RESOURCES
People
Dr Jacques Boulet: Dr Jacques Boulet: early inspiration by living with Romani and Kenyan communities shaped lifelong university teaching of social work, social research and community development in Belgium, Germany, USA and Australia. Former Ass Pro RMIT Social Work. PhD dissertation about structure/agency theoretical underpinning for community development. Ongoing networks with Latino, European, Indian Sub Continent and Chinese university research centres. Facilitating social work curriculum development in Hong Kong and India. Vision for a suburban university to continue the mission of transformative education eclipsed by Australia’s neo-liberal cultural revolution
Dr Lucy Healey: Borderlands project staff; academic at Melbourne and Monash Universities in gender studies, anthropology and development studies; consultancies in social research, evaluation, organisational development in Australia, PNG & Malaysia.
Dr Tricia Hiley: MBus (OrgChange&Devt), PhD, is a lifelong learner and director of Potential Space, a micro-business which fosters learning practices for living and working in our complex and dynamic world. Tricia teaches in Oases and serves as Chair of the Academic Board.
Martha Hills: I came to Borderlands by way of Permaculture Melbourne, who has sublet office space from Borderlands. Learning about and moving toward sustainability on a personal and a group level are important to me. These days, however, my activities are managing the cataloguing of the library and keeping the membership list and office organised (hopefully).
Jose Ramos: is currently undertaking PhD research into counter-globalisation. He researches and writes in the areas of action research, foresight, ecological sustainability, media and globalisation.
Dr Kristin Diemer: Twenty years of quantitative and qualitative research experience across government, local community and academia. Periodically lecturing in self and identity, photographic representations of life and research methodology at Oases Graduate School, as well as family studies at the Australian Catholic University, she currently holds a Post Doc Research Fellowship at Melbourne University for the Victorian Family Violence Reform Research Program. As a sociologist, she specialises in research methodology and SPSS data analysis within the arena of family violence, sexual assault and child abuse, working with both large government department database and smaller agency specific case files. Research interests include vulnerable communities, multiculturalism, self and society, photography and feminist research methods.
Also:
Dimity Fifer: CEO Australian Volunteers International
Ben Leehman
Dr Supriya Pattanayak: DFID Orissa India
Dr Yoland Wadsworth
Networks
ANTAR
International Association of Community Development - IACD
Community Links Cambodia
SPIRAL- Victorian action research centre
ARIA
ALARPM global action research centre
European action research and
Latino
Africa
SPW and other young people involved
other community & academic networks