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CDU activities in Timor Leste
The future success of the world’s newest independent country is dependent on the sustainable development and management of its natural and human resources and industry and infrastructure. Due to its location and historical links with Timor Leste, Charles Darwin University is well placed to play a key role in providing education, training, research, and consultancy services to support this capacity building.
This page provides information about CDU activities in education, training and capacity building, and research in its areas of research strength:
- Community, Development and Identity
- Human Health and Wellbeing
- Natural and Cultural Resource Management
- Teaching, Learning and Living
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Community, Development and Identity
School of Creative Arts and Humanities
- East Timorese artists come to CDU for inspiration (News release)
- CDU Press books focus on courage, conflict in the North (News release)
- UN ambassador to study at CDU (News release)
- Experts examine the problems of Timor (News release)
- Democratic Governance in Timor-Leste: Reconciling the Local and the National
- Civil service training
- PhD: Traditional society and the state in East Timor
- AusAID fellowship to prepare a report on the successful negotiation of the shared land border between Timor-Leste and Indonesia
Human Health and Wellbeing
Graduate School for Health Practice
- Research on maternal mortality in Timor-Leste
- PhD: Reconstructing maternal care systems: Birthing in Timor Leste
Natural and Cultural Resource Management
School for Environmental Research
- Marine Science and Tourism Research - six multi-disciplinary research teams working with experts from Timor Leste covering anthropology, cetacean, tourism, fisheries, underwater video and marine mapping experts (.pdf, 407kb)
- River Catchments and Marine Productivity and upland and coastal community institutional interactions in Timor-Leste
- Access and benefit sharing policies and legislation for genetic resources from the biodiversity of Timor-Leste
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
- East Timorese delegates learn more about weeds (News release)
- Biological control of two major weeds
- PhD: Responses of wildlife to environmental variation and land use in Lautem District
Teaching, Learning and Living
School of Education
- CDU welcomes Timorese soldiers (News release)
- Bachelor of Education program to Bacau Teachers College students. Contact Dr Lorraine Connell for further information.
School of Engineering and Information Technology
- CDU helps Timorese up skill (News release)
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
- AFUW-NT extends scholarship program to East Timor (News release)
- Rehabilitation of the Agriculture Faculty of the National University of Timor-Leste