There is a diverse array of research undertaken within the Faculty of Arts and Education, ensuring we have supervisors with a broad scope of expertise.
| Name | Content Expertise | Methods Expertise | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aernie, Jeff School of Theology | New Testament Theology; Gospel of Mark; Greek linguistics; Pauline Epistles and Theology | Narrative Criticism; Theological Interpretation | Biblical Studies |
| Afzal, Waseem Information Studies | Human information behaviour; Information and knowledge management; Information communities | ||
| Ansari, Masheed Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation | History of Islam and Muslims in Australia; Oral History & Migration History; Transnational and Transcultural Islamic Movements; Islamic Sacred Texts & Theology; The history of Islamic Thought, Spirituality and Culture; South Asian Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Islamic Studies & Religion & Society. | ||
Armour, Josephine School of Theology | Ecclesiology; Sacraments; Ministry | Systematic Theology | |
| Bacchus, Ruth School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Children's Literature, Young Adult Literature, Colonial and post colonial studies, Pedagogies, Creative Writing | Textual analysis, discourse analysis, qualitative social science methods | English |
Bain, Alan School of Teacher Education | Inclusive Education- learning and Behaviour foci; Inclusive Schools; Educational Technology; Educational Productivity Research; Teaching and Learning (School and University); Teacher Preparation; School and Higher Education Reform and Improvement; School Organisation | Qualitative and Quantitative research approaches; Evaluation Research | Inclusive Education; Teacher Education; School Learning; Educational Technology |
| Bell, Karen School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Post-conventional social work theory; gender; social justice; epistemic justice; ecological social work; psychosocial aspects of assisted reproduction; rural health; rural service delivery; women's health; qualitative research; social work education; international social work and international mobility programs/international social work; global social work | Qualitative methods | Social Work |
| Boetto, Heather School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Environmental justice; disaster resilience; environmental social work practice and education; gender; international social work | Qualitative methods | Social work |
| Bousfield, Kellie School of Education | Educational inequality; Standardised Testing; Social Class; Neoliberalism and Education; Sociology of Childhood; Parenting Cultures; Teaching Status; Education Policy; Social Justice | Qualitative research approaches | Sociology; Education |
| Bowker, Sam School of Communication and Creative Industries | Research methods in art history and curatorship; learning in museum/ gallery contexts; portraiture and self-portraiture; war art; khayamiya (Egyptian tentmaker applique); Australian art; travelling artists; orientalism; anonymity in art history; tourist art; ancient art; nineteenth-century European art; Islamic art and architecture; visual cultures | Object-centered analysis; provenance and art historiography; visual analysis (formal, comparative, iconographic, semiotic and reception theories); postcolonial frameworks; subaltern or vernacular studies, as well as archival research and ethnographic studies | Art History & Visual Culture |
Bowles, Wendy School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Social work practice scholarship, social work research methods, practitioner research, ethics, disability, ecological social work, scholarship of field education (Work Integrated learning) | Qualitative methods, social work research methods | Social work |
Bridges, Donna School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Gender theory; Gender and work; feminist theory; military sociology; resilience at work. | Qualitative methodology; cooperative inquiry; feminist methods. | Sociology |
Brown, Lachlan School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Contemporary Australian Literature; Creative Writing (poetry); Poetry and Poetics; Transnational Literature; Literature and Theology, Asian-Australian Writing; Literature and the Suburbs; Literature and Computer Games | Poetics, Creative Practice, Textual Analysis, Cross-Disciplinary approaches to English, Post-Colonial Analysis, | English/ Creative Writing |
| Cameron, David School of Communication and Creative Industries | Communication; digital media; video games; journalism; drama in education; social media; media production; technology in higher education; digital arts cultures | Qualitative and mixed method; ethnography & autoethnography; multimodal; practice-based research | Communication; Creative Industries; Media Production; Journalism; Drama and Technology |
| Campbell, Heather School of Education | History teaching, Teacher professional identity, cultural awareness | Qualitative | Teacher education |
| Carroll, Mary Information Studies | Information infrastructure; Access and equity; Education in work place; Vocational education and higher education; Libraries and their role in the community; Libraries as social and cultural institutions; Impact of outside agencies particularly philanthropic agencies on the Australian education landscape | ||
| Cash, Belinda School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Informal care giving; spousal care; rural service provision; social policy; ageing in rural areas; mental health and well being | Qualitative research; multiple methods; focus groups; interviews; critical discourse analysis; thematic analysis | Social work; critical social gerontology |
Chen, Ruiwen School of Theology | China Studies | Sociology of Religion; Historiography | Church History |
Cheung, Sau Ching School of Theology | Digital Humanities | Research; Information Technology | Library Sciences |
| Chida, Ignatius School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Migration and ageing issues for first generation migrants particularly from Sub-Saharan Africa; settlement experiences for skilled migrants in rural and regional Australia; Developing cross-cultural competence; Ageing and Informal care giving | Qualitative methods - Phenomenology | Social Work and Human Services |
Chong, Chee Min School of Theology | Old Testament | Textual Criticism | Biblical Studies |
| Clarke, Stephen School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Applied Ethics; Medical Ethics; Professional Ethics; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Moral Psychology; Philosophy of Religion; Conscientious Objection; Human Enhancement; Cognitive Bias; Cognitive Science of Religion; Tolerance; Religion and Violence; Conspiracy Theories | Analytic Philosophy; Naturalistic Philosophy; Empirically Informed Philosophy | |
| Cohen, Daniel School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Free will; moral responsibility; self-control; ethical theory; population ethics | analytic philosophy | |
| Coruh, Hakan Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation | Medieval Exegesis of the Qur'an (Classical tafsir); Modern Qur'an Exegesis (Modern tafsir); Contemporary Islamic thought; Islamic Legal Theories (usul al-fiqh) and Jurisprudence (fiqh); Islamic Theology; Radicalisation, theological ideologies, and counter-radicalisation; Comparative Theology and Interfaith relations; Nursian Studies | Qualitative research methods | |
| Craig, Marie-Louise School of Theology | Hebrew Linguistics; Hebrew and Greek Language; Old Testament/Hebrew Bible | Lexicography; Narrative Criticism in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible | Biblical Studies |
| Crichton, Merrilyn School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Rural mental health, human rights, rural health, lived experience of health and wellbeing, community wellbeing, politics of water and drought, social construction of water and drought, rural social inequality | qualitative research, ethnography, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, ethnomethodology, post structural epistemologies, oral history, narrative research, applied research | Sociology |
| Cumming, Tamara School of Teacher Education | Early childhood education and care; early childhood educators; early childhood practice and politics; well-being; workforce sustainability; policy | Qualitative and post-structural methodologies | |
| Danaia, Lena Teacher Education | Science education; Astronomy education; Teacher education; Transition (primary to high school and high school to tertiary); Teacher professional learning; Classroom practice; Curriculum development | ||
| Daniel, Graham School of Teacher Education | Family School Partnerships; Children's experience of schooling; Early childhood research; Teacher Education | Qualitative methods; (Phenomenology; Discourse analysis; Case study research); Quantitative methods | Education; Primary Education; Early Childhood Education |
| Davidson, Christina School of Education | Digital literacies; Literacies; Young children’s social interactions; Classroom interactions | Ethnomethodology; Conversation analysis | Education |
| Daylight, Russell School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Language, democracy, children's literature, semiotics, continental philosophy | Qualitative, quantitative, discourse analysis | English |
| De Luca, Wendy School of Education | Vocational Education & Training | Grounded Theory | Adult and Vocational Education |
Devasagayam, Gethzi School of Theology | Old Testament/Hebrew Bible; Prophets; Wisdom Literature; Biblical Hebrew; Biblical Hermeneutics | Biblical Criticisms: Historical, literary, narrative, feminist; Dalit hermeneutics | Biblical Studies |
| Doherty, Bernard School of Theology | Church history; Patristics; History of religions; new and alternative religious movements; world religions; religion and media; sociology of religion; Australian history | Church History; Theology | |
| Douglas, Brian School of Theology | Anglican theology; Anglican sacramental theology; especially Eucharistic theology; interfaith dialogue | Theology | |
Duncombe, Rohena School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Anxiety, online study/engagement, homelessness, health service delivery | Qualitative, inclusive and action research | Social Work |
| Edwards-Groves, Christine School of Education | Classroom Interaction, Literacy teaching, Dialogic Pedagogies, Professional learning | Conversation Analysis, thematic analysis, discourse analysis | Education |
| Elwick, Sheena School of Education | Participatory research with early childhood professionals and children; Early years curriculum, assessment, and practice (prior-to-school and primary school settings); infant/toddler practice and pedagogy; early childhood education policy and funding; child development; teachers’ professional development (prior-to-school and primary school settings); early years mathematics education; Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. | Qualitative and mixed-methods research approaches and analysis including using visual research methodologies; philosophical-empirical inquiry; phenomenology; assessment tool design and implementation; Delphi Panels; survey design and implementation; interview design and implementation; Time-Use Diaries; Language Inventories; Temperament and personality questionnaires; observation and development of coding systems; Classroom Assessment Scoring System (Class)-Infant and CLASS-Toddler. | Early Childhood Education (Birth-8) |
| Fenton, Angela School of Education | Child Development, Child Protection, Early Childhood, Strengths Approaches to Education | Qualitative methods, Embedded Case studies, Strengths approaches | Education - Early Childhood |
| Foulcher, Jane School of Theology | Monastic Theology, Christian Spirituality, Christian Mystical traditions | Theology | |
| Francisco, Susanne School of Education | Workplace learning; Professional Learning/Professional Development; Adult and vocational education; Leading Vocational Education and Training (VET) pedagogy | Case studies; The theory of practice architectures (analytical and theoretical framework); Action research | Adult and vocational education; Education |
| Garner, Jane School of Information Studies | Libraries and their role in correctional facilities; libraries and their role in the community; information poverty; access and equity; library services to the disadvantaged and underserved | Qualitative research; phenomenology | Information Studies |
| Garrison, Kasey Information Studies | Educational information services; Teacher librarianship; Academic libraries and libraries in educational settings; Children's and youth literature; Storytelling; e-learning and information literacies in educational contexts (schools and higher education); Educational informatics | ||
| Gates-Stuart, Eleanor School of Communication and Creative Industries | Creative Industries; SciArts; Visual Arts; Digital Video and Print Media; Interactive technologies – museum Installation; Science Communication | Cross-Disciplinary methods; Practice-led research; Interdisciplinary practice; Science-arts visual communication; Exhibition and Museum Installation, Models of Practice, Experiential Materials and Installation | Creative Industries; Communication; Science-Arts; Visualisation, Interactive arts; Innovation Practice |
| Gibson, Suzie School of Humanities and Social Sciences | 19th, 20th and 21st Australia, American and English Literature, Critical Theory, Literary Theory, Film and TV Studies, Popular Culture and Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing | Close Textual Analysis, Analytical Methodologies, Comparative Textual Approaches, Application of Critical Theory with Literary Textual Forms (including Screen Texts). | English |
| Gladwin, Michael School of Theology | Religious, cultural and intellectual history of Australia; Religious history of Britain and the British Empire; History of colonialism and Christian missions; War and religion in Australian history | Historical Research and Methods; Prosopography and Critical Biographical History; Intellectual History | Church History |
| Gottschall, Kristina Indigenous Australian Studies | Cultural studies; Subjectivity (gender; childhood; Indigenous); Post-structuralism; Post-colonialism; Feminist theory | Visual and textual analysis; Discourse analysis; Alternative research methods | |
| Harvey, Robin School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Social Gerontology education; Mental health and ageing; Health promotion with older people; Age-friendly communities | Auto-ethnography | Gerontology |
| Hider, Philip Information Studies | Information organisation; Information retrieval; Information architecture; Online information behaviour; Informetrics; Valuation of library and information services; LIS education | Questionnaire surveys; transaction log analysis; usability/protocol analysis; content analysis; contingent valuation and choice modelling | |
| Holcombe, Jamie School of Communication and Creative Industries | Photography (digital and analogue); Fine Art; Creative Practice; Practice-led research; Exhibitions and Curation; Art Theory; Photographic Melancholy; Urban Landscape; Tanka Poetry; Social Comment Song Writing; Photography/Musicology Collaboration | Practice-led research; Exhibition | Photography / Fine Art |
| Holland, Jonathan School of Theology | Anglican Church History (esp. 20th century; Biography (Bp Philip Strong); Liturgy | Church History; Practical Theology; Biblical Studies | |
| Holland, Travis School of Communication and Creative Industries | Fan studies; digital media; television; communication; higher education pedagogy | Content analysis; Social network analysis; Media studies | Communication; Creative Industries; Media Studies |
| Hyndman, Brendon School of Education | Social Media and Educational Technologies; Active Play and Exploration; Physical Education Across Sectors (Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Education); School Environmental Influences; School Climate Protection; Social-Ecological Model; Physical Activity Participation; School Playground Strategies | Quantitative Methods; Qualitative Methods; Questionnaire Development; Direct Observation; Intervention Research; Document Analysis; Student-Centred Approaches; Leximancer | Personal Development, Health and Physical Education; Teacher Education; Education Across Sectors (Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Education) |
| Iner, Derya Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation | Islamophobia; Muslims in the West and Australia; Religiosity; Women in Islam and Muslim societies; Early 20th century intellectual debates in the Muslim world and its extension today; Early 20th century Muslim Women history | Interdisciplinary study; mixed methods (Questionnaire surveys and interviews); archival research in early periodicals; research in Ottoman archives | |
| Jamali, Hamid R. Information Studies | Human information behaviour; health information; Scholarly communication; scientometrics | Quantitative methods; Statistics; Mixed-methods design; Qualitative data analysis | |
| Jefferson-Buchanan, Rachael School of Education | Physical Education; Fundamental Movement Skills; Creative Arts; Dance; Health and Wellbeing; Yoga/Mindfulness in Education; International Education; Constructions of the Body (e.g. Gender, Class); Foucault; Pedagogy; Curriculum. | Qualitative Methods; Genealogy (particularly in respect of curriculum and policy documents). | Personal Development, Health and Physical Education; Dance; Special Educational Needs; Teacher Education (primary & secondary). |
| Jones, Gareth School of Theology | Christian Doctrine; Hermeneutics | Philosophy; Theology | Theology |
| Jones, Matthew School of Theology | Global Christianity; Theology | Research Methodology | Theology |
| Kater, John School of Theology | Ethics; Ministry; Anglicanism | Quantitative Methods | Theology |
| Kennan, Mary Anne Information Studies | E-research; Data management; Scholarly communication; Information openness; E-participation; Informed participation | Interpretivist approaches; qualitative research methods; Actor-network theory; content analyses | |
| Keskin, Zuleyha Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation | Contemporary Islamic Studies; Islamic Spirituality; Radicalisation | Theological methods; Content analysis | Islamic Studies |
| Kline, Peter School of Theology | Systematic Theology; Soren Kierkegaard; Negative/Apophatic theology; Continental Philosophy; Critical Race Theory; Feminist Theology | Systematic Theology | |
| Lam, Chun Wai School Theology | Liturgy | Textual Preparation | Theology |
| Lamping, Sally School of Teacher Education | Literacy: Adolescent and late primary; literacy acquisition among students with previously interrupted access to formal education; English education; critical and participatory literacy; critical pedagogy, metacognition, and teacher leadership; embedded literacy instruction in STEM programs; Montessori; Project Based Learning; culturally sustaining literacy pedagogies | Qualitative; Participatory Action Research; Cross Discipline Approaches | Literacy; English Education; Educational Leadership |
| Langat, Kiprono School of Education | Teacher education; Workplace learning and development; International education; Critical pedagogy; Socio-cultural studies | Ethnographic research; Case study; Critical discourse analysis | |
| Letts, Will Teacher Education | Science education; Cultural studies of science education; Gender and sexuality in schooling; Teacher education theory and practice | ethnographic methods; queer theory; feminist post-structuralism | |
| Lewis, Robert School of Communication and Creative Industries | Acting, voice and movement | Voice and speech; Accents and dialects; Actor training; Directing for performance; Integrative practices; Performance making | Acting and Performance |
| Lim, Chin Ming (Stephen) School of Theology | Biblical Hermeneutics; Hebrew | Ideological Criticism; Textual Criticism | Biblical Studies |
| Liu, Jianxin (Richard) Teacher Education | TESOL; New learning; Multimodality and multimodal assessment; Gender and masculinity studies; Cultural studies; China and Chinese studies; Post-structural and postcolonial theories | ||
| Logan, Helen School of Teacher Education | Early Childhood Education; quality; policy and policy history; educator well-being; leadership and pedagogical practice | Qualitative research methods; discourse analysis; elite interviews; mixed methods design | |
| Luck, Morgan School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Philosophy of religion; metaphysics; new and alternative religious movements; video game ethics | Analytical Philosophy | Philosophy |
| Lymn, Jessie Information Studies | Collections; especially zines and other DIY and community collections; Archival practices; LGBTQI+ considerations in information studies; Research data management | Qualitative research methods; Ethnography & autoethnography; Discourse analysis; Narrative; Queer theory & scavenger methods | |
| MacDonald, Amy School of Education | Early childhood mathematics education; Primary mathematics education; Mathematics curriculum and pedagogy; Transitions to school; Researching with children; Children's drawings; Representations; Ecological theory; Bronfenbrenner; Prior-to-school and out-of-school contexts; Early childhood STEM education; Professional development for early childhood educators | ||
| Mackenzie, Noella School of Education | Writing acquisition; Writing processes; Writing instruction; Early years literacy; Literacy education; Early reading instruction; Transition; Teacher morale; Teacher status; Teaching awards | Qualitative | |
| Mahony, Linda School of Education | Teacher practice; teacher education; emotional wellbeing; families with complex needs; early childhood education; early childhood workforce; initial teacher education professional experience; literacy | Qualitative methods; interview technique; Grounded Theory | Education |
| Mairata, James School of Communication and Creative Industries | Film and television production and theory including narrative film style; cognitive theory and emotion research; Film History | Film and television production | Media Studies |
| Mansourian, Yazdan School of Information Studies | Human Information Behaviour; Information Activities in Serious Leisure; Everyday Life Information Seeking; Information Grounds; Information Visibility/Invisibility; Information Literacy and Information Society | Qualitative methods; Grounded Theory; Ethnography; Thematic Analysis; Phenomenology; Discourse Analysis; Case Studies and Action Research | Information Science |
| Masterman-Smith, Helen | Environmental sociology; sociology of animals; critical animal studies; sociology of work; labour history; political economy; social movement | ||
| Mathews, Jeanette School of Theology | Old Testament/Hebrew Bible; Biblical Performance Criticism; Biblical Hermeneutics; Hebrew language | Performance Criticism; Historical critical methods of biblical interpretation; literary interpretation of the bible; advocacy interpretation of the bible | Theology; Biblical Studies |
| Mathieson, Ruth School of Theology | Gospels (especially Gospel of Matthew) | Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation (SRI); Narrative, Perspective, Intertexture, Ideological (especially Feminist and Postcolonial), and Socio-Scientific Analysis | Biblical Studies |
| Mawson, Michael School of Theology | Systematic Theology; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Ecclesiology; Martin Luther; Disability Theology; History of Ethics; Phenomenology | Systematic Theology and Ethics | |
| McFarland, Laura School of Education | Early childhood education; Parenting; Parent-educator relationships; Teacher-child relationships; Families; Birth-two education and care; Attachment; Parental well-being and mental health; early childhood environmental sustainability | ||
| McGillion, Chris School of Communication and Creative Industries | Journalism; Development communication; US-Latin American relations; religious sociology (Australia) | Documentary analysis; ethnography | Communication |
| McLeod, Sharynne Teacher Education | Speech-language pathology; Early childhood; Speech; Multilingual | ||
| Mlcek, Susan School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Rural community development; community management; Indigenous ideas and issues; including cross-cultural competencies; volunteering; social capital; cultural capital; human services delivery; narratives from social work and human services; societal issues; for example: social inclusion of homeless people; marginalisation and isolation of refugees and migrants; sociology of education | ||
| Moorhead, Bernadette School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Professional identity; newly qualified social work; early career social work; social work education; study abroad/international mobility programs; phenomenology; qualitative research | Phenomenology; interpretive phenomenological analysis; qualitative research methods; interpretivist approaches | Social work and human services |
| Munday, Jennifer School of Education | Creative Arts (Music, Visual Art, Drama, Dance, Media Art); Theatre Arts. Early Childhood Arts & Technology. Reflective practice; ePortfolio creation and processes. The T and A in STEAM and the T in STEM. | Qualitative methods; Arts-based research including Crystallisation; Bricolage; Ethnotheatre. | Theatre Arts; Creative Arts; Technology; Online Learning |
| Murphy, Steve School of Education | STEM education, Mathematics and science education, student engagement and motivation, rural schools and rural education. | Mixed methods, statistical analysis, case study, basic content and interpretative thematic analysis. | STEM education |
| Murray, Libbey Teacher Education | Early childhood; Transition to school; School adjustment; Kindergarten; Starting school; Learning readiness; Including children in research; Teacher-child relationships; Classroom quality | ||
| Neville, David School of Theology | New Testament Theology; Gospels; Biblical Hermeneutics; Scripture and Ethics; Scripture and Public Theology | Methods appropriate to the study of biblical literature, including historical, literary, and theological modes of analysis | Biblical Studies |
| O'Sullivan, Dominic School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Australian and New Zealand history; Australian and New Zealand politics and policy; Comparative indigenous politics and policy; Education policy and theory; Health policy; Social policy; Public theology/religion and politics | Political science; history; sociology; indigenous studies; public theology; education | |
| Ogden, Steven School of Theology | Systematic Theology; Public Theology; Church and Power; Violence and Masculinity; Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Post-structuralism | Systematic Theology; Theorisation; Conceptual Critique; Interrelated Strategies of Theology, Philosophy, Political philosophy, and Sociology | Theology |
| Owens, Kay Teacher Education | Mathematics education particularly transitions in culture and early childhood education; Geometry and measurement education; Visuospatial reasoning; Ethnomathematics; Evaluation research; Indigenous education particularly in Papua New Guinea and Australia; Curriculum evaluation; Human society and environmental education studies; Integrating ICTs in schools | Mixed methods; Quantitative; Qualitative research | |
| Ozalp, Mehmet Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation | Islam in the West: Islam and West relations, intercultural and interfaith dialogue, social cohesion/multiculturalism in Australian and in the West, Islamophobia, radicalisation, citizenship and integration; Muslim Youth in the West: Muslim youth identity and identity formation, Muslim youth issues in Western societies and in Australia; Islamic theology and its contemporary applications in public theology; Islamic classical and modern history including contemporary religious, cultural, political issues in the Middle East | ||
| Pawar, Manohar School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Social work and social policy; international social work; social development; social consequences of climate change and water; social work education; informal care and ageing; community development | ||
| Pun, Oi Kuan (Odette) School of Theology | Practical Theology | Practical Theology | |
| Qayyum, Asim Information Studies | Human computer/document interaction; Digital libraries; Information and knowledge management; User needs; Information practices | ||
| Ragusa, Angela School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Environmental Sociology; Media Studies, Advertising, & Communication; Cultural studies (animal studies, LGBTIQ); Social Inequality (class, gender, sexuality); Organisational Behaviour (institutional & individual change); Social Psychology (social/self-identity, attitudes); Human Geography (land use, migration, tree/sea-change); Social Control (power & deviance); STS (Sociology of Science & Technology) - education technologies, health/mental health; Leisure & work (materialism/consumerism) | Qualitative & quantitative social research methods (discourse, content & narrative analysis; interviews; surveys; case studies) | |
| Randell-Moon, Holly School of Indigenous Australian Studies | Indigenous media studies; critical race and whiteness studies; communications and new media; feminist media studies; education policy and the knowledge economy; cultural geography, creative cities, and digital infrastructure | Critical and cultural theory; discourse analysis; textual analysis; case studies; ethnography - interviews; qualitative research – mixed methods; Indigenist methodologies | |
| Rees, Anthony School of Theology | Old Testament; Pentateuch; Peace Studies | Narrative Criticism; Postcolonial Criticism | Biblical Studies |
| Robinson, Ian School of Theology | Mission; Evangelism; Leadership | Practical Theology | |
| Rush, Emma School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Professional ethics, Environmental ethics, Sexualisation of children | Conceptual analysis, logical analysis, feminist approaches | Philosophy |
| Sertkaya, Suleyman Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation | Sirah of the Prophet (Biography of Prophet Muhammad) and Sirah Philosophy; Interpretation of Islamic Sacred Texts; Tafsir (Exegesis of the Qur’an) and Hadith (Prophetic Tradition); Islamic Theology; Radicalisation and Islam; Islam and Morality; Oral History, History of Islam and Muslims in Australia | ||
| Simmons, Peter School of Communication and Creative Industries | Organisational communication; internal and external; Principles for professional communication of fairness and legitimacy; Human perspectives on coexistence with non-human animals; Strategies and tactics for communicating the future. | Social media analysis; Surveys; questionnaires; interviews; vignettes | |
| Smith, David | Online learning; Learning design; Educational leadership; Technology assisted pedagogy; Mobile learning; Information literacy and practice | Mixed methods | |
| Thomson, Cathy School of Theology | Soteriology; Ecclesiology; Interface between Language and Theology; Reflective Practice. | Critical Analysis; Qualitative, Quantitative and mixed methods | Theology |
| Tinkler, Jacqueline School of Education | Digital technologies and education, digital technologies in schools and higher education, online learning, and digital technologies in STEM | Qualitative methods, case study, interpretive thematic analysis, and visual methods. | Educational technologies |
| Van Duinen, Jared School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Sports history; colonial/imperial history; cultural history; Australian history; history theory; early modern to modern era British and European history | Qualitative historical methodology | History |
| Velander, Fredrik School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Climate change and mental health; mindfulness; general mental health; community mental health; workplace mental health; addiction; organisational development; community development | Qualitative methods (interviewing, focus groups, survey development, literature reviews, evaluations); Quantitative methods (survey development, data extrapolation) | Human Services |
| Vigliante, Tace Teacher Education | Social justice education; Anti-racism education; Indigenous studies in higher/teacher education; Philosophy for and with children; Philosophical and ethical inquiry in teacher education; Capabilities Approach in education; Society and Environment (social studies) education | ||
| Villar, Oliver School of Humanities and Social Sciences | United States-China-Latin America relations: great power rivalries, the rise of China, US-Colombian relations and politics.Critical security studies: international security and great powers; economic and resource security; territorial conflicts and cross-border security; grand strategy; intra-state conflicts, insurgencies and guerrilla movements.American foreign policy: counterinsurgency and counter terrorism strategy; state violence; civil wars and proxy wars.International political economy: capitalism, globalisation, class analysis and class relations between and within the First World and Third World (or Global North and Global South). | ||
| Wa Mungai, Ndungi School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Refugee and asylum seekers human rights, migrant settlement, food security, social development, sustainability, gender/masculinities, ageing issues for migrants. | Qualitative methods/phenomenological methods | Social Work |
| Wahlin, Willhemina School of Communication and Creative Industries | Design for Social Justice and Human Rights, 'Difficult' exhibition design, Design for civic engagement, Design Thinking, Human-Centred Design | Bricolage, Ethnographic observation, Autoethnographic observation, semiotic analysis, stakeholder analysis, user analysis | Practice-Led Design Research, Communication Design, Exhibition Design, Design for Social Good, Social Semiotics, Critical Hermeneutics |
| Wardle, Sabine School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Ageing in regional-rural areas; ageing and spirituality; end of life care law; palliative care; working with culturally and linguistically diverse(CALD) population groups; grief and loss; social work field education | Social Work and Human Services | |
| West, James | Biblical Studies; Reformation | Textual Criticism | Biblical Studies; Church History |
| Wickeri, Philip | China Studies | Historiography | Church History |
| Winslade, Matthew School of Teacher Education | Health and Physical Education; Health Promotion; Physical Activity; Professional Experience /Work Integrated learning; Intercultural and cultural competence; teacher education; School-university partnerships | Qualitative research methods | Teacher Education |
| Yi, Zhixian Information Studies | Management and leadership for information professionals; Change management; Knowledge management; Marketing techniques; Information needs and use; Digital libraries; Information technology use | Quantitative and qualitative data analysis | |
| Yucel, Salih Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation | Islamic Theology; Quranic Exegesis; Jurisprudence; interfaith relations and contemporary Islamic movements | ||
| Zundans-Fraser, Lucie Teacher Education | Inclusive education; Special education; Gifted education; Course design; Curriculum design; Collaborative practice; Higher education | Qualitative research methods; Design-based research |