 2016. It has been a particularly successful medium for research engagement activities including the new “Why so silent” series of filmed discussions.
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Historic Environment JournalHistoric Environment is the peer reviewed journal of Australia ICOMOS, bringing ‘together dynamic, critical interdisciplinary research in the field of cultural heritage and heritage conservation’. ADI’s Dr Steven Cooke is Editor and Historic Environment Editorial Committee Coordinator.
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Journal of Intercultural StudiesThe Journal of Intercultural Studies is an international, interdisciplinary journal that particularly encourages contributions from scholars in cultural studies, sociology, migration studies, literary studies, gender studies, anthropology, cultural geography, urban studies, race and ethnic studies. ADI’s Director Professor Fethi Mansouri is editor, Dr Vince Marotta is Managing Editor.
Journal of Citizenship and Globalisation StudiesThe Journal of Citizenship and Globalisation Studies is a new open access journal interested in the complex and often contradictory meanings of citizenship, social inclusion and globalisation at the local, national and transnational levels. Its Editor-in-Chief is ADI Director, Professor Fethi Mansouri, while the Managing Editor is Dr Vince Marotta.
Journal Islam and Christian-Muslim RelationsThe Journal Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations promotes the scholarly study of Islam as a religious and intellectual tradition, and its relations with Christianity and other religions. It is co-edited by ADI’s Professor Greg Barton, Deakin University, Australia.
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Financial cost of racism to the nation Doctoral research conducted in the Institute by Amanuel Elias demonstrated, for the first time, how much racism costs the Australian economy. The research made the front page of Australia’s national daily, The Australian, provided a topic for its editorial, and generated radio interviews and talkback.
Using rigorous quantitative methodologies, Dr Elias’s thesis shows that racial discrimination costs Australia’s health system $45 billion, or 3.6 per cent of GDP annually. Dr Elias responded to criticism that his findings would curtail free speech with a statement that his research advanced knowledge and that Australia should lead by example in discussing complex issues such as racism in a respectful and informed way.
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From left to right: Conference convenor and ADI Research Fellow Dr Virginie Andre, Director Counter-terrorism Middle East, Africa and South Asia Section Counter-terrorism Branch Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australia Bill Elischer, Deakin University Vice-Chancellor Professor Jane den Hollander, and ADI Director, Professor Fethi Mansouri.
Conference sets out to address the new landscapes of terrorism
A three-day multilingual Addressing the New Landscapes of Terrorism Conference sought to provide a more sophisticated understanding of hyperviolent extremism and provide a platform where young people’s voices could be heard in the debate.
Among the attendees were prominent French Algerian rapper Mèdine and influential, former Chief Strategist for the White House, David Kilcullen. Other speakers included Belgian and Perth Muslim youth workers Khaled Boutaffalah and Aisha Novakovich.
The conference reflected a need for current solutions to go beyond the security approach and instead enable Muslim youth to counter terrorism by being a force for positive social and political change.
The conference was supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission of Thailand, the Australian Intervention and Support Hub, the embassies of the United States and France.
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Selected contributions include:
Professor Jon Altman was called to give evidence before a Senate inquiry examining the Social Security Legislation Amendment (Community Development Program) Bill 2015. His appearance related to concerns about rates of payment under the program, changes to the way the program would be administered and who would be responsible for it - the Government’s Department of Human Services or private service providers.
Evidence from his submission was cited in the final report on the program to the Government. In his 2016 Social Justice and Native Title Report, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner cited Professor Altman’s work on land rights and development in Australia as a model for remote Indigenous development. Professor Altman was also an expert witness on the Timber Creek Native Title Compensation Case in the Federal Court which saw the first legal determination of compensation for invalid extinguishment of native title.
In October 2016, Professor Mark McGillivray’s report to the Swedish Government on the effectiveness of Swedish Foreign Aid to Tanzania was published by the Expert Group for Aid Studies. Tanzania is among a number of developing countries with which Sweden has had a particularly long bilateral and co-operative development relationship. Since the co-operation commenced in 1963, no country has received more aid from Sweden than Tanzania. As Tanzania is the seventh largest recipient of world foreign aid since 1960, the international community is particularly interested in the impact this aid has had on poverty reduction in this country and lessons learned from its delivery.
terminals in communities. The joint submission evaluated the industry-led research program into the terminals, the data collected by the research program, the national Responsible Gambling Strategy and the premise on which it has been based. The submission argued for urgent action to be taken to prevent and minimise the harms associated with the betting terminals.
Institute Director Professor Fethi Mansouri, was a key panelist in a discussion looking at the challenges governments, academics and community organisations face when working together on matters relating to the management of cultural diversity and social cohesion. The panel discussion was part of the first forum run by the Victorian Government’s Research Institute on Social Cohesion (RIOSC). Professor Mansouri is a member of their Advisory Board. The discussion was opened by the Deputy Premier, The Hon James Merlino.
Professor Christoph Antons was among a selected group of experts invited to comment on the report on patent policy and the right to science and culture of the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.
Professor Greg Barton was regularly consulted by the Countering Violence Extremism section of the Attorney Generals and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade departments for policy advice on Countering Violent Extremism.
Apart from proposing a framework for how aid to individual countries can be evaluated, the report showed poverty reduction efforts have been more effective during certain periods than others, and that effectiveness has increased somewhat in recent years. The evaluation shows that Sweden contributed marginally to poverty reduction in the country during the period following 1997, primarily through Swedish budget support. The report, entitled Swedish Development Co-operation with Tanzania: Has it Helped the Poor?, was released in Stockholm and received considerable media attention in Sweden. It was launched in Tanzania in February 2017 at the Swedish Embassy in Dar es Salaam.
Associate Professor Benjamin Isakhan co-authored a report submitted to the Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on the topic Heritage Destruction and Human Rights: A Middle East and North Africa Perspective. Associate Professor Isakhan also continued his work with the Australian Department of Defence on Cultural Property Protection in Iraq and Syria. He is the co-author of two reports submitted to the Department and the co-convenor of a joint ADI-Department of Defence conference on ISIL and Middle East Regional Dynamics in December 2016, attended by delegates from across Australian government, as well as those from the US, UK and Canada.
Professor Linda Hancock made a joint submission with the Campaign for Fairer Gambling to the Fixed Odds Betting Terminals - All Party Parliamentary Group in the United Kingdom. The Group is investigating the impact of the betting
ADI has developed an international reputation for research and expertise. In 2016, several members of the Institute contributed to formal and informal processes of consultation and supplied expert advice to governments and agencies both in Australia and overseas.
AUSTRALIAN AND OVERSEAS GOVERNMENTS AND AGENCIES SEEK ADI MEMBERS FOR EXPERT ADVICE
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THE INSTITUTE CONTINUED TO EXPAND ITS INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FOOTPRINT. INITIATIVES INCLUDED MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING WITH OVERSEAS INSTITUTIONS AND PARTNERS, HOSTING INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS AND VISITORS, AND SUPPORTING MEMBERS TO UNDERTAKE PRESTIGIOUS VISITING FELLOWSHIPS OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA.
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Dr Amna Guellali with Professor Fethi Mansouri during her visit to Melbourne
In 2016, ADI negotiated several key MOUs, including one with Beijing University, China.
This agreement was reached following a two-day workshop Theorising China’s Rise, held at Deakin University in Melbourne which attracted leading thinkers on China and international relations.
Similarly, a visit to Doha to build research links and attend a workshop considering Iran’s Politics and Foreign Policy led to an MOU with Qatar University.
MOUs
A two-day workshop attracting leading thinkers on China and international relations questioned the current theoretical explanations surrounding the rise of China.
The workshop, convened by ADI’s Associate Professor Chengxin Pan, was supported by Deakin University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Institute for Social Justice, at Australian Catholic University and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. It was followed by a public forum, hosted by Deakin University and La Trobe Asia looking at how China sees the world.
The workshop attracted a distinguished group of international researchers to Australia who included Emeritus Professor Barry Buzan from the London School of Economics, Professor Wang Jisi from Peking University, Professor John Agnew from UCLA, and Professor L.H.M. Ling from the New School in New York.
Alongside the international visitors were ADI’s own Professor Baogang He, the Australian National University’s Professor Evelyn Goh and the Australian Catholic University’s Associate Professor Emilian Kavalski.
Workshop questions theories on the rise of China
Tunisia can show Middle East an alternate path to democracy
VISITING SCHOLARS
Professor Evelyn Goh engages in the discussion.
At a popular seminar convened by ADI’s Middle East Studies Forum in partnership with CAAR, Dr Amna Guellali Tunisia Director, Human Rights Watch, spoke about democratic transition and violence.
She argued that Tunisia hadn’t received the attention it should have internationally but was still a living laboratory for democratic transition in the Middle East.
It did however have the potential to consolidate democracy and show the rest of the Middle East that there was an alternative path to dictatorship and violence.
In 2016, ADI hosted several internationally renowned scholars in partnership with CAAR including Visiting Fellow, Dr Ibrahim Fraihat, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution’s Doha Centre. Dr Fraihat’s talk examined why most of the Arab revolutions have not resulted in a smooth transition to peace, stability, and development and instead descended into violence and civil wars. He proposed solutions to the chaos in the Middle East region, providing insights into how the region can transition to peace and stability.
CAAR Visiting Fellow, Dr Ibrahim Fraihat
ABOVE: Dr Ibrahim Fraihat and ADI Deputy Director (International), Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh
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Director of ADI, and the UNESCO Chairholder, Cultural Diversity and Social Justice, Professor Fethi Mansouri hosted Professor Bob Adamson the UNESCO Chairholder in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Lifelong Learning Chair Professor of Curriculum Reform Director at the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development in Hong Kong. Professor Adamson visited Melbourne to discuss ways ADI and his chair can work collaboratively on projects in the Asian region relating to religious diversity and spirituality.
Professor Bon AdamsonReligious diversity and spirituality
Professor Witcomb was invited by Professors Rhianon Mason and Chris Whitehead to visit Newcastle University in the UK. During her visit Professor Witcomb met with PhD students, discussing their projects with them and gave a public lecture titled Building ‘empathic unsettlement’ through digital experiences in museums: Addressing difficult histories through the use of mimesis and discussed potential future collaborations including a Leverhulme fellowship application. She will also be contributing to a book edited by Professor Whitehead, aimed at the museum profession in the UK.
Professor Hancock presented a public lecture and paper looking at the links between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and NGO-corporate partnerships for disaster risk reduction and the role of alternative energy as part of her Delhi Fellowship with the Australia India Institute.
Associate Professor Isakhan spent a month as a visiting research scholar at the University of Oxford as part of their Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa Project. This visit enabled Associate Professor Isakhan to work closely with some of the foremost thinkers on the destruction
During her stay, she built relationships with leading scholars in critical approaches to the study of development from anthropology and politics.
Dr Halafoff was based at Dalhousie University’s Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology in the USA and was one of 60 invited international experts from 31 countries who participated in the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge’s second International Higher Education Interfaith Leadership Forum.
Dr Gonzalez Zarandona challenged the language used in public and academic debates to describe IS’ destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria as part of a Travelling Fellowship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Dr Gonzalez Zarandona delivered a seminar on the concept of landscape iconoclasm, specifically the destruction of Indigenous cultural landscapes at both Oxford and Sheffield Universities. During his visit, he also delivered a seminar on cultural iconoclasm at Birmingham University.
of heritage sites across the Middle East. During his visit, he delivered a keynote address and discussed future potential collaborations and initiatives.
Associate Professor Pan, whose research focuses on Australia’s place in China’s strategic calculations, spent time at the Australian Studies Centre at Peking University on a Federal Government Endeavour Research Fellowship. As part of the Fellowship he was invited to speak at the prestigious Beijing Forum (Peking University), Xinzhi Forum (Tsinghua University, Beijing), East Asia Cooperation Forum (Renmin University of China, Beijing), the 4th Foundation for Australian Studies in China Conference (Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou), and the Changing Global Order and US-China Relations Forum (Pangoal Academy, Beijing).
Dr Balaton-Chrimes was a visiting scholar in the Politics Department at the New School for Social Research in New York from July 2016 to January 2017. Working in an environment globally renowned for its leadership in radical political theory, Dr Balaton-Chrimes developed a theoretical framework dealing with otherness, disagreement and development for a book project on her field work in Kenya and India.
During 2016, numerous ADI researchers were hosted as visiting scholars at overseas Institutions furthering the Institute’s international connections with leading thinkers. Among these were Professors Linda Hancock and Andrea Witcomb, Associate Professors Benjamin Isakhan and Chengxin Pan and Drs Sam Balaton-Chrimes, Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona, and Anna Halafoff.
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As leaders in their respective fields, our researchers are
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ADI supports excellence and innovation and is proud to host a number of nationally and internationally recognised researchers. Two members were given the University’s highest honour in 2016.
Two new Alfred Deakin Professors
Alfred Deakin Institute Deputy Director (Research) Yin Paradies and Chair in International Relations, Baogang He, were awarded Alfred Deakin Professorships by the University.
The prestigious title of Alfred Deakin Professor is the highest honour the University can award its academic staff and recognises those who have made a significant contribution to its research goals.
The application of Professor Paradies’ research can be seen in the Racism: It Stops with Me and Nobody Should
be Made to Feel like Crap Just for Being Who They Are campaigns.
Professor He has become widely known for his work in Chinese democratisation and politics, in particular the deliberative politics in China.
Professors Paradies and He join Alfred Deakin Professors Fethi Mansouri, David Walker and Bill Logan whose outstanding leadership and academic excellence has previously been recognised.
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In 2016, ADI awarded six PhD scholarships for new research in the social sciences and humanities. Doctoral research will be conducted in a wide range of critical areas including, the power and paradoxes in the subjectivities of Australian Muslims; the foundations of Spinozist Marxism; representing Australia’s
At a successful two-day Heritage, Sustainability and Social Justice Postgraduate Symposium, the Institute’s cultural heritage Higher Degree by Research (HDR) candidates, Diane Siebrandt, Laura Kraak, Luke James, and Melathi Saldin, supported by the Heritage, Indigeneity and Sustainability Stream, led a discussion around ethics and the best strategies for investigating, documenting, safeguarding and managing cultural heritage.
The Conference allowed students in the field of heritage studies to exchange experiences and knowledge as well as talk to Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of World Monuments Fund, Lisa Ackerman, and Deakin University Emeritus Professor William Logan, who were the keynote speakers.
The Conference responded to a key, but complex challenge in the 21st
cultural diversity in museums; small NGOs’ capacity to conduct cost effective and robust program evaluations; transnational identities of young Polynesian women in Melbourne, Auckland and Samoa, and an evaluation of the role of Islamic organisations in Australia in countering Islamophobia
century globalised world about how best to protect and manage intangible and tangible cultural heritage in a sustainable and socially just way.
The conservation and preservation of cultural values can be impacted upon by issues such as gender, human rights, international laws and economic and social changes.
ADI is building a reputation as a world-class research training facility. To achieve this, it has invested in new PhD scholarships, appointed an Institute HDR Coordinator, and given doctoral researchers opportunities to lead scholarly events, including seminars and symposia.
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Attracting and supporting high-quality doctoral students
Heritage, Sustainability and Social Justice Postgraduate Symposium.
ADI Emeritus Professor Bill Logan, during his keynote address
Lisa Ackerman, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of World
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Future of the Middle East HDR workshop
HDR Candidates from across Australia and New Zealand attended a special workshop run as part of the Future of the Middle East Conference.
Participants listened to talks by the US Consulate sponsored guest speaker Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (Baker Institute, Rice University) on fieldwork in the Middle East, Professor Larbi Sadiki (Qatar University) on designing research in the Middle East, Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh (Deakin University) on grants for HDRs and early career researches, Palgrave Macmillan on ‘How to turn your thesis into a book’ and from DFAT on non-academic jobs.
HDR’s working on key Middle East issues, such as the use of child soldiers by ISIS, Iraqi identity and the future of democracy in the Middle East presented in the afternoon.
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PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING COLLABORATION: SELECTED HIGHIGHTS
Skills pathwayIn partnership with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, in 2016, ADI launched a new program aimed at bridging the teaching-research nexus.
The program enables research intensive staff to develop experience in various teaching roles including lecturing and unit coordination, and allows School-
How can we build peace-ful, stable and legitimate states after conflict?Building peaceful, stable and legitimate states after conflict is one of the challenges of our time and representative of the interconnected and complex questions being investigated by Institute members.
The question was the focus of a special one day workshop co-convened by the Development Inequality and Well-being and Governance Justice and Security streams.
Split into two parts, the workshop drew on the experiences on the Ukraine, Russia and former Soviet States to gain an historical insight into their post conflict transformation before looking at contemporary issues and challenges of post conflict development in other countries.
based staff a period of increased research time.
In addition to supporting skills development and additional research outputs among staff, this program also enhances opportunities for research-led teaching in undergraduate programs.
During the workshop Institute members met with other global experts on post conflict including Professor Jonathan Goodhand from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) London and The University of Melbourne; Professor Mark Edele, History Future Fellow at the University of Western Australia and Professor Stephen Wheatcroft from the University of Melbourne.
It also allowed them to explore opportunities for research collaboration.
ADI is committed to nurturing early career researchers towards successful, high-impact academic careers.
ADI provides significant financial and administrative resources to its four research streams to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and to seed new research. In 2016, research streams conducted numerous activities aimed at bringing researchers together.
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How should the South-East Asia region deal with asylum seekers?
The Development, Inequality and Well-being with the Governance, Justice and Security streams partnered again and worked and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and policy makers to host a one-day workshop aimed at developing regional approaches to asylum seekers in Southeast Asia.
The Workshop - Forced Migration and Regional Cooperation Southeast Asia: Policymakers’ perceptions, strategies and constraints - drew on the expertise of ADI members in the streams who carry out research looking at Rohingya Muslims at the point of origin in Myanmar their transit and arrival.
As well as further developing links between scholars and policymakers, workshop participants discussed regional policies and new research on asylum seekers and refugees.
The workshop is a new and important phase of a larger project, of the same title, which received funding from Deakin University in the 2016 Central Research Grant Scheme.
In the Company of Things Dead
A digital media workshop coordinated by the Diversity and Identity Stream and led by Associate Professor Melinda Hinkson was accompanied by a public lecture delivered by Associate Professor Paulo Favero. This event further developed collaborative partnerships between Deakin, Antwerp, Melbourne and RMIT Universities and built research capacity by bringing researchers with similar methodological approaches together.
Associate Professor Favero’s public lecture called In the Company of Things Dead was co-hosted with the Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University and the Faculty of VCA&MCM at the University of Melbourne.
It interrogated the extent to which images can function not only as narrators and representations of life and death but also as tools for connecting the two dimensions of the human experience.
Capability, Well-being and Inequality
The Development, Inequality and Well-being Stream co-hosted a workshop with colleagues from Massey University, New Zealand looking at people-centred development and whether people really are free to live the lives they want.
The Capability, Well-being and Inequality Workshop and discussions which followed go to the heart of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which aim to improve people’s well-being, the reduction of inequality and achievement of sustainability.
Among the topics discussed were the capability approach and Indigenous policy, human development in Vietnam and happiness; human development and the extent to which Non-Government Organisations in Botswana facilitate human development for people with disabilities.
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Middle East Studies ForumProfessor James Piscatori delivered a popular and packed seminar hosted by ADI’s Middle East Studies Forum entitled In Search of Umma - Between Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism.
The ‘one community’ (umma wahida) referenced in the Qur’an (e.g., 5:48) has, over time, been idealised, even though its precise meaning has remained vague. The seminar posed and answered Two questions – how unified is the Umma’ and how extensive is it?
Professor Piscatori was, until recently, Professor and Head of the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.
His lecture was recorded so it could be used on the University’s teaching platform.
ADI hosts four research networks who organised a series of discipline-focused activities. The events strengthen the Institute’s local and global partnerships and provide further forums for collaboration and the exchange of ideas.
Polis
The newly formed research network of Political Science and International Relations scholars at Deakin University (Polis) convened several seminar discussions. These addressed a breadth of contemporary global political phenomena including Brexit, the US Elections, young people’s use of social media as a form of political engagement, the role of corruption in South East Asia and water security in the Himalayan river basin.
Visiting experts included Professor Ariadne Vromen, University of Sydney, Associate Professor Fiona Yap, Australian National University, Associate Professor Frank Mols, University of Queensland and Dr Douglas Hill, University of Otago.
European Philosophy and History of Ideas
The European Philosophy and History of Ideas research group, Deakin Philosophers, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Institute were proud to host the 2016 Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference (ASCP).
On day two of the conference ADI Director, Professor Fethi Mansouri challenged conference delegates to consider questions such as: What is post truth? What does it say about us as a society? What role does philosophy have to play in social cohesion and resilience?
The ASCP’s annual conference is the largest event devoted to European philosophy in Australasia.
Keynote speakers included Professor of Philosophy, Penelope Deutscher, Northwestern University; Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, John Lippitt, Hertfordshire University and Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy, Anne Sauvagnargues, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense and Research Fellow, Dr John Sellars, King’s College London.
Cultural Heritage in Asia-Pacific
The Cultural Heritage Asia-Pacific research group had a busy seminar program in 2016. Dr Avril Alba from Sydney University gave the last seminar in the series, in a seminar, co-hosted with the Melbourne Jewish Museum.
Dr Nigel Pollard, from Swansea University also spoke about the history of the Monuments Men at a seminar co-hosted with the Blue Shields organisation and ICOMOS.
Professor James Piscatori In Search of the Umma
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PUBLICATIONS
EDITED AND AUTHORED BOOKS
Akbarzadeh, S & Conduit, D (eds) 2016,Iran in the world President Rouhani’s foreign policy
Palgrave Macmillan
Kingsbury, D, McKay, J, Hunt, J, McGillivray, M & Clarke, M 2016, International development: issues and challenges
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2016 OTHER RESEARCHED PUBLICATION POINTS: BOOKS
2016 OTHER RESEARCHED PUBLICATION POINTS: BOOK CHAPTERS
2016OTHER RESEARCHED PUBLICATION POINTS: CONFERENCES
2016OTHER RESEARCHED PUBLICATION POINTS: CREATIVE WORKS
COLLABORATION % OF ALL JOURNAL ARTICLES WITH A NON-DEAKIN AUTHOR
YTD DECEMBER 2016
55 45.66 4.83 1.67 16%
PUBLICATIONS
ADI produced a range of publications during 2016. All our publications are available from our website
www.deakin.edu.au/adi
45%
81%60%
40%
ANNUAL REPORTADI
Ware, A & Clarke, M (eds) 2016, Development across faith boundaries
Routledge
Isakhan, B 2016, Democracy in Iraq: history, politics, discourse
Routledge
Labadi, S & Logan, W (eds) 2016, Urban heritage, development and sustainability: international frameworks, national and local governance
Routledge
Halafoff, A, Arweck, E & Boisvert, D (eds) 2016, Education about religions and worldviews: promoting intercultural and interreligious understanding in secular societies
Routledge
McCosker, A, Vivienne S, & Johns, A (eds) 2016, Negotiating digital citizenship control, contest and culture
Rowman & Littlefield International
Marotta, V 2016, Theories of the stranger debates on cosmopolitanism, identity and cross-cultural encounters
Routledge
Hinkson, M (ed) 2016, Imaging identity: media, memory and portraiture in the digital age
ANU Press
Lemos Morais, R (ed) 2016, Transductions: a global experiment in digital curation
Media XXI
Nichterlein, M & Morss, J 2016, Deleuze and psychology: philosophical provocations to psychological practices
Routledge
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Mozaffari, A (ed) 2016, World heritage in Iran perspectives on pasargadae
Routledge
Duckworth, D, Malcolm, D, Garfield, J, Powers, J, Thabkhas,Y & Thakchoe, S (eds) 2016, Dignaga’s investigation of the percept a philosophical legacy in India and Tibet
Oxford University Press
Ollis, T, Starr, K, Ryan, C, Angwin, J & Harrison, U 2016, Every day you learn something: learning for life? neighbourhood houses, adult learning and transitions to higher education
Arena Publishing
Lippert, R, Walby, K, Warren, I, Palmer, D (eds) 2016, National security, surveillance and terror Canada and Australia in comparative perspective
Palgrave Macmillan
Shellam, T, Nugent, M, Konishi, S & Cadzow, A (eds) 2016, Brokers and boundaries: colonial exploration in indigenous territory
ANU Press
Powers, J 2016, The Buddha party how the People’s Republic of China works to define and control Tibetan Buddhism
Oxford University Press
Singleton, A & Webber, R 2016, Teens, cyberbullying and theatre as awareness raising, interim findings from research conducted on the audience of Phunktional Theatre Company’s regional performances of ‘who stole the sole?’
Deakin University.
ANNUAL REPORTADI
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