Teaching — VERONICA STRANG

Having held a research leadership role at Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study for a decade I still provide some teaching enabling people to engage in interdisciplinary research. My workshop, Navigating Interdisciplinarity, which the IAS offered to visiting Fellows and Durham researchers, introduced them to the issues raised by interdisciplinary research, and helped them to find successful ways to initiate, lead and manage such endeavours. I have run similar workshops at other Universities, most recently for James Cook University in Queensland.

I provide guest lectures and informal post-graduate support in Oxford, and regularly examine Doctoral theses for other Universities around the world. Like most academics, I have spent many years teaching undergraduate courses and supervising Masters and PhD students. This has included the following areas:

Courses

(*Courses written and led; the remainder designed and/or taught in collaboration with others).

2005-2012. University of Auckland

Undergraduate courses

*Environmental Anthropology

*Ethnographic Research Methods

*Anthropology of Art and Performance

Anthropology Today: Debates in Culture

*Race and Racism

Theoretical Approaches to Society and Culture

Postgraduate courses

*Social Anthropology: Research Design and Methods

*Applying Anthropology

2002-2005. Auckland University of Technology

Undergraduate courses

Introduction to Anthropology

Cultures and Societies

2002. Course Director. Group for Anthropology in Policy and Practice (GAPP), UK

1997-2000. University of Wales, Lampeter

Undergraduate courses

*Fieldwork Methods and Ethics

*Applied Anthropology

*Environmental anthropology

*Visual Anthropology and Material Culture

*Australian Studies

Research Methods (Introduction)

Culture and Society

Anthropology of Religion

Integrating anthropology and archaeology

Religion and Ritual

Advanced Issues in Anthropology and Archaeology

Postgraduate courses

*Environmental Anthropology

*The Social and Cultural Aspects of Environmental Issues

*Cosmologies of the World

*Rituals of Death

Death Studies (Distance Learning Courses)

*Research Methods

*Applying Anthropology

MA Degrees, Course Direction

*Environmental Anthropology.

*Death Studies

Social Anthropology

2001-02. Oxford University.

Postgraduate teaching (tutorials)

Applied Anthropology

Cultural Mapping

2000. College of Technical and Further Education, Cairns, Australia

Ethnographic research methods and cultural mapping techniques.

1994-97. Oxford University

Undergraduate teaching for Pitt Rivers Museum and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Human Sciences and Joint Archaeology and Anthropology degrees.

Postgraduate teaching for Pitt Rivers Museum, MSt in Ethnology and Museum Ethnography.

Introduction to anthropology

People, culture and the environment

Art, material culture and aesthetics

Regional systems

Teaching seminars in museum ethnography

Debates in the anthropology of art and aesthetics (workshops)

Exploring cultural landscapes (workshops)

Research classes

Postgraduate teaching for Environmental Change Unit, MSc Environmental Change and Management.

*Cultural adaptation and environmental values

Postgraduate teaching for Department of Forestry.

Introduction to anthropological theory and practice

Postgraduate teaching for School of Geography.

Concepts of landscape

Cultural systems of representation relating to land

Ethnographic analyses of environmental relations

1992-93. Queensland Aboriginal Ranger Training Programme.

*Introductory Anthropology and Archaeology.

Doctoral examinations

2022. University of Leeds

Candidate: Sebastian O’Connor

Living Well with Water: democratising flood risk management through reconceptualising social values

2021. University of Sydney.

Candidate: Hélène Ahlberger Le Deunff

More than Human Water Governance: A Participatory Experiment

2021. University of Cape Town.

Candidate: Kefiloe Sello

Rivers that Become Reservoirs: an ethnography of water commodification in Lesotho

2021. University of Sydney.

Candidate: Mardi Reardon-Smith.

Forces and Frictions of Belonging: Land, People and Changing Environments in Cape York, Australia.

2020. Australian National University.

Candidate: Kirsty Wissing.

Permeating Purity: fluid rituals of belonging in Ghana

2017. University of Cambridge.

Candidate: Jonathan Paget Woolley

Rede of Reeds: land and labour in rural Norfolk

2017. University of Western Australia

Candidate: Michelle Pyke

Cultural Systems, Science and Natural Resource Management: Aboriginal management of wetlands in the west Kimberley, Australia.

2014. Australian National University

Candidate: Cindy Marie Dupouy Bryson

A Valuable Life: seeing transformative practice among Phnom Penh’s waste pickers

2014. University of Western Australia

Candidate: James Smith

Water as a Medieval Intellectual Entity: case studies in twelfth century Western monasticism

2014. Copenhagen University

Candidate: Maria Louise Bonnelykke Robertson.

Connecting Worlds of water: an ethnography of environmental change on Tarawa.

2013. University of Kent

Candidate Elizabeth Gladin

Connecting Capacities: Finding Spaces and Places for Collaborative Water Governance in California Waterscapes

2013. Deakin University

Candidate: Jonathan Kingsley

If the Land is Healthy… It Makes the People Healthy,

2013. Charles Darwin University

Candidate: Nicholas Smith

Not from Here: Aboriginal perceptions of exotic plants in the northern Australian tropical savanna.

2011 University of Queensland

Candidate: Kim de Rijke.

Water, Place and Community: an ethnography of environmental engagement, emplaced identity and the Traveston Crossing Dam dispute in Queensland, Australia.

2010. Australian National University.

Candidate: Amanda Markham

Competing Interests: Co-management, Aborigines and National Parks in Australia’s Northern Territory

2009. University of Wales, Cardiff, UK

Candidate: James Fathers

Design Training Strategies for the Crafts Sector in Southern India,

2009. University of Queensland, Australia

Candidate: Justine Lacey

Toward a Conceptual Framework for a more Sustainable Water Ethic: Identifying the Ethical Underpinning of Water Management,

2009. University of Canterbury, NZ

Candidate: Chad Huddleston

The Negotiation of Takapuneke: a study of Maori-State relations and the investment of value in tapu lands