Staff in Sociology
- Professor Alan Petersen
- Discipline Convenor
- Dr Suzi Adams
- Lecturer in Sociology. Social theory, political sociology, French and German phenomenology, hermeneutics, theories of interculturality, theories of modernity, theories of nature, theories of culture, theories of autonomy, theories of meaning and history.
- Dr Steven Angelides
- Gender, sexuality, feminist and queer theories; historical and contemporary constructions of child sexuality and sexual abuse.
- Associate Professor Dharma Arunachalam
- Fertility, family formation and dissolution, population projection, ageing and material wellbeing, demography and sociology of reproductive health, and labour force participation (focus on Australia and New Zealand); population, women's status, fertility, contraception and child malnutrition (focus on India); quantitative methods.
- Dr Bob Birrell
- Immigration policy and the implications; Australian society from an historical and developmental perspective.
- Professor Emeritus Gary D Bouma
- Sociology of religion; sociology of the family; social psychology; sociology of occupations and professions.
- Associate Professor Denise Cuthbert
- Dr Mark Davis
- Sociology of health and medicine, interface of sexualities and technologies with reference to health; the social aspects of HIV medical technologies; and online research methodologies.
- Dr Tseen Khoo
- Politics of racialisation in Australia; Asian-Australian public history narratives; representations of minorities in multicultural societies; diasporic Asian studies.
- Dr Jo Lindsay
- Families; youth; health; gender and sexualities; qualitative and quantitative research methods.
- Dr Kirsten McLean
- Bisexuality; gay and lesbian studies; sexual and gender diversity; youth; gender; quantitative and qualitative research methods.
- Dr Andrew Singleton
- Sociology of men and masculinity; the sociology of narrative; religion; contemporary social theory.
- Dr Jan van Bommel
- Feminisms; female subjectivities and politics; women, psychiatry and madness; qualitativeresearch strategies.
- Associate Professor Naomi Rosh White
- Children, youth and family; the social psychology of organisational life; education; the Holocaust.