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Arts and Sciences
	Doctor Jeffrey Bloechl is Edward Bennett Williams Fellow of Religion, Ethics and Culture in the department of philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts, USA). He has previously conducted post-doctoral research for the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, at the KU Leuven. His work is concentrated in the area of philosophical anthropology, explored in the context of modern culture and along the encounter between phenomenology, psychoanalysis and theology. Dr. Bloechl has written "Liturgy of the Neighbor. Emmanuel Levinas and the Religion of Responsibility" (2000), edited "The Face of the Other and the Trace of God. Essays on Emmanuel Levinas" (2000) and "Religious Experience and the Closure of Metaphysics" (forthcoming), and translated "The Unforgettable and the Unhoped-for" (2002) and "The Wisdom of Love in the Service of Love" (2002). While in Australia during July and August, he will be delivering several lectures taken from drafts of a book studying the thesis of a religious dimension in human nature.  Dr Bloechl can be contacted by email at: jbloechl@holycross.edu
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	Doctor Kathryn Crawford currently heads the Novae Research Group at the Australian Technology Park and works as a consultant with leading innovators to facilitate the entrepreneurial learning, knowledge making and development processes that are an essential element of technical and scientific innovation. She is the director of Creative Interactive Systems Pty Ltd.  For the duration of her appointment at the IAR, Dr Crawford will be engaged in the supervision of research students in the Sub-Faculty of Business and Informatics and will work with the Sub-Faculty in the development of research projects, grant applications and publications.  Dr Crawford can be contacted by email at katecis@ozemail.com.au
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	Associate Professor Michael Griffith is located within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and teaches Australian, English and American Literature at Mt St Mary Campus. He has been with the University and its predecessor colleges since 1977. In his time here he has published widely in the field of Australian Literature, and Literature and Spirituality. He is the author with Harper Collins of 'God's Fool: the Life and Poetry of Francis Webb' and also the editor of 'Cap and Bells: the Poetry of Francis Webb'. With Oxford University Press he has published an Australian Issue of Literature and Theology (Vol 10, No 3, 1996). He is also co-editor of the five volumes of the Religion, Literature and the Arts, International Conference Proceedings. For several years he has been the Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion, Literature and the Arts at ACU. He is now completing research on his study of William Blake (poet and painter) and his impact on the Australian spiritual imagination. He has been seconded to the Institute for Advanced Research for this purpose during the first half of 2002.  Assoc. Prof. Griffith can be contacted by email at m.griffith@mary.acu.edu.au
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	Reverend Doctor Michael Mason is Director of the ACBC-ACU Office for Pastoral Research, a joint initiative of ACU and the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference. He is a Research Fellow in the Institute for the Advancement of Research at ACU’s Melbourne campus. His specialty is sociology and phenomenology of religion. His PhD dissertation (Columbia University, New York) examined Thomas Luckmann’s phenomenologically-based sociology of modern religion. His current research interests are primordial spirituality and religious experience, the problem of secularisation, and the determinants of the vitality of local churches. The work of the Office is to assist the Catholic Church in Australia at all levels to understand the cultural, social and personal dimensions of religion in the changing contemporary context by making available the resources of the human sciences.  Rev Dr Mason can be contacted by email at m.mason@patrick.acu.edu.au
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	Doctor Sophie McGrath rsm B.A. (Syd.), Dip.Ed.(U.N.E), M.Ed. (Syd), Ph.D.(Mac.).  Sophie is a Research Fellow within the Institute for the Advancement of Research and the Coordinator of the ACU Project for Research in Women's History, Theology and Spirituality (WHTS) as the first step towards the establishment of a Centre. She has researched and published in the areas of the philosophy of education, the education of Catholic girls, the history of women religious in Australia , and feminism and the papacy. She is currently part of the WHTS team of five working on the major research project: The Catholic Community and Woman Suffrage in Australia.  Dr McGrath can be contacted by email at s.mcgrath@mary.acu.edu.au
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	Doctor Robert Paddle is a senior lecturer within the School of Psychology, St Patrick's Campus, where he lectures in Biological Psychology, Comparative Psychology, History and Philosophy of Psychology and the Psychology of Religion.  He has varied research interests and has published accordingly in the fields of adolescent anxiety, learning in reptiles, non-human primate monogamy and marsupi-carnivore behaviour.  He is the author of The Last Tasmanian Tiger (2000), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, and his secondment to the Institute for the Advancement of Research during the first half of 2002 is to complete another monograph on thylacines in zoological gardens throughout the world. Dr Paddle can be contacted by email at r.paddle@patrick.acu.edu.au
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	Doctor Kim Power is a Research Fellow in the Project for the Study of Women's History, Theology and Spirituality.  She graduated PhD from La Trobe University in 1998 and works in the area of early church history, Christian anthropology and feminist theology.  She has published widely on early Christian attitudes to sexuality and the body, and her book, Veiled Desire: Augustine on women was published by Continuum in 1996.  In 1997-1998 Dr. Power was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in residence at The College of Notre Dame of Maryland, in Baltimore.  Currently she is working jointly with her colleagues on Australian Catholicism and women's suffrage, 1880-1908 and recently received an ACU collaborative grant for one aspect of this project.  In addition she is collaborating with the Centre for Early Christian Studies on their international Marian Project and also working to establish an interdisciplinary Post-graduate Certificate in Religion and Science.  Dr Power can be contacted by email at k.power@patrick.acu.edu.au
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	Reverend Doctor Dennis Rochford is Head of the School of Theology (New South Wales) at Australian Catholic University and specialises in systematic theology.  He graduated PhD in the theological methodology of the Dutch scholar, Edward Schillebeeckx. His current research interests focus on the notion of religious experience in the context of post-modern culture and the implications for modern theological research.  This interest will define his research tasks within the Institute for the Advancement of Research in the later part of 2002.  Rev. Dr Rochford can be contacted by email at d.rochford@mary.acu.edu.au
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	Doctor Delyse Ryan is located within the School of Arts and Sciences, McAuley Campus.  Dr Ryan graduated PhD from the University of Queensland, in the area of 'Brisbane Theatre During World War I'.  Her current research interests lie in the history of Brisbane theatre during both World Wars with a particular focus on the rise of vaudeville at the Cremorne Theatre.  Dr Ryan has recently been awarded an ACU large grant to explore the origins of Australia’s Anzac Day performance traditions.  Dr Ryan can be contacted by email at d.ryan@mcauley.acu.edu.au
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	Doctor Louise Thornthwaite teaches in the School of Business and Informatics at the MacKillop Campus. She has published widely on a variety of employment relations issues, including: anti-discrimination law and policy; employer associations; public sector employment; and work and family.  Dr Thornthwaite co-authors the annual 'Employer Matters' analysis of employer's industrial relations strategies for the Journal of Industrial Relations and her co-edited book, Employer Associations and Industrial Relations Change: Catalysts or Captives? was published by Allen & Unwin in 1999. Recently, she has produced reports on work and family policy and parenting preferences for the Chifley Centre, Sydney, and the International Labor Organisation, Geneva. Her current research is on work and family policy, with a particular focus on working hours arrangements as a central policy plank for improving work-family balance. This work links human resource management, industrial relations and public policy, and includes comparative analyses of European and Australian developments.  Dr Thornthwaite can be contacted by email at l.thornthwaite@mackillop.acu.edu.au
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	Doctor Scott Wilson is a lecturer in Environmental Science at the MacKillop Campus. He is an experienced ecotoxicologist specialising in the impacts of endocrine disruptors to amphibians and aquatic invertebrates. This research has provided some of the first evidence for developmental and reproductive changes from these types of contaminants both in New South Wales and in the Veneto, Italy. This research is continuing and aims to detail the sources and extent of contamination responsible for these effects. A further area of research interest involves the study of the impacts of marine debris. Scott has researched and quantified the types, sources and variability of debris on beaches around the Sydney region. He is currently developing as part of his secondment to the IAR a state- wide monitoring programme that will provide an ongoing record of potential hotspots and items of concern.  Dr Wilson can be contacted by email at s.wilson@mackillop.acu.edu.au

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Education
	Professor Judith Chapman is Dean of Education at Australian Catholic University and Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning. She was formerly Professor of Education at The University of Western Australia and Director of the School Decision Making and Management Centre at Monash University. Judith has published widely in the fields of lifelong learning; educational policy and administration, and school based decision making and management. She has undertaken policy and consultancy work for OECD, UNESCO, the World Bank and I.D.P. She is currently directing a project on 'Lifelong Learning and Teacher Education' for the Australian Commonwealth Government and is jointly directing a project on 'Lifelong Learning, Adult and Community Education in Rural Victoria: Reaching the Unreached Learner' for the Victorian Government. In 1999 Judith was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to tertiary education and as a teacher and researcher.  Prof. Chapman can be contacted by email at dean.education@acu.edu.au
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	Dr Marj Horne currently lectures in Mathematics and Mathematics Education at St Patrick’s campus in Melbourne. Her background and interests cover mathematics education at all levels from early childhood though to beginning University. She has recently been working on the Early Numeracy Research Project, a major Victorian Government initiative which handed in its report at the end of February after more than three years work. Other interests include early childhood mathematics, the development of algebraic understanding, gender issues in mathematics education, the use of technology and the effective professional development of mathematics teachers. During January to April, 2002, she is spending some time in Sweden as the consultant for a project on developing partnerships with parents in mathematics education from the Nationellt Centrum för Matematikutbildning. She also acts as the secretary for the Australian Mathematical Sciences Council.  Dr Horne can be contacted by email at m.horne@patrick.acu.edu.au
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