Associate Researchers
Transforming Cultures emphasises inter-disciplinary research and linkage with the communities in which and with whom we work. Associate researchers are drawn therefore from academics at UTS, Australian Research Council (ARC) partners and fellows, and community leaders.
Current TfC Research Associates
Kate Barclay (Senior Lecturer, Social and Political Change Group, UTS)
Tressa Berman (Cultural Anthropology, UCLA)
Barbara Bloch (Casual Academic, UTS)
Denis Byrne (Department of Environment and Conservation, NSW)
Catherine Cole (RMIT Professor of Creative Writing, Melbourne)
Paul Gillen (former UTS)
James Goodman (Senior Lecturer, Social and Political Change Group, UTS)
Chris Ho (Senior Lecturer, Social Inquiry, UTS)
Jan Idle (Research Officer, TfC)
Andrew Jakubowicz (Professor, Social and Political Change Group, UTS)
Linda Leung (Senior Lecturer, Institute for Interactive Media and Learning, UTS)
Justine Lloyd (Department of Sociology, Macquarie University)
Francis Maravillas (Casual Academic, UTS)
Jo McCormack (Senior Lecturer, Cultural Studies Group, UTS)
David McKnight
Penny O'Donnell (Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney)
Michael Pearson (Adjunct Professor, UTS)
Suzan Piper (Research Officer, TfC)
Murray Pratt
Catherine Thill (Research Officer, TfC)
Lindi Todd (Research Officer, TfC)
Cameron White (Casual Academic, UTS)
Dr Kate Barclay
Kate Barclay teaches in the Japan Major of the Institute for International Studies at UTS. Kate's theoretical interests include the cultural and social aspects of economic life. She has researched a joint venture Solomon Islands/ Japanese tuna fishing company, and is currently involved in an ARC funded project looking at international southern bluefin tuna fisheries. She has an eclectic approach to methodology, using ideas from cultural anthropology, history, and international political economy.
Dr Tressa Berman
Tressa Berman is a cultural anthropologist (PhD UCLA), curator and arts policy consultant. She is Founding Director of BorderZone Arts, Inc., an international community-based arts organisation based in San Francisco, and affiliated with the Globalism Institute, RMIT. She is former faculty of Arizona State University, and has held various teaching and research positions in the US. Tressa's research interests include contemporary art and globilisation, Indigenous intellectual property rights and cultural heritage policy. She is currently Project Director of Cultural Copy: Visual Conversations on Indigenous Arts and Cultural Appropriation, a multiple site, internationally traveling exhibition and conference project which launched at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, in conjunction with Common Ground Conferences of Australia, with which she is currently developing an international arts conference project. In addition to numerous articles, her books include Circle of Goods: Women, Work and Welfare in a Reservation Community (SUNY Press, 2003); and No Deal! Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession (in preparation for UNSW Press).
Dr Denis Byrne
Denis Byrne manages the Research Section of the Cultural Heritage Division in the Department of Environment and Conservation. Denis' interests include the contemporary religious/spiritual context of heritage sites in Asia and Australia (the subject of his recent fellowship at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles), the history and heritage of racial segregation in Australia, and the push towards greater acknowlegement of the social value of heritage places.
Annmarie Chandler
Annmarie Chandler is Course Director of the Emerging Field in New Media and Digital Culture where she is developing cross-disciplinary programs in the digital arts and sciences at UTS. Annmarie's research interest is the convergence of new with old media. Her earlier research included telecommunications industry funded investigations into multimedia applications for the Film Industry and the deaf community. Later, ARC supported research, investigated the impact of digitalisation more broadly on the film industry. She is currently researching the potential relationship between performative public events with mobile phones and public arts broadcasting. She is also a researcher on the project, 'Outside the Box', investigating future scenarios for Australian Television, a UTS Industry Linkage seeding project. She has recently co-edited a book At A Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (MIT Press).
Eva Cox
Eva Cox is a Senior Lecturer in Social Inquiry at UTS and has had a long career as an activist, media commentator and researcher. She teaches research as part of a political process and has undertaken many consultancies for government, community groups and even commercial organisations. Her current research interests cluster around her work on organisational and group cultures, through exploring intersections between social capital and ethical cultures. She delivered the 1995 ABC Boyer lectures on social capital and has since become involved in social and ethical auditing. Her research areas and publications include a wide variety of policy issues, immigrant women, feminism, non-government organisations, child care, volunteers and she has just completed a project on Jewish women and activism.
Dr Paul Gillen
Paul Gillen is a senior lecturer in Social Inquiry in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS. Paul's work is concerned with cultural history and the reinvention of belief, and especially the importance of monotheism in society. He is particularly concerned to articulate the ways in which globalisation and nationalism intersect in secular and non-secular spaces in the contemporary world. His recent publications discuss Australian identity, self-image and the global.
Dr Yingjie Guo
Yingjie Guo is a senior lecturer in Chinese studies at the Institute for International Studies at UTS. He earned his PhD at the School of Government of the University of Tasmania and was a lecturer at the Shanghai International Studies University before coming to Australia.
Yingjie's research interests include cultural nationalism in contemporary China and the sociopolitical impact of the WTO. His current project, which is funded by an ARC Discovery Grant, examines the nature and extent of openess in China under the World Trade Organisation, focusing on the impact of WTO on legal regulation at the central and local level, administrative control of economic activities, and the ideological control by the Chinese Communist Party and the local state.
Dr Christina Ho
Christina Ho is a lecturer in Social Inquiry in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS. Christina's research interests centre around migration, multiculturalism, gender and identity. She is involved in a TfC project in partnership with the Muslim Women Association.
Dr Justine Lloyd
Justine Lloyd is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS. Justine's research interests include feminist cultural studies, particularly histories of domesticity and urban space, and globalisation, transnationalism and border theory. Her previous postdoctoral work is forthcoming as Sentenced to Everyday Life: Feminism and the Housewife a co-authored book from Berg (with Lesley Johnson). Her current project aims to provide the first history of women's radio programming on the ABC via correspondence and audience research, scripts and listeners' letters. She has taught cultural studies and media studies in universities in Australia and Poland.
Adjunct Professor, Andy Lloyd James
Andy Lloyd James has spent the majority of his professional career in Public Service Broadcasting. From 1983-2000 he worked in Senior Executive positions involving strategic research and analysis. he was Head of TV Drama, then National Networks with the ABC from 1996 to 2000 and General Manager, SBS Independent from 1994-96. Since leaving the ABC, he has consulted with the ABA and Foxtel. He is also strongly connected with the Media Arts program within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS and is currently a researcher on the project 'Outside the Box', investigating future scenarios for Australian Television.
Michael Pearson
Michael Pearson is an Adjunct Professor at UTS and is working with Associate Professor Stephen Muecke and Dr Devleena Ghosh on an ARC funded project exploring the connections between commercial and cultural relations in the Indian Ocean Region. Michael taught Indian history at the University of New South Wales until his retirement in 2001 and has published 14 books and over 70 articles. His particular interests are the Portuguese in India, trade and cultural relations between India and East Africa and pilgrimage. Most recently he has published two volumes on the Indian Ocean -The Indian Ocean (Routledge, The Seas in History Series, 2003) and The World of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800: Studies in Economic, Social and Cultural History (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 2005).
Professor Alastair Pennycook
Alastair Pennycook is Professor of Language in Education in the Faculty of Education at UTS. Alastair's research interests include implications of the global spread of English in relation to popular culture, and other identity formations. His work takes account of intertextuality, postcolonialism and critical theory - to which he brings an interdisciplinary approach combining cultural studies, education theory and applied linguistics. He is currently collaborating with Dr Tony Mitchell on the project Global Englishes: Rap, Hip-hop and Transcultural Identities.
Dr Stephen Wearing
Stephen Wearing is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business at UTS. He has been responsible for a variety of projects in the area of Leisure and Tourism Studies at an international, national, state, regional and local level. He is currently the co-editor of the journal Parks and Leisure Australia and his research areas are: ecotourism, commmunity based and volunteer tourism, environmentalism, sociology of leisure and tourism and social sciences in protected area management.
Dr Yi Zheng
Dr Yi Zheng recieved her PhD from the Program of Cultural and Critical Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA; she was an Angora Fellow at the Advanced Studies Institute of Berlin, Germany, a Fellow at the Advanced Studies Institute of Budapest, Hungary, a post-doctoral Fellow at the Porter Institute for Comparative Poetics, and before coming to Sydney, was a lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel. She publishes and teaches in cultural poetics and comparative aesthetics.
