Sociology
Dr David Bissell
Mobilities, particularly mobile publics; affect and emotion; phenomenology, corporeality and embodiment; materiality and post-humanism; qualitative methods.
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
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
Sociology of resistance, anti-globalisation politics, racism & anti-racism, humour and social change, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and the relationship between science and art.
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.
Professor Stewart Lockie
Environmental sociology, sociology of food and agriculture; rural sociology; social impact assessment; natural resource management; coastal zone management; community consultation and public participation
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 Julie McMillan
Educational attainment and transitions from school; social stratification; measurement of socioeconomic status.
Dr Donald Rowland
Australian Demography, The Family, Ageing; Migration.
Dr Larry Saha
Sociology and social psychology of education, education and development, collective behaviour and social movements, youth and politics.
Dr Joanna Sikora
Education and attitudes, occupational expectations of high school students, social inequality in comparative perspective, transition from education to work, attitudes to government regulation of the economy, comparative survey research methodology.
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.
Dr Kevin White
The Sociology of Health and Illness; The Historical Sociology of Health; Medicine and Social Problems; Privatisation, the market and health.
Dan Woodman
Youth studies, post school transitions (into higher education, paid work, new living arrangements), generational differences and social change, young people’s health and wellbeing.