Areas of Supervision
The School can provide supervision of research theses in the following areas, although this list is not complete or exhaustive. Supervisors' areas of interest range widely
Australian Studies
- John Arnold
- Publishing, communications, history of the book in Australia, history and publication of Australian literature
- David Dunstan
- Biography, cultural tourism, regional studies and heritage; Melbourne's urban, cultural and government history; newspaper, journalism and publishing studies; consumer culture, history of wine, drinking habits and social reform
- Mark Gibson
- Communications, Journalism and Media Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, Film & Television Studies, Media Theory, Critical Theory
- Tom Heenan
- Australian education history, cultural and heritage tourism, backpacker tourism
- Jenny Hocking
- Australian biography, Australian communications and media policy, Australian governance, labour history and counter-terrorism security issues.
- Victoria Peel
- Australian education history, cultural and heritage tourism, backpacker tourism
- Bruce Scates
- War and society, Anzac and commemoration; the cultural history of grief and mourning; labour history, environmental history, life history and biography; the cultural history of the book and communities of readers, trans-Tasman relationships; the history of black/white relations.
Psychological Studies
- Barry Richardson
- Sensation and perception, particularly haptics; cognitive processes, research design and statistics, virtual reality, active and passive perception and multimodal perception.
- Mark Symmons
- Road safety (Driver behaviour, Heavy vehicles, Fleets, Motorcyclists, Mobile phones, Road safety & the environment), Sports psychology, Sensory substitution systems for the blind, Touch, Virtual reality (Simulators, Haptics, Training, Presence)
- George Van Doorn
- Cross-modal integration and domination, haptic and temperature perception, research design and statistics, active and passive perception
- Dianne Wuillemin
- Cognitive neurosciences, judgements of size and space, haptic illusions, haptic virtual reality, cross-modal integration and competition, memory
Communications
- Paul Atkinson
- Henri Bergson and process philosophy; the philosophy of time; philosophy of science; visual aesthetics; comic book narration; film form; affect theory; semiotics and pragmatics.
- Simon Cooper
- Technology; cyberculture; mass communications; continental philosophy; psychoanalysis; politics; aesthetics; citizenship; screen media; literature; music; ethics.
- Philip Dearman
- Theories and histories of communication and technology; communication systems and e-government; media policy and regulation; multi-media and e-learning (podcasting, blogging, wiki-writing); cultural representations of labour; radio production and radio cultures; media and sport.
- Anna Poletti
- Autobiography studies; diy culture; the materiality of texts; literary theory; feminist theory; and technologies of cultural production
- Susan Yell
- Communication literacies and practices; textual analysis; discourse analysis; social semiotics; gender, identity and media; media/cultural policy; communication technologies and social relations.
Criminal Justice and Public Policy
- Colleen Lewis
- Police accountability; police corruption; complaints against police; anti-corruption models; police-government relations
- David Baker
- Public order policing, histories of policing, comparative policing, state and federal police in Australia, police unionism, transnational policing, police and politics.
History/Politics
- Beth Edmondson
- International relations; Australian politics; Australian policy; international governance
- Erik Eklund
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Culture and identity in Australian mining and industrial towns; labour history, trade union and business history, heritage and public history; human research ethics; qualititative research methods especially oral interviews; and intersection between academic knowledge and the public sphere through the media, teaching and community-university interaction.
- Stuart Levy
- Theories of international relations; state sovereignty; international law of the sea; understanding the undergraduate experience
- Keith Wilson
- Military history; American Civil War; African American history and culture; Areas of US politics
Indigenous Studies
- Andrew Gunstone
- Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Politics, Indigenous History
Journalism
- Chris Nash
- Journalism; international reporting (particularly Asia and the Middle East); environmental journalism; freedom of speech; journalism theory (particularly source-journalist relations, professionalism, field theory); urban and regional journalism.
- Usha Manchanda Rodrigues
- Journalism Theory & Practice (role, values, ethics); Global or International Media/Journalism (gloablisation & its impact, media & development); Online/New/Multimedia Journalism (including citizen or user-generated news content); Television Journalism and Asian Media.
Sociology/Social Welfare
- Karen Crinall
- Homelessness; social documentary photography; visual representations of women and disadvantage, violence against women, family violence prevention, visual sociology and visual studies.
- Vaughan Higgins
- Rural development and restructuring; agri-food regulation; natural resource management; globalization; governmentality; sociology of science and technology
- Chris Laming
- Profeminist Men's Programs, Men's Violence Against Women, Family Violence Prevention, Personal Construct Theory, Criminal Justice Responses to Family Violence.
- Lyle Munro
- The sociology of social problems; social movement theory and practice especially the animal rights and environmental movements; sociology of education especially school to work/higher education transitions.
- Eva Bendix Petersen
- The social construction of identity; sociology of education; academic culture; gender and feminist theory; poststructuralist theory; narrative and discourse analysis; post-positivist qualitative research methodologies.
- Parimal Roy
- Race and ethnic relations, family and social networks, interethnic marriage, sociology of organisation, urban and regional studies, community studies, community studies, indigenous cultures, cross cultural, social political and cultural change in the Asia/Pacific region, work and social policy.
- Darryn Snell
- Social justice and social advocacy, sociology of work and trade unionism, globalisation, development studies and the sociology of developing societies, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, Pacific studies, economic and industrial restructuring in Australia