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Formal Name: Melanie Beresford Personal Title: Associate Professor Position: Associate Dean of Research; Associate Professor of Economics Organisational Unit: Faculty of Business and Economics; Department of Economics Qualification: BA Adel., MA Adel., MA Camb., PhD Camb. Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-8491 Fax: (+61-2) 9850-8586 Email: melanieb@efs.mq.edu.au Location: E4A 444 Websites: |
Profile
A/Prof Beresford studied Politics and History at Adelaide University before switching to Economics at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD entitled Unification and Economic Development in Vietnam was published by Macmillan and, together with Vietnam: Politics, Economics and Society (Pinter, 1988), established her as one of the leading scholars in the world on the political economy of Vietnam.
Since joining Macquarie she has been a co-recipient of Australian Research Council grants to conduct research on the transition to a market economy in Vietnam and on the clothing industry in the Asia-Pacific region. Her research on gender equity in the Vietnamese state budget was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency.
A/Prof Beresford has conducted consultancies in Vietnam for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and Oxfam Quebec, working with the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, National Assembly Committee on Economic and Budgetary Affairs, National Committee for the Advancement of Women and the Vietnam Women’s Union.
In 2002-2003 she was team leader of a major study for UNDP's Asian Regional Office and Bureau of Policy Development (New York) on Macroeconomics of Poverty Reduction in Cambodia. She has also carried out the evaluation of UNDP's gender equity program in Cambodia.
A/Prof Beresford has held visiting fellowships at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen; Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University; Institute of World Economy, Hanoi; and the Swedish Centre for Working Life, Stockholm.
Committee/Board Membership
Macquarie University Research Management Committee
Macquarie University Research Projects Panel
Innovative Universities European Union Centre, Macquarie Hub Advisory Board
Business and Economics Faculty Research Committee (chair)
Department of Economics Research Committee
Editorial Board, Journal of Contemporary Asia
Editorial Board, Macquarie Economics Research Papers
Business Academic Research Directors’ Network (BARDsNET), a sub-committee of the Australian Business Deans’ Council
BARDsNET Working Party on journal ranking (2007)
Vietnam Studies Association of Australia (founding Executive member, current member)
Student Supervision
Bhanu Bhatia (PhD candidate) “The effect of social capital on women”
Andrea Chareunsy (PhD candidate), "Redefining human capacity building in underdeveloped societies: the case of knowledge diffusion dynamics in Laos"
Zhiming Cheng (PhD candidate), “Workers under market transition: the new urban poverty in China’s northwestern cities”
Tony Ghazi (PhD candidate), “Institutional framework for doing business in Lebanon”
Laura Prota (PhD candidate), "Land markets in Vietnam"
Ivan Trofimov (PhD candidate), "National innovation systems and systems of innovation for development: the experience of late industrializers "
