Dr Jo Lindsay - Major Projects
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Alcohol Use and Harm Minimisation Among Australian University Students
ARC Linkage Project
With Toni Schofield, Fiona Giles and Rose Leontini (University of Sydney) Julie Hepworth (University of Queensland) and John Germov (University of Newcastle)
Linkage partners: NSW Dept of health, Victorian Dept of Human Services and Association of heads of Australian University Colleges and Halls
The project examines college and non-college based university students' alcohol use in NSW and Victoria to identify barriers and opportunities for harm minimisation. Unlike previous studies, it focuses on the combination of the social dynamics of students' alcohol use, their understandings of harm minimisation, what they themselves do to achieve it, and the approaches adopted by university colleges and State health authorities to reduce the fallout from students' heavy drinking. The project will produce a new evidence base and innovative theoretical framework for better understanding alcohol-related harm minimisation among university students
and developing more effective strategies to advance it.
What’s in a name? The significance of family names to Australian parents.
with Dr Deb Dempsey, Swinburne University
This study will explore the connections between contemporary family dynamics, naming practices and Australian kinship. How do women decide whether to keep or change their surname when they get married? How do couples decide on their children's first names and surnames? What issues of belonging or identity do these decisions raise for parents? We know very little about what Australian women or men think about this topic so we invite all parents to participate in our research.You will find the survey at: www.whatsinanameaus.wordpress.com
Consuming Families: Buying, making, producing family life in the 21st century
with AProf JaneMaree Maher, Gender Studies, Monash UniversityThis book is currently being written - under contract with Routledge publishers. Consumption is central battleground in public debates over morality, excess and responsibility. These contests are particularly critical for contemporary families in Western nations, where excesses of goods, the paucity of time, and changing relational structures are altering family life. Families have always been key sites for consumption and in recent decades, contests over childhood obesity, the sexualisation of children, the media practices of children and teenagers, and young people’s use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have dominated media and public policy discussions of family life in Western nations. Issues of responsibility, parental control and children and young people as active agents in a consumer world are central in the social policy, educational and health realms. Each of the chapters in the book addresses a key social issue on consumption and the making of family life in the 21st Century.