Associate Professor Melissa Curley
University of Queensland, St. Lucia campus
Brisbane, Australia
Background
Dr Melissa Curley is the Centre’s Deputy Director and has a long association with the Centre’s activities since its establishment in 2008. Her research interests include Southeast Asian politics and international relations/law, regional norms promoting human protection and migrant rights, Cambodian politics, and human and non-traditional security in East Asia (including trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling, child exploitation issues). She has published extensively on these topics across International Relations, Political Science and Law. She has worked within executive training and leadership programmes and delivered strategic and policy writing workshops with regional civil servants, officials, and civil society groups from Laos, Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, and Vietnam. She is an experienced curriculum designer and facilitator with over 20 years’ experience in and postgraduate education and adult learning environments.
She has a BA (Hons I) in Government from University of Queensland, and a PhD in International Relations from Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Research Expertise
- Southeast Asian politics and international relations
- Regional norms/international law promoting human protection and migrant rights
- Human security and Non-traditional security
- Civil society under authoritarian regimes