Research Students

PhD and Honours degrees by research

Research topics currently being undertaken by postgraduate students in youth studies include:

  • Exploring Australian women's experiences of sexual subjectivity in matrescence, Giverny Lewis, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Exploring women veterans' experiences of the Australian Defence Force (ADF), Natalie Merryman, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Exploring Complementary And Alternative Treatments For People Experiencing Effects Of Trauma,  Kimie Maree McNaughton, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Young Men Navigating Masculinities, Rachael Shallow, Honours, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • 'Understanding university students’ experience of the pandemic after lockdown, and their wellbeing', Kate Mills, Honours, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Emerging Environmentalisms and Everyday Politics in Australia, Tim Gentles, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Emotions and Political Protesters in Australia, Milo Kei, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Table Top Gaming using Social Existential Theory, David Porter, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Women Entrepreneurs in Enterprise Culture: Women’s Work-life Experiences of Entrepreneurship in the Newcastle and Hunter Region, Rosie Castiaux, PhD (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • The Affective Space and the Supernatural Viewer, Maureen May, PhD (Cultural Studies)

Completions

  • Investigating the Role of Technology in Young People's Lives and Wellbeing, Adriana Haro, PhD, Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Sport and Social Change: A Class Analysis of Gentrification, Displacement and Activism in Newcastle, Australia, Kate Booth, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Living on Welfare, Nathan Morris, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Choose Your Character: Constructing identity and navigating gender through video gameplay, Blake Richards, Honours, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Amaq Muda: Becoming and Being a Young Father in a Rural North Lombok Village, Lisa Colquhoun, Masters, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Navigating the City Negotiating Un/Employment: A Decolonial Exploration of Black African Youth Experiences of Migration, Work, and Aspirations in Deindustrialising Newcastle, Australia. Joshua Kalemba, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Affect at Altitude: Embodied Practices and Digital Technology in Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding, Jonathan Curtis, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • On the Streets: Youth Street Art in Yogyakarta as a Contemporary Assemblage Michelle Mansfield, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Grounding Globalities in the Cosmopolitan Practices of Youth, Alex Jones, PhD (Education)
  • Developing a 'Best Practice' in the Development and Delivery of Postmodern and Critical Sexuality Education in Australia, Barrie Shannon, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Moral Panics and Intergenerational Conflict: The Past is a Foreign Country, They Do Things Differently There, Barney Langford, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Case Management in Youth Desistance: A Governmentality Approach Joel McGregor, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Places to Go, Witches to See: An Exploration of Alternatives to Mainstream Christianity for Australian Youth, Emma Quilty, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • An Exploration of the Construction of Female Queer Identities across Australian Punk and Hardcore Music Scenes, Megan Sharp, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • When the Living Spaces are Ours: Investigating Environmental Activism Among Youth in Three Cities of Indonesia, Meredian Alam, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Dangerous Ascents: A Critical Exploration of Adventure Climbing in Reflexive Modernity, Matthew Bunn, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Unemployed Graduates in Indonesia: Making the Transition to Adulthood through Entrepreneurial Activities and Mobility, Oki Rahadianto Sutopo, PhD (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • Governing The Facebook Self: Social Network Sites and Neoliberal Subjects (under examination) Stephen Owen, PhD, (Politics)
  • Embedding the DADEE (Dads And Daughters Exercising and Empowered) Program in Local Communities: Sustainability Through Innovative Partnerships, Emma Pollock, PhD (Education)
  • Examining access to health services for women of reproductive age from ethnic communities in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh, Shahinoor Akter, PhD (Public Health & Behavioural Science)
  • Making Mental Health Help-Seeking Easier: A Rural Perspective, Natalie Cheesmond, PhD (Community Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology)
  • Alternative Masculinities, Embodiment and Queer Latinx Men in Australia, Adriana Haro, PhD (Sociology and Anthropology)
  • The Kids are Alright: a Study of Attitudes of Youth Participating in a Workplace Environmental Program, Jai Cooper, PhD, (Sociology and Anthropology)