Mubarak Ali is a Lecturer at the School of Social Administration and Social Work at Flinders University in Adelaide. His research interests include the experience of adolescents while interacting through the Internet, and the social and psychological impacts of chat-rooms on adolescents. He has completed one of the first Australian studies into the psychological impact of the Internet in teenagers aged between 15 and 17. Currently he is conducting research entitled, “A study on risk-taking behaviours of adolescents in the Internet and their implications on child safety in Australia”.
Deborah Brennan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. Her teaching and research interests are in comparative social policy, the history and politics of welfare states and the restructuring of welfare states. She has particular expertise in the areas of families and work, community service provision, taxation and social security and has published extensively on these topics. Dr Brennan's current research projects include a major study of work and family policies in Australia, the USA and Europe. Her publications include The Politics of Australian Childcare: From Philanthropy to Feminism, Caring for Australia's Children: Political and Industrial Issues in Childcare Provision and Towards a National Childcare Policy. She has written articles on gender and representation, civil society and social policy and has contributed to the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Australia and the Oxford Companion to Australian Feminism.
Gil-Soo Han is an Associate Professor and currently Head of Arts at Monash University Malaysia. He has researched and published widely in the areas of sociology of religion, health, migrants and Korean studies. His most recent work includes Healthcare Reform and Interest Groups: Catalysts and Barriers in Rural Australia (with Evans and Madison, 2006) and papers in 230Journal of Sociology, Ethnicity & Health, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church. His current research includes Bridging the Digital Divide in Rural Agricultural & Fishing Communities in Malaysia.
Eun-jeong Kang is a research fellow at the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, a government-funded research institute in Korea. Her research interest is in health promotion, measurement of health status including health-related quality of life. She has been actively engaged in national health promotion policy development and was also responsible for the Health Interview Survey of the 2005 National Health and Nutrition Survey that was the major data source of the national health promotion policy.
Her recent research papers have dealt with summary measures of population health, gender difference in the prevalence of disabilities in activities of daily living, and population segmentation by healthy lifestyle.
Hal Kendig is Research Professor of Ageing and Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney, and National Convenor of the ARC/NHMRC Research Network in Ageing Well. Professor Kendig recently served on the 'Promoting Healthy Ageing' Working Party for the Prime Minister's Science, Innovation, and Engineering Committee (PMSIEC), the Building Ageing Research Capacities (BARC) Committee of the Department of Health and Ageing, and the United Nations Expert Group for a Global Research Agenda on Ageing. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences from 1998 to 2005, and as Director of the Lincoln Gerontology Centre at La Trobe University, a Key Centre of the Australian Research Council, from 1989 to 1998. His book, “Who Should Care for the Elderly?” (2000), co-edited with William Liu, was awarded the Outstanding Book Award by the Australasian Journal on Ageing.231
Ik Ki Kim is Professor of Sociology at Dongguk University, Seoul. He participated in the ‘Expert Group Meeting on Policy Responses to Population Ageing and Population Decline’ hosted by the United Nations Secretariat in 2000 and is part of the editorial board for the Hallym International Journal of Ageing. He has written extensively on changing demographics, fertility and the ageing population in Korea, Japan and China. Professor Kim was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan and Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. In 2005, he took up a position as Visiting Scholar at Renmin University of China in Beijing, PRC.
Jeong-Hee Kim is a research Professor at the Korean Women's Institute, Ewha Women's University in Seoul. Her major publications include The Present and Prospective Influence of Bio-feminist Politics (2005), Globalisation and Women’s Civil Rights in Korea (2002, co-author) and Mother at the Same Height of Her Child's Eyes, Child Growing to Be One's Dream (2000). Professor Kim also served as vice-director for the Cooperative Childcare Research Institute from 1998–1999.
Heejin Lee is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Korea. Before joining GSIS, Yonsei, he was a faculty member at the University of Melbourne and Brunel University, UK. Dr Lee has written extensively on the impact of broadband in South Korea and time and IT. He is currently working on IT for development. His work has been published in a variety of journals including The Information Society, Time & Society, Information & Management, the Journal of Information Technology. He is an associate editor of European Journal of Information Systems.
Peter McDonald is Professor of Demography and Director of the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute at the Australian National University. He is Vice President (2006-2009) and President-elect (1010-2013) of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. Prior to his present appointment he was Head of Research at the Australian Institute 232of Family Studies for 11 years. Peter’s recent work has focused on the implications of low fertility for population futures and the related policy concerns.
Sangjo Oh is Associate Professor at the Department of Internet Business, Dongyang Technical College, Korea. He earned his master and doctoral degrees from Seoul National University. His research interests are on the role of social constructs in the implementation, diffusion, and success of information systems. He has published his research in many of journals, including the Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and INFO.
Ruth Phillips is a senior lecturer in the Social Work and Social Policy program in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. She teaches across postgraduate, research and undergraduate programs on subjects as diverse as ageing and global social policy. Her primary areas of research are social policy and third sector studies. She has published extensively in journals in these fields. She has a particular interest in the Asia pacific region and in Korea more specifically due to a lengthy involvement in conducting seminars for visiting social work and welfare professional from Korea.
Eugene Sebastian has experience in project design, management, evaluation and monitoring. He has been instrumental in implementing technical assistance projects for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), UNICEF, Asian Development Bank and AusAID. Having had a brief stint serving as program developer for a multinational training firm, he is also experienced in developing corporate training activities and cross-cultural training courses. Eugene is a doctoral candidate with the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney. He holds a BA (Hons) from Flinders University in South Australia and speaks fluent Bahasa Malaysia.
Don Stammer has been a member of the Australia-Korea Foundation since it was formed in 1992 and its chairman since 2332001. Don has a master’s degree from the University of New England and a doctorate from the Australian National University. He has had a long-term interest in Asian economies and in conservation. Don’s first career was as an academic. Over the 1970s, he held senior positions in the Reserve Bank. In 1981, Don joined the investment bank Bain & Company (subsequently Deutsche Bank Australia) where he was, for many years, director of investment strategy. Subsequently, he was a director of the ING group in Australia. He is a non-executive company director.234