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Rachael Diprose
Associate Professor and the Director - International in the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) in the Faculty of Art - University of Melbourne
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Rachael is an Associate Professor and the Director - International in the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. She is also the Deputy Associate Dean, Partnerships for the Faculty.
She teaches in the Master of Development Studies program, supports collaborations and partnerships with Indonesian universities, government and civil society organisations for SSPS and has convened the University's Indonesia Forum over multiple years. Formerly of the University of Oxford, Department of International Development, Rachael continues to collaborate in research, teaching, publications, public engagement and other initiatives with colleagues at Melbourne, SOAS, the London School of Economics, Oxford, Leiden, York, ANU, Gothenburg, the University of Gadjah Mada, the University of Indonesia, and elsewhere.
Rachael has also taught executive education programs for government and civil society organisations in public policy and research in a number of countries. She has led research programs and held roles as an international advisor for governments, aid programs and international organisations in research, policy and practice globally and in a number of countries in Asia, West Africa, and especially in Indonesia. In these different roles has long worked together with academics, senior policy makers, development practitioners, and civil society organisations in both research and development, and remains an advisor on several development programs in Indonesia. Such important collaborations are instrumental to her teaching and research.
Rachael's research interests traverse two inter-related streams of research, often using comparative analysis and mixed-methods approaches to understand variation within and between countries.
- First, her research focuses on international development, especially understanding poverty and inequalities so as to contribute to improvements in the wellbeing of disadvantaged groups, and with a particular focus on inclusion, gender and empowerment. Her work in this field also encompasses understanding institutional reform processes, resource governance and environmental sustainability, and the pathways and implications of how policy change, new programs and large-scale development interventions intersect with rapidly changing political and socio-economic contexts.
- Second, Rachael's research is concerned with the dynamics of rapidly changing political and social contexts and the implications of such change for populations, governance, policy and political order. In this stream, Rachael focuses on understanding structures of power and decision making in multi-level and decentralised governance contexts, pathways of influence by different actors in these settings, as well as how conflict or contestation of different forms emerge (sometimes but not always resulting in violent contestation), are managed and transformed in such contexts, including through processes of peacebuilding.
Rachael's website, Demi Setara (or 'For Equality') shares research findings in a variety of forms—publications, infographics, videos, audio and interactive digital media—from the most recent large-scale research project that she leads on Gender, Collective Action and Governance in Rural Indonesia, which also involves colleagues from Melbourne and Gadjah Mada in Indonesia. See demisetara.org/womensaction
Rachael Diprose's research groups
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The Initiative for Peacebuilding
The Initiative for Peacebuilding brings together multidisciplinary research, engagement, and education to advance peacebuilding and conflict prevention in the Indo-Pacific region.