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Dr

Vicki Ware

Senior Lecturer, International and Community Development

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences

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  • Senior Lecturer, International and Community Development
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • +61 3 924 46964 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Senior Lecturer in International and Community Development

Dr Vicki-Ann Ware is one of the world's leading scholars on arts as global
development and/or peacebuilding. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Master of
International and Community Development and Master of Humanitarianism and
Development courses at Deakin University. Vicki is also a Visiting Senior
Research Fellow at Universitas Indonesia, where she is collaborating on
research into the protective role of traditional arts in countering and
preventing hateful & violent extremism.

Multiple current research projects explore arts as a space for CD and
peacebuilding, primarily in Myanmar, Bangladesh and Indonesia, along with the
mechanisms by which arts can contribute to significant social change at the
grassroots level. She is also colalborating with colleagues in the US and
Chile on exploring the efficacy of poetry as self-therapy in conflict-affected
spaces, and bringing together English- and Spanish-languate literatures to
better understand the impacts of arts and cultural participation on
marginalised communities globally.

She is currently lead editor on two forthcoming Routledge volumes (due out
late-2024):
1. The Routledge Handbook of Arts and Global Development.
2. Performing Knowledge: utilising arts-based research in development.

Vicki has a wealth of practical experience in the field of arts-based CD,
having worked across multiple sites in SE Asia since the mid-1990s. She has
also worked in policy and research across all three levels of government in
Australia, as well as in private policy consultancy.

Work experience:
* Community development in Australia - settlement of newly-arrived refugees
* Community development in Southeast Asia:
8.5 years living/working in Thailand;
over 20 years contact and work in Myanmar;
speaks Thai fluently, and some Burmese
* Social planning, policy and policy research: almost a decade working at all levels of government in Australia, as well as in policy research consultancy. Areas of specialist knowledge:
Linkages between urban planning and community development
Housing and homelessness policy
Indigenous policy

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Senior Lecturer, International and Community Development
    Deakin University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Monash University
  • Graduate Certificate of Higher Ed. Learning & Teaching
    Deakin University
  • Bachelor of Arts
    University of Melbourne
  • Bachelor of Music
    University of Melbourne

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Development studies
  • Political science
  • Policy and administration
  • Anthropology

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences