• Researchers in the Globalism Institute
• Collaborating Researchers, Locally and Globally

The research of these site-based projects is conducted by academic researchers and community-based researchers, in collaboration with government and non-government agencies.

This network of collaborating research and researchers is coordinated through the Globalism Institute, with different Project Managers responsible for overseeing the administrative aspects of all projects on three levels: global, national and local. The Global Project Manager has responsibility for overseeing the administration of all national initiatives. National Project Managers are responsible for coordinating all activities of sites within a country. Research Site Managers are responsible for coordinating all activities at a given location within a country. Many researchers work across both the national and the local.

All this involves working collaboratively with researchers within and allied with the Globalism Institute (Core Researchers), academics from universities at the international sites, government representatives, non-government agencies, community researchers and community members (Collaborating Researchers). For information on any given site, please contact the Research Site Manager, or if one is not named, the National Project Manager for that country. Queries about all other sites should be directed to the Global Project Manager.



Researchers in the Global Cities Institute

Overall Project Managers

Prof. Paul James (Chief Investigator)
Mr Peter Phipps (Research Project Manager, International)
Dr Martin Mulligan (Research Project Manager, National)


Overall Partner Investigators

Ms Elizabeth Kath
Dr Yaso Nadarajah


National Project Managers

Australia: Martin Mulligan
China: TBC
Cuba: Paul James
East Timor: Damian Grenfell
India: Yaso Nadarajah
Israel-Palestine: Paul James
Malaysia: Yaso Nadarajah
Papua New Guinea: Paul james
Sri Lanka: Martin Mulligan
United States: Peter Phipps

Research Site Managers

	Research Site	National Project
Paul James	Port Moresby and other PNG Locations	Papua New Guinea
Damian Grenfell	Dili	East Timor
Paul James	Be'er Sheva	Israel-Palestine
Elizabeth Kath	Havana	Cuba
Martin Mulligan	Braidwood Broadmeadows Daylesford Galle	Australia Australia Australia Sri Lanka
Yaso Nadarajah	Hamilton Petaling Jaya Chennai	Australia Malaysia India
Peter Phipps	Honolulu Rebkhong	United States China

Collaborating Researchers, Locally and Globally

Australia

New South Wales
Braidwood

Northern Territory

Victoria
Broadmeadows
Daylesford
Hamilton

Heather Builth (Melbourne, Lake Condah)
John Callinan (Hamilton, Melbourne)
Susan (Suzy) Clarke (Dunkeld)
Cicely Fenton (Hamilton)
John Fenton (Hamilton)
Ross Greenwood (Dunkeld)
Paul James (RMIT)
Ted Leahy (Heywood, Lake Condah)
Tony MacGillivray (Hamilton)
Olive McVicker (Hamilton)
Martin Mulligan (RMIT)
Yaso Nadarajah (RMIT, Dunkeld)
Terrie Nicholson (Dunkeld)
Sue Pizzey (Dunkeld)
Ken Saunders (Lake Condah, Heywood)
Stella Vella (RMIT)
Judy Warne (Dunkeld)
Keith Warne (Dunkeld)

St Kilda

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sarajevo

Canada
Vancouver Island

China
Rebkhong

Cuba
Havana

Dr. María del Carmen Zabala Argüelles.
mzabala@flacso.uh.cu, mdelczabala@yahoo.com
María del Carmen lectures at the University of Havana and in the Cuban Program of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). She currently teaches Methodology of Social Research and coordinates the Academic Committee for the Masters in Social Development program. Her research mainly focuses on Cuban social development from an interdisciplinary perspective, with emphasis on the topics of family, poverty, social prevention and community work. She has presented papers in numerous international scientific events in Cuba, Canada, United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Colombia and has given courses and conferences in universities of Canada, United States, Mexico and Costa Rica.

Reynaldo Jiménez Guethón (MSc) (Teacher and Researcher - FLACSO)
rejigue@flacso.uh.cu, rejiminez3000@yahoo.com

Reynaldo Jiménez Guethón teaches and researches at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) from the University of Havana. He has a Masters in Social Development with FLACSO, Cuba and a Masters in 'Management and Development of Cooperatives' from the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He teaches a Masters course in Management and Development of Cooperatives as well as other classes to foreign students studying at FLACSO. He is currently writing a PhD in the field of education. His areas of academic interest and research include rural development, the cooperative movement and participation in decision-making. He has spent time at a range of academic institutions around the world and presented work in Canada, Guatemala, France and Costa Rica.

Susan Hurlich
delfines@enet.cu
Susan is a Canadian-American anthropologist who, since 1992, has been living and working in Cuba. For over twenty years, she has worked as an international development facilitator, researcher and community-based educator in Canada and Southern Africa, including living for seven years in Angola and Namibia and working on staff with Oxfam-Canada and as a consultant to the Canadian International Development Agency. In Cuba, she also works as a journalist, writing for mainly Canadian and American publications and specialized websites.

Elizabeth Kath
elizabeth.kath@rmit.edu.au
Elizabeth Kath is a Research Fellow with the Global Cities Institute (RMIT). Her work over the past five years has focused on Cuba. This includes her recent PhD: a study of the social and political dimensions of Cuba’s public health system, specifically its Maternal-Infant Health Program, for which she spent nine months conducting field research in Havana. Elizabeth ’s research on Cuba will be published in early 2010 as a book: Power, Social Relations and the Cuban Health Miracle. Her work has also been published in a number of academic journals and presented at international conferences. Aside from her ongoing work on health in Cuba, Elizabeth also contributed to writing the health components of the Institute’s recent ‘Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Livelihoods’ project, which identifies alternative, community-engaged pathways to development in Papua New Guinea. Elizabeth is currently on the organizing committee for a major reconciliation summit to be held in Amman, Jordan in December 2009. The 'Pathways to Reconciliation Summit' focuses on promoting human security through community engagement and local-global collaboration. The summit will launch a longer term institution—Global Reconciliation—which will continue to promote these goals.

Dr. Marta Rosa Muños (Teacher and Researcher - FLACSO)
martuly@flacso.uh.cu, martuli_10400@yahoo.com

Great Britain

East Timor
Dili

Greece
Rhodes

India
Chennai

Indonesia
Kuta

Israel-Palestine
Be'er Sheva

Kosovo
Pristina

Malaysia
Petaling Jaya


University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Faculty of Economics & Administration