Funded Research Projects


ClimateWorks Foundation: Fellowship 2022-2024

Shipping in the Oceanic Commons: Regulation and Prefiguration

(US$240k)


Melbourne and Manchester Research Group: Lead Chief Investigator 2020-2023

Creative industry policy transfer to Asian countries: Exploring the role of UNESCO and the British Council.

With Partner Investigators Edwin Jurriëns (University of Melbourne), Abigail Gilmore (University of Manchester) and Simon Parry (University of Manchester). (AU$236k)


Australian Research Council, Discovery Project (DP180102074): Co-Chief Investigator 2018-2021

UNESCO and the Making of Global Cultural Policy: Culture, Economy, Development.

With Lead Chief Investigator Deborah Stevenson (Western Sydney University) & Co-Chief Investigator Justin O’Connor (Monash University), as well as Partner Investigators June Wang (City University of Hong Kong), Avril Joffe (University of the Witwatersrand), Constance DeVereaux (Colorado State University), and Yudhishthir Raj Isar (American University of Paris). (AU$435k)


University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts Collaboration Support Grants: Chief Investigator 2018-2020

Cosmopolitan Environmental Citizenship: Identity Formation in the Face of Climate Change.

With Partner Investigators Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Melbourne) and Miikka Pyykkönen (University of Jyväskylä). (AU$9k)


The Royal Society of New Zealand, Marsden Fund: Partner Investigator 2017-2020

Stretching the Celluloid Ceiling: Women’s Creative Agency in the Emergent Pacific Film Industry.

With Chief Investigator Polly Stupples (Victoria University, Wellington) and Co-PI Katerina Teaiwa (Australian Na- tional University, Canberra). (NZ$300k)


University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts Research Grants Scheme: Chief Investigator 2016-2017

Bandung Creative City Forum: Exploring The History and Aims of an Indonesian ’Creative City’.

With Partner Investigators Edwin Jurriëns (Asia Institute, University of Melbourne) and Justin O’Connor (Monash University). (AU$14k)

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