Dr. Julie CLIFF
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique.
Email: j.cliff@tropical.co.mz
Interests: Health; Cassava; Communicable diseases; Impact of war on health; HIV/AIDS; Health policy; Mozambique.

Dr. Paul COCKS
Loyola College, Watsonia, Victoria
Email: CocksP@loyola.vic.edu.au
Interests: History of ethnography and anthropology in Southern Africa; Southern African history 1900-1945, especially South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe; missionary history and history of religion in Southern Africa.

Maria Ivone COSSA
University of Melbourne
Email: m.cossa@student.unimelb.edu.au
Interests: Master of Human Resources Management

Dr. Graeme COUNSEL
University of Melbourne
Email: treasurer@afsaap.org.au
Web: http://www.radioafrica.com.au/
Interests: West Africa (Mali, Guinea, Senegal, The Gambia); Cultural policy; Politics and the Arts; History; Music; Griots; Mandé diaspora.

Dr. Elizabeth DALEY
Mokoro Ltd
Email: edaley@mokoro.co.uk
Web site: www.mokoro.co.uk
Interests: Land tenure and policy, including governance of tenure; Land administration and land registration; NRM and access to resources; Agricultural investment, rural development and livelihoods; Gender; Women’s property rights; Women’s economic empowerment; Rwanda; South Sudan; Tanzania; Uganda; East Africa.

Dr. Robin DERRICOURT
University of New South Wales
Email: r.derricourt@unsw.edu.au
Interests: African archaeology, historiography of Africa and the Middle East.

Linda DEVEREUX 
University of Canberra / ANU 
Email: L.Devereux@adfa.edu.au
Interests: Children, war and dislocation, with a particular focus on DRC.

Surjeet DHANJI
University of Melbourne
Email: dhanji.surjeet@gmail.com
Interests: Resettlement and integration; Horn of African refugees, their issues.

Liz DIMOCK
La Trobe University
Email: E.Dimock@latrobe.edu.au, liz.dimock@bigpond.com
Interests: Women/gender relations in precolonial/colonial period; Colonial relations; Uganda; Slavery; Royal women; Women, church, mission; Church Missionary Society.

Matthew DOHERTY
PhD candidate (History), La Trobe University
Email: mcdoherty@students.latrobe.edu.au
I am completing my doctoral thesis on a history of the development of Christianity in Equateur province, DRC. I am looking at religion as one of the most important cross-cultural exchanges between Africa and Europe, and the indigenisation of missionary religion. My broad interests also include football and music across the continent.

Dr Nawal EL-GACK
Email: elgackn@yahoo.co.nz
International Studies, University of Canberra
Interests : Participatory development; NGOs, governance, rural development and sustainable livelihood, microfinance. Africa, Sudan and Middle East.

Dr. Njau GITU
University of Queensland, Southern Cross University, Africans Community Foundation
Email: njaugitu@consultant.com , n.gitu@uq.edu.au, njau.gitu@scu.edu.au
Interests: Financial inclusion an African experience in Australia; University business collaboration strategy; Trade, development and investment policy Australia / Africa.

Adj. Prof. Cherry GERTZEL
Curtin University of Technology / University of Western Australia
Email: C.gertzel@exchange.curtin.edu.au 
Interests: History and Political Economy of the Horn of Africa; Eastern Africa and Central/Southern Africa; Food and famine; Agriculture and change; Contemporary imperialism and its impact on Africa.

Associate Professor Michele GROSSMAN
Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development, Victoria University
Email: michele.grossman@vu.edu.au
Web site: www.vu.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9919 5011
Interests; Sudanese young people and the police in Australia; Nuba Mountains diaspora; Sudanese settlement experiences in Australia.

Dr. Anne HARRIS
Victoria University
Email: Anne.Harris@monash.edu 
Interests: My doctoral research uses documentary film as arts-based education research to examine the experiences of Sudanese young women (18-25) in Australia. Their 10-minute documentaries identify challenges, successes and advice about school and its role for former refugees integrating into Australian culture, with a focus on young women in particular. I am interested in liaising with others involved in research into educational experiences of young Sudanese in Australia.

Wendy HARTE
Queensland University of Technology
Email: w.harte@qut.edu.au
Interests: Settlement and secondary migration patterns of African refugee communities in Australia, UNHCR work in Africa, hazard geography (environmental hazards).

Assoc. Prof. Geoffrey HAWKER
Dept. Politics & International Relations, Macquarie University
Email: geoffrey.hawker@mq.edu.au
Interests: Politics of Southern Africa; Institutional change and reform.

Adrian HERRING
Email: aherring@ozemail.com.au
Interests: Media & Communication; Television documentary & current affairs production; Filming & Broadcasting experience in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Uganda; Media Training (production & journalism).

Marianne HICKS
Monash University
Email: Marianne.Hicks@monash.edu; mariannehicks@gmail.com
Interests: South Africa and southern Africa; ICT; Social entrepreneurship and media history.

Greg HIEMSTRA-VAN DER HORST
Department of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne
Email: g.vanderhorst@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Interests: Forest policy, management and governance; Political ecology; Commercial logging; Community-based resource management; Sierra Leone; Guinea; West Africa.

Lucy HOBGOOD-BROWN
Clay International Partners (a consultancy)
Email: lucy@claypartners.com
Interests: International social development consultant who has lived and worked in 9 countries and who specializes in Democratic Republic of Congo and China. Works with marginalised communities on capacity building programmes (livelihood and poverty alleviation projects) Active with Sydney Development Circle, a free collaborative network open to anyone interested in community development and international aid, which also features an Africa Interest Group which meets every 2 months. We are always seeking expert speakers on a range of topics. If interested or if you have suggestions, please email Lucy.

Joseph HONGOH
PhD Candidate, University of Queensland
Email: j.hongoh@uq.edu.au
Interests: Peacebuilding and statebuilding; Conflict analysis, Conflict management; International development; Stakeholder engagement and participation; Governance, monitoring and evaluation; Regional inter-state co-operation.

Dr. Paul HUDDLESTON
University of Western Australia
Email: paul.huddleston@uwa.edu.au
Interests:  Development economics; Rural development; Farming systems; Regional and area development.

Anthony KENT
RMIT University and Victoria University
Email: anthony.kent@rmit.edu.au
Interests: Botswana; Transport; Economic geography.

Kiprono LANG'AT (Andrew)
University of New England
Email: alangat@pobox.une.edu.au
Interests: Professional development and policy in education across cultures; Postcultural studies and representation discourses (Kenya and Indigenous Australians).

Ibrahim Ahmad KARGBO
Murdoch University
Email: ibrahimabu@hotmail.co.uk, africanliving2006@yahoo.co.uk
Web site: www.ibrahimabu.bakayoko11,  www.africanliving.2011
Interest: I am a simple average young man with passion to work with and for the vulnerable. I am calling on anyone who is well placed to come to the aid of any impoverished class of people that they come across (disabled, street children, orphans, etc). My principal research region is West Africa, particularly Sierra Leone.

Elizabeth LANG
Curtin University of Technology, WA (Masters of Human Rights student) and the Sudanese Australian Youth Association in WA (SAYAWA) Inc. (Chairperson)
Email: elizabeth.john.lang@gmail.com , lilLiz_090@hotmail.com
Interests: I have a particular interest in issues related to human rights and development. My interest lies mainly in issues concerning the African country, particularly South Sudan.

Dr. Wendy LEVY
PhD from Australian National University
Email: wlevy5 at yahoo.com.au
Interests: Contemporary politics in South Sudan and Sudan, especially delivery of services.

Katusiime LORNA
University of Newcastle
Email address: klorna@hotmail.com
Interests: My research interest is exchange rate economics. I am currently looking at foreign exchange market efficiency in Uganda.

Ibolya (Ibi) LOSONCZ
PhD Candidate, RegNet, School of Regulation, Justice and Diplomacy, Australian National University
Email: Ibolya.Losoncz@anu.edu.au
Website: http://regnet.anu.edu.au/people/ms-ibolya-ibi-losoncz
Interests: South Sudan, re-settlement, identity, responsive regulation

Dr. David LUCAS
Demography and Sociology Programme, Australian National University
Email: david.lucas@anu.edu.au
Interests: South African immigration; African emigration to Australia and New Zealand; South African human capital; Basutoland colonial memoirs; The Welsh in Africa; Demography; Online population materials.

Dr. Tanya LYONS
School of Political and International Studies and the Globalisation Program, Flinders University
Email: tanya.lyons@flinders.edu.au
Interests: Zimbabwe; Gender; Liberation wars; African Studies; Politics; Development; Collapsed states; Resources; Coffee.

Dr. Catherine MACDONALD
Social Sustainability Services Pty. Ltd.
Email: socialsustainability@bigpond.com
Interests: PhD was "Woman-headed households in Tanzania, 1920 - 1995", UWA, 1996. Professional interests since then are social impact assessment and participatory community development planning for communities living near mining projects in Australia, Asia and Africa, including Tanzania, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Ghana.

Kudzai MATEREKE
University of New South Wales and Great Zimbabwe University
Email: kudzaimatereke@yahoo.co.uk
Interests: Zimbabwe; Social and Political Philosophy; African Postcolonial state; Globalisation; Citizenship and Education; African Studies; Democracy and Identity formation in postcolonial states.

Sara MEGER
The University of Melbourne
Email  s.meger@uq.edu.au , sameger@unimelb.edu.au
Interests: The causes, consequences of and responses to sexual violence and other forms of political violence in conflict with a particular focus on the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Great Lakes Region.

Barbara MILLS
Flinders University
Email: barbaradm@esc.net.au
Interests: Sub-Saharan Africa; Women of South Africa.

Anneth MSEMWA
Curtin University
Email: annethcm@yahoo.com
Interests: Food security, food safety, and quality assurance.

Samuel M. MUCHOKI
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society. La Trobe University
Email: smmuchoki@students.latrobe.edu.au
Website: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/
Interests: Migrants with refugee backgrounds from the Horn of Africa (South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya); Masculinity; Sexuality and sexual health.

Raphael MULENGA
University of New South Wales
Email: raphaelmulengah@yahoo.com
Interests: Policy implementation in the Zambian Ministry of Sport, Youth and Child Development: Challenges and prospects.

Paul MUNRO
PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne / Program Manager, Energy For Opportunity
Email: p.munro@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au , paul@energyforopportunity.org
Interests: Forest management, Renewable energy, Environmental policy, History. West Africa (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Benin).

Betty NAMUKWAYA
PhD student, Queensland University of Technology
Email: betty.namukwaya@student.qut.edu.au , bnamukwaya@yahoo.com
Interests: Biotechnology

Dr. Finex NDHLOVU
Victoria University
Email: finex.ndhlovu@vu.edu.au
Interests: Politics of language and nation building in Zimbabwe; Postcolonial African identities; Multilingualism and multilingual citizenships; Language and citizenship in Australia; Post-refugee African identities in Australia.

Joel NEGIN
University of Sydney
Email: joel.negin@sydney.edu.au
Interests: Multi-sectoral rural development; Health systems; Infectious disease; Australian engagement with Africa, Rwanda, Kenya, Mali, Senegal.

Dr. Apollo NSUBUGA-KYOBE
School of Business, Dept. of Accounting and Management, La Trobe University
Email: A.Nsubuga-Kyobe@latrobe.edu.au  
Interests: Management of the settlement issues of African-Australians into Australia (Victoria) and cross-cultural management: inferences of African and Australian cases/situations.

Sylvester Odhiambo OBONG'O
PhD candidate, University of Newcastle
Email: sylvester.obongo@uon.edu.au
Phone: 0451 593 357
Interests: Public Sector management / reform; Public Policy systems and methods; Performance management in the Public Sector. Main regions -Kenya, Africa, and Developing Countries in general.

Ryan O'BYRNE
Victoria University Wellington, Ryoichi Sasakawa Fellow
Email: ryan.obyrne@vuw.ac.nz; elbuzzardo@gmail.com
Website: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=133170238&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro
Interests: South Sudan, Uganda, Acholi, Anthropology, Ethnography, Cosmology, Mythology, Narrative, Violence, Conflict, Peace, Reconciliation, Kinship, Family, Marriage, Migration, Displacement, Refugee-related issues.

Margaret O’CALLAGHAN
Retired UN staff member, UN Population Fund (UNFPA), currently a private consultant
Email: margaret@ocallaghan.id.au
Interests: Population related matters, including all aspects reproductive health, including HIV, Gender, Gender Based Violence, Safe Motherhood, Obstetric Fistula, applying rapid socio-cultural research, adolescent health.

Rachel OUTHRED
University of South Australia
Email: rachel@outhredenglish.com.au
Web sites: http://www.outhredenglish.com.au/team.html
Interests: Slavery; Women’s rights in post-colonial states; NGO management; Development studies; International education and life chances. PhD title: “Assessing the life chances of women and children in south-east Ghana: Does development make a difference?"

Melissa PHILLIPS
Postgraduate student, University of Melbourne; Assistant Editor, Journal of Intercultural Studies
Email: phim@unimelb.edu.au , m.phillips@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Web site: http://www.ssps.unimelb.edu.au/research/projects/vmr/people
Postgraduate student, University of Melbourne; Assistant Editor, Journal of Intercultural Studies
Interests: South Sudan; Settlement experiences of refugees & migrants; Labelling and representation of "African-Australians", Australia’s relationship with the countries of Africa

Dr. Miroslava PRAZAK
Bennington College, USA
Email: mprazak@bennington.edu
Interests: Development and cultural change; Globalization; Inequality; Gender- and age-based hierarchies; Reproduction and family formation; Multidisciplinary research strategies; Demography; East Africa.

Catherine PRINGLE
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
Email: catherine.pringle@sustainability.net.au or cathpring@gmail.com
Interests: African conflict dynamics; Political-security risk analysis; Humanitarian interventions in conflict zones; Mining, oil and gas operations in troubled territories; Corporate social responsibility.

Graham ROMANES
Consulate-General of Ethiopia, Melbourne
Email: ethiopia@consul.com.au
Website: http://www.consul.com.au
Interests: Ethiopia; Horn of Africa issues; The African Union; African economic survival. Currently writing a minor Masters thesis at Monash University on the future of the AU (2003).

Peter RUN
School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia
Email: petermrun@yahoo.com.au
Interests: African models of conflict resolution; Sudanese political economy; South Sudan's constitution, politics, economy & society; Africa(ans) in the media; Africans in Australia.

Ben SHEPHERD
PhD Candidate, Centre for International Security Studies, University of Sydney
Email: Benjamin.Shepherd@sydney.edu.au
Interests: Ethiopia, East Africa, Food Security, Agricultural & Rural Development.

Fikile SHONGWE
Flinders University
Email: shongwe.fikile@yahoo.com
Interests: Special Education. Intervention for students with literacy difficulties using information technology for Swaziland.

Dr. Tony Simoes da SILVA
University of Wollongong
Email: tonys@uow.edu.au
Website: http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/selpl/scd/UOW037989.html
Interests: African (especially Southern African) literature in English and Portuguese; Postcolonial life writing (particularly Southern African); African issues; Diasporic writing.

Mwaala Frank SIPILANYAMBE
Edith Cowan University & University of Zambia Alumni
Email: frank@adsafrica.org
Interests: Networking with / offering support services to African scholars in Australia. Intend to research on "Social and economic issues affecting African scholars in Australia".

Hamere Tadege TADESSE
Email: htadege53@gmail.com, tade0002@flinders.edu.au
University of Queensland
Interests: I am interested in doing research on the implementation of Business Process re-engineering that has been undertaken in my home country, Ethiopia. Because the government has invested a huge amount of resources, but the sustainability of the change endeavour is under question.

Memuna TANKO
University of Adelaide
Email: munabtanko@hotmail.com
Interests: Health issues, especially concerning maternal and child health.

Dr. Alec THORNTON
University of New South Wales at Canberra
Email: a.thornton@unsw.edu.au
Phone: (02) 6268 8309
Interests: South Africa: Urban Agriculture (food production and markets); Community-based development; Informal settlements; Informal sector; Land tenure; Faith-based development. Sierra Leone: Urban agriculture; Community-based development. Zambia: Urban agriculture.

Dr. Alan THOROLD
University of Melbourne
Email: alanthorold@gmail.com
Website: http://www.pasi.unimelb.edu.au/development/staff/thorold.html
Interests: Malawi; South Africa; Lesotho; Islam in Africa; Development and Missions.

Dr. David TOTHILL
Freelance historian
Email: f.d.tothill@pixie.co.za
Interests: History in general; Diplomatic history in particular.

Violetta Jojo VERGE
University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Email: vverge@ull.es
Interests: Researching on African Anglophone Literature. Interested in interdeciplinarity: arts, literature, philosophy, humanities in general. I also translate from English to Spanish (and vice-versa) excerpts of literary criticism, poetry etc. I teach English at college, and Arabic at the University of La UNED (Distance University). I have published various papers on West African literature, and other writings.

Peter Mbago WAKHOLI
School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Murdoch University
Email: p_wakholi@yahoo.com.au
Interests: Using arts based educational approaches to facilitate parenting and identity socialisation between cultures. Sociology of schooling towards a bicultural competence of African migrant descendant students. Using festivals as a context for reclaiming cultural memory and identity renewal.

Artanti WARDHANI
Department of International Relations, University of Indonesia, Jakarta
Email: awardhani@gmail.com
Interests: Regional security arrangement (e.g ASEAN in Southeast Asia, ECOWAS in West Africa); Political culture in Africa, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, West Africa; Conflict resolutions, security sector reform, civil-military relations.

Prof. Helen WARE
Peace Studies, University of New England. Former Australian High Commissioner to Zambia, Namibia, Malawi Ambassador to Angola
Email: hware@une.edu.au
Interests:  Civil war and peace-building in Africa; African refugees in Australia; Congo; Ivory Coast; Sierra Leone; Sudan; Zimbabwe.

Dr. Peter WESTOBY
University of Queensland
Email: p.westoby@uq.edu.au
Website: http://www.uq.edu.au/swahs/
Interests: My main areas of research and teaching are community development, dialogue and development, post-conflict studies and refugee studies. Recent and current research areas include: Southern Sudanese refugees resettling within Australia; community development theory and practice within South Africa; and dialogue, dilemmas and tensions within community development practice amongst refugee groups within Australia. 

Janecke WILLE
Australian National University
Email: janecke.wille@anu.edu.au                   
Interests: My PhD research looks at the development of a sense of belonging among Sothern Sudanese former refugees living in Canberra, Australia. This includes looking at theories of recognition as well as a common belonging in a multicultural society, based on the former refugees’ own experiences and understandings of belonging.

Jean-Marc YAMEOGO
University of Newcastle
Email: jmyameogo@yahoo.fr
Interests: The domain of my studies in Human Resource Management. I am trying to have an overview on best practices in general capacity building for workers, competences defining and knowledge management.

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