Personal information:
Name: Strobe Driver
Address: Dunnstown, Victoria, Australia
Mobile: +61 424 913 471
E-mail Address: s.driver@federation.edu.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
Employment:
2017
Researcher: Federation University
Coordinator, Lecturer and Tutor
Faculty of Education and Arts, Federation University.
2016
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
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
Tutor:
Introduction to Sociology.
Social Policy and Social Change in Australia.
Rural Australia.
Urban Anthropology.
2013
Coordinator, Lecturer and Tutor
Japan: Economy and Society.
Insurgency Movements in Southeast Asia
and the Pacific
2012
Coordinator, Lecturer and Tutor:
Sociology in Australia.
The International Arena.
Tutor:
Western Traditions of the Contemporary World
2011
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
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:
Peer-Reviewed:
2016
E-International Relations
War with China: Ascending Powers, Expansionism and the Use-of-Force
http://www.e-ir.info/2016/11/22/war-with-china-ascending-powers-expansionism-and-the-use-of-force/
Beyond the Asia-Pacific: China’s Next Geo-Strategic ‘Stepping Stone’
http://www.e-ir.info/2016/06/04/beyond-the-asia-pacific-chinas-next-geo-strategic-stepping-stone/
2015
E-International Relations
The Impact of Industrial Revolutions: China’s Rise and the Decline of Japan
E-International Relations
‘Oil Then,’ ‘Water Now’: Another Reason for War in the 21st Century?
E-International Relations
The Asia-Pacific Scramble and a ‘Larger Australia’
http://www.e-ir.info/2015/03/30/the-asia-pacific-scramble-and-a-larger-australia/
2014
E-International Relations
Airpower Hopes: The West, Versus the Islamic State, and the Evolution of Warfare.
The Sovereign Nation-State as a Contributor to Terrorism
Australia-China and the Rise of Pax-Sino: Where to Now?
The International Relations and Security Network
The Sovereign Nation-State as a Contributor to Terrorism
Journalism:
2016
The Australian Independent Media Network
War in a public place: The Bastille Day attack, the strategy and tactics of Insurgencies
Where fools rush in: The Lease of the Port of Darwin and the Rise of China
The Road to Perdition: Australia and the Neoconservative agenda
2015
Australia should consider hosting bases with US forces: A response to this absurd and and dangerous proposal in the coming age of pax-Sino
‘Heads should roll’:An Historical Perspective on Terrorism for the Abbott Neoconservative Government
The Asia-Pacific scramble and a ‘larger Australia’
Double Standards: The West and Terrorism
2014
The Australian Independent Media Network
Airpower Hopes: the West versus the Islamic State and the evolution of warfare
But will China invade Australia?
Australia-China and the Rise of Pax-Sino: Where to Now?
Australia beckons India: More antagonism toward China from the Abbott government,
Greater Australia-Japan military ties: another dangerous step in the coming age of pax-Sino.
What a State demands, what a citizen gives and what Abbott and Hockey simply don’t understand.
People ‘cost too much’: the Abbott government and Neo-liberalism.
The Indonesia spy scandal and Australia’s future.
2013
The Courier,
Issues Hidden Beneath the Surface of Diplomacy, ‘Opinion.’
Action Needed on the UNSC, ‘Opinion.’
Other:
Board Member: Cultural Enquiry and Research Group, Federation University 2012–2015
Academia.edu https://federation-au.academia.edu/StrobeDriver
Cultural Enquiry and Research Group Presentation Mar, 2014 Federation University
Speech: Australia–America-China and the possibility of war in the ‘Asian Century’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YylaKi4uVl8
ABC Future Forum: Ballarat, Nov, 2012
Australia-India Institute India: The Reluctant Superpower
University of Melbourne, Sept, 2011
Graduate Centre Training Program,
Presentation Skills for Research: Video making and presentation
University of Ballarat, Oct, 2009
PhD Graduate Centre Training Program, 2005 – 2006, University of Ballarat
University of Ballarat/Federation University Alumni, 2005
Interviews:
Talking about war. The Matt Malone Show. 99.9 Voice FM, Dec, 2013
Australia and Iraq, geo-strategic and comparative perspectives.
Dominic Brine, ABC Radio Ballarat. 774. Dec, 2007
Referees:
Available upon request
