Anthropology

• Contemporary development practice
• Design and evaluation of development projects and programs
• Gender, resources, environment and development
• Indigenous environments, policy and development
• Migration, refugees and development
• Social impact studies
• Social analysis
• Social mapping and community politics

Environmental management

• Disaster risk reduction and management
• Ecological economics and policy
• Environmental and resource economics and management
• Environmental assessment
• Environmental conflicts: causes and solutions
• Environmental sustainability, health and development
• Environmental policy, governance and communications
• Development and environment
• Methods for environmental decision-making

International development economics

• Agricultural economics and resource policy
• Applied economics: cost/benefit analysis
• Applied macroeconomics and microeconomics
• Banking, finance and monetary policy in the Asia-Pacific region
• Econometric techniques
• Financial markets and economic development
• Macroeconomic and microeconomic analysis and policy
• Quantitative international economics
• Quantitative policy impact evaluation
• The economics of incentives and institutions
• Trade, development and the Asia-Pacific economy

Policy and governance

• Corruption and anti-corruption
• Health policy
• Making and evaluating policy
• Managing government finances
• New models for governance: strategy, innovation, decentralisation
• Organisational finance and budgeting
• Political institutions and policy processes
• Poverty reduction
• Public sector ethics and management
• Scenario planning
• Services and investment policy
• Social policy principles and implementation

Other key areas of expertise

• Climate change policy and economics
• Energy economics, politics and governance
• Food security and agricultural policy
• Government, markets and global change