Associate ProfessorDavid Hundt

I have a strong track-record of leading and sustaining research collaborations for projects that pursue the Australian national interest and Deakin’s strategic plan. Since 2018 I have brought more than $140,000 in competitive research funding to Deakin. These projects demonstrate my research leadership and the breadth and depth of my national and international networks with scholars, civil society, government, and public officials.

Memories of the Korean War and the deepening bilateral relationship (2025–2026); funded by the Australia Korea Foundation, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, $39,000)

Witnesses to Peace: Australian service personnel’s recollections of Korea and Koreans, 1953–2023 (2023–2024; funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs; $32,000)
This oral history project provides a new understanding of the service of Australian military personnel in Korea during and since the war of the early 1950s by focusing on how that service has contributed to the development of Australia’s relationship with South Korea.

Koreans in Australia and New Zealand: The Rise of a New Generation (2016–2019; funded by Academy of Korean Studies; $500,000, including $94,000 to Deakin)
I was the key Australian partner in this three-country project which focused on the lives of South Korean migrants in Australia and New Zealand.

China and Human Rights in North Korea (2019–2020, funded by the Korea Foundation; $29,000)
I was a leader of this Deakin-based project which explored how China’s ‘opening up’ could inform North Korea’s position on human rights.

South Korean and Australian Responses to China’s New Statecraft in an Age of Great Power Rivalry (2022-2023, funded by the Korea Foundation; $35,000).
I devised a novel framework for analysing the interaction between the external and internal aspects of trade disputes, and how smaller states can mitigate the effects of coercion.

Australia in World Affairs, 2016–2020 (2018–2023; supported by the Australian Institute of International Affairs)
As a leader of this project (with Baogang He and Danielle Chubb, Deakin), I selected and built a team of contributors from among the leading International Relations scholars in Australia and overseas to produce the definitive account of Australia’s relations with the world in the five years from 2016 to 2020.