Departmental staff are currently engaged in a variety of research areas, including:

• The sociology of health systems and practices
• Outer urban research and planning
• Regional social profiles
• Koori-inclusive curriculum
• Cultural identity and community relations
• Comparative analyses of community development approaches in Victoria and overseas
• Social movements and NGOs in regional security and disarmament in the Asia-Pacific region
• Structural changes approaches to social work
• Art and Culture in Tibet
• Evolving Ethnic Identities in Thailand and Indochina
• Australia and the Cold War
• Biographies of Australian Political and Intellectual Figures
• Contemporary Vietnamese and Indonesian Literatures
• Japanese Visual Arts Australian Foreign Policy and Relations with Asia
• Tourism in Australia
• A History of Grahamstown (South Africa)
• Business Culture and Management in Taiwan
• West Papua: Political Change and International Conflict
• Centre - Periphery Relations in Indonesia