Ms Sanjugta Vas Dev

Biography/ Background

Sanjugta is currently working as a Research Associate for the Australian Institute for Social Research at the University of Adelaide. In this capacity she engages in contract research for  a range of stakeholders including government, business and non government organisations. She also promotes her own research interests around the links between security, forced migration and citizenship.

She has had extensive experience in cross cultural training in the areas of development and poverty; gender budgets and public expenditure management. She has consulted on various international projects funded by the Asian Development Bank and AusAid and worked in several locations including Samoa, the Marshall Islands and India.

She has recently completed her PhD which constituted a comparative study on NGO-Government engagement in Australia and Malaysia around policy planning and service delivery.

Qualifications

PhD,  School of Politics and International Studies, Flinders University of South Australia, 2008. 

BA (Hons)(1992 - 1996) Flinders University of South Australia

Publications

Book Chapters
Schech, S. and Vas Dev, S. (2007) "Governing through participation? The World Bank's new approach to the poor," in D. Moore (Ed.) Banking on the State: The World Bank, Hegemony and Ideological Change in Development Discourse, University of Natal Press, Durban.

Refereed Journal Articles
Vas Dev, S. (2009) "Accounting for the Australian and Malaysian asylum approaches: perspectives from the State", Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 33 - 60.

Sharp, R. and Vas Dev, S. (2007) "Developing a Gender Responsive Budget Initiative: Key Lessons from a Pilot Project in the Republic of the Marshall Islands", Journal of Pacific Studies, vol. 29, no. 3/4.

Schech, S. and Vas Dev, S. (2007) "Gender Justice: The World Bank's new approach to the poor?", Development in Practice, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 14 - 26.

Vas Dev, S. (2003) "Asylum in Africa: the emergence of the 'reluctant host'", Development, The Journal for Society for International Development, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 113 - 118.

Vas Dev, S. (2002) "The reluctant host: the socio-cultural impact of refugees on developing communities", Mots Pluriel, vol. 21, May, http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP2102s.html

Vas Dev, S. and Schech, S. (2001) "Southern NGOs and the internet: empowerment or enslavement?", Policy, Organisation and Society, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 39 - 58.

Crowder, G., Ludemann, R. and Vas Dev, S. (1997) "Charles Taylor's politics of recognition", The Flinders Journal of History and Politics, vol. 19, pp. 103 - 116.

Conference presentations

Vas Dev, S. (2007) "'Victimised', 'Vulnerable' and 'Real': Malaysian NGO Representations of Asylum Seekers and Refugees", paper presented at the Representation and Displacement: Refugees, IDPs and Stateless Persons in State and Nation Workshop, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK, 9 - 10 February.

Vas Dev, S. (2006) "Victims or Villains? Australian Government and NGO discourses of the asylum seeker and the Implications for NGO-civil dialogue", refereed paper presented at the Australia and New Zealand Third Sector Research, Eighth Biennial Conference, Navigating New Waters, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 28 - 30 November.

Vas Dev, S. (2005) "Malaysia and Australia's approach toward asylum seekers: Notions of identity, security and sovereignty", Paper presented at the Winter Workshop on Citizenship, Identity and Mobility in the Asia-Pacific, Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, University of Wollongong, 14 - 16 June.

Vas Dev, S. and Sharp, R. (2003) "Bridging the Gap between Gender Analysis and Gender Responsive Budgets: Key Lessons from a Pilot Project in the Republic of the Marshall Islands", paper presented at Gender Budgets Workshop, Department of Women's Studies, Uktal University, Orissa, India, 22 - 24 September.

Vas Dev, S. (2003) "The socio-political impact of refugees in Pakistan and Tanzania: a comparative analysis", paper presented at the 19th International Political Science Association World Congress, Durban, South Africa, 29 June - 4 July.

Vas Dev, S. and Schech, S. (2003) "Gender justice? The World Bankâ�^TMs new approach to the poor", paper presented at the 19th International Political Science Association World Congress, Durban, South Africa, 29 June - 4 July.

Vas Dev, S. (2001) "The Reluctant Host: The Socio-Political And The Socio-Cultural Impact Of Refugees", paper presented at The Refugee Convention, Where to from Here?, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 - 9 December.

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 26 May 2009