Social Sciences and Linguistics people

Dr Hedda Askland Dr Hedda Askland

Dr Hedda Askland

Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Anthropology

Expertise: social anthropology; community and identity; migration and displacement; place and place attachment; coal, energy, resources and extraction; social and environmental impact (incl. SIA).

Dr Vanessa Bowden

Dr Vanessa Bowden

Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Sociology

Expertise: climate change; environmental sociology; politics; reflexive modernisation; risk society; social theory

Associate Professor Caragh Brosnan

Associate Professor Caragh Brosnan

Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Sociology

Expertise: health and illness; medicine; complementary medicine; bioscience; professions; professional knowledge; professional identity; higher education; medical education

Dr Julia Coffey Dr Julia Coffey

Dr Julia Coffey

Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Sociology

Expertise: sociology of health; youth studies; sociology of gender; sociology of the body; identity

Dr Julia Cook Dr Julia Cook

Dr Julia Cook

ARC DECRA
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Sociology

Expertise: futurity; housing; place; residential mobility; sociology of time; young adulthood; youth

Associate Professor Daniela Heil Associate Professor Daniela Heil

Associate Professor Daniela Heil

Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Anthropology

Expertise: social and cultural anthropology; medical anthropology; political economy of health; Indigenous health and wellbeing; body, personhood and self; surrogacy

Dr S. A. Hamed Hosseini Dr S. A. Hamed Hosseini

Dr S. A. Hamed Hosseini

Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Sociology

Expertise: post-capitalist alternative futures; quantitative and mixed methods; social movements including youth movements; applied social and community informatics; sociology of information technologies and big data analytics; social psychology; social wellbeing and well-living; ethnic minorities and discrimination

Dr Randi Irwin

Dr Randi Irwin

Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Anthropology

Expertise: energy; resource extraction; land rights; sovereignty; colonial and settler state infrastructure

Associate Professor Kiwako Ito

Associate Professor Kiwako Ito

Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Linguistics

Expertise: eye tracking for studying language processing; language acquisition; psycholinguistics; speech signal processing

Dr Chris Krogh

Dr Chris Krogh

Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Human Services

Expertise: care-full human services practice; document research; ecological paradigm; evaluation; Gosford CBD reinvigoration

Dr Jayden Macklin-Cordes

Dr Jayden Macklin-Cordes

Lecturer - Linguistics
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Linguistics

Expertise: Australian Indigenous languages; historical linguistics; linguistic phylogenetics; linguistic typology; morphology; phonology; quantitative methods

Dr Catriona Malau

Dr Catriona Malau

Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Linguistics

Expertise: Language description and documentation; Oceanic languages of the Pacific, focussing on Vanuatu

Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra

Professor of Urban Sociology
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Sociology

Expertise: borderlands; cities; concrete; digital urbanism; environmental justice; frontiers; gender and masculinity; infrastructure; piracy and fakes; face and ethnicity; ruins; South Asia; technology; urbanization

Dr Kathleen McPhillips Dr Kathleen McPhillips

Dr Kathleen McPhillips

Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Sociology

Expertise: religion and gender; sexual violence and trauma; sociology of child abuse; sociology of institutions; psychoanalysis and culture; sociology of mental health; politics of post-secularism and religion; feminist theory

Dr Fee Mozeley

Dr Fee Mozeley

Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Sociology

Expertise: colonially informed patriarchies; ethnographic research; immersive 'slow-deep' scholarship; intersectional feminisms; social change; social policy; socio-cultural understandings; sociology of stories and storytelling; story-based research practices

Professor Bill Palmer

Professor Bill Palmer

Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Linguistics

Expertise: language description and documentation; Oceanic languages of Pacific, focussing on Bougainville and Solomon Islands; syntax

Ms Louise Rak

Ms Louise Rak

Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Human Services

Expertise: community development; community services; equity in higher education; youth violence; cultural cohesion

Professor Kate Senior

Professor Kate Senior

Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Anthropology

Expertise: public health and health services; Australian Aboriginal communities; health and wellbeing of Indigenous adolescents

Dr Mitchell Taylor

Dr Mitchell Taylor

Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Sociology

Expertise: social theory; history and philosophy of social thought; functional differentiation and the logic of comparative functionalism

Associate Professor Steven Threadgold

Associate Professor Steven Threadgold

Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Sociology

Expertise: youth sociology; class and inequality; youth transitions; youth culture; popular culture; Pierre Bourdieu; reflexivity and youth subjectivity; moral panic; consumer culture; risk and risk society