Biography
Dr Vicki-Ann Ware is one of the world's leading scholars on arts as global development and/or peacebuilding. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Master of International and Community Development and Master of Humanitarianism and Development courses at Deakin University. Vicki is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Universitas Indonesia, where she is collaborating on research into the protective role of traditional arts in countering and preventing hateful & violent extremism.
Multiple current research projects explore arts as a space for CD and peacebuilding, primarily in Myanmar, Bangladesh and Indonesia, along with the mechanisms by which arts can contribute to significant social change at the grassroots level. She is also colalborating with colleagues in the US and Chile on exploring the efficacy of poetry as self-therapy in conflict-affected spaces, and bringing together English- and Spanish-languate literatures to better understand the impacts of arts and cultural participation on marginalised communities globally.
She is currently lead editor on two forthcoming Routledge volumes (due out late-2024):
- The Routledge Handbook of Arts and Global Development.
- Performing Knowledge: utilising arts-based research in development.
Vicki has a wealth of practical experience in the field of arts-based CD, having worked across multiple sites in SE Asia since the mid-1990s. She has also worked in policy and research across all three levels of government in Australia, as well as in private policy consultancy.
Work experience:
- Community development in Australia – settlement of newly-arrived refugees
- Community development in Southeast Asia:
- 8.5 years living/working in Thailand;
- over 20 years contact and work in Myanmar;
- speaks Thai fluently, and some Burmese
- Social planning, policy and policy research: almost a decade working at all levels of government in Australia, as well as in policy research consultancy. Areas of specialist knowledge:
- Linkages between urban planning and community development
- Housing and homelessness policy
- Indigenous policy
Read more on Vicki's profileResearch interests
I welcome inquiries regarding collaboration and research supervision in these areas:
- Arts-based community development and peacebuilding
- Development and arts policy
Current projects:
- Arts-based peacebuilding and conflict transformation, as part of CD programming
- Poetry as self-therapy in conflict-affected communities
- Dialogue between English- and Spanish-language scholars and literature around the impact of arts particiaption in marginalised communities
- Arts-based peacebuilding pedagogy in early childhood and parenting programmes (in conflic-affected regions)
- Surprising stories of grassroots peacebuilding - building healthy counternarratives to dominant stories of intractable conflict.
Other research interests:
- The importance of music-cultural identity in contexts of rapid culture change
- Sports-based community development and peacebuilding
Affiliations
Development Studies Association of Australia
ICD@Deakin Research Group
Arts/Sports CD Network (Convenor)
Teaching interests
Arts-based and sports-based community development
Participatory community development
Policy and advocacy
Religion and development
Qualitative research methods
Units taught
I currently teach:
ADS720 Arts and sports-based approaches to community development
ADS705 Participatory and community development practice
AHA 722 Program Design (from 2025)
I have previously taught:
ADS723 Development project cycle
ADS714 Gender and development
AIP 773 Governance and accountability
AIP747 Policy and program evaluation
Publications
Everyday Peace as a Community Development Approach
A Ware, V Ware, L Kelly
(2023), pp. 25-39, Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development, Bristol, UK, B1
Metaphor in Conflict Transformation: Using Arts to Shift Perspectives and Build Empathy
V Ware
(2023), Vol. 35, pp. 914-937, European Journal of Development Research, Berlin, Germany, C1
F Malaeb, V Ware
(2023), Vol. 49, pp. 852-873, British Educational Research Journal (BERJ), London, Eng., C1
Everyday Peace: After Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar's Rohingya Conflict'
Vicki Ware, Anthony Ware, Leanne Kelly
(2022), pp. 191-208, Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development, Bristol, Eng., B1
V Ware, J Lauterjung, S Harmer McSolvin
(2022), Vol. 34, pp. 1050-1075, European Journal of Development Research, C1
A Ware, V Ware, L Kelly
(2022), Vol. 43, pp. 289-308, Third World Quarterly, London, Eng., C1
L Kelly, A Ware, V Ware, E Wachter, R Hall
(2022), pp. 1-20, International Review of Victimology, London, Eng., C1
L Irvine-Brown, V Ware, A Malfitano, A Di Tommaso
(2021), Vol. 68, pp. 308-316, Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, Australia, C1
Everyday peace: rethinking typologies of social practice and local agency
A Ware, V Ware
(2021), Peacebuilding, C1
Exploring the Praxis of Occupational Therapy-Community Development Practitioners
L Irvine-Brown, V Ware, A Malfitano
(2021), pp. 1-10, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, London, Eng., C1
Anthony Ware, Vicki Ware
(2020), pp. 247-261, Sustaining social inclusion, Abingdon, Vic., B1
Vicki-Ann Ware, Kim Dunphy
(2020), Vol. 20, pp. 140-162, Progress in development studies, London, Eng., C1
V Ware, Kim Dunphy
(2019), Vol. 31, pp. 480-503, European journal of development research, Berlin, Germany, C1
Vicki Ware, Shannon McSolvin, Elizabeth Rouse
(2019), Burwood, Vic., A6
Critical consciousness-raising amongst poor Rakhine villages in rural Myanmar
A Ware, V Ware
(2018), pp. 32-50, Consciousness-raising : critical pedagogy and practice for social change, London, Eng., B1
Dance and quality of life for indigenous communities in Australia
Kim Dunphy, V Ware
(2018), Dance and the quality of life, New York, N.Y., B1
A Ware, V Ware, C Laoutides
(2018), Melbourne, Vic., A6
K Dunphy, V Ware
(2017), pp. 221-237, Contemporary perspectives on art and international development, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Community development in schools - building connections with and for families
E Rouse, V Ware
(2017), Vol. 84, pp. 24-31, International journal of educational research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
V Ware, E Rouse
(2017), [Melbourne, Vic.], A6
V-A Ware, A Ware, M Clarke
(2016), Vol. 26, pp. 321-333, Development in practice, Abingdon, Eng., C1
M Clarke, V-A Ware
(2015), Vol. 15, pp. 37-48, Progress in Development Studies, London, Eng., C1
Development in fragile states and situations: theory and critique
A Ware, V Ware
(2014), pp. 24-47, Development in difficult sociopolitical contexts: fragile, failed and pariah states, Basingstoke, England, B1
V Ware, A Ware, M Clarke, G Buchanan
(2013), pp. 430-449, Handbook of research on development and religion, Cheltenham, England, B1
L'implication des missionnaires pentecôtistes dans l'aide au développement en Asie du Sud-Est
V Ware, A Ware, M Clarke, G Buchanan
(2013), Vol. 60, pp. 488-502, Social compass, London, England, C1
Improving the accessibility of health services in urban and regional settings for indigenous people
V Ware
(2013), Canberra, A.C.T., A6-1
Supporting healthy communities through sports and recreation programs
V Ware, V Meredith
(2013), Canberra, ACT, A6
UnitingWorld: partnership for effective involvement in mission including development
V Ware, K Enright
(2012), pp. 167-188, Mission and development : God's work or good works?, London, England, B1-1
A Ware, V Ware, M Clarke
(2012), Vol. 6, pp. 31-39, Australian journal of mission studies, Parkville, Vic., C1
Improving Indigenous Access to Early Childhood Services in Urban and Regional Areas
V Ware
(2012), Canberra, A6
What makes a difference? Building a foundation for nationally consistent outcome measures
H Gronda, V Ware, L Vitis
(2011), Melbourne Vic., A6
Addressing locational disadvantage effectively (International evidence)
V Ware
(2010), Melbourne, A6
Intermediate housing markets and effective policy responses
L Vitis, V Ware, H Gronda
(2010), Sydney, A6
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
Enhancing community safety in Heming St Dandenong through Asset-Based Community Development
Dr Vicki Ware
VicGov Community Crime Prevention - Building Safer Communities Program
- 2022: $30,000
Everyday Peace Rohingya Refugee - Plan International AHP
A/Prof Anthony Ware, Dr Vicki Ware
DFAT Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) programme
- 2021: $75,000
Industry and Other Funding
Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding in Rakhine State, Myanmar
A/Prof Anthony Ware, Dr Vicki Ware
GraceWorks Myanmar
- 2018: $23,592
- 2017: $21,647
- 2016: $19,442
Building futures for newly-arrived migrants through schools - community development in school communities to improve whole family outcomes
Dr Vicki Ware, A/Prof Liz Rouse
St Gerards Primary School
- 2017: $5,000
- 2016: $10,000
Analysing GraceWorks Myanmar's CDE 'Everyday Peace' Strengthening Program in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
A/Prof Anthony Ware, Dr Vicki Ware
GraceWorks Myanmar
- 2021: $19,093
- 2020: $70,126
- 2019: $62,352
Everyday Peace Rohingya Refugee - Plan International AHP Phase IV
A/Prof Anthony Ware, Dr Vicki Ware
Alinea International P/L
- 2024: $35,000
Supervisions
Sarah Williams
Thesis entitled: Young South Sudanese Australians building political voice to resist racialising discourses through Hip Hop.
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Tisara Munasinghe Arachchi Lekamlage
Thesis entitled: Shifting Identities: The Corporeal Simulation and Trans-contextualization in Sri Lankan Low-Country Drumming
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ekawati Liu
Thesis entitled: Because We Are Disabled, All the More Reason to Work!
Doctor of Philosophy (Health & Social Development), School of Health and Social Development