Articles & Publications
Barnes, S. (2011). ‘Origins, Precedence and Social Order in the Domain of Ina Ama Beli Darlari’, Land and Life in East Timor, Canberra: ANU Press.
Brandao, C. (2011). Culture And Its Impact On Social and Community Life: A Case Study of Timor-Leste, Policy Brief No. 5, Belun: Dili.
Can culture be developed: audio recording of a seminar exploring the issues around culture in development. Issues examined included: what role should or could culture play in desired futures for the developed and developing world? Can cultures be developed and if so, how? How can those changes be understood and assessed?  featuring MHI staff member Thomas Lopes and Directors Holly Schauble and Kim Dunphy. RMIT Centre for Global Research, Global Frictions Series, June 2016.
Connelly, S. (2003). ‘The Right To Read: Work Of The Mary MacKillop Institute Of
East Timorese Studies’, Mary MacKillop Institute Of East Timorese Studies, Dili.
https://www.mmiets.org.au/education/_pdf/right_to_read.pdf, 
Dunphy, K., da Silva, I., Pereira, N., Lopes, T., no Schauble, H. (2017). Reprezentasaun arte fatuk iha kostume kulturál ema Fataluku iha Tutuala, Lautém. in Peter Job, Antero B. da Silva, Nuno Canas Mendes, Alarico da Costa Ximenes, Mica Barreto Soares, Sara Niner, and Therese Tam (ed). Refereed proceedings of the Timor-Leste Studies Association’s Conference 29-30 June 2017. Melbourne: Timor Leste Studies Association.
Dunlop, R. (2012). Lian Husi Klamar – Sounds of the Soul: The traditional music of Timor Leste, Sydney: Tekee Media Inc.
Dunphy, K. (2013). The role of participatory arts in social change in Timor-Leste, Unpublished PhD thesis,  Melbourne: Deakin University. Thesis summary: Tetun / English 
Escollano Brandao, C. X., with Choi, E., Oliveira Da Costa, M., Dewhurst, S., And Ximenes. L. (Eds) Culture And Its Impact On Social And Community Life: A Case Study Of Timor-Leste, Policy Brief No. 5, Belun: Dili.
Halo Spacu ba Halimar Fatin   Fatin hodi halimar iha Timor-Leste: Projetu halimar fatin Lospalos. (Places for creative play in Timor-Leste: a project to design a play space in Lospalos), (2016).  Nash, J. & da Silva, I.  In S. Smith, N. C. Mendes, A. B. da Silva, A. C. Ximenes, C. Fernandes & M. Leach (Eds.), Timor-Leste: the local, the regional, and the global, 2015 conference (9-10 July 2015) (Volume I), pp. 24-29, Conference proceedings, Timor Leste Studies Association, Hawthorn: Swinburne Press.
Making space for playgrounds: a guide for establishing creative outdoor playspaces in Timor-Leste, James Nash and Ildefonso da Silva (2015). Also available in Tetun (see above)
McWilliam, A. (2005). ‘Houses of resistance in East Timor: structuring of sociality in the new national’, Anthropological Forum 15(1): 27–44.
McWilliam, A. (2007). ‘Austronesians in linguistic disguise: Fataluku cultural fusion in East Timor’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 38(2), 355-375.
McWilliam, A. (2011). Fataluku Living Landscapes, In (eds) A. McWilliam and E. Traube, Land and Life in East Timor, Canberra: ANU Press.
McWilliam, A. (2013). Cultural heritage and its performative modalities: imagining the Nino Konis Santana National Park, East Timor, in (eds) S. Brockwell, S. O’Connor, and D. Byrne, Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage: Views from the Asia Pacific Region, Canberra: ANU E Press.
O’Connor, S, Pannell, S. & Brockwell, S. (2013). ‘The dynamics of culture and nature in a ‘protected’ Fataluku landscape’, in (eds) S. Brockwell, S. O’Connor, and D. Byrne, Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage: Views from the Asia Pacific Region, Canberra: ANU E Press.
Promoting wellbeing in Timor-Leste through the creative arts: a resource for counsellors and therapists, and Promove bem-estar iha Timor-Leste liu husi arte kriativu: Rekursu ba konselleira, terapeuta no fasilitadora, Marita Jacobsson, Kim Dunphy and Karma Barnes (2016). (This booklet provides ideas for activities to support health and wellbeing through creative arts. It was produced by MHI, based on the work of three creative arts therapists who have recently undertaken work in Timor-Leste, and translated in Tetun by Mayra Walsh. )
Reid, M. (2017). Visibility and cultural voice in Fataluku country Timor-Leste.  Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. 14(4) 25-33.
This article by former MHI volunteer Marian Reid  explores the intersection of digital visual communication and traditional culture in the Fataluku community of Lautem.
Rappoport, D. (2015). Music as evidence of settlement: the case of diphonic singing in Eastern Indonesia (Eastern Flores, Eastern Timor), Asia-Pacific Linguistics, Language Documentation and Cultural Practices in the Austronesian World, papers from 12-ICAL, vol. 4, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU.
Reid, M. & Lush, E. (2017). A social fabric: Tais weaving in Timor-Leste
Article about the practice of weaving in Lautem District written by MHI volunteers.
Schauble, Holly (2012).  Sustainable Development: Why Culture Matters, Connect magazine, July, Austraining International, re-published as Why Culture Matters to Sustainable Development, ArtsHub.
Stevenson, A., Dunphy, K., de Lourdes, C., and da Silva, I. (2017). Taka lakuna jerasaun iha Timor-Leste: Oinsá mak programa kriativu bele kontribui. in Peter Job, Antero B. da Silva, Nuno Canas Mendes, Alarico da Costa Ximenes, Mica Barreto Soares, Sara Niner, and Therese Tam (ed). Refereed proceedings of the Timor-Leste Studies Association’s Conference 29-30 June 2017. Melbourne: Timor Leste Studies Association. 
Teaching creative writing in Timor-Leste: This report includes structure and content of a creative writing program for young people, Emily Lush (2015).
Tribute to Sr Justino Valentim, senior cultural leader and MHI staff member. Vaihoho recorded in the 1966 by Henri Campagnolo and Maria-Olimpias Lameiras-Campagnolo can be found https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/CNRSMH_I_1971_028_004_02/ 
Ximenes, J. and Carlos, S. (2013) The potential for cultural tourism in Bobonaro, Ainaro & Lautem Districts, Alola Foundation and ILO.
Yampolsky, P. (2012). ‘Intangible cultural heritage in Nino Konis National Park’, Lautem district, Timor Leste’, report to the NGO Cives Mundi, Soria, Spain. (unpublished).