Associate Professor Mark Davis
Director of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Program Director, Executive Master of Arts

Associate Professor Mark Davis is the inaugural Director of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences. He brings extensive experience to this role having worked in private industry and academia. Educated at the University of Melbourne, Associate Professor Davis has worked for 15 years in the Australian magazine and book publishing industries, twice winning major awards for book design. His book Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism was short-listed in the 1998 NSW Premiers Literary Awards and received an honourable mention in the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies National Awards for 'an outstanding contribution to Australian culture'. He is also the author of The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s. His current research includes two collaborative projects, Australian literary publishing and its economies, 1965-1995 and The University of Melbourne Industry Study, an annual survey-based analysis of the Australian book publishing industry. From 2004-2009 he has taught in the Publishing and Communications Program in the School of Culture and Communication. As Director of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor Davis is also the Program Director for the new Executive Master of Arts program.

Professor Gillian Wigglesworth
Associate Dean, Research

Proffesor Gillian Wigglesworth received her PhD in 1993 from La Trobe University with a thesis entitled “Investigating children’s cognitive and linguistic development through narrative”. From 1992 to 1994 she worked at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Applied Linguistics and the Language Testing Research Centre, where she focused particularly on the development of oral language assessments. She worked in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University from 1995–2001 where she was coordinator of the applied linguistics postgraduate programs. From 2000–2001 she was also a member of the Adult Migrant English Program Research Centre research staff. She returned to the University of Melbourne in 2001 where she has been Head of the School of Languages and Linguistics since 2005.

Professor Robyn Eckersley
Course Coordinator, Master of International Relations

Robyn Eckersley was educated at the University of Western Australia, Cambridge University (UK) and the University of Tasmania, and taught political science at Monash University from 1992-2001 before joining the University of Melbourne in 2002. Her research areas include international politics (particularly international governance and international relations theory); global environmental politics (particularly the international politics of climate change and environmental justice); and political theory (particularly environmental political theory and democratic theory). She is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of ten international journals, including Environmental Politics; Ethics and International Affairs; Global Environmental Politics and International Theory. Her books include Political Theory and the Environmental Challenge (2006), The State and the Global Ecological Crisis (2005) and The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty (2004). She was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia in 2007. 

Dr Carsten Roever
Course Coordinator, Master of Applied Linguistics

Dr Roever's research interests include applied linguistics, second language acquisition, interlanguage pragmatics and second language testing.

Associate Professor Steve James
Course Coordinator, Master of Criminology

Steve James has a BA (Hons), MA, Dip Crim and PhD from the University of Melbourne. He has been lecturing in Criminology at the University of Melbourne since 1987. Between 2004 and 2007, he was Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the Faculty of Arts, while teaching later year subjects in the law enforcement and drugs areas in Criminology. He has had long-standing research and policy interests in policing and law enforcement, and has conducted work in the areas of police unions, culture, personnel management, police-youth relations, and police crime prevention. He has also been involved in public housing crime prevention policy and practice. In 1995 with Dr Adam Sutton he completed the first national evaluation of Australian drug law enforcement.

Dr Nadeem Malik
Course Coordinator, Master of Development Studies

Nadeem completed his PhD in Development Studies from the University of Melbourne. His PhD research was on local governance. Prior to that, he worked in the development sector as a development researcher and a trainer for around 20 years. His major areas of specialization are Third World development, globalization, gender and development, governance, civil society and the state, decentralization or local governance, project and program management and monitoring and evaluation of development projects, anthropology of development, political anthropology, development and social theory and art/theatre and development.

Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh
Course Coordinator, Master of Islamic Studies

Pofessor Akbarzadeh joined Melbourne University in January 2008 as Deputy Director of the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies. He has an active research interest in the politics of Central Asia, Islam, Muslims in Australia and the Middle East. He has been involved in organising a number of key conferences, including a Chatham House rule workshop on Australia's relations with Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan (2007), sponsored by the International Centre of Excellence for Asia Pacific Studies.

Dr Lauren Rosewarne
Course Coordinator, Master of Public Policy and Management

Dr Lauren Rosewarne is a Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Sciences and is the Associate Director of the Centre for Public Policy. Lauren was the Centre Manager of the Centre for Public Policy between 2000 and 2008 and has lectured in the School since the beginning of 2007. In 2006 she coordinated the Department of Political Science Internship program and prior to this engaged in tutoring work for the Department of Political Science and the Centre for Indigenous Education. In 2001 Lauren completed her Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Political Science and Cultural Studies, and in 2002 completed a Bachelor of Public Policy and Management (Hons) degree. In 2006 she completed a PhD thesis titled 'Skin Trade Policy: Public Policy and the Portrayal of Women in Outdoor Advertising', which was supervised by A/Prof Sheila Jeffreys and Dr Tim Marjoribanks.

Professor Paul Smyth
Course Coordinator, Master of Social Policy

Paul Smyth is Professorial Fellow in Social Policy and coordinator of the Masters of Social Policy program. Co-funded by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the University of Melbourne, Paul's chair appointment is to lead research and development policy around partnership solutions to Australia's social problems. He was the Director of Social Policy in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Queensland. Prior to this he was senior researcher at Uniya, the Jesuit social research and action centre at Kings Cross, Sydney.

Associate Professor Alison Inglis
Course Coordinator, Master of Art Curatorship

Alison Inglis is a graduate of the Art History Department of the University of Melbourne. Alison teaches subjects on British Art 1848-1914; Materials and Techniques of Art; and museum studies (in particular issues in art museum management and art conservation). Alison co-ordinates the MA Art Curatorship programme in the School and also jointly co-ordinates the Postgraduate Certificate in Art Conservation Studies. Her PhD thesis examined the work of the nineteenth-century artist, Sir Edward Poynter, focusing on his decorative work including public schemes in the South Kensington Museum, the Houses of Parliament, St Paul's Cathedral and domestic commissions. She has been co-curator of three exhibitions: Archaeology in 19th century art and design; the early collections of the State Library and National Gallery of Victoria; and works of William Morris in Victorian collections. She has been and is now a member of several museum boards, including the Management Committee of the Duldig Studio and the Donald Thomson Collection Committee of the Melbourne Museum

Dr Kate MacNeill
Course Coordinator, Master of Arts and Cultural Management

Kate MacNeill has extensive research, teaching and training experience in the government, non-government and university sectors in the areas of law and the arts and communications. Her doctorate explored issues of performativity, identity and contemporary art in Australia. Kate's current research interests are the reception of art in the public sphere; censorship and notions of artistic merit and public art.

Dr Wendy Haslem
Course Coordinator, Master of Cinema Management

Wendy Haslem teaches, researches and publishes on the intersections of film history and new media.  Her research includes: Gothic film, film noir, cinema of the 1950s, Atomic culture, trauma cinema, censorship, Japanese film, Australian film culture and industry. Wendy is interested in the impact of new forms of exhibition on the archive. She is the author of ‘A Charade of Innocence and Vice’: Hollywood Gothic Films of the 1940s (2009) and she is a co-editor for the anthology Super/Heroes: From Hercules to Superman (2007). She is currently researching the evolution of the Gothic from silent cinema to new media for her book Gothic Projections: From Méliès to New Media.

Marcelle Scott
Course Coordinator, Master of Cultural Materials Conservation

Marcelle has a BAppSc (Cultural Materials Conservation) specialising in objects conservation and a Grad Dip of Arts (Archaeology), with a thesis that focused on rock art site management and conservation. She recently completed the Graduate Certificate in University Teaching from the University of Melbourne. Since joining the Centre in 2001, Marcelle has been responsible for the development and delivery of our teaching and research programs. Marcelle has over twenty years experience in the conservation profession, working in State institutions and with community museums. She was National President of AICCM from 1999-2001, and is the Editor of the peer-reviewed AICCM Bulletin. She is a recipient of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006) and a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2007) from the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (read more).

Dr Amanda Johnson
Course Coordinator, Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing

Dr Amanda Frances Johnson is a writer and artist with research interests in postcolonialism, cultural memory, modernism and postmodernism. She has taught creative writing for over ten years, at the University of Melbourne and at Deakin University. Amanda completed her PhD thesis on the representation of Indigenous voices in Australian historical novels (1989–2006). Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in Westerly, Southerly, Meanjin, The New Antigone, Space: New Writing, Strange, Antithesis and Arena Magazine, and her paintings shown in Indonesia and Australia. She has been the recipient of Asialink and Arthur Boyd Bundanon residencies in painting, and an Australia Council Literature Board grant for Don't Run: A Brief History of Nylon. Her novel Eugene’s Falls (Arcadia 2007), about colonial painter Eugene von Guerard, unites her interests in art history, biography and cultural memory. Her poetry chapbook The Pallbearer’s Garden was published by Whitmore Press in 2008 and a full-length book of poetry, The Wind-up Birdman of Moorabool St will be published by Puncher and Wattmann in 2011.  She has been anthologised in Best Australian Poems 2009 (Black Inc. ed. Robert Adamson) and Best Australian Poems 2010 (Black Inc. Ed. Robert Adamson).

Associate Professor Ingrid Volkmer
Course Coordinator, Master of Global Media Communication

Ingrid Volkmer was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia in February, 2007. She is also Deputy Director of the Media and Communication program. She has taught at various international universities, such as in Europe, the US (New School University, New York) and New Zealand (University of Otago). She has been Visiting Scholar at MIT, Cambridge (2001), Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government (Harvard) (2002) as well as at the University of Amsterdam (ASCoR) (2003–2006). Assoc Prof Volkmer has worked for many years in the field of global communication. She has submitted various books and articles on these issues. Her particular interests are the new worldwide media infrastructure of political communication and the impact on societies and cultures.

Bryony Cosgrove
Course Coordinator, Master of Publishing and Communications

Bryony Cosgrove has over thirty years' experience in the publishing industry both as an editor and publisher. She is a recipient of the Fellowship of Australian Writers Barbara Ramsden Award for Editors, and the Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. In 2008, her book Portrait of a Friendship: the letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright 1950-2000 was published by Miegunyah Press. Previously, she has lectured in editing and publishing programs at Deakin and RMIT universities in Melbourne.

Mr Andrew Alexandra
Course Coordinator, Master of Arts (Professional & Applied Ethics)

Andrew Alexandra's main research interests are in the areas of political philosophy and applied philosophy. He is the editor of the Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics, and is Senior Researcher Fellow at CAPPE's University of Melbourne division.