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 School of Information and Communication Studies | Information behaviour; Information and Extremism; Public Library Services | Multiple Regression Analysis; Structural Equation Modelling; Factor Analysis; Instrument development and validation; and Content Analysis | Information Science |
| 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; case studies, action research | Communication; Media Production; Journalism; Drama and Technology |
| Campbell, Heather School of Education | History teaching, Teacher professional identity, cultural awareness | Qualitative | Teacher education |
| Carroll, Mary School of Information and Communication Studies | Information infrastructure and architecture; Vocational education and LIS education; Libraries and their role in the community; Libraries as social and cultural institutions; cultural diplomacy and libraries, Library History | Critical historical methods, mixed methods, thematic analysis | Education, history , LIS |
| 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 |
| Cheetham,
Jock School of Information and Communication Studies | Creative non-fiction/literary journalism/feature writing; memoir/life writing/storytelling; ethics of representation; religious persecution in Indonesia; East Timor media. | Qualitative research; autoethnography; memoir. | Journalism; Communication; Media Production |
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 Ethics (Akhlaq) (Medieval to Modern) Islamic theology (Kalam) Classics (on philosophical ethics and spirituality in Medieval period Islamic, Christian, and Jewish literature) Comparative Theology and Interfaith relations Nursian Studies | Qualitative research methods | |
| Cox, Roslyn School of Information and Communication Studies | Communication: strategic communication, crisis communication, organisational communication, research methods, social media, paracrisis, writing, media. | Qualitative research: Integrative Literature Review; Discourse Analysis; Coding (Concept and Theoretical); Phenomenological Analysis and Representation | Communication, Strategy, Research |
| 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 | |
| Curham, Louise School of Infomation and Communication Studies | Audiovisual heritage, archives, records, media art archiving, embodied knowledge | Practice-led research, case study, and ethnography | Archives, audiovisual archives, media art |
| Danaia, Lena School of 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) |
Ergi, Omer Atilla Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation | Islamic Theology, Kalam, Creed, the Quran and hadith. | Theological interpretations, philosophical analysis, comparative analysis of formative, classical and modern Islamic theology, hermeneutics of the Quranic expressions. | Islamic Sciences |
| Erskine, Victoria School of Information and Communication Studies | Strategic communication; public relations; organisational communication; media; wellbeing in communication practice; leadership communication | Qualitative and emerging mixed methods; thematic analysis. | Communication; Communication Management;Media Studies |
| 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 |
| Gagen-Spriggs, Krystal School of Information and Communication Studies | Teacher Librarianship; Education; School Libraries; reading for pleasure | Qualitative research; case studies | Information Studies; Education |
| Garner, Jane School of Information and Communication 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, library social work | Qualitative research; phenomenology; literature analysis; case studies; qualitative interviewing | Information Studies |
| Garrison, Kasey School of Information and Communication Studies | Teacher librarianship; Children's and youth literature; Social justice issues in youth literature; inquiry learning; collections; information literacy in primary and secondary schools; role of teacher librarians | Qualitative methods; content analysis; phenomenology | Education, Information Studies |
| 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 School of Information and Communication 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 | Information Studies |
| 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 Information and Communication Studies | Fan studies; digital media; television; communication; higher education pedagogy; space studies; social media; science communication | Content analysis; Social network analysis; Media studies; Case studies; Interviews | Communication; 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. School of Information and Communication Studies | Scholarly communication, research evaluation, publishing, information behaviour, user studies, libraries | Quantitative methods; Statistics; Mixed-methods design; Qualitative data analysis | Information Science |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Mansourian, Yazdan School of Information and Communication Studies | Human Information Behaviour; Information Activities in Serious Leisure; The Joy of Information; 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 | ||
| 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'Connor, Michelle School of Information and Communication Studies | Radio; Sound Studies; Podcast Studies; Communication; Media Production | Qualitative methods; Creative Practice as Research; Case Study; Textual Analysis; Interviews | Communication; Media Studies |
Oddone, Kay School of Information and Communication Studies | Teacher Librarianship; Networked Learning; Social media; Personal Learning Networks; Digital pedagogies; Critical digital literacy; Open education; Information Literacies in education contexts | Qualitative methods; Case studies; Thematic analysis; Qualitative interviewing | Information Studies; 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 School of Information and Communication Studies | Library services/program evaluation, Human computer/document interaction; Information and knowledge management; User needs; Information practices | Qualitative methods; Thematic analysis; Qualitative interviewing | Information Studies; Education |
| 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 | ||
| Smith, David | Online learning; Learning design; Educational leadership; Technology assisted pedagogy; Mobile learning; Information literacy and practice | Mixed methods | |
Tait, Elizabeth School of Information and Communication Studies | Information engagement in immersive environments; 3D visualisation; cultural analytics; digital transformation of arts and culture; digital curation; community archives | Mixed methods, qualitative (inc. interviews, focus groups and narrative critical inquiry), quantitative including SEM, social network analysis (although it has been a while), | Information Studies |
| 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 |
Wakeling, Simon | Open Access; Scholarly Communication; Public Libraries; Graph Literacy | Mixed methods; Qualitative research; Survey research; Bibliometrics; Case Studies | Information Studies |
| Wallis, Rachel School of Information and Communication Studies | Abstract Animation & Experimental Cinema, Editing theory & practice, Traditional Animation practice, Animation history, Digital post-production | Phenomenology, Case Studies, Deconstructive / Baudrillardian, Practice-led research | DCC |
| 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 School of Information and Communication 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 | Information Studies |
| 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 |