Dr David Farrugia

Honorary Senior Lecturer

School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Career Summary

Biography

Research Expertise
My research specialisations include sociological explorations of youth, with a particular focus on the relationship between identities and youth inequalities, as well as contemporary sociological theory.

I have researched and published in the area of youth homelessness, focusing on the identities, embodied experiences and personal relationships which emerge during the experience of homelessness for young people. My Post-Doctoral work explored the relationship between globalisation, national geographical inequalities, and the identities and biographies of young people in regional Victoria. In all cases my work is concerned with exploring young people's identities as a means of understanding the production and reproduction of contemporary youth inequalities.

I have also researched and published in the area of contemporary sociological theory, with a particular focus on theories of social change, practice theories, and the intersections between sociological and geographical thinking.

In the course of my research I have explored the means by which young people make sense of and navigate their lives, and connected these navigations with the inequalities that differentiate young people's lives from one another. The youth period is becoming increasingly insecure and difficult to negotiate, especially for young people from lower social classes and those in rural areas. In my work on youth homelessness, and rural and regional youth, I have documented ways in which young people are actively responding to these inequalities and the social pressures that impact on youth in contemporary capitalist societies.

Teaching Expertise
Sociology

Identities

Sociological Studies of Youth

Sociological Studies of Space and Place

Rural and Regional Sociology

Contemporary Sociological Theory


Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours)(Psychology), Australian National University

Keywords

  • Homelessness
  • Rural Youth
  • SOCA3230 Identity and Culture
  • Social Change
  • Sociological Theory
  • Youth
  • Youth Inequality

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
441015 Sociology of the life course 50
441004 Social change 25
441005 Social theory 25

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title Organisation / Department
Senior Lecturer University of Newcastle
School of Humanities and Social Science
Australia
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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.


Book (4 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2022 Farrugia D, Ravn S, 'Youth Beyond the City: Thinking from the Margins', 1-261 (2022)

This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in places of spatial marginality around the world, dismantling the privileging of urban youth, urban locat... [more]

This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in places of spatial marginality around the world, dismantling the privileging of urban youth, urban locations and urban ways of life in youth studies and beyond. Expert authors investigate different dimensions of spatiality including citizenship, materiality and belonging, and develop new understandings of the complex relationships between place, history, politics and education. From Australia to India, Myanmar to Sweden, and the UK to Central America, international examples from both the Global South and North help to illuminate wider issues of intergenerational change, social mobility and identity. By exploring young lives beyond the city, this book establishes different ways of thinking from a position of spatial marginality. Chapter 10 is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Citations Scopus - 8
2021 Farrugia D, 'Youth, Work and the Post-Fordist Self' (2021) [A1]
Citations Scopus - 2
2018 Farrugia D, 'Spaces of youth: Work, citizenship and culture in a global context', 1-140 (2018) [A1]
DOI 10.4324/9781315692272
Citations Scopus - 3
2016 Farrugia D, Youth homelessness in late modernity: reflexive identities and moral worth, Springer, Singapore, 172 (2016) [A1]
DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-685-0
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Chapter (11 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2024 Farrugia D, Woodman D, Leccardi C, 'Time, space, and place: Dimensions of childhood and youth', 649-664 (2024)

This introductory chapter explores space, place, and time as dimensions of childhood and youth. Exploring space and time is a way of moving beyond universal and homogeneous unders... [more]

This introductory chapter explores space, place, and time as dimensions of childhood and youth. Exploring space and time is a way of moving beyond universal and homogeneous understandings of childhood and youth that are drawn from the metropolitan centers of the global north. It is a way of developing new perspectives on the biographies, identities, and social inequalities that shape young lives across the globe. The chapter covers the theoretical meaning of concepts such as space, place, and scale and draws on these concepts in order to capture the local, national, and global diversity of contemporary childhood and youth. The chapter also critically interrogates the notions of time that are brought to bear on childhood and youth, including the contradictory temporalities of contemporary young lives, and the way that concepts of space and time interact in different concepts of childhood and youth such as in concepts of development or "transition." Finally, the concept of place draws attention to the way that history and materiality come together to shape the everyday lifeworlds of youth, as well as the social divisions that structure different youth identities and biographical experiences.

DOI 10.1007/978-981-99-8606-4_25
2022 Farrugia D, Ravn S, 'Introduction: Thinking from the Margins', 1-17 (2022)
Citations Scopus - 5
2021 Threadgold S, Farrugia D, Coffey J, 'Challenging the Structure/Agency Binary: Youthful Culture, Labour and Embodiments', 15-29 (2021) [B1]
DOI 10.4324/9780429324314-3
Citations Scopus - 5
Co-authors Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey
2020 McGregor JR, Farrugia D, 'Doing Research in Organisations: Implications of the Different Definitions of Youth', 33-45 (2020) [B1]
DOI 10.4324/9780429424489-3
Citations Scopus - 5
2020 Kalemba J, Farrugia D, 'Coloniality, Racialization, and Epistemicide in African Youth Mobilities', 217-226 (2020) [B1]

This essay explores the experiences of Black African youth migrating to and working in an Australian regional town using the concepts of epistemicide and coloniality of labor. Dra... [more]

This essay explores the experiences of Black African youth migrating to and working in an Australian regional town using the concepts of epistemicide and coloniality of labor. Drawing on qualitative interviews conducted with twenty Black African youth in Australia, colonial violence is highlighted by demonstrating how these young people negotiate Australia's immigration regime which seeks to produce docile, colonial subjects of value to the Australian national labour force. This essay argues that aspects of epistemicide are enacted when young immigrants are required to position themselves as desirable residents under terms that eliminate their existing ways of knowing themselves and the world. Meanwhile they occupy devalorized positions critical to economic transformations taking place because of deindustrialization. Conclusions reflect on the value of producing knowledge from African youths' position as a critical step toward uncovering colonial violence and realizing a decolonized Youth Studies.

DOI 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190930028.013.15
Citations Scopus - 4
2019 Farrugia D, 'Foreword', v-vii (2019)
2015 Farrugia DM, 'Space and place in studies of childhood and youth', 609-624 (2015) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-981-4451-15-4_25
Citations Scopus - 2
2015 Farrugia DM, Smyth J, Harrison T, ''Vulnerable', 'At-Risk', 'Disengaged': Regional Young People', Interrogating Conceptions of 'Vulnerable Youth' in Theory, Policy and Practice, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam 165-180 (2015) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-94-6300-121-2_11
2013 Farrugia DM, 'The Possibility of Symbolic Violence in Interviews with Young People Experiencing Homelessness.', Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research, Routledge, New York 109-121 (2013) [B1]
Citations Scopus - 2
2012 Farrugia D, 'The Possibility of Symbolic Violence in Interviews With Young People Experiencing Homelessness', Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research 109-121 (2012)

Research with young people experiencing homelessness raises difficult questions concerning the meaning of ethical practices in youth research. Homelessness is a particularly acute... [more]

Research with young people experiencing homelessness raises difficult questions concerning the meaning of ethical practices in youth research. Homelessness is a particularly acute example of the kinds of material inequalities that structure the biographies and identities of contemporary young people. Moreover, youth homelessness is often experienced as a stigmatised difference, and creates the conditions for a unique form of affective suffering which I have elsewhere argued is best understood by examining the material and cultural processes which make up homeless young people's identities (Farrugia 2011a). In this chapter, I want to examine what it means to do ethical research with young people experiencing homelessness given the suffering and stigmatisation that is experienced by these young people and documented by past research (Kidd 2007). In particular, I draw on my experience of conducting face-to-face interviews with young people experiencing homelessness in Melbourne in order to explore the ethical problems that researching homelessness and identity construction can raise, and relate these problems to the frameworks currently used to assess the ethics of youth research. Drawing on both a discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of contemporary ethical frameworks and examples of ethically problematic research encounters, this chapter argues that research with young people experiencing homelessness raises ethical questions that are unable to be addressed within current ethical guidelines.

DOI 10.4324/9780203140796-16
Citations Scopus - 1
2010 Farrugia DM, Watson J, '"If anyone helps you then you're a failure": Youth Homelessness, Identity, and Relationships in Late Modernity.', For We Are Young And...?, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic 142-157 (2010)
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Conference (6 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2022 Threadgold S, Coffey J, Cook J, Farrugia D, 'Young People as Indebted Subjects' (2022)
Co-authors Julia Cook, Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold
2022 Coffey J, Threadgold S, Farrugia D, 'Young Hospitality Workers and Value Creation in the Service Economy' (2022)
Co-authors Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold
2022 Threadgold S, Coffey J, Farrugia D, 'Youthful Labour' (2022)
Co-authors Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold
2021 Farrugia D, Coffey J, Cook J, Threadgold S, 'COVID as a Crisis of Post-Fordist Labour: Young Hospitality Workers' (2021)
Co-authors Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold, Julia Cook
2018 Threadgold S, Coffey J, Farrugia D, 'Scenes, bar work and immaterial labour: The reflexive and ironic reproduction of class' (2018)
Co-authors Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold
2016 Farrugia D, Threadgold SR, Coffey J, 'Affective Labour: Towards a New Research Agenda for Youth Studies.' (2016)
Co-authors Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey
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Journal article (54 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2025 Farrugia D, 'Sexual Harassment and Service Labor: Strategies and Relational Practices', Gender Work and Organization, 32, 1580-1592 (2025) [C1]

Sexual harassment and gender-based violence are longstanding concerns in studies of service work, but are typically analyzed in terms of interactions between workers and consumers... [more]

Sexual harassment and gender-based violence are longstanding concerns in studies of service work, but are typically analyzed in terms of interactions between workers and consumers within gendered definitions of "good service," neglecting the role of relationships amongst workers as a critical context that facilitates or constrains how workers can respond. However, literature on young women and harassment in leisure settings shows that women's safety is an ongoing relational construction¿something that women achieve together through relational work. Inspired by these insights and drawing on interviews with service workers, this paper explores how workers respond to sexual harassment from customers, managers and co-workers, and shows how workers¿primarily women but also sometimes men as well¿collaborate in managing sexual harassment at work. The paper therefore argues for a relational analysis of the way that women negotiate the gendered and heterosexualized power relationships of service labor.

DOI 10.1111/gwao.13251
2025 Threadgold S, Shannon B, Haro A, Cook J, Davies K, Coffey J, Farrugia D, Matthews B, Healy J, Burrows R, 'Buy Now, Pay Later technologies and the gamification of debt in the financial lives of young people', Journal of Cultural Economy, 18, 52-67 (2025) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/17530350.2024.2346210
Citations Scopus - 4Web of Science - 2
Co-authors Ben Matthews, Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold, Julia Cook, Adriana Haro, Kate Davies
2025 Farrugia D, 'Post-industrial worker-citizenship', Journal of Youth Studies (2025) [C1]

This paper explores the everyday, informal politics of service work for young people, and suggests new research agendas in the area of youth, citizenship and work. In youth studie... [more]

This paper explores the everyday, informal politics of service work for young people, and suggests new research agendas in the area of youth, citizenship and work. In youth studies, perspectives on citizenship and work remain based on a paradigm focused on the formal entitlements granted to male industrial workers by the post-war welfare state, and therefore regard citizenship as a normative status that has been eroded by precarity. In contrast, this paper develops concepts of everyday or lived citizenship to explore how service workers critically engage with the power relations they encounter at work. The paper explores how workers make (or are prevented from making) claims for just treatment, how their informal relationalities and modes of belonging shape their working conditions, and how the dynamics of racialisation and everyday multiculturalism shape young people's capacity to exercise political agency. It therefore shows that informal citizenship is foundational to the power relations and working conditions of contemporary youth labour and re-positions of paid employment work as critical to discussions of everyday citizenship.

DOI 10.1080/13676261.2024.2446958
2024 Coffey J, Senior K, Haro A, Farrugia D, Threadgold S, Cook J, Davies K, Shannon B, 'Embodying debt: youth, consumer credit and its impacts for wellbeing', Journal of Youth Studies, 27(5): 685-705., 685-705 (2024) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2022.2162376
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 9
Co-authors Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold, Julia Cook, Adriana Haro, Kate Senior, Kate Davies
2024 Davies K, Cook J, Threadgold S, Farrugia D, Coffey J, Matthews B, Healy J, '“Winging it”: How youth workers navigate debt with young people', Children and Youth Services Review, 163, 107771-107771 (2024) [C1]
DOI 10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107771
Co-authors Ben Matthews, Kate Davies, Julia Cook, Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey
2024 Farrugia D, Coffey J, Gill R, Sharp M, Threadgold S, 'Youth and hospitality work: Skills, subjectivity and affective labour', JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY [C1]

Hospitality is popularly regarded as unskilled work and the industry relies on a young labour force. This paper examines the role of youth in the way that the 'unskilled&apos... [more]

Hospitality is popularly regarded as unskilled work and the industry relies on a young labour force. This paper examines the role of youth in the way that the 'unskilled' status of hospitality labour is defined and contested by workers. Drawing on qualitative data collected with hospitality workers, the paper creates new connections between theories of affective labour, the politics of skills, and conceptions of youth in relation to work. The paper shows that the capacity to be 'fun' and produce affects of enjoyment in hospitality venues is essentialised as an attribute of youth, who are regarded as essentially unskilled. Youth is enacted in the social relations of affective labour, including the requirement to produce affects of enjoyment. The paper shows how theories of affective labour can be developed to consider the materialities of low-wage service employment and demonstrates the significance of youthful subjectivities to social relations of hospitality work.

DOI 10.1177/14407833241252486
Citations Scopus - 2Web of Science - 1
Co-authors Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey
2024 Avagianou A, Gialis S, Farrugia D, 'Precarious Youthspaces of Work and Diverse Economies in the EU South: A Conceptualization Attempt', Young, 32, 473-489 (2024) [C1]

Youth disengagement is widespread in the less developed regions of advanced capitalism, and precarity is constantly (re)produced in the youth labour markets there. In this context... [more]

Youth disengagement is widespread in the less developed regions of advanced capitalism, and precarity is constantly (re)produced in the youth labour markets there. In this context, 'diverse economies' such as the social economy (SE) and the digital platform-induced sharing economy (DPSE) have emerged as policy solutions to pressing social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly in the south of the EU. However, most relevant studies examine labour in these new economies without considering the socio-spatial and political factors at play. This article proposes a spatially sensitive conceptualization of the relationship between youth disengagement and employment in the SE and DPSE. Drawing on key concepts from critical geography and geographical political economy, as well as recent research on the spatiality of youth, the article suggests that contemporary 'precarious youthspaces of work' are created by¿and embedded in¿'dismantled techno-spatial fixes' and discusses the reciprocal relationship between such youthspaces and diverse economies.

DOI 10.1177/11033088241261001
Citations Scopus - 1
2024 Farrugia D, 'Ambient citizenship and noise in the service economy: young people and the everyday politics of work', Citizenship Studies, 28, 516-531 (2024) [C1]

This paper explores the informal citizenship practices of young service workers, and develops concepts of lived citizenship, ambient citizenship and political 'noise' in... [more]

This paper explores the informal citizenship practices of young service workers, and develops concepts of lived citizenship, ambient citizenship and political 'noise' into an analysis of the everyday politics of service labour. Drawing on interviews with young people working in retail, hospitality and call centres the paper examines the embodied interactions and relations of mutual reciprocity through which they experience and contest the power relations and gender inequalities of low-wage precarious work. The paper suggests ways of conceptualising the citizenship practices of young workers beyond the limited formal protections offered by the state, instead developing an analysis of the informal relationalities and political 'noise' of the service labour process.

DOI 10.1080/13621025.2024.2421280
Citations Scopus - 1
2024 Cook J, Farrugia D, Threadgold S, Coffey J, 'The impact of pandemic-related loss of work on young adults’ plans', Journal of Youth Studies, 27, 439-454 (2024) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2022.2136989
Citations Scopus - 3
Co-authors Julia Cook, Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey
2024 Threadgold S, Molnar L, Sharp M, Coffey J, Farrugia D, 'Hospitality workers and gentrification processes: Elective belonging and reflexive complicity', The British Journal of Sociology, 75, 892-907 (2024) [C1]

This paper contributes new understandings of the dynamics and processes of gentrification that contribute to wider transformations of class relations. We argue that the hospitalit... [more]

This paper contributes new understandings of the dynamics and processes of gentrification that contribute to wider transformations of class relations. We argue that the hospitality sector, specifically the tastes, dispositions and practices of young hospitality workers, are central in how gentrification processes currently function. We extend concepts of elective and selective belonging, and reflexive complicity, to analyse how young hospitality workers understand their own labouring practices as contributing to gentrification in their local areas. We show how their aesthetic and ethical orientations to place, especially their workplaces, make their experience of hospitality work more palatable. At the same time, their tastes are 'put to work' in venues that contribute to the vibes and aesthetics aimed at middle class consumption practices, while creating symbolic boundaries for long-term residents who are being ostracised in the process. In this way, the high cultural capital bar workers possess thus become spatial bouncers for high economic capital property developers, where reflexive complicity is instrumentalised as a process of symbolic violence. We propose that hospitality labour, and the everyday relationalities and working practices of young workers, are crucial for understanding the contemporary processes of gentrification and class formation.

DOI 10.1111/1468-4446.13138
Citations Scopus - 2
Co-authors Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold
2024 Threadgold S, Coffey J, Farrugia D, Cook J, 'Indebtpending: an ugly feeling of youthful financialised futurity', Journal of Youth Studies, Online Early, 1-16 (2024) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2024.2371014
Citations Scopus - 1
Co-authors Steven Threadgold, Julia Cook, Julia Coffey
2023 Cook J, Davies K, Farrugia D, Threadgold S, Coffey J, Senior K, Haro A, Shannon B, 'Buy now pay later services as a way to pay: credit consumption and the depoliticization of debt', CONSUMPTION MARKETS & CULTURE, 26, 245-257 (2023) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/10253866.2023.2219606
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 8
Co-authors Steven Threadgold, Kate Senior, Kate Davies, Julia Cook, Julia Coffey, Adriana Haro
2023 Farrugia D, Coffey J, Threadgold S, Adkins L, Gill R, Sharp M, Cook J, 'Hospitality work and the sociality of affective labour', The Sociological Review, 71, 47-64 (2023) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/00380261221121233
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 7
Co-authors Julia Cook, Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold
2023 Coffey J, Farrugia D, Gill R, Threadgold S, Sharp M, Adkins L, 'Femininity work: The gendered politics of women managing violence in bar work', Gender, Work and Organization, 30, 1694-1708 (2023) [C1]
DOI 10.1111/gwao.13006
Citations Scopus - 7Web of Science - 3
Co-authors Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold
2022 Farrugia D, Cook J, Senior K, Threadgold S, Coffey J, Davies K, Haro A, Shannon B, 'Youth and the consumption of credit', Current Sociology, Online Early (2022) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/00113921221114925
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1
Co-authors Kate Davies, Kate Senior, Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey, Adriana Haro, Julia Cook
2022 Sharp M, Farrugia D, Coffey J, Threadgold S, Adkins L, Gill R, 'Queer subjectivities in hospitality labor', Gender, Work and Organization, 29, 1511-1525 (2022) [C1]
DOI 10.1111/gwao.12844
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 8
Co-authors Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold
2021 Farrugia D, Zerafa C, Cini T, Kuasney B, Livori K, 'A Real-Time Prescriptive Solution for Explainable Cyber-Fraud Detection Within the iGaming Industry', SN Computer Science, 2 (2021) [C1]

This paper presents a real-time fully autonomous prescriptive solution for explainable cyber-fraud detection within the iGaming industry. We demonstrate how our solution facilitat... [more]

This paper presents a real-time fully autonomous prescriptive solution for explainable cyber-fraud detection within the iGaming industry. We demonstrate how our solution facilitates the time-consuming task of player risk and fraud assessment through prescriptive analytics. Our tool leverages machine learning algorithms and advancements in the field of eXplainable AI to derive smarter predictions empowered by local interpretable explanations in real-time. Our best-performing pipeline was able to predict fraudulent behaviour with an average precision of 84.2% and an area under the receiver operating characteristics of 0.82 on our dataset. We also addressed the phenomenon of concept-drift and discussed our empirical and data-driven strategy for detecting and dealing with this problem. Finally, we cover how local interpretable explanations can help adopt a pro-active stance in fighting fraud.

DOI 10.1007/s42979-021-00623-7
Citations Scopus - 17
2021 Gerrard J, Farrugia D, 'Class, affective labour and exploitation: Unemployment and the creation of work on the margins', SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 69, 240-255 (2021) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/0038026120962671
Citations Scopus - 4Web of Science - 3
2021 Farrugia D, 'Youth, Work and 'Career' as a Way of Talking about the Self', WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY, 35, 856-871 (2021) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/0950017020947576
Citations Scopus - 2Web of Science - 17
2021 Farrugia D, 'Youth, work and global capitalism: new directions', JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES, 24, 372-387 (2021) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2020.1729965
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 6
2021 Cook J, Threadgold S, Farrugia D, Coffey J, 'Youth, Precarious Work and the Pandemic', YOUNG, 29, 331-348 (2021) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/11033088211018964
Citations Scopus - 3Web of Science - 2
Co-authors Julia Cook, Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold
2021 Coffey J, Cook J, Farrugia D, Threadgold S, Burke PJ, 'Intersecting marginalities: International students' struggles for “survival” in COVID-19', Gender, Work & Organization, 28, 1337-1351-1337-1351 (2021) [C1]
DOI 10.1111/gwao.12610
Citations Scopus - 5Web of Science - 3
Co-authors Pennyjane Burke, Julia Cook, Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey
2021 Threadgold S, Farrugia D, Coffey J, 'Affective labour and class distinction in the night-time economy', The Sociological Review, 69, 1013-1028 (2021) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/00380261211006329
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 9
Co-authors Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey
2020 Farrugia D, 'Class, place and mobility beyond the global city: stigmatisation and the cosmopolitanisation of the local', Journal of Youth Studies, 23, 237-251 (2020) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2019.1596236
Citations Scopus - 3Web of Science - 2
2019 Farrugia D, 'How youth become workers: Identity, inequality and the post-Fordist self', JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, 55, 708-723 (2019) [C1]

Post-Fordism describes a situation in which precarity and un/underemployment becomes normalised while the requirement for young people to seek subjectivity through work is intensi... [more]

Post-Fordism describes a situation in which precarity and un/underemployment becomes normalised while the requirement for young people to seek subjectivity through work is intensified. In this context, this article draws on interviews with youth living in regions of high youth unemployment to examine how young people create identities as workers. The article shows that young people approach the cultivation of a working self in terms of how the capacity for productive labour contributes to projects of 'self-realisation'. Classed subjectivities are formed through the different ethics through which young people approach the formation of the self as a worker. This demonstrates how the disciplinary requirements of work contribute to the contemporary experience of class among youth. The article concludes by suggesting that generational shifts in the experience of youth currently associated with employment insecurity can be usefully understood in terms of the dynamics of post-Fordist labouring subjectivities.

DOI 10.1177/1440783319865028
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 9
2019 Farrugia D, 'Class and the post-Fordist work ethic: Subjects of passion and subjects of achievement in the work society', SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 67, 1086-1101 (2019) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/0038026118825234
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 10
2019 Farrugia D, Hanley JE, Sherval M, Askland HH, Askew MG, Coffey JE, Threadgold SR, 'The local politics of rural land use: Place, extraction industries and narratives of contemporary rurality', JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, 55, 306-322 (2019) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/1440783318773518
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1
Co-authors Meg Sherval, Joanne Hanley, Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey, Hedda Askland
2019 Farrugia D, 'The formation of young workers: The cultivation of the self as a subject of value to the contemporary labour force', CURRENT SOCIOLOGY, 67, 47-63 (2019) [C1]

This article explores the practices through which young people cultivate themselves as subjects of value to the post-Fordist labour force. In this, the article goes beyond an exis... [more]

This article explores the practices through which young people cultivate themselves as subjects of value to the post-Fordist labour force. In this, the article goes beyond an existing emphasis on young people's 'transitions' through employment, to a focus on the practices through which young people are formed as labouring subjects, and therefore on the relationship between youth subjectivities and post-Fordist labour force formation. Theoretically, the article builds upon increasingly influential suggestions in studies of post-Fordism that the formation of post-Fordist workers now takes place through the conversion of the whole of a subject's life into the capacity for labour, including affective styles, modes of relationality, and characteristics usually not considered as productive dimensions of the self. In this context, the article shows that whilst young people form themselves as workers through practices that are not specific to institutionalised definitions of education and labour, these practices ¿ and the modes of selfhood they aim to cultivate ¿ vary in ways that contribute to classed divisions within post-Fordist societies. In this, the study of the formation of young workers offers a critical insight into the way that the formation of subjectivities intertwines with the disciplinary requirements of post-Fordist labour in their classed manifestations.

DOI 10.1177/0011392118793681
Citations Scopus - 2Web of Science - 15
2018 Farrugia D, 'Youthfulness and immaterial labour in the new economy', Sociological Review, 66, 511-526 (2018) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/0038026117731657
Citations Scopus - 3Web of Science - 3
2018 Sherval M, Askland H, Askew M, Hanley J, Farrugia D, Threadgold SR, Coffey J, 'Farmers as modern-day stewards and the rise of new rural citizenship in the battle over land use', Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability, 23, 100-116 (2018) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13549839.2017.1389868
Citations Scopus - 2Web of Science - 1
Co-authors Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold, Joanne Hanley, Hedda Askland, Meg Sherval
2018 Threadgold SR, Farrugia D, Askland H, Askew M, Hanley J, Sherval M, Coffey J, 'Affect, risk and local politics of knowledge: changing land use in Narrabri, NSW', Environmental Sociology, 4, 393-404 (2018) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/23251042.2018.1463673
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1
Co-authors Steven Threadgold, Joanne Hanley, Meg Sherval, Julia Coffey, Hedda Askland
2018 Threadgold SR, Farrugia D, Coffey J, 'Young subjectivities and affective labour in the service economy', Journal of Youth Studies, 21, 272-287 (2018) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2017.1366015
Citations Scopus - 5Web of Science - 5
Co-authors Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey
2018 Coffey J, Threadgold SR, Farrugia D, Sherval M, Hanley J, Askew M, Askland H, '‘If you lose your youth, you lose your heart and your future’: Affective figures of youth in community tensions surrounding a proposed Coal Seam Gas project', Sociologica Ruralis, 58, 665-683 (2018) [C1]
DOI 10.1111/soru.12204
Citations Scopus - 8Web of Science - 6
Co-authors Joanne Hanley, Hedda Askland, Meg Sherval, Julia Coffey, Steven Threadgold
2018 Coffey JE, Farrugia DM, Adkins L, Threadgold SR, 'Gender, Sexuality, and Risk in the Practice of Affective Labour for Young Women in Bar Work', SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE, 23, 728-743 (2018) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/1360780418780059
Citations Scopus - 3Web of Science - 3
Co-authors Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey
2017 Farrugia D, Wood BE, 'Youth and Spatiality: Towards Interdisciplinarity in Youth Studies', YOUNG, 25, 209-218 (2017) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/1103308817712036
Citations Scopus - 5Web of Science - 34
2016 Farrugia D, Gerrard J, 'Academic Knowledge and Contemporary Poverty: The Politics of Homelessness Research', Sociology, 50 267-284 (2016) [C1]

This article explores the field of homelessness research in relation to the dynamics of contemporary inequality and governmentality, arguing that the dominant perspectives within ... [more]

This article explores the field of homelessness research in relation to the dynamics of contemporary inequality and governmentality, arguing that the dominant perspectives within this field have developed in ways that can converge with the demands of neoliberal governance. The article discusses the causal focus of much homelessness research, the emergence of the 'orthodoxy' of homelessness research and new approaches emphasising subjectivity and arguing for a 'culture of homelessness'. We suggest that homelessness has been constructed as a discrete analytical object extraordinary to the social relations of contemporary inequality. The authority to represent homelessness legitimately has been constituted through positioning 'the homeless' outside of a community of valorised and normatively legitimate subjectivities. The article concludes with reflections on an alternative politics of homelessness research that moves towards a critical engagement with the position of homelessness within the structural dynamics of late modernity.

DOI 10.1177/0038038514564436
Citations Scopus - 67Web of Science - 47
2016 Farrugia D, Smyth J, Harrison T, 'Affective Topologies of Rural Youth Embodiment', Sociologia Ruralis, 1-17 (2016) [C1]

This article explores the affective, embodied dimensions of young rural people's relationship with space and place. Relationship with space and place has been recognised as a... [more]

This article explores the affective, embodied dimensions of young rural people's relationship with space and place. Relationship with space and place has been recognised as a significant dimension of rural youths' subjectivities but it has been primarily understood through representational perspectives which focus on young people's perceptions, images, or discursive constructions of their local places. In contrast, this article draws on non-representational approaches to subjectivity and space to highlight the embodied, sensuous entanglements between young people's subjectivities and the spaces they have inhabited and experienced. Qualitative data gathered as part of a project exploring youths' subjectivities in regional Australia shows that young people's experience of their rural locale, as well as their relationship to the city, reflect an affective topology of relations of proximity and rhythmic tempo which emerges from the relationship between the space of their bodily hexis and the spaces and places they are situated within. These non-representational, embodied processes are intrinsic to rural youths' subjectivities and structure how young people approach and navigate their futures. © 2015 The Authors. Sociologia Ruralis

DOI 10.1111/soru.12077
Citations Web of Science - 3
2016 Farrugia D, Smyth J, Harrison T, 'Moral distinctions and structural inequality: Homeless youth salvaging the self', The Sociological Review, 64, 238-255 (2016) [C1]

This paper explores the construction and contestation of moral distinctions as a dimension of contemporary structural inequality through a focus on the subjectivities constructed ... [more]

This paper explores the construction and contestation of moral distinctions as a dimension of contemporary structural inequality through a focus on the subjectivities constructed by young people who have experienced homelessness. Empirical material from two research projects shows that in young people's narratives of homelessness, material insecurity intertwines with the moral economies at work in neoliberal capitalist societies to construct homelessness as a state of moral disgrace, in which an ungovernable experience is experienced as a moral failure. When young people gain access to secure housing, the increasing stability and security of their lives is narrated in terms of a moral adherence to personal responsibility and disciplined conduct. Overall the paper describes an economy of worth organized around distinctions between order and chaos, self-governance and unruliness, morality and disgrace, which structures the experience of homelessness. As young people's position in relation to these moral ideals reflects the material conditions of their lives, their experiences demonstrate the way that moral hierarchies contribute to the existence and experience of structural inequalities in neoliberal capitalist societies.

DOI 10.1111/1467-954X.12252
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1
2016 Farrugia D, 'The mobility imperative for rural youth: the structural, symbolic and non-representational dimensions rural youth mobilities', JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES, 19, 836-851 (2016) [C1]

ABSTRACT: Mobilities of money, symbols and young people themselves are central to the formation of the contemporary youth period. While rural young people remain marginal to theor... [more]

ABSTRACT: Mobilities of money, symbols and young people themselves are central to the formation of the contemporary youth period. While rural young people remain marginal to theoretical development in youth studies, this paper shows that mobilities are especially significant for rural youth, who experience a kind of mobility imperative created by the accelerating concentration of economic and cultural capital in cities. Drawing on theory and evidence from contexts including Europe, Australia, Africa and South America, this paper explores the mobility imperative for rural youth and offers a new theoretical framework for understanding rural youth mobilities. The framework understands mobilities across three dimensions: the structural, the symbolic and the non-representational. These dimensions refer to material inequalities between rural and urban places in a global context; symbolic hierarchies that concentrate the resources for 'youthfulness' in cities and the affective entanglements between embodied subjectivities and spaces that emerge as young people move. The paper shows how these dimensions interact in the production and experience of the mobility imperative, offering an ontological and theoretical platform for future research into rural youth mobilities.

DOI 10.1080/13676261.2015.1112886
Citations Scopus - 2Web of Science - 165
2015 Gerrard J, Farrugia D, 'The "lamentable sight' of homelessness and the society of the spectacle', URBAN STUDIES, 52, 2219-2233 (2015) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/0042098014542135
Citations Scopus - 5Web of Science - 3
2015 Farrugia DM, Woodman D, 'Ultimate concerns in late modernity: Archer, Bourdieu and reflexivity', British Journal of Sociology, 66, 626-644 (2015) [C1]
DOI 10.1111/1468-4446.12147
Citations Web of Science - 4
2014 Farrugia D, 'Beside One's Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived', JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, 50 387-389 (2014)
DOI 10.1177/1440783312447155
2014 Farrugia D, Smyth J, Harrison T, 'Emplacing young people in an Australian rural community: an extraverted sense of place in times of change', Journal of Youth Studies, 17, 1152-1167 (2014) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2014.901495
Citations Web of Science - 2
2014 Coffey J, Farrugia D, 'Unpacking the black box: the problem of agency in the sociology of youth', JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES, 17, 461-474 (2014) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2013.830707
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 6
Co-authors Julia Coffey
2014 Farrugia D, 'Towards a spatialised youth sociology: the rural and the urban in times of change', JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES, 17, 293-307 (2014) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2013.830700
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 4
2014 Farrugia D, Smyth J, Harrison T, 'Rural young people in late modernity: Place, globalisation and the spatial contours of identity', Current Sociology, 62, 1036-1054 (2014) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/0011392114538959
Citations Scopus - 4Web of Science - 3
2013 Farrugia D, 'Young people and structural inequality: beyond the middle ground', Journal of Youth Studies, 16, 679-693 (2013) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2012.744817
Citations Scopus - 5Web of Science - 1
2013 Farrugia D, 'Addressing the problem of reflexivity in theories of reflexive modernisation: Subjectivity and structural complexity', Journal of Sociology, 5 872-886 (2013) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/1440783313480396
Citations Scopus - 17Web of Science - 12
2013 Farrugia D, 'The reflexive subject: Towards a theory of reflexivity as practical intelligibility', Current Sociology, 61, 283-300 (2013) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/0011392113478713
Citations Scopus - 7Web of Science - 1
2012 Farrugia D, 'Surviving Teenage Motherhood: Myths and Realities', INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY, 27 280-282 (2012)
DOI 10.1177/0268580911428019b
2011 Farrugia D, 'Youth homelessness and individualised subjectivity', Journal of Youth Studies, 14 761-775 (2011) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/13676261.2011.605438
Citations Scopus - 29Web of Science - 22
2011 Farrugia D, 'Homeless youth managing relationships: Reflexive intersubjectivity and inequality', Young, 19 357-373 (2011) [C1]
DOI 10.1177/110330881101900401
Citations Scopus - 7Web of Science - 4
2011 Farrugia D, 'The symbolic burden of homelessness Towards a theory of youth homelessness as embodied subjectivity', JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, 47, 71-87 (2011)
DOI 10.1177/1440783310380989
Citations Scopus - 7Web of Science - 57
2009 Farrugia D, 'Exploring stigma: medical knowledge and the stigmatisation of parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder', Sociology of Health & Illness, 31, 1011-1027 (2009)

This paper analyses 12 parent interviews to investigate the stigmatisation of parents of children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. Drawing on poststructural accounts of... [more]

This paper analyses 12 parent interviews to investigate the stigmatisation of parents of children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. Drawing on poststructural accounts of the relationship between knowledge and subjectivity, the stigma concept is critically interrogated in order to address previous individualistic constructions of stigmatisation and to place stigma within the power dynamics of social control. The results of the study indicate that a child's diagnosis with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is critical for parents to resist stigmatisation. Parents experienced considerable enacted stigma, but successfully resisted felt stigma by deploying medical knowledge to articulate unspoiled subject positions. The institutionalisation of medical knowledge within the autism community was critical to this process. Resistance to enacted stigma was successful to the degree that medical constructions of deviance deployed by parents were accepted by others, notably those in power within institutions. It is concluded that poststructural accounts of subjectivity and social control provide a useful way of conceptualising stigmatisation. An acceptance of the painful nature of stigma as lived experience co-exists with an emphasis on the constantly negotiated nature of embodied subjectivity as a contingent social process to illustrate the conditions for active resistance to stigmatisation. © 2009 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

DOI 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01174.x
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1
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Report (4 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2021 Farrugia D, Cook J, Senior K, Coffey J, Threadgold S, Davies K, Shannon B, Haro A, 'Young people, debt and consumer credit pilot study report' (2021)
Co-authors Julia Cook, Kate Davies, Kate Senior, Adriana Haro, Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey
2020 Threadgold S, Coffey J, Cook J, Farrugia D, Sharp M, Whitton F, Burke P, 'Young Hospitality Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Work, Family Support and Wellbeing', 1-43 (2020)
Co-authors Julia Cook, Julia Coffey, Pennyjane Burke, Steven Threadgold
2020 Farrugia D, Coffey J, Threadgold S, Sharp M, Whitton F, Gill R, 'Young hospitality workers in their own words: working conditions, labouring practices and experiences of hospitality labour', 1-28 (2020)
Co-authors Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey
2016 Askland HH, Askew M, Hanley J, Sherval M, Farrugia D, Threadgold S, Coffey J, 'Local Attitudes to Changing Land Use - Narrabri Shire', 5-118 (2016)
Co-authors Hedda Askland, Joanne Hanley, Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey, Meg Sherval
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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants 17
Total funding $720,156

Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.


20232 grants / $19,732

'Young Workers and the Future of Service Employment' - College cash contribution$10,000

Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle

Funding body College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr David Farrugia

Scheme CHSF
Role Lead
Funding Start 2023
Funding Finish 2023
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

Betting with mates: Gambling apps and young men’s social practices$9,732

Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle

Funding body College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Project Team

Steven Threadgold (Lead) Julia Cook (Co-Investigator) Julia Coffey (Co-Investigator) David Farrugia (Co-Investigator)

Scheme CHSF - Pilot Research Scheme: Projects, Pivots, Partnerships
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2023
Funding Finish 2023
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20221 grants / $14,000

Entrepreneurial debt and young people’s investments in their future$14,000

Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle

Funding body College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr Julia Cook (lead), A/Prof Steven Threadgold, Dr David Farrugia, Dr Julia Coffey, Dr Ben Matthews, Dr Kate Davies, Dr Joshua Healy

Scheme CHSF - Pilot Research Scheme: Projects, Pivots, Partnerships
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2022
Funding Finish 2022
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20211 grants / $2,500

2021 CHSF Strategic Proposal Support$2,500

Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle

Funding body College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Scheme CHSF - Strategic Proposal Support Scheme
Role Lead
Funding Start 2021
Funding Finish 2021
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20204 grants / $104,853

Regional youth in precarious times: Work, wellbeing and debt$70,000

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr David Farrugia (Lead); Dr Julia Cook; A/Prof Kate Senior; Dr Steven Threadgold; Dr Julia Coffey; Dr Kate Davies; Dr David Savage; Prof Helen Cahill (University of Melbourne).

Scheme Research Programs Pilot Scheme
Role Lead
Funding Start 2020
Funding Finish 2021
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

2020 NEWstar Program $20,000

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr David Farrugia

Scheme University of Newcastle NEWstar Program
Role Lead
Funding Start 2020
Funding Finish 2020
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

Newcastle Youth Studies Network$12,353

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr David Farrugia (Lead), Prof Penny Burke, Dr Julia Cook, Dr Steven Threadgold and Prof Pam Nilan

Scheme Strategic Network and Pilot Project Grants Scheme
Role Lead
Funding Start 2020
Funding Finish 2020
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

2020 Faculty of Education and Arts Strategic Application Support Scheme$2,500

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr David Farrugia

Scheme 2020 FEDUA Strategic Application Support Scheme
Role Lead
Funding Start 2020
Funding Finish 2020
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20192 grants / $178,180

Young Hospitality Workers and Value Creation in the Service Economy$173,180

Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Funding body ARC (Australian Research Council)
Project Team Associate Professor Steven Threadgold, Doctor Julia Coffey, Professor Lisa Adkins, Professor Lisa Adkins, Doctor David Farrugia, Professor Rosalind Gill
Scheme Discovery Projects
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2019
Funding Finish 2024
GNo G1800136
Type Of Funding C1200 - Aust Competitive - ARC
Category 1200
UON Y

Journal of Youth Studies Conference 2019$5,000

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr Steven Threadgold (Lead), Dr David Farrugia, Professor Pam Nilan, Professor Anita Harris (Deakin University), Dr Brady Robards (Monash University), A/Professor Dan Woodman (University of Melbourne), Professor Rachel Brooks (University of Surrey, UK)

Scheme Strategic Network and Pilot Project Grants Scheme
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2019
Funding Finish 2019
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20163 grants / $343,891

The Formation of Young Workers: A Multi Sited Study on the Periphery$323,678

Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Funding body ARC (Australian Research Council)
Project Team Doctor David Farrugia
Scheme Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
Role Lead
Funding Start 2016
Funding Finish 2018
GNo G1500267
Type Of Funding C1200 - Aust Competitive - ARC
Category 1200
UON Y

Young People, Insecurity and Affective Labour: a Study of 'Front of House' Service Labour$13,500

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Project Team

Dr Steven Threadgold; Prof Lisa Adkins; Dr Julia Coffey; Dr David Farrugia

Scheme FEDUA Strategic Networks and Pilot Projects Scheme
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2016
Funding Finish 2016
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

DVC(RI) Research Support for DECRA (DE16)$6,713

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Doctor David Farrugia
Scheme DECRA Support
Role Lead
Funding Start 2016
Funding Finish 2018
GNo G1600522
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20153 grants / $42,000

Attitudes to Changing Land Use - the Narrabri Shire$25,000

Funding body: NSW Department of Primary Industries

Funding body NSW Department of Primary Industries
Project Team Doctor Hedda Askland, Doctor David Farrugia, Associate Professor Meg Sherval, Doctor Julia Coffey, Associate Professor Steven Threadgold, Dr MICHAEL Askew
Scheme Research Grant
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2015
Funding Finish 2015
GNo G1401491
Type Of Funding C2400 – Aust StateTerritoryLocal – Other
Category 2400
UON Y

Newcastle Youth Studies Group - Theoretical Innovations and Challenges in Youth Sociology: One day symposium$15,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Project Team Associate Professor Steven Threadgold, Professor Pamela Nilan, Doctor Julia Coffey, Doctor David Farrugia, Doctor Hedda Askland
Scheme Strategic Networks Grant
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2015
Funding Finish 2015
GNo G1500904
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

Journal of Youth Studies 2015: Contemporary Youth Contemporary Risks, Copenhagen Denmark, 30 March-1 April 2015$2,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Project Team Doctor David Farrugia
Scheme Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2015
Funding Finish 2015
GNo G1500200
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20141 grants / $15,000

Network for Youth Research Outside the Northern Metropole$15,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Project Team Professor Pamela Nilan, Associate Professor Steven Threadgold, Conjoint Professor Andy Furlong, Doctor David Farrugia, Doctor Julia Coffey, Doctor Hedda Askland, Doctor Lena Rodriguez
Scheme Strategic Networks Grant
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2014
Funding Finish 2014
GNo G1400957
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y
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Research Supervision

Number of supervisions

Completed3
Current2

Current Supervision

Commenced Level of Study Research Title Program Supervisor Type
2021 PhD Class, Political Participation and the School Strike for Climate Movement in Australia PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2020 PhD Beyond The Happy Promise of Entrepreneurship: Women Entrepreneurs in Enterprise Culture in Australia PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor

Past Supervision

Year Level of Study Research Title Program Supervisor Type
2021 PhD Navigating the City Negotiating Un/Employment: A Decolonial Exploration of Black African Youth Experiences of Migration, Work, and Aspirations in Deindustrialising Newcastle, Australia PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2019 PhD Case Management in Youth Desistance: A Governmentality Approach PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2018 PhD Grounding Globalities in the Cosmopolitan Practices of Youth PhD (Education), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
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News

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News • 20 Sep 2022

Solving the nation’s challenges: $3million in ARC funding

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced its latest rounds of funding for the Future Fellowships and DECRA schemes, with four University of Newcastle projects attracting funding of more than $3 million for projects of national importance.

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News • 20 Aug 2020

New research reveals unequal impact of the pandemic on young people

New research by the directors of the Newcastle Youth Studies Network, Drs Julia CookSteven Threadgold, David Farrugia and Julia Coffey, has revealed the extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people working in the hospitality sector.

News • 22 Oct 2019

Future research leaders receive funding boost

The inaugural Research Advantage NEWstar program will support 13 aspiring University of Newcastle mid-career researchers to further develop their research leadership skills.

News • 24 Aug 2016

FEDUA's Centre for Social Research and Regional Futures wins tender

A research team drawn from three Faculties and four Schools and led by FEDUA’s Centre for Social Research and Regional Futures (CSRRF) successfully tendered for a position on the Australian Government Department of Employment’s panel for research and evaluation services.

News • 7 Jul 2016

Research Directions 2016

Read the latest research highlights from the Faculty.

Dr David Farrugia

Position

Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures

Contact Details

Email david.m.farrugia@newcastle.edu.au
Phone (02) 4985 4385

Office

Room W3.19.
Building Behavioural sciences.
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