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anthropology, identity, death, body, senses, ethics, prison, ethnography
Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, Nepal, United States

Biography

I am a socio-cultural anthropologist with extensive fieldwork experience in the UK, Nepal, Japan, and Australia. I've held research and teaching positions in England (Oxford and Durham) and, since 2006, at the University of Melbourne. My research expertise is in death studies, the anthropology of the body and senses, trans-cultural communities of practice, and methods and ethics in anthropology. I am Professor of Anthropology in the School of Social and Political Sciences and a founding member of the DeathTech Research Team.

I coordinate and teach subjects at all levels, including: Anthropology and Food in Everyday Life (Year 1) Keeping the Body in Mind (Year 2) Theory and the Anthropological Imagination (Year 3 Capstone) Philosophy and Scope of Anthropology (Year 4 Honours compulsory). I supervise a range of RHD students in my areas of interest.

Activities

Employment (5)

The University of Melbourne: Melbourne, AU

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University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2019 to present | Professor (Anthropology)
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University of Melbourne: VIC, VIC, AU

2006 to 2019 | Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Assoc. Prof. (Anthropology)
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University of Durham: Durham, GB

1992 to 2006 | Lecturer (Anthropology)
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University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

1991 to 1992 | Junior Research Fellow (Linacre College)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

1988 | D.Phil in Social Anthropology (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology)
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University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA, US

1984 | Master of Anthropology
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University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

1982 | Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (Anthropology)
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Professional activities (6)

University of Melbourne: VIC, VIC, AU

2022 to present | Research Ethics Committee (Faculty of Arts)
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European Research Council: Brussels, BE

2020 to present | Panel member and grant assessor
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Society for Humanistic Anthropology : Virginia, US

2019 to present | Elected Secretary and Executive Board Member
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University of Melbourne: Melbourne, AU

2020 to 2021 | Research Ethics Advisor (Faculty of Arts)
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University of Durham: Durham , GB

2018 to 2018 | Institute for Advanced Study Fellow
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University of Melbourne: Melbourne, AU

2010 | G.E.M Scott Award for Excellence in Teaching
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Funding (13)

Sorting out Japan: a study of practises of waste disposal and wellbeing

2020 to 2021 | Grant
Arts/MDHS (Melbourne, Australia, AU)
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Learning and Teaching Initiatives Grant

2020 to 2020 | Grant
University of Melbourne (Melbourne, AU)
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The Future Cemetery

2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
GRANT_NUMBER: LP180100757
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Disposal of the Dead: beyond burial and cremation

2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
GRANT_NUMBER: DP180103148
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The Transdisciplinary Design Studio

2017 to 2018 | Grant
University of Melbourne (Melbourne, AU)
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Mapping the Melbourne Sharing Economy

2015 to 2016 | Grant
Melbourne Networked Society Institute (Melbourne, AU)
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Digital Commemoration

2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
GRANT_NUMBER: DP140101871
GRANT_NUMBER: DP140101871
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Sonic Practice in Japan: sound in everyday life

2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31 | Grant
Australian Research Council (Canberra, AU)
GRANT_NUMBER: DP130102035
GRANT_NUMBER: DP130102035
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Death and the Internet: Consumer issues for planning and managing death

2012 to 2013 | Grant
AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK LTD (Canberra, AU)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER: 2012-091
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Teaching and Learning Initiatives Grant

2012 to 2013 | Grant
University of Melbourne (Melbourne, AU)
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Death, Grieving and Memorialisation in a Broadband-Enabled Society

2010 to 2011 | Grant
Institute for Broadband-Enabled Society (Melbourne, AU)
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Interdisciplinary Learning in New Generation Degrees: student experiences of the IDF

2010 to 2011 | Grant
University of Melbourne (Melbourne, AU)
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Foreigners Studying Aikido in Japan: practice, narrative and cultural understanding

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University of Melbourne (VIC, VIC, AU)
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