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Aboriginal and Indigenous issues

Ms Samantha Hepburn Position: Senior Lecturer School: School of Law Faculty: Faculty of Business and Law Campus: Geelong campus at Waurn Ponds Business Phone: (03) 522 72138 Home Phone: Mobile: 0438 631 006 Email: samh@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Property law. The rejection of feudal tenure and the implementation of a new allodial land system better suited to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous land title. Equity and trusts—the classification of equitable interests and the problem of title exploitation, particularly with equitable mortgages. Category: law, aboriginal and Indigenous issues

Abuse

Ms Georgia Babatsikos Position: Lecturer School: School of Health and Social Development Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood Business Phone: 0425 763 112 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: georgiab@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Health promotion program planning and evaluation. Child sexual abuse prevention. Public health models of child sexual abuse prevention. HIV prevention. Category: abuse, health and wellbeing Dr Bianca Klettke Position: Lecturer School: School of Psychology Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6774 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: biancak@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Child sexual abuse. Jury behaviour and decision making. Memory. Forensic psychology. Cognitive psychology. Category: psychology, abuse, children, memory, behaviour Ms Louise Laskey Position: Lecturer School: School of Education Faculty: Faculty of Education Campus: Geelong campus at Waurn Ponds Business Phone: (03) 5227 1474 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: louisel@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Child abuse including mandatory reporting. Child protection and teachers. Families and schooling. School violence. School discipline. Category: abuse, children, education, family, violence Professor Marita McCabe Position: Professor of Psychology School: School of Psychology Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6856 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: maritam@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Human sexuality. Adolescent dating. Childhood abuse. Sexual dysfunction. Sexual harassment. Sexuality and disability. Adolescent body image. Dieting, bingeing and excessive exercise among adolescent boys and girls. Depression among older people Category: sex/sexuality, youth/young people's issues, abuse, body image, diet/dieting, exercise/physical activity Dr Peter Miller Position: Research Fellow School: School of Psychology Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Behavioural Sciences Campus: Geelong Waterfront Campus Business Phone: 03 522 78138 Home Phone: Mobile: 0404 109 328 Email: peter.miller@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Rural and regional alcohol, gambling and substance use. Drug use. Alcohol use. Addiction treatment. Licensed venues. Ethics. Drug policy. Category: abuse, drugs, alcohol, addiction, policy Associate Professor Lina Ricciardelli Position: Associate Professor School: School of Psychology Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Science Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6866 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: lina@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Developmental psychology. Health psychology. Body image. Adolescent health. Substance use. Category: abuse, psychology, health and wellbeing, body image, drugs, alcohol Dr Petra Staiger Position: Senior Lecturer School: School of Psychology Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6876 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: pstaiger@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Treatment of alcohol dependence and eating disorders and in particular the treatment of both. Emotional abuse of children. Category: abuse, disorders, children, alcohol

Accounting

Mr Samson Ekanayake Position: Senior Lecturer School: School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Faculty: Faculty of Business and Law Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6563 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: samson@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Accounting/management accounting systems in multinational corporations/joint-ventures. Cross-cultural issues in management control. Interpersonal trust and management control. Accounting and accounting education in Asia, especially Sri Lanka. Business, management and educational issues in Sri Lanka. Share buy-backs or share repurchases in Australia. Category: accounting, management, education, sri Lanka Associate Professor Graeme Wines Position: Associate Professor in Accounting School: School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Faculty: Faculty of Business and Law Campus: Warrnambool campus Business Phone: (03) 5563 3271 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: winesg@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Auditing. Accounting. Financial reporting. Government budget accounting. Category: accounting

Addiction

Dr Peter Miller Position: Research Fellow School: School of Psychology Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Behavioural Sciences Campus: Geelong Waterfront Campus Business Phone: 03 522 78138 Home Phone: Mobile: 0404 109 328 Email: peter.miller@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Rural and regional alcohol, gambling and substance use. Drug use. Alcohol use. Addiction treatment. Licensed venues. Ethics. Drug policy. Category: abuse, drugs, alcohol, addiction, policy

Africa

Dr Dawn Joseph Position: Lecturer School: School of Education Faculty: Faculty of Education Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6284 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: djoseph@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: African music in school. Teacher education and teacher change. South African education. African Indigenous knowledge systems. Multiculturalism. Category: education, music, africa, multiculturalism

Age and ageing

Dr Christopher King Position: Research Fellow School: School of Psychology Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9251 7366 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: cking@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Old age and ageing. Aged care. Dementia. Japanese society. Category: japan, age and ageing, nursing, health and wellbeing

Aged care

Dr Tanya Davison Position: Lecturer School: School of Psychology Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Science Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6505 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: tanyad@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Late-life depression. Mental health in aged care settings. Psychological interventions for dementia. Category: aged care, psychology, health and wellbeing

Alcohol

Professor John Catford Position: Dean School: Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6025 Home Phone: Mobile: 0407 850 056 Email: deanhbs@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Chronic disease prevention with a focus on nutrition, tobacco, physical activity. Drugs and alcohol. Child and youth health. Public health emergencies and infectious disease outbreaks. Social exclusion and health inequalities. Whole of government approaches to population health eg transport, planning, education, food, agriculture. Mainstreaming prevention into health services. Health care reform. Nursing workforce. Category: health and wellbeing, children, youth/young people's issues, education, nursing, exercise/physical activity, drugs, alcohol Dr Peter Miller Position: Research Fellow School: School of Psychology Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Behavioural Sciences Campus: Geelong Waterfront Campus Business Phone: 03 522 78138 Home Phone: Mobile: 0404 109 328 Email: peter.miller@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Rural and regional alcohol, gambling and substance use. Drug use. Alcohol use. Addiction treatment. Licensed venues. Ethics. Drug policy. Category: abuse, drugs, alcohol, addiction, policy Associate Professor Lina Ricciardelli Position: Associate Professor School: School of Psychology Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Science Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6866 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: lina@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Developmental psychology. Health psychology. Body image. Adolescent health. Substance use. Category: abuse, psychology, health and wellbeing, body image, drugs, alcohol Dr Petra Staiger Position: Senior Lecturer School: School of Psychology Faculty: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6876 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: pstaiger@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Treatment of alcohol dependence and eating disorders and in particular the treatment of both. Emotional abuse of children. Category: abuse, disorders, children, alcohol

Aquaculture

Dr Giovanni M Turchini Position: Research Fellow School: School of Life and Environmental Sciences Faculty: Faculty of Science and Technology Campus: Warrnambool campus Business Phone: (03) 5563 3312 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: giovanni@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Fish nutrition focussing on Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii). Lipid nutrition and lipid metabolism of farmed fish. Category: aquaculture

Architecture and building

Dr David Beynon Position: Lecturer School: School of Architecture and Building Faculty: Faculty of Science and Technology Campus: Geelong Waterfront campus Business Phone: (03) 5227 8310 Home Phone: Mobile: : Email: djbeynon@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Asian architecture, in particular postcolonial/identity/migration aspects. Architecture of Asian migrant communities in Melbourne. Multiculturalism and the evolution of Australian cities. Southeast Asian temples. Architectural design practice and education. Culturally and socially sustainable architecture. Category: architecture and building, multiculturalism Dr Anthony (Tony) Dawson Position: Senior Lecturer School: School of Architecture and Building Faculty: Faculty of Science and Technology Campus: Geelong Waterfront campus Business Phone: (03) 5227 8323 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: tonyd@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Information systems in design and construction. Impact of new technologies and cultural change in the building industry. CAD systems and new technology in design and construction. Category: architecture and building, information technology Professor Des Smith Position: Professor and Chair in Architecture School: School of Architecture and Building Faculty: Faculty of Science and Technology Campus: Geelong Waterfront campus Business Phone: (03) 5227 8350 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: dess@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Architecture including design in general, urban design and landscape architecture. Category: architecture and building, urban design/planning Mr John Stabb Position: Lecturer School: School of Architecture and Building Faculty: Faculty of Science and Technology Campus: Geelong Waterfront campus Business Phone: (03) 5227 8339 Home Phone: Mobile: 0417 559 637 Email: stabb@@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Digital imagery. Architectural photography. Category: architecture and building, photography Associate Professor Judith Trimble Position: Head of School School: School of Architecture and Building Faculty: Faculty of Science and Technology Campus: Geelong Waterfront campus Business Phone: (03) 5227 8340 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: jt@deakin.@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Italian Renaissance art and architecture. Category: arts,the, architecture and building

Artificial intelligence

Dr Honghua Dai Position: Senior Lecturer School: School of Engineering and Information Technology Faculty: Faculty of Science and Technology Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9251 7479 Home Phone: Mobile: 0411 656 393 Email: hdai@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Data mining and machine learning. E-business systems. Artificial intelligence. e-Education. Web computing. Category: education, artificial intelligence, internet/world wide web, computers Dr Gang Li Position: Associate lecturer School: School of Engineering and Information Technology Faculty: Faculty of Science and Technology Campus: Burwood Campus Business Phone: (03)92517434 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: ligang@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Machine learning. Pattern recognition and computer vision. Data mining. Artificial intelligence. Category: computers, artificial intelligence Dr Zili Zhang Position: Senior Lecturer School: School of Engineering and Information Technology Faculty: Faculty of Science and Technology Campus: Geelong campus at Waurn Ponds Business Phone: (03) 5227 1382 Home Phone: Mobile: 0421 898 123 Email: zzhang@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Multi-agent systems. Hybrid intelligent systems. Artificial intelligence. Category: artificial intelligence, computers

Arts, the

Dr Estelle Barrett Position: Senior Lecturer School: School of Communication and Creative Arts Faculty: Faculty of Arts Campus: Warrnambool campus Business Phone: (03) 5563 3441 Home Phone: Mobile: 0418 664126 Email: ejbarret@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Contemporary art. Visual theory. Communications and cultural studies. Feminist theory. Category: arts,the, media, communication, feminism Ms Jacqui Dreessens-Brown Position: Lecturer School: School of Education Faculty: Faculty of Education Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6401 Home Phone: Mobile: 0409 025 062 Email: dreessen@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Dance. Dance education. African dance. Community arts. Integrated arts. Interculturalism. Category: education, arts,the Dr Hilary Glow Position: Lecturer School: School of Management and Marketing Faculty: Faculty of Business and Law Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 925 17361 Home Phone: Mobile: 0425 714 037 Email: hglow@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Australian culture. Australian cultural policy. Australian theatre. Category: arts,the, culture Dr Robert Haysom Position: Senior Lecturer School: School of Communication and Creative Arts Faculty: Faculty of Arts Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9251 7647 Home Phone: Mobile: 0414 846 377 Email: robh@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Galleries and art museums. Sculpture. Art and text. Category: arts,the, museums Dr Stella Minahan Position: Senior Lecturer School: Deakin Business School Faculty: Faculty of Business and Law Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 5521 Home Phone: Mobile: 0417 369 268 Email: sminahan@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Consumer behaviour. General management and the arts. Non-profit organisations. Leisure in the Noughties. Category: consumer behaviour, arts,the, social and welfare issues Dr Joanne O'Mara Position: Lecturer School: School of Education Faculty: Faculty of Education Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6783 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: jomara@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Drama education. Creativity through the arts. Literacy and arts education. Reflective practice. Secondary English education. Category: arts,the, education, literacy Ms Jo Raphael Position: Lecturer School: School of Education Faculty: Faculty of Education Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6829 Home Phone: Mobile: 0407 301 378 Email: joraph@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Drama in the curriculum. Drama and learning across the curriculum. The arts and learning. Arts integration. Drama, disability and empowerment. Children and dramatic play. School productions. Category: education, arts,the Associate Professor Ruth Rentschler Position: Executive Director Centre for Leisure Management Research School: Bowater School of Management and Marketing Faculty: Faculty of Business and Law Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9244 6228 Home Phone: Mobile: 0407 461 287 Email: rr@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Arts management. Arts marketing. Museum management. Indigenous micro-enterprises. Social entrepreneurship. Category: arts,the, management Mr Jonathan Sweet Position: Lecturer School: School of History, Heritage and Society Faculty: Faculty of Arts Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9251 7056 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: jsweet@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Collecting and collections. Art gallery and museum management. Heritage interpretation. Decorative arts and design. Asia Pacific Region. Category: museums, heritage, arts,the Associate Professor Judith Trimble Position: Head of School School: School of Architecture and Building Faculty: Faculty of Science and Technology Campus: Geelong Waterfront campus Business Phone: (03) 5227 8340 Home Phone: Mobile: Email: jt@deakin.@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Italian Renaissance art and architecture. Category: arts,the, architecture and building Dr Deborah Walker Position: Lecturer School: School of Communication and Creative Arts Faculty: Faculty of Arts Campus: Melbourne campus at Burwood Business Phone: (03) 9251 7664 Home Phone: Mobile: 0416 270 786 Email: lally@deakin.edu.au Areas of Expertise: Contemporary art. Art galleries. Tertiary art schools. Category: arts,the