Associate Professor Harry Ballis BA(Hons) Well PHD Lat
Dr Ballis has published a number of papers in academic journals and contributed chapters in books on the sociology of work and organisations, career change, and religion. He has experience in conducting and analysing unstructured focused interviews as well as in the design and implementation of survey research. In 1992 he co-authored a detailed report on the social impact of employee redundancies on a regional community. With two other colleagues he completed a major report for the CRA Mining Company on the impact of twelve-hour shiftwork rosters on a remote mining community in central Australia. He is presently conducting research on leisure and shiftwork in the La Trobe Valley.
His most recent publications include, Leaving the Adventist Ministry: A Study of the Process of Exiting (Praeger, 1999), which drew on the doctoral research, and Religion in an Age of Change (CRA, 2000) co-edited with Gary Bouma. He is also contributing author of a book to be published by Melbourne University Press. Angels of Death: Insider Accounts of the Euthanasia Underground, explores how euthanasia is being carried out in the absence of legalised channels.