Research projects
Current
The domestic moral economy in the Asia and Pacific region
This project involved international comparative work with the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester under a project ‘The domestic moral economy: an ethnographic study of values i
The peacebuilding compared project
What are the kinds of interventions that create wars and make things worse for people? How can peacebuilding contribute to justice and development?
The politics of international criminal justice after the Arab uprisings
This project interrogates how international criminal law can reshape state-society relations in periods of transition after conflict or repressive rule.
The voluntary environmental governance project
The voluntary environmental governance project investigates an emerging trend of governance arrangements that aim to improve their participants’ environmental performance without the traditional force
Welfare to work or work to welfare? Will reform of the Community Development Employment Program help close the employment gap?
This ARC Discovery project was a collaboration between chief investigators Jon Altman, Will Sanders, Boyd Hunter and research fellow Kirrily Jordan all from CAEPR at the ANU.
What do cities have to learn from each other about the best tools to get to 100% renewable city-wide electricity?
Globally, many national governments such as those in Australia and the USA are reluctant to take meaningful action on climate change.
Completed
A Ponzi scheme on the environment? Failures of fiduciary duty and the challenges of climate governance
The business practices of our current generation have been likened to a giant ‘Ponzi scheme’ on the environment.
ACT economic, social and cultural rights project
The ACT Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ACT ESCR) research project assessed whether the ACT Human Rights Act 2004 should be amended to include economic, social and cultural rights.
ARC Discover Project, Trade policy: maximising benefits for nutrition, food security, human health, and the economy
This ARC Discovery Project (2013-2015) will develop a systems-based conceptual framework for assessing the wider societal impacts of free trade agreements.
ARC Discovery Project, Shrinking the food-print by creating consumer demand for sustainable and healthy eating
Whilst the environmental footprint from food continues to rise, governments, industry and civil society groups throughout the world are frustrated by the lack of evidence for specifying an environment
