Area of Research

Name

Expertise & Experience

Publication*

• Social Psychologist, Indigenous Mental Health

Professor Neil Drew; BA (Hons), PhD

Professor Drew's expertise is in Indigenous Mental Health and is co-founder of the Aboriginal Youth and Community Wellbeing Program in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. He has almost 20 years experience working with communities, groups and individuals.

Social Psychology and Everyday Life, Palgrave, 2010

• Security
• Intelligence 

Dr Daniel Baldino
BA, B. Ed, MA-IR, PhD

Dr Baldino was a Research Associate at the Library of Congress, Washington DC, and visiting scholar at the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security University of Illinois, USA. He is currently editing a book on democratic oversight of the intelligence sector written for Eureka Street, The Diplomat, & Arena magazine

Democratic Oversight of Intelligence and its Challenges, Federation Press, Melbourne, 2009

• History
• Film
• New/digital media
• Communications

Dr Melissa Milton-Smith
BA (Hons 1), MA, PhD

Dr Milton-Smith completed a Masters in ‘Architecture and the Moving Image’ at Cambridge University, and a PhD on Globalisation and Digital Art at The University of Western Australia. In addition to researching film, new media and communications, Melissa was the employed as the Multimedia Manager at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra.

‘Installing the Game: Gameplay in the installation T_Visionarium’, Symplokē Journal,Vol. 17 Nos. 1-2, 2010

• Literature
• Creative writing

Professor Gerry Turcotte
BA (Hons 1), MA, PhD

Professor Turcotte is a specialist in Indigenous and the postcolonial literatures of Canada, Australia and New Zealand; in contemporary Gothic literature and culture; and in creative writing. He has supervised numerous PhDs and Masters theses on creative writing, the Gothic and Indigenous studies. Unsettled Remains is shortlisted for the prestigious Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism. He is also the author of Flying in Silence: a Novel, shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year.

Peripheral Fear: Transformations of the Gothic in Canadian and Australian Fiction, P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009

• History
• Visual culture
• Gender relations

Dr Karen McClusky BA/BFA (Hons), MA, PhD

Dr McClusky is a specialist in Mediaeval and early-modern Europe. Current projects are: female patronage of the cult of saints in 14th- and 15th-century Venice; and the political and devotional implications of official and non-official sanctity in Venice. Other research areas include: visual culture and history of the ancient world; gender relations in the mediaeval/Renaissance; historiography - the use of legends and myths as historical source material.

‘Official Sanctity alla veneziana: Gerardo, Pietro Orseolo and Giacomo Salomani’, Renaissance Society of America Annual conference, Venice Italy, 2010