Under the conditions of the Vanuatu Cultural Research Policy, applications by foreign nationals to undertake research on a cultural subject in Vanuatu are considered by the national cultural research authority, the Vanuatu National Cultural Council, two times each year, at the end of March and at the end of September.
At the end of March 2007, the Council approved the following researchers to undertake research on these topics in these locations:
1. Marc TABANI, CNRS/CREDO-Marseilles: John Frum multimedia archives project, Tanna and VKS, Port Vila
2. William MOHNS, Vanuatu Renewable Energy and Power Association (VANREPA) - a Port Vila-based NGO involved in the promotion and delivery of renewable energy in Vanuatu: Culturally-Appropriate Energy Development for Rural Vanuatu, Futuna and Aneityum
3. Trish SHIPMAN, Pacific Island Studies, Uni of Hawaii: Considering vernacular education in Vanuatu
4. Stephanie LERCHE, Uni of Queensland: Impacts of church involvement on gender identity and self determination in Vanuatu, historically and today
5. Hannah SMITH & Alice GOLDHILL, Kings (Medical) College, UK: (i) Prevalence of and factors influencing use of custom medicine, & (ii) Ni-Vanuatu perceptions of body image, Luganville and Banks Islands
6. Hugo DEBLOCK, Anthropology, Uni of Melbourne: The commoditization of place: Dancing for tourists, various locations
7. Jeremy HAMMOND, Linguistics, Uni of Sydney: Description of language of Whitesands, Tanna
The Council approved these additional three researchers to undertake research at the beginning of June:
8. Jilda SHEM, Human Development, Victoria Uni (Melbourne): The changing nature of extended family ties in Vanuatu and its implication on child protection, Emau, Emau (north Efate) and Port Vila
9. Doyle MCKEY, Caroline ROULLIER, Sophie CAILLON, CEFE/CNRS-Montpellier, Traditional knowledge relating to cassava cultivation, Tanna
10. Martino NICOLETTI, A photographic project around Bernard Deacon on Malakula, South West Bay and North West Malakula
