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.
Communications and Writing
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Ndaeyo Uko
- Narrative journalism; the relationship between media and governments; media in Africa
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
Public Relations
- James Gomez
- New media; online citizen journalism; advocacy and election campaigns; policy communication; crisis and risk communications; strategic communications; public relations and its relationship with civil society, democracy and human rights; with a special focus on the East, Southeast and South Asian regions
Social and Community Welfare
- Olga Bursian
- Social policy; multiculturalism; social inclusion; comparative welfare states; community development; labour market issues; democratic citizenship; youth issues; post-colonial theory; feminist standpoint theory; subjugated knowledges; cross cultural epistemology and ontology; decolonising research methods; Russian civil society and social policy
- Karen Crinall
- Homelessness; social documentary photography; visual representations of women and disadvantage, violence against women, family violence prevention, visual sociology and visual studies.
- Chris Laming
- Profeminist Men's Programs, Men's Violence Against Women, Family Violence Prevention, Personal Construct Theory, Criminal Justice Responses to Family Violence.
- Marg Lynn
- Community analysis/discourses of community; community development; rural human services; integrated social development in growth corridors; action research.
- Debra Manning
- Alternative research methodologies; creative writing in research; transformative and emancipatory social and community welfare theory and practice; culturally sensitive pedagogies; transformative community development and casework
Sociology and Social Research
- Michelle Duffy
- Australian studies; critical theory; cultural theory; ethnicity, immigration, refugees; geography human; globalisation; Indigenous studies; music, culture and society; sociology; social theory
- Vaughan Higgins
- Rural development and restructuring; agri-food regulation; natural resource management; globalization; governmentality; sociology of science and technology
- 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.