DrVicki Ware
Senior Lecturer, International and Community Development
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Orcid identifier0000-0002-5192-3097 (opens in a new tab)
- Senior Lecturer, International and Community DevelopmentFaculty 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
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 RESEARCHEveryday Peace Rohingya Refugee - Plan International AHP Phase IV29 Feb 2024 - 31 Dec 2025People funded by this grant:
- Ware A,
- Ware V
- GRANTEnhancing community safety in Heming St Dandenong through Asset-Based Community Development11 Mar 2022 - 31 Oct 2024People funded by this grant:
- Vicki Ware
- GRANTEveryday Peace Rohingya Refugee - Plan International AHP1 Jul 2021 - 30 Jun 2023People funded by this grant:
- Ware A,
- Ware V
- CONTRACT RESEARCHAnalysing GraceWorks Myanmar's CDE 'Everyday Peace' Strengthening Program in Rakhine State, Myanmar.20 Dec 2018 - 31 Mar 2022People funded by this grant:
- Ware A,
- Ware V
- CONTRACT RESEARCHBuilding futures for newly-arrived migrants through schools - community development in school communities to improve whole family outcomes14 May 2016 - 30 Apr 2017People funded by this grant:
- Ware V,
- Rouse L
- CONTRACT RESEARCHConflict Analysis and Peacebuilding in Rakhine State, Myanmar1 Apr 2016 - 31 Mar 2019People funded by this grant:
- Ware A,
- Ware V