Postgraduates

Prospective | Current |Completions

The Asia Research Centre provides high quality training to postgraduate students. In-house seminars, seminars held in cooperation with other institutions at Murdoch University, and visits to the Centre by eminent scholars, policy-makers and industry representatives ensure that postgraduates interact in a stimulating and supportive environment.

The Centre encourages application from potential doctoral students.

As a first step, prospective students should acquaint themselves with staff expertise outlined on this web site. This should give some indication of whether or not the topic being proposed falls within the range of interests and capacities of the Centre.

If this looks to be the case, prospective applicants should address the thesis proposal structure laid out below. Potential students are required to submit a thesis proposal (no more than 8 pages) in keeping with the headings outlined in the following PDF document entitled "Phd Thesis Proposal".

Please note that this proposal is not a formal application for admission to Murdoch University. The admission process information is available at http://www.murdoch.edu.au/International-students/Murdoch-entry-requirements/ for international students and http://www.murdoch.edu.au/Future-students/ for domestic students. You should also explore the Graduate Centre website at http://www.research.murdoch.edu.au/gradcentre/prospective.html

Scholarship options for international students include AusAID, http://www.ausaid.gov.au/scholar/default.cfm and Endeavour Awards, http://www.endeavour.deewr.gov.au/.

Asia Research Centre postgraduates are eligible to apply for both the ST Leong Memorial Scholarship and School of Social Sciences and Humanities Bursary to help fund their fieldwork.

Please e-mail thesis proposals to the Acting Director of the Asia Research Center at K.Jayasuriya@murdoch.edu.au with a copy to the Centre’s Administrative Officer, Mrs Tamara Dent at T.Dent@murdoch.edu.au

Current Postgraduates

• Jay Ram Adhikari
  Topic: Political conflicts, environmental security and rural livelihood linkages in Nepal
  tel: 9360 7625
• James Boyd
  Topic: In Pursuit of an Obsession: Japanese interest in Mongolia, 1878-1945
  tel: 9360 2932
• Stephanie Chok
  Topic: The Ethics of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): where do labour rights fit in?
  tel: 9360 2609
• Shahar Hameiri
  Topic: State Building or State Transformation? Regulation and Conflict at the Fringes of the Global Order
  tel: 9360 6228
• Kah Seng LOH
  Topic: The 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore
• Julia Perkins
  Topic: Reclaiming a Cultural Aesthetics: JAKER (Jaringan Kerja Kebudayaan Rakyat) and an Indonesian Radical Cultural Tradition
• Teng-Phee TAN
  Topic: A Social History of New Villages in Post-war Malaya/Malaysia.
  tel: 9360 7625
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Postgraduate Completions

2008

• Carolin Liss Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh, 1992-2006:A Prismatic Interpretation of Security

2007

• Toby Carroll The Politics of the World Bank’s Socio-institutional Neoliberalism
• Kurt Stenross The culture and economy of the maritime transport communities of the island of Madura, Indonesia
• Donna Turner Shaping Labour in Malaysia's Shift to the Knowledge Economy

2006

• Kathleen Turner: Identity and the State: A Study of Communal Conflict in Ambon, Indonesia
• Henry Chen: Taiwanese Offshore (Distant Water) Fisheries in Southeast Asia, 1936 - 1977
• Narrelle Morris: Destructive Discourse: “Japan-bashing” in the United States, Australia and Japan in the 1980s and 1990s
  

2005

• Jane Hutchison: Export Opportunities: Women Workers Organising in the Philippine Garments Industry
• Lee Jae-hyon: UMNO Factionalism and the Politics of Malaysian National Identity

  2004

• Sidney Adams: Collective Action and a disappearing resource: the politics of the Southern bluefin tuna industry
• Miyume Tanji: Three Waves of 'the Okinawa Struggle': Social Movements in the Post-War Community of Protest

  2003

• Tsukasa Takamine: Japan's Post-1979 China Policy: Official Development Assistance and the Active Engagement Strategy

  2002

• Kay Gillis: The Rise and Fall of Civil Society in Singapore
• Andrew Brown: The Politics of Organising Labour in Thailand

  2001

• Sheila Oakley: Labour Relations with Chinese Characteristics: The Development and Resolution of Labour Disputes in Post-Reform China
• John McCarthy: Environmental Policy in Indonesia

  2000

• Yingchi Chu: Coloniser, Motherland and Self in Hong Kong Cinema
• Andrew Rosser: Creating Markets: The Politics of Economic Liberalisation in Indonesia Since the Mid-1980s

  1999

• Gaynor Dawson: Women and Work in an Indonesian Transmigration Settlement: Keeping the Rice in the Pot
• Jian Zhang: Government and Market: A Case Study of the Political Economy of the Post-Mao Economic Development in Xihu District, China.
• Mark Cloney: Australia's Economic Integration with Asia: Government Policy 1983-1996

  1998

• David Widihandoyo: The Making of a Precarious Bourgeoisie: State and the Transformation of Domestic Bourgeoisie in Indonesia

  1997

• You-il Lee: Korean Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia in the Late Twentieth Century

  1996

• Mark Beeson: Neoliberalism and Australia's Economic Relationship with Japan: Policy Paradigms in a Global Political Economy
• Sally Sargeson: Class Matters: An Ethnography of Class, Work and Identity Construction Among Non-tenured Workers in a Hangzhou Suburb
• Vedi Hadiz: Contradictions of Corporatism: Workers and the State in New Order Indonesia

  1993

• Desalwi: Indonesia's New Economic Policies and Non-oil Export to the EC Beyond the 1990s