SAMSS 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 Indigenous Studies
- Julie Fenley
- Australian Indigenous studies
- Andrew Gunstone
- Indigenous studies, Indigenous politics, Indigenous history
Australian Studies
Andrew Gunstone
Australian studies; Australian politics; Australian history
Communications, English 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.
- Fleur Gabriel
- Mass communications; youth theory; youth identity; media and culture; post structuralism; discourse analysis and textual analysis.
- Susan Yell
- Communication literacies and practices; textual analysis; discourse analysis; social semiotics; gender, identity and media; media/cultural policy; communication technologies and social relations.
Community Welfare and Counselling
- 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.
- 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
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
- 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.
- Julie Fenley
- Indigenous studies, Holocaust history, public history, oral history, regional history, museum studies and cultural heritage
- Stuart Levy
- Theories of international relations; state sovereignty; international law of the sea; understanding the undergraduate experience
- Mia Treacey
- Cultural History, History, Historical theory, Film history, Historical film theory, Contemporary Film Theory, Film and television studies
- Keith Wilson
- Military history; American Civil War; African American history and culture; Areas of US politics
Journalism
- Louise North
- Gender and newsroom culture, feminist media studies, women in journalism, media ethics, journalism education, journalism studies, the future of journalism
Public Relations
- Joy Chia
- Community engagement, communication, social capital, regional media, relational contexts, social media and traditional media as part of social capital, crisis and issues management, intercultural communication
- Joanna Kujawa
- Changing PR Practices in Publishing Industries, PR for NGOs (Greenpeace), Governmental PR wrt migration policies, Philosophy of Travel/Travel as Transformation/Travel to sacred Sites/Creative Writing
Psychological Studies
- Mark Symmons
- Road safety: particularly motorcycles, heavy vehicles, fleets, ecodriving, cyclists, risk, driver & rider behaviour; Touch (haptics): psychophysics, cross-modal comparisons, active versus passive touch, touch & virtual reality, presence, telerobotics & remote control & teleoperation; University teaching: technologies, distance student engagement, embeddedness; Medical applications & Counselling: telehealth, assessment & diagnosis of ataxia, use of virtual reality for training & rehabilitation; Sustainability: Environmental psychology, attitudes & behaviour change, climate change adaptation, ecodriving; Sport psychology: recreational cycling, mass particpation events
- George Van Doorn
- Cross-modal integration and domination, haptic and temperature perception, research design and statistics, active and passive perception
Sociology and Social Research
- Harry Ballis
- Work; work and organisations; health; gambling; religion
- Michelle Duffy
- Australian studies; critical theory; cultural theory; ethnicity, immigration, refugees; geography human; globalisation; Indigenous studies; music, culture and society; sociology; social theory
- Catherine Earl
- 20th and 21st century Vietnam, especially Ho Chi Minh City; post-conflict society; social change; social mobility; middle classes; university students; higher education; gender; sexuality and culture; qualitative methodologies; oral history; local history; social anthropology; sociology; sociology of Pierre Bourdieu; social theory
- Nick Osbaldiston
- cultural sociology, social theory, applied sociology, policy, local government issues, climate change adaptation, lifestyle migration, seachange/treechange, migration, Durkheimian social theory, Weberian studies, history of sociologies