Professor Philip Hayward (director)
phayward@humanities.mq.edu.au

Research interests - cultural heritage in island societies; histories of cultural diffusion and adaptation through maritime trade and contact; music, song and dance; tourism and modernisation in island societies

Fieldwork experience - the south-western Pacific (Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, the Whitsunday Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Fiji) and Japan (Wakayama, Amami and Ogasawara)

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Dr Denis Crowdy
Denis.Crowdy@mq.edu.au

Research interests - Melanesian Music (styles, creativity, technologies and industrial contexts), world music, collaborative recording projects.

Fieldwork experience - Papua New Guinea, The Solomon Islands, Norfolk Island

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Dr Susie Khamis
susie.khamis@mq.edu.au

Research interests: culture and cuisine; marketing regional identities – especially King Island and Tasmania

Fieldwork experience: diasporic island communities in Sydney

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Professor Stephanie Lawson
Stephanie.Lawson@humn.mq.edu.au

Research interests: Southwest Pacific islands, Singapore, politics and culture, nationalism and ethnicity, democracy, regionalism, international relations and security issues.

Fieldwork experience: Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Singapore.

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Associate Professor Danny Long
dlong@bcomp.metro-u.ac.jp

Research interests: language contact and natural language acquisition, particularly in isolated island communities - recently seeking ways to incorporate linguistic research results into local junior high school curriculum, as well as ways to develop local language varieties into "cultural eco-tourism" resources

Fieldwork experience: (the following island communities in Japan) the "Westerners" of the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Standard Japanese and traditional dialect contact on Amami-Oshima, Hachijo and Okinawan dialects in contact on Minami Daito-jima, the Taiwanese community on Ishigaki; Saipan, Tinian (researching the Japanese spoken by elderly islanders).

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Also see http://nihongo.human.metro-u.ac.jp/~long/

Associate Professor Marea Mitchell
marea.mitchell@humn.mq.edu.au

Research interests: Cornish Studies; English Literature; medieval and Renaissance English studies

Fieldwork: Cornwall, The Scilly Islands

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