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Available supervisors in 2009 |
Below is a list of Crawford academics currently available to take on new doctoral students and their areas of supervisory expertise
Emma AISBETT
I am interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas:
- impacts of globalisation on developing countries
- economic globalisation and the environment
- foreign direct investment and political risk
- private property rights vs government rights to regulate for environmental protection.
Paul ATKINS
I am interested in supervising students who have some background in psychology and whose research falls into one of the following areas:
- leadership development
- organisational behaviour thinking and emotional capabilities
- systems thinking
- perspective taking and empathy
- influencing without authority
- stress and mindfulness.
Satish CHAND
I am interested in supervising doctoral research on
- international migration
- endogenous property rights
- quantifying aid effectiveness
- the economics of conflict
- topics with a geographic focus of the Pacific and PNG.
Available for supervision if the student is starting the coursework part of their doctoral studies, but not the research part, because I will be on leave from mid 2009-mid 2010.
Chun-lai CHEN
I am interested in supervising topics related to:
- international trade
- foreign direct investment
- agricultural economics
with a special emphasis on China.
Daniel CONNELL
I am interested in supervising topics related to rural water management in Australia, especially the Murray-Darling Basin. This includes investigation of issues related to policy and institutional design and themes with a political, social, legal, communications, cultural or historical dimension, but not topics that are tightly economic in focus. I am also interested in supervising topics related to governance issues relevant to large hydrological systems that span federal and/or international borders.
Jenny CORBETT
I am interested in supervising doctoral students working on the Japanese economy.
Prasanna GAI
I am interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas:
- systemic risk and financial crises
- informational and financial frictions in macroeconomics
- design of monetary policy
- international capital flows and sovereign debt issues.
Ben HILLMAN
I am interested in supervising doctoral students working on:
- democratisation and political change
- ethnic politics/regional autonomy
- politics of development.
Yusaku HORIUCHI
Quantitatively-oriented research in the fields of comparative politics, political economy, public opinion and international relations; in particular the politics of intergovernmental fiscal transfers, economic consequences of electoral systems, the media and public opinion and contemporary Japanese politics.
Amy LIU
My research interests lie in applied macroeconomics and transitional economies. I am interested in supervising students specifically in the following areas:
- wage inequality in various dimensions
- income inequality.
John MCCARTHY
I am interested in supervising research related to:
- agricultural policy, agrarian change and land tenure
- social capital, participation and environmental management
- forest management, biodiversity conservation and climate change
- natural resource conflict
- politics, policy and natural resource governance in a developing context.
Ann NEVILE
I am interested in supervising qualitative research related to:
- third sector service delivery agencies; in particular the relationship between third sector service delivery agencies and government
- rights-based approaches to social policy
- social exclusion.
Janine O'FLYNN
I am interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas:
- public sector reform
- people management in the public sector
- government contracting
- paradigms of public management and public administration.
Ben REILLY
I am interested in supervising doctoral research which focuses on:
- democratization, electoral systems, political parties and political reform in East Asia and the South Pacific
- ethnic conflict and conflict management
- Australian foreign policy.
John UHR
I am interested in supervising doctoral studies in the following broad areas of: comparative politics and policy:
- public sector ethics and integrity
- parliamentary government
- public accountability
- leadership.
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