DrVicki Ware

Senior Lecturer, International and Community Development

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

  • 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

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I welcome inquiries regarding collaboration and research supervision in these
areas:
* Arts-based community development and peacebuilding
* Development and arts policy

Current projects:
* Arts-based peacebuilding and conflict transformation, as part of CD programming
* Poetry as self-therapy in conflict-affected communities
* Dialogue between English- and Spanish-language scholars and literature around the impact of arts particiaption in marginalised communities
* Arts-based peacebuilding pedagogy in early childhood and parenting programmes (in conflic-affected regions)
* Surprising stories of grassroots peacebuilding - building healthy counternarratives to dominant stories of intractable conflict.

Other research interests:
* The importance of music-cultural identity in contexts of rapid culture change
* Sports-based community development and peacebuilding

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Everyday Peace Rohingya Refugee - Plan International AHP Phase IV
    29 Feb 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    Alinea International P/L - $70,000.00
  • GRANT
    Enhancing community safety in Heming St Dandenong through Asset-Based Community Development
    11 Mar 2022 - 31 Oct 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Vicki Ware
    VicGov Community Crime Prevention - Building Safer Communities Program - $50,000.00
  • GRANT
    Everyday Peace Rohingya Refugee - Plan International AHP
    1 Jul 2021 - 30 Jun 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    DFAT Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) programme - $75,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Analysing GraceWorks Myanmar's CDE 'Everyday Peace' Strengthening Program in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
    20 Dec 2018 - 31 Mar 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    GraceWorks Myanmar - $193,576.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Building futures for newly-arrived migrants through schools - community development in school communities to improve whole family outcomes
    14 May 2016 - 30 Apr 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    St Gerards Primary School - $15,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding in Rakhine State, Myanmar
    1 Apr 2016 - 31 Mar 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    GraceWorks Myanmar - $64,682.50