
School of Humanities and Social Science
SACHS people
Dr Hedda Askland
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
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
- (02) 4921 7067
Associate Professor Caragh Brosnan
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
Sociology
Expertise: health and illness; medicine; complementary medicine; bioscience; professions; professional knowledge; professional identity; higher education; medical education
- Caragh.Brosnan@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 6348
Dr Matthew Bunn
Research Fellow
Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Ed
Sociology
Expertise: anthropology; higher education; sociology; voluntary risk-taking/extreme sports
Professor Penny Jane Burke
Director, Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education and Global Innovation Chair of Equity
Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Ed
Sociology
Expertise: higher education; access and student experience; community wellbeing; culture and agency; governance, policy and practice
- PennyJane.Burke@newcastle.edu.au
- + 61 2 4921 6538
Dr Julia Coffey
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Sociology
Expertise: sociology of health; youth studies; sociology of gender; sociology of the body; identity
- Julia.Coffey@newcastle.edu.au
- 02 4348 4081
Dr Julia Cook
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Sociology
Expertise: futurity; housing; place; residential mobility; sociology of time; young adulthood; youth
- Julia.Cook@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4055 3018
Dr Kate Davies
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Human Services
Expertise: community development; disability; evaluation; international aid and development; mental health; peer support; service-user participation and lived experience; sociology of health
- Kate.Davies@newcastle.edu.au
- 4055 3106
Dr Justin Ellis
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Criminology
Expertise: communications technology; LGBTIQ studies; accountability; digital media; journalism; legitimacy; policing; surveillance; vulnerable populations
- Justin.Ellis@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5682
Dr David Farrugia
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Sociology
Expertise: sociology of youth; rural and regional sociology; sociology of space and place; homelessness
- David.M.Farrugia@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4985 4385
Dr Sascha Fuller
Pacific Node Coordinator
Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources
Anthropology
Expertise: anthropology; climate change adaptation; social change and development; plastic and waste; environmental change; agriculture; gender; social inclusion; migration; Asia Pacific; Nepal
- Sascha.Fuller@newcastle.edu.au
- +685 7507968
Associate Professor Daniela Heil
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
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
- (02) 4921 6790
Dr S. A. Hamed Hosseini
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
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
- (02) 4921 5878
Dr Chris Krogh
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Human Services
Expertise: care-full human services practice; document research; ecological paradigm; evaluation; Gosford CBD reinvigoration
- Chris.Krogh@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4985 4497
Dr Matt Lumb
Associate Director
Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Ed
Sociology
Expertise: community development; critical pedagogy; educational; access; educational participation; equity; evaluation; international development; social inequalities; social justice; sociology of education; widening participation
- Matt.Lumb@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 7912
Associate Professor Xanthe Mallett
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
Criminology
Expertise: criminology; gendered crime; miscarriages of justice; media and crime; forensic anthropology; evidential evaluation
- Xanthe.Mallett@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5488
Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra
Professor of Urban Sociology
School of Humanities and Social Science
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
- Duncan.McDuieRa@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 491 38714
Dr Kathleen McPhillips
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
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
- Kathleen.McPhillips@newcastle.edu.au
- 49215920
Associate Professor Kate Senior
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
Anthropology
Expertise: public health and health services; Australian Aboriginal communities; health and wellbeing of Indigenous adolescents
- Kate.Senior@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 49217078
Dr Ann Taylor
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Sociology
Expertise: sociology of health and gender; professions, midwifery and childbirth; primary health care; qualitative methods
- Ann.Taylor@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 6834
Associate Professor Steven Threadgold
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
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
- (02) 4921 5919