Funded Research
The Media and ASEAN Transitions: Defamation Law, Journalism and Public Debate in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
Chief Investigators: Dr Andrew Kenyon; Assoc Prof Tim Lindsey; Dr Tim Marjoribanks; Ms AJ Whiting
This project will examine defamation law, journalism and public debate in three core members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. It will focus on a legal issue, defamation, which is central to the Australian and regional media's potential for improving public and private sector governance, and promoting domestic and regional understanding, at a time when independent media speech has great value in relation to trade, security and development. When risks of transnational defamation liability are increasing, it will assist the Australian media's coverage of three pivotal countries in the region and substantially develop the academic understanding of defamation law's effects on media content.
Australian Research Council Discovery-Project Grant
Islamic Movements in Secular Societies: Grammars of Experience
Chief Investigator: Assoc. Prof. Kevin McDonald
There is increasing public debate about the place of Islam in western societies, but little reference to lived experience. At a same time, we are witnessing new forms of Islamic movements and experiences, in particular among a 'global generation' of young people. This study explores forms of tension and grammars of creativity, assisting actors make sense of and communicate their experience. It also grapples with new global forms of violence that profoundly impact personal experience. This project aims at understanding new forms of social creativity, as well as new types of tension, and to assist rethinking both contemporary security and citizenship.
Australian Research Council Discovery-Project Grant
Resettling Visible Migrants & Refugees in Regional and Rural Victoria
Investigators: Prof Brian Galligan & Dr Millsom Henry-Waring
Resettling visible migrants and refugees in regional and rural Australia is integral to building sustainable communities. Their experiences in Victoria will be document and assessed by exploring their sense of identity and belonging; their emplohment patterns; the ways host communities respond and adapt; and the effectiveness of resettlement and other government policies at Commonwealth, state and local levels. In collaboration with key industry partners, the Municipal Association of Victoria and the Victorian Multicultural Commission, this project will provide new knowledge and practical policy benefits for the effective management of resettlment policies for visible migrants and refugees.
Australian Research Council Linkage-Project Grant