Interested in independent study as part of your MDP?
Do you have an interest in social justice, food, agriculture and the environment? Are you interested in doing some independent study as part of your MDP?
Below is a list of supervisors and potential research topics:
Associate Professor Alex Broom, School of Social Science
- Traditional healing in developing countries
- HIV, gender and development
- Violence, masculinity and public health
Dr Adrian Cherney, School of Social Science
- Policing and police capacity building
- Peacekeeping and state building
- Criminal justice
Professor Adil Khan, School of Social Science
- Development and poverty
- Public accountability and corruption control
- Governance and citizen participation
Professor Geoffrey Lawrence, School of Social Science
- Large-scale purchase and leasing of farm land
- The governance of food security
- The resilience of long and short food chains
Dr Kristen Lyons, School of Social Science
- Logging, forestry plantations and socio-economic development in the Solomon Islands
- ‘land grabbing’: Resistance and social movements
- Coal Seam Gas: Social and Environmental Impacts/Planning Issues
Dr Lynda Shevellar, School of Social Work and Human Services
- Community development and natural disasters
- Community belonging and community responses to people with disability, people with mental health challenges, and people living with poverty and high debt
- Participatory methodologies, including PRA, photovoice, narrative practice, theatre work and action research
Dr Sonia Roitman, School of Geography and Planning
- Land access, housing policies and development
- Development planning, international cooperation and the role of the Third Sector.
- ‘Glocalisation’, urban growth and planning
- Gated communities and private governance
- Segregation, social theory and urban inequalities
- Qualitative research methodology and participatory methods for development
