Personal information:
Name: Strobe Driver
Address: Dunnstown, Victoria, Australia
Mobile: +61 438 382 522
E-mail Address: s.driver@federation.edu.au
geostrategicorbit@yahoo.com.au
Academic awards:
2011 University of Ballarat Publications Award
2007 APA Scholarship
2004 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Bursary Award
2005 HECS Free scholarship
2003 Golden Key Honour Society
Education:
Institution: University of Ballarat/Federation University
Course Title: Doctor of Philosophy
Graduated: May, 2011
Thesis: Why winning a war is no longer necessary: Modern Warfare and the United States of America through the prism of the wars of Vietnam and Iraq.
https://www.academia.edu/2446146/Why_winning_a_war_is_no_longer_necessary_
Modern_warfare_and_the_United_States_of_America_through_the_prism_of_the
Relevant information and employment:
2020
2021
Book contract … nearly done
2020
Book Contract … writing, writing … writing 🙂
Freelance Writer
Book Author: Austin Macauley Publishers
Researcher: Federation University
2018
Participant: Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fellowship
Freelance Writer
Researcher: Federation University
2017
Recipient: Taiwan Fellowship, 2018. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Freelance Writer
Researcher: Federation University
2016
Freelance Writer
Researcher: Federation University
Coordinator, Lecturer and Tutor:
Global Perspectives on Education: Research and Evaluation
Professional Research and Practice Combined (Online)
Tutor:
Media and Screen Contexts Combined
Social Policy Online
2015
Freelance Writer
Researcher: Federation University
Coordinator, Lecturer and Tutor:
Japan: Economy and Society
Social Policy On-Line
Making Sense of the Social World Combined: Online
Tutor:
Social Policy and Social Change in Australia
Governing Inequality: foundations of social provision Combined
2014
Freelance Writer
Researcher: Federation University
Tutor:
Introduction to Sociology.
Social Policy and Social Change in Australia.
Rural Australia.
Urban Anthropology.
2013
Freelance Writer
Researcher: Federation University
Coordinator, Lecturer and Tutor
Japan: Economy and Society.
Insurgency Movements in Southeast Asia
and the Pacific
2012
Freelance Writer
Researcher: Federation University
Coordinator, Lecturer and Tutor:
Sociology in Australia.
The International Arena.
Tutor:
Western Traditions of the Contemporary World
2011
Freelance Writer
Researcher: Federation University
Coordinator, Lecturer and Tutor
Insurgency Movements in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Coordinator, Lecturer and Tutor
Health and Citizenship (Summer School).
Tutor:
Introduction to Social Enquiry.
Japan: Economy and Society.
Insurgency Movements in Southeast Asia
and the Pacific.
Moderator:
Health and Citizenship (Online)
Guest Lecturer:
Japan: Economy and Society
2010
Freelance Writer
Researcher: Federation University
Guest Lecturer:
International Arena: Introducing International Politics.
Tutor:
The International Arena,
Sociology of Health
Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
2009
Tutor:
World Empires and their cultures from the fifteenth century.
Introduction to Social Inquiry.
2008
Tutor:
Health and Citizenship.
Introduction to Social Inquiry.
2007
Tutor:
The Western Tradition and the Contemporary World.
Insurgency Movements in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Introduction to Social Inquiry.
2006
Tutor:
Insurgency Movements in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Sociology of Health.
Australia in the Asia-Pacific in the 20th Century.
The USA in Contemporary World History.
Guest Lecturer:
Insurgency Movements in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: The Insurgency in West Papua, and a brief perspective on Global Terrorism.
The USA in Contemporary World History: The Vietnam War and the USA: war, politics, and the American psyche.
The USA in Contemporary World History: The USA and the rise of Islam, Oil and Trade.
2005
Research Assistant: University of Ballarat/Federation University.
Tutor: Culture and Health.
Tutor: Japan: Economy and Society.
Tutor: Family Policy and Multiculturalism.
2001-02
Editor: Institute of Biological Chemistry Academia Sinica, Tapei, Taiwan.
Academic assignments:
Manuscript Reviewer:
Review of International Studies Dec, 2016
Exam Author and Invigilator:
Social Policy Online June, 2016
Exam Author and Invigilator:
Professional Practice and
Research Combined June, 2016
Exam Author:
Social Policy online May, 2015
Honours Thesis Supervisor July – Nov, 2012
Early Career Researcher Program 2012:
Stage 2. University of Ballarat, 2012
SEA Capstone (3rd Year) Supervisor Sept – Nov, 2012
Early Career Researcher Program 2012: Stage 1 University of Ballarat, 2012 Faculty of Education and Arts
Planning Group 7:
Post-graduate Student Support and Development University of Ballarat, 2011
Test author and invigilator:
The International Arena May, 2012
Publications:
A complete publication history–peer-reviewed and journalism–can be found on my Publications-Presentations page:
Academic writing only at https://federation-au.academia.edu/StrobeDriver
Referees:
Available upon request
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