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Department: School of Social Sciences
Position Title: Lecturer
Phone #: 3232773
Fax #: 3231559
Email:
I have been teaching at USP in the School of Social Sciences for the past four years, and I also lived in Fiji many years ago. I come originally from the West Midlands of England, and I did my first degree in England. I was a school teacher, but returned to study at the Australian National University and wrote my PhD about missionary attitudes to work in the south-west Pacific.
Since arriving at USP I have been teaching both Pacific and World History, and looking at the links between them using both my British background and more recent Pacific study and experience. I have developed a particular emphasis on improving the learning experience of both face to face and distance students, through early adoption of the Moodle system and innovative methods of assessment.
Qualifications - PhD (Pacific History), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
- MLitt (Anthropology), Australian National University.
- Post-graduate Certificate in Education, Birmingham University, UK.
- BA (Hons) in History, Girton College, Cambridge University, UK.
Teaching Areas
Co-ordinator: - HY102 Contemporary World History;
- HY205 Pacific History: Contact and Response;
- HY305 British Empire and Commonwealth.
Assist with: - HY101 Pacific Prehistory;
- HY302 History of Fiji.
Research Interests - The History of Christianity in the Pacific, especially Fiji and Melanesia; colonial health and educational provision and theory; nineteenth and twentieth century racial theory; representation of colonialism, missions and indigenous societies; distance and online learning and teaching.
Administration Responsibilities - From July - December, 2007 and February 2011 onwards member of the School of Social Sciences Postgraduate & Research Committee
Supervision of MA and PhD Students 2008 - 2009 | Sister Alaima Talu, supervised MA thesis 'A History of Catholic Education in Kiribati: The Education of Girls in Taborio – A Quiet Revolution' - awarded April 2010. | 2011 - | Sione Veituna PhD candidate working on the schism in the Tongan Methodist church in the 1880s. | Publications 2008 | (Co-author) Celebrating 100 Years: the Anglican Diocese of Polynesia 1908-2008, Diocese of Polynesia, Suva. | 2008 | 'An accidental biographer? On encountering, yet again, the ideas and actions of J.W. Burton' in Telling Pacific Lives: prisms of process, ed Brij Lal and Vicki Luker, Canberra: ANU E Press pp. 215-226. ISBN 9781921313813. | 2008 | '"White Man's Burden, White Man's Privilege": Christian humanism and racial determinism in Oceania, 1890-1930' in Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the science of race 1750-1940, ed Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard, Canberra: ANU E Press, pp. 283-306. ISBN 9781921313998. | 2005 | 'Education for Citizenship or Tool of Evangelism?: All Saints' Anglican School, Labasa, 1952-1970'. In The Defining Years: Pacific Islands, 1945-65, 141-152, edited by Brij Lal. Canberra: RSPAS, Australian National University. | Conference Papers 2010 | 'Moodling History'. Paper presented at EDULINK/SIDECAP Final Dissemination Event, USP, 8 February 2010. | 2008 | 'Necessity or Ideology: the boarding school in colonial Fiji'. Paper presented at the Pacific History Association Biennial Conference USP, 10 December 2008. | 2006 | 'The Sunday School View of the Pacific, 1910-1930'. Paper presented at the Pacific History Association Biennial Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 9 December 2006. | 2006 | 2006 'Creating colonial subjects: education in Papua and New Guinea, 1920-1940.' Paper presented at the Inaugural Conference of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies, Queensland University of Technology, 26 January 2006. | Professional Affiliations - Member Pacific History Association
- Member Fiji History Association
Community Engagement - Involved with Leadership Fiji
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