Dr. Asenati Liki Chan Tung

Lecturer

Development Studies Program

School of Government, Development and International Affairs

University of the South Pacific at Suva (Laucala Campus)

Fiji Islands

Tel: (+679) 323-2646

Email: chantung_a(at)usp.ac.fj

Qualifications:

• BA, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• BSocSci (Hons), University of Waikato, New Zealand
• MA, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
• PhD, University of Hawai’i, USA

Teaching Responsibilities:

• Lectures in UU200 (Ethics and Governance)
• Coordinates DG414 (Indigenous Peoples and Development)

Research interests

• Gender and development
• Women and leadership in Pacific islands public sectors
• Work and movement of Melanesian-Samoan women
• Pacific population mobilities

Recent publications

• 2010. ‘Women Leaders in Solomon Islands Public Service: A Personal and Scholarly Reflection’, Discussion Paper for State, Society and Governance in Melanesia, Australian National University
• 2009. 'Travelling Daughters: Experiences of Melanesian-Samoan Women,' Development Vol. 52, No. 4