Research at Political and Social Inquiry
Research Clusters
Research clusters are made up of researchers with shared interests and who are working together in various ways. The clusters are interdisciplinary, combining the complementary strength of different perspectives, approaches and skill sets to produce high quality research.
Research Centres in PSI
- Centre for Islam and the Modern World
- Centre for Population & Urban Research (CPUR)
- Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research
- Global Terrorism Research Centre
- The Unesco Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations – Asia Pacific
Current and recently completed Australian Research Council funded research projects
- A/Prof Suzanne Fraser, Prof Janice Wright, Dr JaneMaree Maher, Prof Alan Petersen
Improving Australia’s response to childhood obesity: Prevention education and its impact on mothers and families
- Dr Terry Macdonald
Building global political legitimacy: how can we make global institutions more stable, effective, and justified?
- Dr Mark Davis, Dr Niamh Stephenson, Prof Paul Flowers
Using a biosocial approach to advance pandemic influenza control
- Prof Sharon Pickering, Dr Leanne Weber, Dr Michael Grewcock, Dr Marie Segrave
Exporting Risk: The Australian Deportation Project
- A/Prof Anita Harris
The Civic Life of Young Australian Muslims: Active Citizenship, Community Belonging and Social Inclusion
- Dr Dharmalingam Arunachalam, Dr Genevieve Heard
Dynamics of childbearing in Australia in the first decade of the 21st Century
- Prof Sharon Pickering, A/Prof Gail Mason, Prof Jude McCulloch, Dr JaneMaree Maher, Prof Lorraine Mazerolle, Dr Rebecca Wickes, Mr Jeffrey Pope, Mr Ashley Dickinson, Ms Leanne Sargent, Dr David Ballek
Targeted crime: policing and social inclusion
- Prof Jude McCulloch, Prof Mark Peel
Justice For All : A History of the Victorian Community Legal Centre Movement
- Dr Julian Millie
Preaching Islam in Indonesia: Politics, Performers and Publics in Indonesia
- Dr Jemma Purdey
A study of the scholarship on Indonesia in Australia and its implications for foreign policy
- Prof Marian Quartly, Prof Denise Cuthbert, Prof Shurlee Swain
The search for family: A history of adoption in Australia
- Dr Matt Tomlinson
God, blood, country: An ethnographic study of Fijian Christian institutions
- Dr Dean Wilson
Closed Circuit Television Surveillance, Security Networks and Australian Public Space
- Prof Greg Barton, Dr Peter Lentini, Dr Simon Moss, Dr Gaetano Ilardi
Radicalisation, Counter-Radicalisation, and De-Radicalisation: Developing a New Understanding of Terrorism in the Australian Context
- Dr Dean Wilson, Ashley Dickinson, Alan Kennedy
The police role in victim and witness support: researching a best practice model for Victoria
Research Collaborations
Research Seminars
Supervisors' areas of research interest and expertise
PSI Supervisors' Areas of Research Interest and Expertise
Postgraduate studies by research
Postgraduate Studies by Research
Journals edited by PSI academics
People and Place - People and Place is published quarterly by the Centre for Population and Urban Research and presents key information on migration patterns, the labour market, urban growth, the environment and related topics.
Journal of Intercultural Studies - The Journal of Intercultural Studies is published quarterly and showcases innovative scholarship about emerging cultural formations, intercultural negotiations and contemporary challenges to cultures and identities. Journal of Intercultural Studies website