Research
- Sociology of health, illness and medicine
- Cancer, palliative and end-of-life care
- Death, dying and bereavement
- Traditional, complementary and alternative medicines
- Intersections of individual biographies and illness experiences
- Social inequalities and social justice
- Professional and inter-professional dynamics in health and medicine;
- Health in developing countries
- Sociocultural anthropology
- Indigenous Australia
- Ethnographic methods
- Ethnic studies
- Cultural wounding and healing
- Trauma and violence in place
- Social theory
- Relationship
- Gift and charity
- Belonging
- Time and space
- Ageing and wellbeing
- Ethnography
- Intergenerationality
- Community
- Social memory
- Sociology of migration
- Human rights/post-human ethics
- Gendered violence and human mobility
- Civil society and civility
- Social theory
- Memory studies
- Classical Social Theory (especially 19C & early 20C French Social Theory)
- Contemporary Social Theory (especaially Bergson, Canguilhem, Foucault & Bourdieu)
- Vitalism, Life & Biopolitics
- Human/ Non-Human Relations
- Citizenship & Civility
- Sympathy & Suffering
- Sociology of Religion
- Subjectivity, intimacy and care
- Rethinking dementia
- Migration studies
- Visual ethnography
- Memory and belonging
- Identity and postcolonial thought
- Cinema and the image
- Social justice
- Hope
- Ecology and the social
- New philosophies of thinking
- Writing and performance
- Social Theory
- Film Documentary
The following Sociology and Anthropology Higher Degree Research Candidates are supervised by our academic staff:
Current
- Joseph Alizzi – Responsiveness to climate change: exploring action and vulnerability through the innate political
- Holi Birman – Understanding care: volunteering in the space of palliative care
- Abe Bradfield – Imagining Indigenous Australia: portrayals of an imprisoned people
- Kim Chong –The world and the garden
- Jac Dalziell – Mind out of place: thinking matter through posthumanism
- Jillian Gardner, Intimacy and Violence: Settler colonial realities and redressing projections of belonging in Australia
- Timothy Heffernan, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Iceland: Models of the Global South Applied to the North
- Roxarne Moon, Ontological Security and Social Forms
- Anne Reddacliff Happiness and Bipolar Experience
- Megan Russell, Identity Play: Rethinking Subculture through a Study of Harajuku Kawaii Fashion
- Dita Svelte – Beyond futility and the fashion system: Theorising fashion's appeal and allure as a form of wit
Recent Completions
- Margo Adams: Maternal Ambivalence
- Guat Im Bok – Beauty and the bitch: the beauty retail industry
- Na’ama Carlin – Violence, writing, and identity: an opening up of the question of ethics through Jewish ritual circumcision
- Rebecca Oxley –The lived embodiment of fathers with postnatal depression
- Rosalind Tan – The ethic of politeness and the development of the public sphere in eighteenth century England