The Macmillan Brown Research and Visiting Scholars Programme attracts a wide variety of distinguished researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds studying the Pacific. The programme is advertised annually and scholars contribute to the activities of the Centre and other departments through seminar presentations, guest lectures.
2009 Scholars
- Fred Saeni
 Indigenous Knowledge and its importance to customary land registration in the Solomon Islands
- Dr Kirsty Gillespie
 Women's song in Highland Papua New Guinea: Exploring Empowerment through Music
- Dr Karen Stevenson
 Pacific Arts and Artists
2008 Scholars
- Andy Lelei
 A graphic novel of a fictional group of Superheroes called Le Onoeva
2007 Scholars
- Dr France Mugler
 Vernacular multilingualism in Fiji
- Dr Azmat Gani 
 Health care Funding, Health Status and Human Well being in Pacific Island Countries
- Dr Kehaulani Kauanui
 Hawaiian Feminist Decolonization
- Dr Iati Iati
 Civil Society in Samoa
- Dr Robert Nicole
 Pacific History, Pedagogy and Literature
- Daniel Waswas
 Contemporary Culture in Papua New Guinea
2006 Scholars
- Dr Steven Winduo 
 Indigenous Medicinal Plants and Biolinguistic diversity in Papua New Guinea
- Dr Katerina Teaiwa
 Between our islands: A multi-sited ethnography of Banaban phosphate
- Dr Keith Camacho
 The War Crimes Trials of Guam (1945-1949)
- Dr Mark Calamia 
 Community based marine protected areas
2005 Scholars
- Professor Konai Thaman
 Pacific Education
- Dr Malakai Koloamatangi 
 EU-Pacific Relations
- Dr Silipa Silipa
 Responding to Pacific Students Diversity
- Professor Hermann Hiery
 Ecology and Colonialism: the case of the German Pacific 1884-1914
- Professor Eric Waddell 
 Jean-Marie Tjibaou
- Dr Heather Young-Leslie
 A Polynesian biomedisone; modernity, indigeneity and Tongan Doctors
- Dr Mark Calamia
 Community based marine protected areas
2004 Scholars
- Dr Maria Borovnik
 Seafarers and the families in Kiribati - aspects of health and well-being
- Dr Ieti Lima
 Alcohol and the Health of Pacific peoples in New Zealand
- Dr Maria Bargh
 Indigenous resource management and processes of commodification
- Dr Lawrence Kalinoe
 Recent developments in Compensation Payments to Indigenous Peoples by mining companies: a Case study of the Ok Tedi Community Mine continuation agreements 2001 regime
- Dr Jon Fraenkel
 An Economic History of the Pacific Islands
 
  
  
     
    
    
  
  
  
  
  