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Dr Michael Leach

Office: BA1020
Telephone: +61 3 9214 5357
Email: mleach@swin.edu.au

Michael Leach is a Senior Lecturer in Politics. He teaches in Comparative Politics, Comparative Asian Politics and International Politics.

Michael is also an Australian legal practitioner, and officer of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He has previously taught in politics at Deakin University, at the University of Queensland, and South Thames College in London.

Research Interests

- The Politics of East Timor

- Nation-building in Melanesia

- Australian Political History

- Labour History

Current Research Activities

- ARC Discovery Grant (DP0987534) After the crisis: Nation-building challenges in East Timor

- AusAID Development Research Award.2009-10: Understanding attitudes to national identity in Melanesia and East Timor

Publications and Other Research Outputs

bulletGo to Swinburne Research Bank

Postgraduate Supervision

Current Students

James Scambary (Gangs and Informal Security Groups in East Timor)

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