Charles Darwin University staff with expertise in Indonesia and Timor Leste

Graduate School for Health Practice

  • Professor Lesley Barclay has worked in international development for nearly 20 years, as a technical adviser to AusAID, World Bank and WHO in provision of primary health care, maternal infant/child health and capacity building in health worker education systems.
  • Dr Suzanne Belton - medical anthropology, reproductive health, refugee health and human rights.
  • Dr Sue Kildea is a nurse and a midwife whose research interests include improving the safety and quality of maternity services, rural and remote maternity services, models of care, participatory action research and evaluation. She has a particular interest in Indigenous health. Sue has worked for WHO as a technical advisor for maternity services in Mongolia and her Indonesian experience includes working as a Technical Advisor for the Sister School Program in South Sulawesi.

School of Creative Arts and Humanities

School of Education

  • Dr Lorraine Connell - Pre-service and post teacher education, specifically in arts education. For further information email lorraine.connell@cdu.edu.au.
  • Professor Ian Falk - Sociology and rural sociology, regional and community development, community capacity building.
  • Scott Knight - Public policy, management, international education, international public policy, bilateral relations, academic literacies.

School for Environmental Research

  • Professor Tony Cunningham - Natural resources, livelihoods and conservation, ethnoecology.
  • Dr Natasha Stacey - Natural resource management and local livelihoods, Bajo and Indonesian fishing activity in the Arafura and Timor seas.
  • Professor Bruce Campbell (Adjunct Professor, SER and Director of CIFOR LIveilhoods Program) - Conservation and sustainable development forests and livelihoods
    CDU is contracted to run the global Forests and Livelihoods program for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), of which Bruce is the program coordinator.
  • Professor Bob Wasson - Water quality, erosion and sedimentation, river catchment management, water resources analysis and management, natural resources management, climate change.
  • Dr Merrilyn Wasson - Institutions analysis: natural resource management, livelihoods and policy focus.

School of Health Sciences

  • Associate Professor Isabelle Ellis - Evidence based health care, health service management.

School for Environmental and Life Sciences

  • Dr Sean Bellairs - Plant ecology with an emphasis on the rehabilitation of disturbed lands with native species.
  • Rohan Fisher - The application of GIS and remote sensing to rural development in Eastern Indonesia.
  • Johanna Karam - Community development and marine resources.
  • Dr Bronwyn Myers - Land management strategies in rural communities in Eastern Indonesia.
  • Dr Richard Noske - Biodiversity conservation, ecotourism and capacity building in eastern Indonesia. Chief Editor of Kukila, journal of Indonesian Ornithological Union.
  • Tania Paul - Technical training, higher education development and weed bio-control.
  • Colin Trainor - Biogeography of Indonesia, biodiversity conservation management.
  • Dr Penny Wurm - Higher education partnership development.

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