Research Expertise
Name | Content Expertise | Methods Expertise | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
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 |
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 | Environmental justice; disaster resilience; environmental social work practice and education; gender; international social work | Qualitative methods | Social work |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Chida, Ignatius | 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 |
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 | |
School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Free will; moral responsibility; self-control; ethical theory; population ethics | analytic philosophy | |
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 |
Daylight, Russell | Language, democracy, children's literature, semiotics, continental philosophy | Qualitative, quantitative, discourse analysis | English |
School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Anxiety, online study/engagement, homelessness, health service delivery | Qualitative, inclusive and action research | Social Work |
Gibson, Suzie | 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 |
School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Social Gerontology education; Mental health and ageing; Health promotion with older people; Age-friendly communities | Auto-ethnography | Gerontology |
School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Philosophy of religion; metaphysics; new and alternative religious movements; video game ethics | Analytical Philosophy | Philosophy |
Environmental sociology; sociology of animals; critical animal studies; sociology of work; labour history; political economy; social movement | |||
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 | 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 |
O'Sullivan, Dominic | 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 | |
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 | ||
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) | |
School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Professional ethics, Environmental ethics, Sexualisation of children | Conceptual analysis, logical analysis, feminist approaches | Philosophy |
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 | 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 |
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 | 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 |
Wardle, Sabine | 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 |