A5030287908- Military History and Strategy
- Australian History and Society
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Asian Studies and History
- Global Education and Multiculturalism
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
- World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
- African studies and sociopolitical issues
- Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies
- African history and culture studies
- Education Systems and Policy
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Ethics in medical practice
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Leadership, Human Resources, Global Affairs
- Canadian Identity and History
University of Southern Queensland
2012-2024
University of Newcastle Australia
2021
Elektrometall (Czechia)
2020
University of Aveiro
2014
The University of Queensland
2002-2013
Griffith University
2013
Ethics review processes are frequently perceived as extending from codes and protocols rooted in biomedical disciplines. As a result, many researchers the humanities social sciences (HASS) find these to be misaligned, if not outrightly obstructive their research. This leads some scholars advocate against HASS participation institutional they currently stand, or entirety. While ethics can present challenge researchers, insurmountable and, fact, opportunities for boards (ERBs) mediate...
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Additional informationNotes on contributorsRichard GehrmannRichard Gehrmann is Senior Lecturer in International Studies at the University of Southern Queensland and as an Australian Army Reservist was deployed reconstruction operations Middle East. He has published war popular culture, representations experience wars Iraq Afghanistan. E-mail: richard.gehrmann@usq.edu.auMatt GrantMatt Grant lectures Public Relations Queensland, contributes UN...
Abstract Several scholars have described our current political milieu as a time of crisis, disruption, and rapid change that presents various practical theoretical challenges to the discipline international relations (IR) its pedagogical practice. The concept signature pedagogies is one response has emerged respond changing needs increasingly vocational approach tertiary education. Many approaches identified in IR require preparation lead-up make them difficult apply rapidly events world...
Sweden has consistently performed positively in global assessments of its nation brand and contributions to order. A testament a century agile image construction, Sweden's 'moral superpower' branding evolved recent decades encompass ideals the 'good international citizen' that continue elevate status amongst middle powers. Despite moral record being imperfect, this article examines reasons methods behind overwhelming successes political branding, asking whether these strategies are still...
During the catastrophic 2019 and 2020 bushfire season Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, Queensland’s Courier Mail regularly celebrated firefighters health workers as national archetypes. By positioning them ‘new Anzacs’, was able to communicate an understanding of crises using a rhetoric that familiar, unthreatening reassuring. The firefighters, both professional volunteer, were easily subsumed into mythology’s celebration identity. As predominantly female, urban-based educated,...
Australian war memorials have changed over time to reflect community sentiments and altered expectations for how a memorial should look what it commemorate. The monolith or cenotaph popular after the Great War has given way other forms of contemporary memorialisation including civic, counter anti-memorials monuments. Contemporary monuments now also attempt capture voices marginalised groups affected by trauma conflict. In contrast, were often exclusionary, sexist driven nation building...
This article explores how war memorials engage with the contested nature of public sculpture and commemoration across historical, political, aesthetic social contexts. It opens an analysis Australian commemorative landscape proliferation Great War Memorials constructed after 1918 their ‘war imagining’ that positioned it as a national coming age. The impact foundational memorial design is explored through number monuments which have used traditional symbolism synonymous conservative...
During the political tension that accompanied Movement for Democratic Change campaigns and related farm invasions in year 2000, international journalists converged on Zimbabwe. In one of reports this complex human tragedy, Times journalist Daniel McGrory noted Australian High Commission was receiving 400 visa inquiries a day, ‘brochures Kangaroo Island [the] Darling Downs are many farmhouse’. It seems surprising particular area regional Queensland would appear significant enough to be...