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Ross Steele
Lecturer in the Graduate Program in Population and Human
Resources
Population Studies; Population Mobility; Urbanisation and
Developement in Southeast Asia.
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Contact Details
- Office: Room 306 Social Sciences North
- Postal: School of Geography, Population
and Environmental Management,
Flinders University, GPO Box 2100,Adelaide SA
5001, Australia
- Email: Ross.Steele@flinders.edu.au
- Phone: (08) 8201 2760 (in Australia);
(618) 8201 2760 (outside Australia)
- Fax: (08) 8201 3521 (in Australia); (618)
8201 3521 (outside Australia)
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Qualifications
MA (UNE), PhD (ANU)
Position Held
- Lecturer in Population Studies, Graduate Program in
Population and Human Resources
- Member, Program Management Committee, Graduate Program in
Population and Human Resources
Current Teaching
- My major teaching at the undergraduate level is
Demography PPHR
2001 a second year topic which I teach jointly with Gour Dasvarma who coordinates the
topic.
- At the postgraduate level my major teaching
responsibility is the Masters level topic Human Resource
Development PPHR
9006 which provides an analysis of human resource
development issues and planning with special reference to
the Asia Pacific region. I teach the human resource
development, labour force analysis and educational
planning sections of this topic and Gour Dasvarma teaches the section
on health and nutrition.
- I also teach jointly with Gour
Dasvarma the Masters level topic Population Studies
PPHR 9004 which provides a non-statistical
introduction to the field of population studies.
- In addition I currently teach and coordinate the Masters
level topic Population and Environment PPHR
9013. This teaching of this topic is organised
jointly with several academic staff from the School of
Geography, Population and Environmental Management and
introduces the basic concepts of ecosystems and the key
inter-relationships between population change and the
environment.
- In most years I also teach and coordinate the Masters
level topics of Research Methods in Population Studies PPHR
9024 and Population Mobility PPHR
9008, but these two topics are not offered in 1999.
Consultancies
- 1994-99 - Consultant to SAGRIC International Pty Ltd,
Adelaide; Population and Family Planning Project, Papua
New Guinea (Funded by AusAID - World Bank)
- 1998 - Consultant and facilitator for CMPS & F Pty
Ltd, SAGRIC International, Sinclair Knight Merz, United
Water International Pty Ltd in their Singapore Australia
Third Country Training Programme - Wastewater Management
Course, held in Singapore and Adelaide, October-November
1998.
- 1986 - Member of an Australian International Development
Assistance Bureau (AIDAB) evaluation team which carried
out a review for the Department of Foreign Affairs of
Australian Government assistance to the Indonesian Social
Sciences.
- 1980-86 - Consultant to the Population Study Centre at
the University of Brawijawa, Malang , East Java. This
position was funded by the International Development
Program (IDP) to develop postgraduate teaching in
demography and demographic research.
Consultancy Capabilities
- Development of research and postgraduate teaching
capabilities at the University level in developing
countries.
- Labour force and environmental problems and issues
associated with rapid urbanisation and with the
development of mega-urban metropolitan regions in the
Asia-Pacific region.
Current and Recent Scholarly Activities
- I am currently engaged in updating my ongoing research on
environmental issues in the Asia-Pacific region for the
next edition of 'The Far East and Australasia 2000'
published by Europa Publications.
- I am also continuing my research on inmigration to
Surabaya and the development of the mega-urban region of
Surabaya-Malang in East Java, Indonesia.
Membership of Professional Organisations
- International Union for the Scientific Study of
Population (IUSSP)
- Australian Population Association (APA)
Research Areas
- Rural-urban migration, small-scale enterprises and
occupational mobility in the rapidly expanding urban
areas of Southeast Asia, with special interest in
Indonesia.
- Historical and current development of Surabaya the
capital city of East Java.
- Problems and consequences of the development of
mega-urban regions in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Environmental issues in Asia and the Pacific.
Selected Publications
- Steele, R.M. 1983 'Migrasi' (Migration). Chapter 8, pp.
263-308 in Peter McDonald (Editor), Pedoman Analisa
Data Sensus Indonesia 1971-80 (Manual for the
Analysis of Indonesian Census Data (1971-80), printed by
University of Gadjah Mada Press and published by the
Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee, Australian
Universities' International Development Program.
- Steele, R.M. 1985 'Mobilitas Pekerjaan dan Penghasilan
Migran di Surabaya' (Occupational Mobility and Migrants'
Incomes in Surabaya). Chapter 15, pp. 378-411 in Chris
Manning and Tadjuddin Noer Effendi (Editors), Urbanisasi,
Pengangguran dan Sektor Informal di Kota
(Urbanisation, Unemployment and the Urban Informal
Sector), printed by Gramedia, Jakarta and Published by
Yayasan Obor Indonesia and the Centre for Population
Research and Study, Gadjah Mada University.
- Steele, R.M., 1998 'Environmental Issues of Asia and the
Pacific', article in The Far East and Australasia 1999,
Europa Publications, London.
- Forbes, D.K, and Steele, R.M., forthcoming 1999 'The
Impact of Economic Reform and Global Economic Change on
Jakarta', chapter in Pacific Rim Cities edited by
R.J. Stimson, Routledge Press.
Postgraduate students supervised
Supervision of the thesis research of postgraduate students
enrolled in the Graduate Program of Population and Human
Resources, Geography and in Development Studies is a most
important part of my current research activities at Flinders
University.
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