D. Gopal, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University is the coordinator of Australian Studies at IGNOU. He received a Ph.D. form Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and training in Distance Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. He was a Visiting fellow at UK Open University, Milton Keynes. His recent publications include Australia in the Emerging Global Order; Globalisation and Regional Security: India and Australia; India and Australia: Issues and Opportunities; Politics of Globalisation; India -Australia Relation: Convergences and Divergences.
Currently, the University of South Australia has appointed Dr. Gopal as adjunct Professor at the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies, Adelaide, Australia.
Alan Mayne holds a Research SA Chair at the University of South Australia, where he is Professor of Social History and Social Policy in the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies. He received a Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 1980, and worked until 2005 at the University of Melbourne. He is currently a Visiting Professorial Fellow in the centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His Publications, include Fever; Squalor & Vice; The Imagined Slum;, The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes (with Tim Murray); Hill End: An Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape; Eureka: Reappraising an Australian Legend; Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of outback Australia and Building the Village: A History of Australia' Bendigo Bank.