Associate Professor Jim Chalmers
Academic Status
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Associate Professor Chalmers has 25 years’ experience working in the area of sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region. In recent years, he has alternated between university teaching (Sustainable Development) and project work (UNDP Human Development Reports). From 2004-2011, James was the Human Development Report specialist with the UNDP in various country offices as well as the UNDP Asia-Pacific regional office, where he led the Expert Network for the Asia-Pacific Regional Human Development Reports. Dr Chalmers served as a Reviewer for the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Development, Routledge and is a member of the Education Group of the Human Development and Capabilities Association, a group of international scholars who collaborate with the UNDP and construct curricula and text books for teaching. At Flinders University, he taught Sustainable Development, which he also taught at the University of Adelaide. In other academic appointments, James has been a Visiting Professor at Andalas University in Indonesia and IIT, New Delhi. His India work includes a 2014-15 engagement by the Assam State Government with Drs Saikia and Dasvarma of Flinders University. Their team contributed their innovative research methodology in the preparation of India’s first sub-national Human Development Report – for the state of Assam. In 2018, James was engaged with Udoy Saikia and Gour Dasvarma by the Government of Timor-Leste to apply their methodology in the preparation of Timor’s 2018 national Human Development Report. Subsequently, in 2024, Drs Chalmers and Saikia adapted their methodology for an impact study on the results/ outputs of an Australian-led community college in Tamil Nadu. The impact study was published in a 2024 monograph entitled Empowering Marginalised Women in Remote Indian Villages, London: Routledge.
Visiting Professor appointments:
Expert Moderator of E-Discussion for the 2010 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report on Gender, UNDP Regional Bureau, Asia Pacific.
Expert Moderator of E-Discussion for the 2008 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report on Anti-Corruption, UNDP Regional Bureau, Asia Pacific.
Guest lecturer, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India 2013
Guest Researcher, Center for Social and Economic Behavior Studies, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, PRC, 2008.
BA Simon Fraser University, Canada
PhD James Cook University, Australia
2017 Course Coordinator, Rights and Development, University of Adelaide
2016 Course Coordinator, Development Studies, University of Adelaide
2016 Course Coordinator, Rights and Development, University of Adelaide
2015 Course Coordinator, Rights and Development, University of Adelaide
2015 Lecturer, Sustainable Development [Online course], Flinders University
2014 Lecturer, Sustainable Development [Online course], Flinders University
2013 Lecturer, Sustainable Development [Online course], Flinders University
09/2013 - 01/2014 Guest lecturer, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India
2012 Course Coordinator, Development Studies, University of Adelaide
2012 Lecturer, Sustainable Development [Online course], Flinders University
2011 Lecturer, Development Studies, University of Adelaide
2011 Lecturer, Sustainable Development [Online course], Flinders University
2000Visiting Lecturer, Centre for Rural Development, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
1995 –1997Visiting lecturer, Faculty of Social Science, Andalas University, Padang, Indonesia
Associate Professor Chalmers has 25 years’ experience working in the area of sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region. In recent years, he has alternated between university teaching (Sustainable Development) and project work (UNDP Human Development Reports). From 2004-2011, James was the Human Development Report specialist with the UNDP in various country offices as well as the UNDP Asia-Pacific regional office, where he led the Expert Network for the Asia-Pacific Regional Human Development Reports. Dr Chalmers served as a Reviewer for the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Development, Routledge and is a member of the Education Group of the Human Development and Capabilities Association, a group of international scholars who collaborate with the UNDP and construct curricula and text books for teaching. At Flinders University, he taught Sustainable Development, which he also taught at the University of Adelaide. In other academic appointments, James has been a Visiting Professor at Andalas University in Indonesia and IIT, New Delhi. His India work includes a 2014-15 engagement by the Assam State Government with Drs Saikia and Dasvarma of Flinders University. Their team contributed their innovative research methodology in the preparation of India’s first sub-national Human Development Report – for the state of Assam. In 2018, James was engaged with Udoy Saikia and Gour Dasvarma by the Government of Timor-Leste to apply their methodology in the preparation of Timor’s 2018 national Human Development Report. Subsequently, in 2024, Drs Chalmers and Saikia adapted their methodology for an impact study on the results/ outputs of an Australian-led community college in Tamil Nadu. The impact study was published in a 2024 monograph entitled Empowering Marginalised Women in Remote Indian Villages, London: Routledge.
Expert Moderator of E-Discussion for the 2010 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report on Gender, UNDP Regional Bureau, Asia Pacific.
Expert Moderator of E-Discussion for the 2008 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report on Anti-Corruption, UNDP Regional Bureau, Asia Pacific.
Guest lecturer, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India 2013
Guest Researcher, Center for Social and Economic Behavior Studies, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, PRC, 2008.
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