Social Sciences
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).
- Hedda.Askland@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249217067
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
- Vanessa.Bowden@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249686726
Assoc Prof 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
- Caragh.Brosnan@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249216348
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
- Julia.Coffey@newcastle.edu.au
- 0243484081
Dr Julia Cook
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Sociology
Expertise: futurity; housing; place; residential mobility; sociology of time; young adulthood; youth
- Julia.Cook@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240553018
Dr Jonathan Curtis
Associate Lecturer/Casual Academic
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Sociology
Expertise: digital technology and its commercial application; sociology of backcountry skiing and snowboarding
Assoc Prof 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
- Daniela.Heil@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249216790
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
- Hamed.Hosseini@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215878
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
- Randi.Irwin@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249217339
Assoc Prof 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
- Kiwako.Ito@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249216109
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
- Chris.Krogh@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249854497
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
- Catriona.Malau@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249216687
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 Jess Negro
Associate Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
anthropology
Expertise: ethnography; social anthropology; participant observationq; ualitative ethnography; sociology of the anthropocene
Professor Bill Palmer
Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Linguistics
Expertise: spatial language and spatial cognition; Indigenous languages of Australia, the Pacific and New Guinea; language typology; syntax; phonology
- Bill.Palmer@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215157
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
- Louise.Rak@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240339231
Professor Kate Senior
Professor
Institute for Regional Futures
Anthropology
Expertise: public health and health services; Australian Aboriginal communities; health and wellbeing of Indigenous adolescents
- Kate.Senior@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249217078
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
Assoc Prof 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
- Steven.Threadgold@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215919
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