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About

I have an emerging track record of high-quality research outputs, project management, and securing external research funding. My current fieldwork is in Papua New Guinea, in the context of gender equality, world heritage research, protected area planning, sustainable resource management and livelihood planning This involves a strong focus on cultural values and participatory community engagement.

I work collaboratively in project teams and have delivered multidisciplinary research projects from design stages through to completion. I have developed and nurtured an extensive professional network spanning academic, government, community and industry sectors in PNG. My practical engagement in the development space has involved capacity building initiatives and working with community partners and civil society groups.

Experience

2020 to 2022 - Research Consultant, The Cairns Institute (Cairns)
2020 to 2021 - Consultant Anthropologist, The Cairns Institute (Cairns)
2017 to 2020 - Adjunct Research Associate, College of Arts, Society and Education (Cairns)
2017 to 2020 - Research Fellow, The Cairns Institute (Cairns)
2018 to 2019 - Project Manager - The Twinning Project, The Cairns Institute (Cairns)
2014 to 2018 - Research Coordinator - The Nakanai Caves Cultural Values Project, College of Arts, Society and Education (Cairns)
2017 - Chief Investigator - Native Title Workshops for Mid-Career Anthropologists, The Cairns Institute (Cairns)
2017 - Sessional Lecturer - - ‘Arts Edge’ - BA Capstone, College of Arts, Society and Education (Cairns)
2011 to 2017 - Project Manager / Casual Research Officer, The Cairns Institute (Cairns)
2006 to 2017 - Sessional Tutor, College of Arts, Society and Education (Cairns)
2015 to 2016 - Research Consultancy on Deep Sea Mining in PNG, College of Arts, Society and Education (Cairns)
2015 - Sessional Lecturer - Anthropology: Cultural Diversity in Global Perspective’, College of Arts, Society and Education (Cairns)
2014 to 2015 - Sessional Lecturer - ‘Critical Literacy’, School of Indigenous Studies (Cairns)
2014 to 2015 - Research Consultancy - Desktop Reivew of PNGs Seven Tentative World Heritage Sites, UNESCO / PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (Cairns)
2014 to 2015 - Sessional Lecturer - Introduction to Academic Learning’, School of Indigenous Studies (Cairns)
2009 - Consultant Anthropologist, North Queensland Land Council (Cairns)
2007 - Casual Research Officer, Marine and Tropical Research Facility (Cairns)
2006 - Consultant Anthropologist, North Queensland Land Council (Cairns)

Research Disciplines

Honours

Awards

2016 - Sessional Staff Teaching Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
2014 - Jeffrey Clarke Prize in Anthropology

Publications

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU.

Journal Articles

Filer C, Gabriel J and Allen M (2021) Discombobulated actor-networks in a maritime resource frontier. Pacific Affairs, 94 (1), pp. 97-122, DOI:10.5509/202194197.
Wood M, Foale S and Gabriel J (2020) Anticipating Ulawun Volcano in New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Anthropological Forum, 30 (1-2), pp. 30-41, DOI:10.1080/00664677.2019.1647831.
Filer C and Gabriel J (2018) How could Nautilus Minerals get a social licence to operate the world's first deep sea mine? Marine Policy, 95, pp. 394-400, DOI:10.1016/j.marpol.2016.12.001.
Gabriel J (2017) Cosmopolitan tourism and host-guest exchanges in the Nakanai Range, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Asian Journal of Tourism Research, 2 (3), pp. 51-79, DOI:10.12982/AJTR.2017.0017.
Gabriel J, Filer C, Wood M and Foale S (2017) Tourist initiatives and extreme wilderness in the Nakanai Mountains (PNG). Shima, 11 (1), Article: 11, pp. 122-143, DOI:10.21463/shima.11.1.11.
Gabriel J and Wood M (2015) The Rimbunan Hijau Group in the forests of Papua New Guinea. Journal of Pacific History, 50 (3), pp. 322-343, DOI:10.1080/00223344.2015.1060925.
Nelson P, Gabriel J, Filer C, Banabas M, Sayer J, Curry G, Koczberski G and Venter O (2014) Oil palm and deforestation in Papua New Guinea. Conservation Letters, 7 (3), pp. 188-195, DOI:10.1111/conl.12058.

Book Chapters

Gabriel J, Nelson P, Filer C and Wood M (2017) Oil palm development and large-scale land acquisitions in Papua New Guinea. In: Kastom, Property and Ideology: land transformations in Melanesia. Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp. 205-250
Gabriel J (2015) 'Evergreen' and REDD+ in the forests of Oceania. In: Tropical forests of Oceania: anthropological perspectives. Asia-Pacific Environment, Monograph 10. ANU Press, Acton, ACT, Australia, pp. 237-263

Other research outputs

Gabriel J (2019) Book review of "Connecting the Links Between Tourism, Protected Areas and Wellbeing" by I. Azara et al. Oxfordshire, UK, CABI, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-78639-131-5. Tourism Geographies, 21 (2), pp. 355-358, DOI:10.1080/14616688.2018.1564781.
Gabriel J, Specht J, Leavesley M, Kelly M, Wood M, Foale S, Filer C, McIntyre-Tamwoy S, Bourke R, Gill D and Sounier J (2018) The Nakanai Mountain Ranges of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. [monograph]
Gabriel J and Gorecki P (2014) The 'Karawari Caves Precinct' of the Sepik River Basin, Papua New Guinea. [monograph]

More: ResearchOnline@JCU stores 13+ research outputs authored by Dr Jennifer Gabriel from 2007 onwards.

Current Funding

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

United Nations Development Programme - PNG - Grant

Gender Analysis and Action Plan for Sustainable Financing of PNG?s Protected Area Network

Indicative Funding: $100,000 over 1 year
Summary: The Gender Analysis and Action Plan will contribute to the Social and Environmental Safeguards (SES) which underpin the UNDP commitment to mainstream social and environmental sustainability in all Programmes and Projects, including the Sustainable Financing of Papua New Guinea?s Protected Area Network. Protected Area investments directly affect the land and forest rights of communities, and it is critical to avoid creating `fortress? conservation zones that diminish, rather than enhance, local livelihoods and biodiversity. A key element of the SES is Principle 2: Gender Equality and Women?s Empowerment. Everyone is gendered: women, men, youth (f/m/t) and hence the gender analysis addresses all positions. The Gender Analysis will be fully integrated into the project document for the Sustainable Financing of Papua New Guinea?s Protected Area Network to inform the process of using a gender-responsive results reporting and monitoring and evaluation system. The Gender Action Plan for the project will provide concrete outputs to facilitate implementation of activities that promote gender equality and women?s empowerment.
Investigators: Jennifer Gabriel and Michael Wood (Cairns Institute, College of Arts and Society & Education)
Keywords: Papua New Guinea; Gender; Protected Area; Social and Environmental Sustainability; Livelihoods; Tropical Societies

United Nation Development Programme - Micro-Capital Grant

Sustainable Livelihoods and Protected Area Planning in PNG

Indicative Funding: $204,000 over 1 year
Summary: The Nakanai Ranges have been identified as a Key "Biodiversity Area due to their high density of endemic and range-restricted species of high conservation concern due to pressures of industrial logging and oil palm development. We aim to engage local communities in stewardship of world heritage through tangible conservation and livelihood benefits, acknowledging the causal relationship between heritage, local people and their well-being. Protection of primary rainforest in Nakanai will enable the continued flow of ecosystem services, such as the provision of clean water and the protection of soil resources.
Investigators: Jennifer Gabriel, Simon Foale and Michael Wood (College of Arts, Society & Education and College of Healthcare Sciences)
Keywords: sustainable livelihoods; Papua New Guinea; protected area planning; Biodiversity Conservation; World Heritage; Poverty Alleviation

Ian Potter Foundation - Travel Grant

11th European Society for Oceanists (ESFO) conference attendance and paper presentation

Indicative Funding: $1,000
Summary: The funding will support travel costs to attend the 11th European Society for Oceanists (ESFO) conference and present in the panel "Tourism development and cultural landscapes in Oceania: Critical interdisciplinary responses".
Investigators: Jennifer Gabriel (Cairns Institute)
Keywords: cultural landscapes; Tourism; cultural realignment; Papua New Guinea

Supervision

Advisory Accreditation: I can be on your Advisory Panel as a Primary or Secondary Advisor.

These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

Investigating corruption in Papua New Guinea through the patron-client structure: The citizens' perception (PhD , External Advisor)

Collaboration

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