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Sociology
Dr
Rachel Bloul
Islam in the West (with stress on Europe; gender; interethnic
& interracial relations; cultural politics in global/local
relations; comparative moralities/ethical imagination in
contemporary world; new technologies & post-human discourses
Professor
Peter D Brandon
Inequality and poverty; child and family well-being;
social program evaluation; exchange theory and kin-provided
assistance over the life course; work and family; the demography
of lone parent households; immigration and child outcomes;
and the demography of children with disabilities.
Dr
Kathryn Dwan
Health policy
Dr Ann Evans
Family demography; cohabitation; relationship formation
and dissolution; fertility and contraception; young motherhood;
transition to adulthood
Dr Jochen Glaser
Sociological Theory; Sociology of Science; Methodology
Dr
Edith E Gray
Family Demography; division of household labour; parenting;
men's involvement in family life; maternal employment; young
adult life transitions
Dr Alastair
Greig
Globalisation; industrial and organisational sociology:
clothing industry, meat processing industry, the retail
industry and construction industry; urban sociology; history
of housing provision in Australia, with a focus on the post-WW2
era; local Canberran history; housing and sociological theory.
Peofessor
Barry Hindess
Social and political theory; contemporary politics; influential
conceptions of political community in Western political
discourse, with particular reference to such ideas as democracy,
equality, liberty, power and rationality.
Professor
Andrew Hopkins
Research and teaching interests: The management of occupational
health and safety; The legal regulation of occupational
health and safety; Industrial disasters; Coal mine health
and safety.
Dr
Maria Hynes
Dr
Al Klovdahl
Social Networks; Networks and Infectious
Diseases; Sexual Networks in various population groups (e.g.,
gay, heterosexual); Networks connecting users of illicit
or illegal drugs; topic areas across the arts, humanities,
social sciences, natural or physical sciences and engineering
to which a social network component might contribute to
increased understanding; Society and Environment topics;
Social Construction of Environmental concerns, issues or
problems.
Dr
Rick Kuhn
Australian politics and political economy, Germany, Austria,
unions, anti-war movements, fascism, labor/social democratic
parties, and
Marxist theory, parties and politics.
Dr Grit
Laudel
Impact of institutions on knowledge production; methodology
and methods of empirical science studies; methodology and
qualitative methods in sociology; theory of research collaboration.
Dr
Monique M Marks
Youth political social movements; youth involvement in acts
of political violence in South Africa; police organisational
change; police labour relations; governance of security.
Dr
Timothy Phillips
Sociological understanding of Australian culture and society,
primarily through the use of social survey research methodology;
national identity and incivility; cosmopolitanism and civility.
Dr
Donald Rowland
Australian Demography, The Family, Ageing; Migration.
Dr
Larry Saha
Sociology of Education, Development and Social Movements.
Dr Joanna
Sikora
Economic attitudes; social inequality in comparative perspective;
survey research methodology; labor markets; government ownership
Dr
John Taylor
Measurement of demographic change among
Indigenous peoples and assessment of their economic status
at varying scales of analysis from the local to the regional
and national. International comparison with North America
and New Zealand, particularly in terms of demographic analysis.
Professor
Judy Wajcman
Social studies of science and technology; sociology of work
and employment; gender theory in these areas.
Dr Kevin
White
The Sociology of Health and Illness; The Historical Sociology
of Health; Medicine and Social Problems; Privatisation,
the market and health.
Dr
Julie McMillan
Educational attainment and transitions from school; social
stratification; measurement of socioeconomic status.
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