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Room 7N6
Tel +64 3 479 8995
Email hannah.bulloch@otago.ac.nz

Research interests

  • Discourses, practices and theories of international and community development
  • Post-development and alternatives to development
  • Family livelihood strategiesin the Majority World, including migration, remittances and gender roles
  • Transitions to adulthood in the Majority World
  • Wellbeing and notions of the 'good life'
  • Community-driven healthcare
  • Personhood over the life course
  • Narrative nonfiction and ethnographic writing
  • Southeast Asia (especially the Philippines), Australia, New Zealand

Courses

Background

Hannah has a background in social anthropology, development studies and narrative nonfiction writing. She has extensive experience in qualitative (particularly ethnographic) research and writing. She has published on bicultural approaches to education and healthcare, wellbeing, livelihoods, migration, foetal personhood, vernacular religion, postcolonial identity, Indigenous freshwater rights and bilateral poverty policy.

In Pursuit of Progress: Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island (2017 University of Hawaii Press) was Hannah’s first book, focusing on ambivalent local notions of ‘development’ on the Philippine island of Siquijor.

In 2013, Hannah received an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. As part of this major grant, she held a three-year fellowship at the Australian National University's School of Archaeology and Anthropology, where she researched the pressures facing Filipino women as they strive to improve their lives and help their families 'get ahead' in an age of mobility and rapid economic transformation.

She has also been a Research Fellow at the ANU's National Centre for Indigenous Studies, where she investigated community-based approaches to Australian Aboriginal healthcare. She has worked at the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex, UK) on health and governance projects. Finally, for over two years at the Royal Society Te Apārangi, Hannah coordinated the social sciences and humanities research funding areas of the Marsden Fund.

Hannah holds a PhD in social anthropology from the Australian National University, awarded the 2010 Australian Anthropological Society Best Thesis Prize, an MA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) from Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Development Studies from Massey University. She has been a visiting researcher at Ateneo de Manila University, the University of Hawai'i, and the International Institute of Asian Studies in the Netherlands. She has held office as a Director of the Australian Anthropological Society.

Publications

Bulloch, H. (2025). Overland to the island: New Zealand to Skye with six kids in a homemade house-truck. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 356p [Biography/memoir]. Creative Work

Fogarty, W., Bulloch, H., Bellchambers, K., & Brachtendorf, L. (2024). Learning On Country program: Progress evaluation report 2.0 (Commissioned Report No. 8/24). Commissioned by Northern Land Council (NLC). Canberra, Australia: Centre for Indigenous Policy Research (CIPR), Australian National University. 66p. doi: 10.25911/P2MC-6Q43 Commissioned Report for External Body

Bulloch, H. (2023). Magic, luck, and permeable personhood in the Philippines. Asian Anthropology, 22(3), 157-176. doi: 10.1080/1683478X.2023.2221147 Journal - Research Article

Alam, A., Nel, E., Hill, D., & Bulloch, H. (2023). Settling in New Zealand’s small towns: Experiences of minority ethnic immigrants. Journal of International Migration & Integration, 24(Suppl. 6), S1079-S1101. doi: 10.1007/s12134-023-01044-6 Journal - Research Article

Bulloch, H. C. M. (Ed.). (2021). Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 22(5) [Special Issue: Development, gender and intergenerational aspirations in Asia]. [Guest Editor]. Other - Edited Journal

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