Emeritus ProfessorSue Kenny

Current research interests of Emeritus Professor Sue Kenny include the role of
third sector organisations in generating and nurturing active citizenship,
post-disaster reconstruction, risk society, transnationalism and
cosmopolitanism. She is the recipient of 29 funded research projects,
including 10 projects funded by the ARC. Alongside these ARC funded projects,
Professor Kenny has led a number of research and development consultancies
that have involved explorations of specific aspects of active citizenship in
the third sector. The international projects have been focussed on regional
social development, including programs in post-communist social development in
Vladivostock, Moscow, Bishkek (Khyrgizstan) and Barati (Albania), community
development initiatives in Indonesia and post disaster reconstruction in Banda
Aceh. She has extensive experience of research design and action research,
especially working with community groups and local government. In Australia
she has led consultancies involving research into volunteering for the
Municipal Association of Victoria, a study of human rights for Victoria
Police, and a study of the needs of humanitarian entrants for the Department
of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs. Much of her current
work is in Indonesia. The output of Sues research projects has been over 60
publications, both sole and jointly authored. They include 9 books and 37
journal articles. She is the author of the best selling Australian book on
community development, Developing Communities for the Future, now in its 4th
edition; the first theoretically informed analysis of community welfare
organisations in Australia Rhetorics of Welfare, co-authored with Bryan Turner
and Kevin Brown; the first scholarly book on the post-disaster reconstruction
of Aceh after the 2004 tsunami, co-edited by Matthew Clarke and Ismet Fanany;
the first comprehensive critique of capacity building co-edited by Matthew
Clarke, as well as many articles in leading journals. Professor Kennys
expertise in her fields of research is evidenced in over 60 Australian and
international invitations to present papers as keynote, plenary or guest
speaker at conferences, seminars, symposia and annual general meetings.
Audiences have ranged from scholarly colleagues to community groups and
government officials. She is currently on the international editorial boards
of three leading international journals.