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Associate Professor Anne Collett
English Studies Program
 Research Interests:
Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake - poetry, performance and shorts stories.
Anne Collett is a lecturer in the English Studies Program at the University of Wollongong. She has published primarily in the area of Caribbean, Canadian and Australian women's writing and her current research brings together the work of three women of the Americas, Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake, Frida Kahlo and Jamaica Kincaid. She is also editor of Kunapipi, a journal of postcolonial creative and critical writing. She is an executive member of The Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ).
Ms Diana Covell
I live in Wollongong and am currently employed as a Casual Tutor at UOW while working on my doctoral thesis (based at University of Sydney) which involves a comparative study of women in the Canadian and Australian steel industries. In 2006 I was awarded the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) Graduate Travel Scholarship and spent seven weeks doing research in Canada and this year I will be presenting a paper at the ICCS Conference in Ottawa from 27 - 29 May. I am also a current member of ACSANZ and presented a paper at the ACSANZ conference in Dunedin, New Zealand in 2006.
Dr Debra Dudek
School of English Literatures, Philosophy & Languages
Faculty of Arts
 Dr Debra Dudek received her BA and MA from the University of Manitoba and her PhD from the University of Saskatchewan. She is a Lecturer in the School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages, and her areas of research and teaching are Canadian, Australian, and Children’s literatures. She has published internationally on Children’s Literature, Postcolonial Studies, and Comparative Literature. In her current research, she is analysing representations of activism in contemporary Children’s Literature. In 2007, she received a Faculty Enrichment Program grant from the International Council for Canadian Studies to revise Introduction to Canadian Literature, which she taught in Spring 2008. She is a General Committee Member of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand.
Dr Mario Fernando
Faculty of Commerce
 Dr Mario Fernando received his BCom (Special) and MBA from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, and his PhD from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management and Marketing at the University of Wollongong, and his areas of research and teaching are business ethics, spiritual leadership and organisational virtuousness. He has published internationally on business ethics and the role of religion in management. His latest publication is a book titled Spiritual Leadership in the Entrepreneurial Business: A Multifaith Study (Edward Elgar, 2007). Currently Mario is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria working on a project titled Self-Growth Based Ethics: Humanistic, Kantian and Psychology of Religion Perspectives.
Mr Samuel Fosso Wamba
Faculty of Informatics
 Dr Samuel Fosso Wamba is a lecturer at the School of Information Systems & Technology (SISAT).
He earned an MSc in mathematics, from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, an MSc in e-commerce from HEC Montreal, Canada, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, from the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada.
His current research focuses on business value of IT, inter-organisational system (e.g., RFID technology) adoption and use, supply chain management, electronic commerce and mobile commerce.
He published in European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) and Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).
Dr Wamba is organizing special issues on RFID for the Business Process Management Journal and Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems. He has been served as mini-track chair on the same topic for the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), The 6th, 7th and 8th Workshops on e-Business, A Pre-ICIS Workshop Sponsored by AIS SIGeBIZ.
Dr Wamba is CompTIA RFID+ Certified Professional, Academic Co-Founder of RFID Academia and Founder and CEO of e-m-RFID.
Ms Annalise Friend
Postgraduate Member
Annalise Friend is a performer, teacher, and student of rhythm, movement and writing. A doctoral candidate in the School of English Literature, Philosophy and Languages at the University of Wollongong, her topic is identity performance by contemporary hip hop artists outside the USA. Using key MCs from the Pacific, Australia, and Canada as case studies, she argues that they use (and intervene in) notions of cultural authenticity, being truly ‘hip hop’, or representing a particular (g)local community. To do this, their performance is discussed as particular instances of ‘performative’ speech, in conjunction with a semiotic reading of their costume, movement, promotional imagery and online presence.
Ms Penny Harris
Faculty of Creative Arts
 Penny is a lecturer in Visual Arts at the University of Wollongong. Her doctoral research explored a body of photography taken by her grandfather as a child on the Canadian prairies as a recent migrant. In March 2006 she coordinated an exhibition in the Faculty of Creative Arts gallery of work by studio arts staff at Capilano college, Vancouver, curated by Toni Latour and titled ‘Art from a Southern Colony’. She is currently curating a return exhibition of Visual Arts faculty staff to be exhibited at Capilano college in February 2007. She has links with Concordia University in Montreal and in March 2006 with UIC funding invited Barbara Layne to the Wollongong University to speak about Hexagram Research Institute and electronic textiles. She was a visiting fellow at Hexagram in April 2006.
Professor Don Iverson
Faculty of Health & Behavioural Sciences
 Dr Don Iverson is Professor, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health & Behavioural Sciences and Director of the Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute at the University of Wollongong. He is a Canadian who was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. While most of his professional career was spent in the United States, and more recently Australia, he has maintained strong professional relationships with his Canadian colleagues. He serves on the Alberta Cancer Board’s International Advisory Committee on Prevention, and functions as a senior consultant on cancer prevention and screening programs and research projects. Among his current activities are the creation of a rural primary care nurse practitioner program and the development of international partnerships for the Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute; both of these initiatives involve academic units at Canadian universities. His research interests include primary care research, cancer prevention and control, and health outcomes. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo for his efforts in establishing a national research network devoted to studying the sociobehavioural aspects of cancer.
Dr Michael Jacklin
Associate Research Fellow
School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages
 Dr Michael Jacklin gained his PhD from Deakin University in 2005 for his thesis ‘Cross Talk: Collaborative Indigenous Life Writing in Australia and Canada.’ In 2002 he had received a Postgraduate Travel Grant from the Association of Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand, funding travel to Canada to interview participants in collaborative Indigenous life writing. Publication of this research has appeared in the journals Australian Canadian Studies (2002), Life Writing (2004) and Kunapipi (2007), with an article forthcoming in ARIEL (2008). In 2007 he joined the University Of Wollongong as an Associate Research Fellow contributing to the AustLit database and continuing to pursue research in the fields of life writing and Indigenous literatures from Australia and Canada. He has been a member of ACSANZ since 2002.
Dr Dorothy Jones
Honorary Fellow
Dorothy Jones was an academic staff member of the English Department at Wollongong University from 1971 to 1996 and is currently a senior fellow of the School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages. She has published widely in the field of Post Colonial women's writing and developed a particular interest in Canadian writing during the 1980s and has made several visits to Canada in connection with her research. In 1987 she initiated a course in Comparative Canadian/Australian writing at Wollongong University which she taught that year along with Canadian Writer Aritha van Herk who spent a semester as writer in residence at the university. She is currently engaged in a research project with colleague, A/Professor Anne Collett undertaking a comparative study of the work of Canadian artist, Emily Carr and Australian poet, Judith Wright.
Sample Publications:
- "Living the Country; a Woman's Reading", Australian-Canadian Studies, vol. 10, no.2, 1992pp.86-98
- "Mapping and Mythmaking: Women Writers and the Australian Legend', Ariel, vol.17, no.,4, pp.63-86, Fall 1986
- "'Waiting for the rescue'': a Discussion of Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm", KunapipiI, vol. 6, no.3, 1984, pp. 86-100
Dr Lori Lockyer
Faculty of Education
 Dr Lori Lockyer is Associate Professor of ICTs in Education and Associate Dean – Research in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong. Lori received her BA(Hons) and MLIS from the University of Western Ontario. Prior to moving to Wollongong to complete her PhD, Lori helped to establish and manage the Centre for Behavioural Research and Program Evaluation at the National Cancer Institute of Canada. Lori has maintained links with her Canadian colleagues working on ICTs in education research with collaborators at York University and Queen’s University and medical education research with collaborators at the University of British Columbia. Lori's research interests focus on the use of information and communication technologies to support learning in K-12 education, professional education, and health education and heath service initiatives.
Ms Kimberley McMahon-Coleman
Postgraduate Member
 Kimberley McMahon-Coleman completed her doctorate at the University of Wollongong in 2009. Her thesis is a comparative work, examining the use of shamans in the works of Alootook Ipellie and Sam Watson.
In addition to tutoring English at the Shoalhaven campus of the University and Learning Development at the Batemans Bay education centre, she is an HSC English marker and has published more than thirty workshops for HSC English students. She has had interviews and articles published in Australasian-Canadian Studies and Kunapipi and has presented papers on her research in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Since August 2005 she has been a committee member on the Executive of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ) and is editor of its newsletter.
In her spare time she is completing a Masters of Educational Leadership through Charles Sturt University, as well as raising two children, two cats and three understandably nervous chickens.
Publications arising from this Thesis:
- “Interview with Alootook Ipellie.” Australasian Canadian Studies. Turcotte, Gerry, Guest Editor. Volume 23.2. (December 2005). Sydney: University of Sydney Publishing Service.
- “Indigenous Diaspora and Literature.” Australasian Canadian Studies. Turcotte, Gerry, Guest Editor. Volume 23.2. (December 2005). Sydney: University of Sydney Publishing Service.
- “Dreaming an Identity Between Two Cultures: The Works of Alootook Ipellie.” Collett, Anne, Ed. Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Vol 28.1 (2006)
- “Heritage and Regional Development: An Indigenous Perspective.” Conference Proceedings. 2006 ANSRAI Conference (Australia and New Zealand Regional Science Association International), Beechworth, September 2006.
- "Arctic and Outback-Indigenous Literature at the `Ends of the Earth'." Australasian Canadian Studies. Volume 26.1 (2008).
Professor Luke McNamara,
BA LLB (UNSW), LLM (Manitoba), PhD (Wollongong)
Faculty of Law
Dr Luke McNamara is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Wollongong. Since completing his LLM at the University of Manitoba in 1992, he has maintained a strong association with Canadian Studies – as a member of ACSANZ for over a decade, as a co-editor of Australian-Canadian Studies (1993-1996), and as a member of the University of Wollongong’s Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies (since its establishment in 2000). His most recent book, supported in part by an International Council for Canadian Studies Faculty Research Program grant in 2005 is a comparative study of human rights laws in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK (Human Rights Controversies: The Impact of Legal Form, Routledge-Cavendish, 2007).
Selected Publications
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“Negotiating the Contours of Unlawful Hate Speech: Regulation Under Provincial Human Rights Laws in Canada” (2005) 38(1) University of British Columbia Law Review 1-82
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“Appellate Court Scrutiny of Circle Sentencing" (2000) 27(2) Manitoba Law Journal 209-240
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“The Locus of Decision-making Authority in Circle Sentencing: The Significance of Criteria and Guidelines” (2000) XVIII Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 60-114
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“The Recognition Of Indigenous Land Rights As 'Native Title': Continuity And Transformation” (1999) 3(2) Flinders Journal of Law Reform 137-162 (with Scott Grattan)
Dr Richard Mohr
Faculty of Law
 Dr Richard Mohr is a legal sociologist with an interest in legal theory, judicial evaluation and decision making. He is Director of the Legal Intersections Research Centre and a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Wollongong.
As managing editor of the interdisciplinary, peer reviewed international journal Law Text Culture he has worked on special issues with guest editors at two Canadian universities. W Wesley Pue and Catherine Dauvergne of UBC guest edited volume 8 (2004), ‘Challenging Nation’, while Desmond Manderson of McGill, who is also on the editorial board of the journal, edited volume 9 (2005), ‘Legal Spaces’. Volume 8 and the previous volume 7 featured covers and other photographs by the Canadian photographer and lawyer Efrat Arbel.
Rick has paid three visits to the Law Faculty at McGill University in Montréal, where he has:
- led reading group discussions on works by Seyla Benhabib (2003) and Walter Benjamin (2005)
- developed and taught two new courses: ‘Subjects and Objects’ (winter 2005) and ‘Qualitative Research Methods’ (Summer 2009)
- been guest speaker at a symposium on graduate research in law, ‘Professing to educate and educating to profess’ (July 2003)
- participated in planning and attended the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, held at McGill in April 2005
- been the first visiting research fellow at McGill’s newly formed Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, where he gave seminars on ‘Architecture, courts and communication’ and ‘The search for a methodology of the human sciences’ (2009).
In August 2009 Rick visited the University of Victoria, giving a lecture in a course in Indigenous law run by Professor John Borrows, and participating in a seminar on ‘Law and Suffering’ with Professor Louis Wolcher from the University of Washington, chaired by Prof Benjamin Berger of UVic.
Rick has also written for journals edited by David Howes of Concordia University in Montréal:
- a review for the first volume of the innovative journal The Senses and Society (2006), and
- an article for a special edition of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society: Richard Mohr. 2005 'Some Conditions for Culturally Diverse Deliberation', Canadian Journal of Law and Society 20(1): 87-102.
Ms Robyn Morris
Postgraduate Member
Robyn Morris teaches in the School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages at the University of Wollongong where she is currently completing her PhD. Her area of interest is contemporary Asian Canadian and Asian Australian women’s writing with a particular focus on the issues of race and gender. She has articles, book chapters and interviews published on the work of Larissa Lai, Joy Kogawa, Hiromi Goto, Simone Lazaroo and Hsu-Ming Teo. She is an executive member of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ), and is also co-editor of the association’s newsletter and a member of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN).
Professor Wenche Ommundsen
English Studies Program
 Wenche joined the University of Wollongong in 2006 as Professor of English Literatures. Formerly of Deakin University, she has taught and published across a number of fields in Australian and comparative literature, cultural studies and critical theory, with particular emphasis on multicultural, postcolonial and diasporic writing. She is the author of Metafictions (1993) and the editor (or co-editor) of five collections of essays: Refractions: Asian-Australian Writing (1995), From a Distance: Australian Writers and Cultural Displacement (1996), Appreciating Difference: Writing Postcolonial Literary History (1998), Bastard Moon: Essays on Chinese-Australian Writing (2001), Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalisation (forthcoming).
Wenche is a member of the executive committee of EASA (European Association of Australian Studies) and of the board of the AustLit database, with particular responsibility for the multicultural subset.
Her current research projects include:
- Australian Literature and Public Culture (ARC Discovery 2002-2005, with Michael Meehan and David McCooey)
- Building Cultural Citizenship: Multiculturalism and Children’s Literature (ARC Discovery 2005-2008, with Clare Bradford)
- AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature (ARC Linkage Infrastructure funding 2001-2003, 2006, joint project involving eight universities and the National Library of Australia)
- Refugees in contemporary Australian literature
- Literatures of the Chinese diaspora
Associate Professor Paul Sharrad
English Studies Program
 My involvement with Canada arises from a general interest in postcolonial literary studies. I have on occasion taught Atwood and Ondaatje, have written on the latter, teach Thomas King, and follow the India diaspora writers globally, including those in Canada.
Research work has led to visits to UBC about work on food and affect, and to the Centre for Globalisation and Cultural Studies at Manitoba.
Mr Colin Salter
Postgraduate Member
Colin Salter is a social scientist and environmental engineer, currently undertaking comparative research on contemporary grass-roots community activism in Australia and Canada. He adopts cultural and activist ethnological approaches to his current research, within a broader framework of hegemony, power relations, and nonviolence in (never quite post) colonial societies. He is currently focusing on the implications of hegemonic whiteness and patriarchal white sovereignty on community campaigns explicitly supporting the actions of Aboriginal and First Nations peoples in Australia and Canada, respectively. He is completing a PhD in the Faculty of Arts.
Professor Linda Tapsell PhD FDAA
Director, Smart Foods Centre
 Professor Linda Tapsell is a leading research dietitian with a focus on diet and metabolic syndrome. With an early career in the health system, her research track record lies in the conduct of clinical trials to test the effects of dietary patterns on health outcomes.
Through her role as Director of the UOW Smart Foods Centre, Linda has established a strong international network and is currently working with a new international food research collaboration with Canada, Greece and New Zealand. This network has been largely driven by the Canadian Advanced Foods Materials Network (AFMNet), and is in its early stages of becoming an international knowledge bank for the food industry on R &D outcomes in nutrition and health. It aims to provide industry with evidence-based information on scientific, technical, regulatory and social issues relating to food, health and wellbeing.
Linda Tapsell was a plenary speaker at the Food Meets Function Conference in London, Ontario, 17-18 June 2009.
Associate Professor Wilma Vialle
Faculty of Education
 Dr Wilma Vialle is an Associate Professor in Educational Psychology and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong. This role entails recruiting students from Ontario and Vancouver to undertake a one-year teaching preparation course at UOW. Her research interests focus on maximising intellectual potential and she is particularly interested in issues of social justice. She has active research collaborations with faculty from the University of British Columbia. Ongoing research projects include an international study of effective teachers of the gifted, a longitudinal study of adolescent academic and social-emotional outcomes, the development of expertise in competitive Scrabble players, and the development of spiritual understanding in children. She has published extensively on topics related to giftedness and children’s learning.
Mr Alan Wearne
Faculty of Creative Arts
 Australian poet Alan Wearne has been part of this nation's literature since the late 60s/early 70s.
He has taught in the Faculty of Creative Arts since 1998 & is best known for his verse novels though his most recent work The Australian Popular Songbook returns him to briefer narrative verse forms. He has had an interest in Canadian poetry, history and politics for about 40 years.
Annie Werner
Postgraduate Member
Annie Werner is a PhD candidate in the school of English Literature, Philosophy and Languages at the University of Wollongong. Her thesis examines representations of Indigenous tattooing in colonial and postcolonial literature from the Pacific and North America. Annie is currently working on an article exploring the resurgence of traditional tattooing in the Indigenous community in Haidia Gwaii, British Columbia. She is also co-convening the Fabulous Risk circus conference, in association with the CCAS, ACAPTA and Circus Monoxide.
Dr Alison Wicks
Australasian Occupational Science Centre (AOSC)
Shoalhaven Campus
 Dr Alison Wicks* is Founding Director of the Australasian Occupational Science Centre (AOSC), an occupational science education and research centre at Shoalhaven Campus. She is also a part time Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences and Honorary Research Fellow with the Centre for Health Service Development. Her current work involves translating evidence from occupational science into community-based programs that promote participation in community activities to enhance the health and wellbeing for older people. In her role as President of the International Society of Occupational Scientists she is also active in mainstreaming occupational science through interdisciplinary collaboration. Since July 2006 she has been an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Western Ontario. She has recently organised an agreement with the University of Western Ontario to supervise occupational therapy students at AOSC during their international fieldwork placement.
Associate Professor Heather Yeatman
School of Health Sciences
 Associate Professor Heather Yeatman is in the School of Health Sciences, in the discipline of public health. She has qualifications in science, nutrition & dietetics and public health. She has been involved in the area of food and nutrition policy for over 25 years, both as a policy adviser and researcher. Her interests focus on public engagement in the policy setting processes and opportunities to make links between different areas of food policy, such as nutrition, food security, agriculture and climate change. She currently holds a number of statutory appointments to national bodies involved in furthering animal welfare in Australia, regulating complementary medicines and agricultural products and setting food standards. She has a collaborative grant through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research with colleagues at the University of Victoria, BC and has incorporated comparative Canadian health policy studies within public health subjects through a Canadian Scholars grant in 2005.
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