Asia Research Centre 20th Anniversary Publication.

106 Pages·2013·2.85 MB·English

Celebrating
20 years
Asia Research Centre
Celebrating 20 years
ASIA RESEARCH CENTRE
Celebrating 20 years since its inception as a Special
Research Centre
The Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University was first established in 1988. Then in
1991, through a nationally competitive process, it became a Special Research Centre of
the Australian Research Council (ARC).
As one of only two federally-funded special research centres on Asia in Australia, its brief
was to enhance Australia’s understanding of its Asian environment by providing analysis
of social, political and economic change in contemporary East and Southeast Asia. In its
first nine years of operation (1991 – 1999), central projects considered the impact of the
emerging middle classes upon the social, economic and political environments of the
Asia-Pacific region, as well as the implications of the currency and financial crises.
Following the cessation of funding by the Australian Research Council, which it received
for the maximum period of nine years available to a ‘special centre’, the Asia Research
Centre had to develop new strategies to maintain its role as an internationally recognised
leader in research on contemporary Asia, and seek alternative sources of income. In line
with this, key projects in 2000 examined globalisation as well as national and local
systems of governance, and cross-border policy issues including the human impact of
animal diseases, environmentally sustainable settlements and reverse migration.
The Asia Research Centre was reconstituted in 2002 as a divisional centre at Murdoch
University. Since then its objectives have been to: produce high quality academic
research publications for international and domestic audiences; foster the development
of high quality research graduates; and contribute constructively to public policy debate
and public understanding on issues concerning contemporary Asia.
table of contents
The Origins of the Centre 9
Intellectual Innovation and Leadership 13
Research Collaborations 19
Shaping Australia’s Understanding of Asia:
Strategies of Public and Policy Engagement 25
Postgraduate Studies at the Asia Research Centre 35
Books 39
Appendices 49
People
Events
Grants
Publications
Asia Research Centre Directors and Deputy Directors
• Professor David S G Goodman, Director (1991 – 1993)
• Professor Richard Robison, Director (1994 – Jun 2000)
• Professor Ian Scott, Director (Aug – Dec 2000)
• Professor Jim Warren, Director (2001)
• Associate Professor David Brown, Acting Director (Jan – Jun 2002)
• Professor Garry Rodan, Director (Jul 2002 – 2010)
• Dr Kanishka Jayasuriya, Acting Director (Apr – Dec 2008)
• Associate Professor Caroline Hughes, Director (2010 –)
• Professor Richard Robison, Deputy Director (1991 – 1993)
• Professor David S G Goodman, Deputy Director (Jan – May 1994)
• Associate Professor Tim Wright, Deputy Director (Jun – Dec 1994)
• Cisca Spencer, Deputy Director (1995 – 1999)
• Dr Sally Sargeson, Deputy Director (Nov – Dec 2000)
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Asia Research Centre Board of The International Advisory Panel
Management 2011
• Professor Amitav Acharya, UNESCO Chair in Transnational
Challenges and Governance and Chair of the ASEAN Studies
• Associate Professor Caroline Hughes – Director
Center, School of International Service, American University
• Professor Vedi Hadiz
• Professor Kevin Hewison, Director, Carolina Asia Centre,
• Professor David Hill – Chair
University of North Carolina
• Dr Jane Hutchison
• Professor Jomo K.S., Assistant Secretary-General on Economic
• David MacLennan – Western Australian State Director, Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs,
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade United Nations
• Professor Garry Rodan • Professor Lily Kong, Vice-President (University and Global
• Associate Professor Malcolm Tull Relations), National University of Singapore.
• Associate Professor Carol Warren • Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Research School of Pacific and
Asian Studies, Australian National University
• Associate Professor Andrew Webster – Dean, School of Social
Sciences and Humanities • Professor Takashi Shiraishi, National Graduate Institute for
Policy Studies, Tokyo
• Professor Lynn T. White, Woodrow Wilson School of Public
and International Affairs, Politics Department, and East Asian
Studies Program, Princeton University
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Portraits of Contributors to the Centre
Painted by Emeritus Professor Richard Robison
Kevin Hewison 2008 Vedi Hadiz 2009
Tim Wright 2009 Self portrait 2011
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Krishna Sen 2011 Jane Hutchison 2011
Richard Higgott 2008 Garry Rodan 2011
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David Hill 2012 Shaun Breslin 2008
Chua Beng Huat 2009 Anna George 2011
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Geoffrey Underhill 2008 Shahar Hameiri 2012
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