Nichole Georgeou is a graduate of the universities of Newcastle and Wollongong, NSW, Australia. During 2011-2012 she was an Honorary Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong (UOW). Since 2011 she has also been a director of Palms Australia, an independent Australian Volunteer Sending Agency. Before she came to academia, Nichole worked in a variety of jobs, including school teaching and arts management. She also spent a number of years in the field during the 1990s, variously working as an aid volunteer and aid organiser/manager in Japan and in Vietnam. Nichole is currently co-writing a book with Charles Hawksley of the Politics Program at the UOW, titled "Policing and the Responsibility to Protect in Oceania". Based on research conducted in Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands between 2010-2012, this book explores policing assistance to enhance human rights protection within a framework of international development and aid.
Books
Neoliberalism, Development, and Aid Volunteering (2012)
This is the first qualitative empirical study of international development volunteering. The book contributes theoretical...
Chapters
The Responsibility to Protect in Oceania: A Political Assessment of the Impact and Influence of R2P Principles on Police Forces (with Andrew Goldsmith and Charles Hawksley), Research in Focus 2012 (2013)
The project ‘R2P in Oceania’ is a political assessment of the impact and influence of...
Articles
How volunteering in development became "Duchessed", WhyDev (blog) (2013)
Discussion of the ways in which development volunteering has been stripped of its political meaning...
Development Volunteering Duchessed, Neoliberalism, Development and Aid Volunteering (blog) (2012)
More and more Australians are getting involved in volunteering for development. The Australian government has...
Pillar II in Focus--The Responsibility to Assist: Police capacity-building in Timor-Leste and the 2012 parliamentary elections (with Charles Hawksley), APC R2P Brief (2012)
This briefing paper provides a short background to the 2012 elections in Timor-Leste, and explores...
Pillar II in Practice: Police Capacity-Building in Oceania (with Charles Hawksley), APC R2P Brief (2012)
At the recent AusAID sponsored UN Strategy and Coordination Conference on the Regional Capacity to...
The Impact of Neoliberalism and New Managerialism on Development Volunteering: An Australian Case Study (with Susan Engel), Australian Journal of Political Science (2011)
Within the large volume of research on aid and development there has been limited study...
Theses
Australian volunteers abroad in the Asia/Pacific region, University of Wollongong Thesis Collection (2010)
Tense relations: the tradition of Hoshi and emergence of Borantia in Japan, University of Wollongong Thesis Collection (2006)
In this thesis I examine the transformations of volunteering in Japan from 'hōshi' (mutual obligation)...
Discussion Papers
Volunteering in a neo-liberal development paradigm: A Timor-Leste case study. Discussion Paper, Palms Australia (with Brendan Joyce), Palms Australia (2011)
Nichole Georgeou and Brendan Joyce from Palms Australia question the role volunteers play in AusAID...
Blog
Blog: Neoliberalism, Development, and Aid Volunteering (2012)
The focus of this blog is the book "Neoliberalism, Development, and Aid Volunteering" (Routledge, NY,...