Meet WIIS-Australia Experts

  • Christine Agius

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY - Cagius@swin.edu.au

    Expertise: Critical security; Gender; International relations; Nordic politics and Security; Critical border studies; Ontological security

  • Afeeya Akhand

    RESEARCHER, AUSTRALIAN STRATEGIC POLICY INSTITUTE -
    afeeyaakhand@aspi.org.au

    Expertise: South Korean foreign policy; Climate change; Cultural diversity in national security; Anti-racism

  • Kristie Barrow

    SENIOR LECTURER, UNSW CANBERRA - k.barrow@adfa.unsw.edu.au

    Expertise: Non-traditional security; Humanitarian and disaster Relief (HADR); Enviornmental security; Technology and ethics in international security.

  • Federica Caso

    LECTURER, LA TROBE UNIVERSITY - F.Caso@latrobe.edu.au

    Expertise: Australia Defence; Militarisation of women, race, and Indigenous people in defence; War studies; Peacebuilding; Visual politics; War memory; Women, Peace and Security

  • Susan Jane Coles

    DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE - Susan.Coles@dfat.gov.au

    Expertise: Australian foreign policy; Nuclear issues (nuclear testing and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty); Indo-Pacific strategic Issues; Indian Ocean and the Pacific issues; Strategic dimensions of Free Trade blocs and agreements; Women in diplomacy.

  • Melissa Conley Tyler

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AP4D - mconleytyler@asiapacific4d.com

    Expertise: Australian foreign policy; Relations with Asia; Diplomatic practice; Australian development policy; Australian defence and security policy

  • Pia Dannhauer

    RESEARCH AND PROGRAM ASSOCIATE, PERTH USASIA CENTRE - pia.dannhauer@perthusasia.edu.au

    Expertise: Foreign policy; Indonesia; ASEAN; Southeast Asia; International relations; Indo-Pacific

  • Outi Donovan

    LECTURER IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY - o.donovan@griffith.edu.au

    Expertise: Peacebuilding; Peace operations; Gender

  • Serena Ford

    PHD CADIDATE, MONASH UNIVERSITY -
    serena.ford@monash.edu.au

    Expertise: Asia-Pacific, Women, Peace and Security; Feminist International Security; Feminist International Political Economy

  • Xiang Gao

    SENIOR LECTURER IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND -
    xgao5@une.edu.au

    Expertise: Contemporary Chinese politics; China's international relations; Politics in the Asia Pacific

  • Nicole George

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND - n.george2@uq.edu.au

    Expertise: Gender, peace, and conflict; Women, peace, and security; Pacific Islands (in country experience in Fiji, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Guam and Vanuatu); Gender and conflict transition; Security Sector Reform; Civil society and anti-nuclear protest (in the Pacific Islands)

  • Kelly Gerard

    SENIOR LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA - kelly.gerard@uwa.edu.au

    Expertise: Aid and development; Social movements, Political economy, Gender equality programming

  • Marianne Hanson

    m.hanson@uq.edu.au

    Expertise: Nuclear weapons; International security; Conflict; International law; Global governance; Australian foreign policy; European politics; NATO; Russia; EU politics

  • Jane Marie Hardy

    ASSISTANT SECRETARY, DFAT - janemariehardy@hotmail.com

    Expertise: Australian foreign policy; Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation; Global and Indo-Pacific strategic issues; the Korean Peninsula; ASEAN regional architecture; United States Congress and politics; and strategic policy directions for Western Europe

  • Mia Martin Hobbs

    RESEARCH FELLOW, DEAKIN UNIVERSITY - mia.martinhobbs@deakin.edu.au

    Expertise: War on Terror; War crimes; Memories of violence; Gender; Trauma; Oral history

  • Natasha Karner

    PHD CANDIDATE, RMIT UNIVERSITY - natasha.karner@rmit.edu.au

    Expertise: Autonomous Weapons Systems; Drones; Nuclear weapons; WMD and global security; IR Theory

  • Carolin Kautz

    SinoVise - info@sinovise.com.au

    Expertise: China; Chinese foreign and security policy; Chinese Communist Party; Geopolitical risk consulting

  • Amrita Malhi

    SAVE THE CHILDREN & ANU/FLINDERS, SENIOR ADVISOR GEOECONOMICS & HONORARY SENIOR LECTURER - amrita.malhi@anu.edu.au

    Expertise: History & politics – Malaya/Malaysia; British Empire in Southeast Asia; International development & economic security; Asian diasporas and Australian politics

  • Henrietta McNeill

    AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - henrietta.mcneill@anu.edu.au

    Expertise: Pacific regionalism and geopolitics;m Security cooperation; Migration; Criminal deportation; Transnational crime

  • Sara Meger

    SENIOR LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE - sara.meger@unimelb.edu.au

    Expertise: International security; Feminist theory; Global political economy; Ukraine

  • Cynthia Mehboob

    PHD SCHOLAR, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY - cynthia.mehboob@anu.edu.au

    Expertise: International Security; International Development; Political Theory; Critical Security Studies; Infrastructure Studies.

  • Tess Newton Cain

    PROJECT LEAD, PACIFIC HUB, GRIFFITH ASIA INSTITUTE - t.newtoncain@griffith.edu.au

    Expertise: Pacific islands regional architecture; Defence diplomacy in the Pacific islands region; Pacific politics; Pacific geopolitics

  • Se Youn Park

    PHD CANDIDATE, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND - seyoun.park@uq.edu.au

    Expertise: Countering Violent Extremism; Australian and UK counterterrorism policy; Foreign fighter networks; Returning foreign fighters; Women in terrorism; Daesh propaganda

  • Genevieve Quirk

    PHD CANDIDATE - genevieve.quirk@gmail.com

    Expertise: IR institutionalist theory; Law of the sea; Environmental law; Pacific oceans governance; Ecological security

  • Serena Raza

    RESEARCH ASSISTANT, DEAKIN UNIVERSITY - serena.raza@deakin.edu.au

    Expertise: Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE); Women, Peace and Security; Far-Right Extremism; Islamist Extremism; Social Psychology

  • Beth Rowan

    LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND - b.morrison@uq.edu.au

    Expertise: International Humanitarian Law; Civilian protection; Foreign fighters (ISIS); Military studies; Compensation payments; US military

  • Maria Rublee

    OPROFESSOR, MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY - maria.rublee@unimelb.edu.au

    Expertise: Nuclear politics; Maritime security; Indo-Pacific security; Diversity in security; Gender

  • Lauren Sanders

    l.sanders@uq.edu.au

    Expertise: International Criminal Law; Weapons Law; Laws of Armed Conflict; Military Law.

  • Marika Sosnowski

    UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE - marika.sosnowski@unimelb.edu.au

    Expertise: Ceasefires; Local/rebel governance; International humanitarian law; Syria; Mediation

  • Elise Stephenson

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR, GLOBAL INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP - Elise.Stephenson@anu.edu.au

    Expertise: Women in leadership; Gender equality; Sexuality and intersectionality; Diplomacy and foreign policy; National security and intelligence frontiers: space, AI, climate; Asia Pacific engagement

  • Rebecca (Bec) Strating

    DIRECTOR, LA TROBE ASIA - b.strating@latrobe.edu.au

    Expertise: Maritime politics and disputes; Asia security; Australian foreign and defence policy; Strategic narratives

  • Anne Taylor

    AUSTRALAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY -
    anne.taylor@anu.edu.au

    Exertise: Gender, Peace and Security; Cyber Capacity building; ASEAN region; Professional Education Design

  • Joanne Wallis

    PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE - joanne.wallis@adelaide.edu.au

    Expertise: Security in the Pacific Islands; Australia’s strategy in the Pacific Islands; Peacebuilding in the Pacific Islands.

  • Jasmine Westendorf

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, LA TROBE UNIVERSITY - j.westendorf@latrobe.edu.au

    Expertise: Peacekeeping; Peace processes; Humanitarian missions; Sexual exploitation and abuse; Women, Peace and Security

  • Pichamon Yeophantong

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEAKIN UNIVERSITY - p.yeophantong@deakin.edu.au

    Expertise: Chinese foreign policy; Politics of Southeast Asia; International politics of the Asia-Pacific; Global environmental governance; Business and human rights; International development

  • Shannon Zimmerman

    LECTURER IN STRATEGIC STUDIES, DEAKIN UNIVERSITY - s.zimmerman@deakin.edu.au

    Expertise: Peacekeeping; Stabilisation operations, Humanitarian and disaster response; Defence diplomacy; International organisations; Norm theory; Gender and counter-terrorism; Misogyny motivated terrorism

  • Flavia Bellieni Zimmermann

    LECTURER, UWA - flavia.bellienizimmermann@uwa.edu.au

    Expertise: Latin America; Politics and Policy; Democratic Theory; Far-right Populism; Comparative Studies; Women in the Global South; Women and Security.