Dr Simon Foale

Principal Research Fellow (ARC COR:CRS)

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Senior Lecturer

Qualifications, Memberships and Consultancies

• B.Sc. (Hons) (University of Queensland);

• Ph.D. (University of Melbourne)

• Member: Australian Anthropological Society,

• Member: Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania,

• Member: Society for Applied Anthropology,

• Member: Australian Marine Sciences Association

• Consultancies:
  1) Environmental Advisor for the Community Sector Program, Solomon Islands (Ausaid), 2007 – 2009;
  2) Qualitative Survey Team Leader, RAMSI People’s Survey, Solomon Islands (2006 – present) (Ausaid);
  3) Environmental Education Plan for Lihir (2004 – 2007) (Lihir Gold Ltd and The University of Melbourne)

Currently Teaching

Currently contributing guest lectures to:

• AN2013/3013 – Culture, Knowledge and Environment (Townsville Block Mode)

• AN3019 – Asia Pacific Development: Globalisation and Culture

Research Interests

• The social context of near-shore marine resource management in the Asia-Pacific region

• Science, indigenous knowledge, and the management / mismanagement of marine resources in the Asia-Pacific region

• The science and politics of environmentally sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific

• Relationships between governments, Non-Government Organisations and communities in the context of natural resource management in the Asia-Pacific

• Environmentalism

Selected Publications

Foale, S. J. (2007). Social and economic context of marine resource depletion in Gagil and Maap, Yap State, FSM. Apia, South Pacific Regional Environment Program. http://www.sprep.org/att/publication/000549_IWP_PTR41.pdf

Foale, S. J. (2006). "The intersection of scientific and indigenous ecological knowledge in coastal Melanesia: implications for contemporary marine resource management." International Social Science Journal58(187): 129-137.

Foale, S. J. (2005). Sharks, sea slugs and skirmishes: managing marine and agricultural resources on small, overpopulated islands in Milne Bay, PNG. Canberra, Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program, The Australian National University: 58. http://rspas.anu.edu.au/papers/rmap/Wpapers/rmap_wp64.pdf

Foale, S. J. and M. A. Macintyre (2005). "Green Fantasies: Photographic representations of biodiversity and ecotourism in the Western Pacific." Journal of Political Ecology13: 1-22. http://jpe.library.arizona.edu/volume_12/FoaleMacintyre2005.pdf

Foale, S. J. and B. Manele (2004). "Social and political barriers to the use of Marine Protected Areas for conservation and fishery management in Melanesia." Asia Pacific Viewpoint45(3): 373-386.

Currently Supervising

• Mike Fabinyi, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology (RSPAS), Australian National University

• Shio Segi, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, Australian National University

• Pepito ‘Sonny’ Fernandez, Geography and Political Science (RSPAS), Australian National University