Associate Editors

Sara N. Amin, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Gender and sexuality
  • Migration and politics of identity
  • Religion, culture and policing
  • Decolonization in education

Discipline of Sociology, School of Law and Social Sciences,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Kerryn Baker, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Gender and politics
  • Elections and electoral reform
  • Political participation

Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific,
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Sara Beavis, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Water resources management and sustainability
  • Development minerals and the impacts of extraction on river systems and livelihoods
  • Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on water quality and streamflows
  • Artisanal mining and implications for environmental condition and livelihoods

Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU College of Science,
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Tess Newton Cain, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Pacific politics and geopolitics
  • Pacific regionalism and sub-regionalism
  • Democracy in the Pacific islands region
  • Australia and the Pacific

Griffith Pacific Hub, Griffith Asia Institute,
Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

Anand Chand, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Human Resource Management
  • Employment Relations
  • Supply chain management
  • Policing in Pacific
  • Labour Legislation

Discipline of Management and Public Administration, School of Business and Management,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Sinclair Dinnen, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Conflict and peace building
  • Crime, policing and private security
  • Law and development
  • Legal & regulatory pluralism
  • State fragility

Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific,
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Timothy Fadgen, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Public policy
  • Immigration policy and law
  • Citizenship
  • Policy transfer

Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Arts,
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

Dalila Gharbaoui, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Climate Adaptation in the Pacific
  • Resilience and Indigenous knowledge
  • Planned relocation and land governance
  • Pasifika methodologies

Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Dawn Gibson, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Climate change and tourism in the Pacific,
  • Indigenous and community-based tourism, entrepreneurship and innovation,
  • Links between agriculture to tourism (agritourism),
  • Online and flexible education in the Pacific.

Discipline of Tourism & Hospitality Management, School of Business and Management,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Christian Girard, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Development, poverty, livelihoods, vulnerability and resilience;
  • Governance, public policy, urban planning, housing and informal settlements;
  • Social innovation and social entrepreneurship in the Global South;
  • Change management and organizational development.

Discipline of Management and Public Administration, School of Business and Management,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Daud Hassan, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Ocean Governance
  • Blue Economy
  • International Law and the Environment
  • Climate Change and Human Rights
  • Marine Pollution
  • Maritime Security

Discipline of Law, School of Law and Social Sciences,
The University of the South Pacific, Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

Yoko Kanemasu, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Gender and sexuality
  • Sociology of Sport
  • Pacific Island women and sport, including Disability sport
  • Non-heteronormativity and SOGIESC (sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics) advocacy
  • Identity, Migration and Tourism

Discipline of Social Sciences, School of Law and Social Sciences,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Mele Katea Paea, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Leadership and culture in the organisational context (Pacific leadership, women and leadership)
  • Indigenous approaches to organisational leadership
  • Pacific innovation

The Research and Innovation Office,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Stephen Pratt, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Tourism
  • Economic impacts
  • Consumer behaviour

Rosen College of Hospitality Management,
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States.

Nacanieli Rika, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Accounting and Finance
  • Accounting Theory
  • Governance

School of Accounting, Finance and Economics,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Awnesh Singh, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) dynamics
  • tropical cyclones
  • coastal hydrodynamics
  • climate dynamics
  • ocean colour remote sensing, and modelling

Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Sandra Tarte, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • Pacific island regionalism
  • Security and Geopolitics of the Pacific
  • Fijian Politics and foreign policy

Discipline of Government, Development and International Affairs, School of Law and Social Sciences,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Sarina Theys, PhD
Areas of Expertise:

  • International Relations of Pacific Island Countries
  • Traditional and non-traditional security of Pacific Island Countries
  • Political Power of Pacific Island Countries
  • Environment and Climate Change in the Pacific

Discipline of Government, Development and International Affairs, School of Law and Social Sciences,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Editorial Assistants

Akshay Ram

Publication and Website

Centre for Flexible Learning,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Email: jpacs@usp.ac.fj 

 

 

Sonal Sharma

Correspondence with authors and editors

School of Business and Management,
The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Email: jpacs@usp.ac.fj 

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