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RESEARCH INTERESTS

My interests includes the contemporary field of whiteness in postcolonial Australia. My ongoing research explores the theoretical debates about identity, specifically concerning urbanism and urbanity, cosmopolitanism and the complex realities of (post)colonial urban life in Australia, and beyond. Current research includes the ethnographic contributions to projects that span the Asia-Pacific region.

RESEARCH

2007-2008 (Indigenous) Homelessness: place, house and home, collaborative with C. Birdsall-Jones and W. Christensen (Curtin). AHURI funded.

2006-2009 Sustainable management of Coffee Green Scales in PNG, collaborative (CABI International, P Baker & S Murphy) The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) PHT/2004/047.

2006-2009, titled 'Assessment and improvement of quality management during postharvest processing and storage of coffee in Papua New Guinea, with Dr Robert Driscol (Project Leader, UNSW) and PNG Coffee Research Institute. ACIAR PHT/2004/017

2005-2008 Land Capability Assessment and Classification for Sustainable Pond- Based, Aquaculture Systems, with Dr Jes Sammut, (Project Leader, UNSW). ACIAR FIS/2002/076.

2006 'Contemporary urbanism within the Australian inner city: community and heterogeneity' UNSW Science Faculty ECR grant.

2004 'Manhattanising Sydney: Apartment Living in the Re-imaged CBD' (UNSW, Faculty Research Grant Scheme).

2003 'A (Post)Colonial Palimpsest of Hawai`i' (FBE Publication and Research Support Scheme)

Contributions to 'Pacific Worlds' - www.pacificworlds.com