Research Interests: Religion and politics; religion and law; religion and citizenship; religious diversity; religious freedom; democracy, difference and inclusion; Durkheim

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Research Interests: Care and caregiving; welfare provision; community services and the factors that influence their use and effectiveness; sociology of health and health care; social aspects of ageing with particular focus on aged care, family and informal support systems, patterns of work and social engagement of older people

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Research Interests: Gender and class issues within suburban neighbourhoods, suburban houses, and suburban women's travel patterns

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Research Interests: Animal studies; ecocriticism; history and philosophy of ethology; philosophy of religion; biblical studies; critical theory; Foucault; medievalism; science fiction.

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Research Interests: Aboriginal Australia; cultural identities and their formation; work, class, and social placement; race relations; socio-economic development, Aboriginal visual arts; museums and material culture.

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Research Interests: Inclusive education; student segregation, suspension and exclusion; educational processes relating to identification and diagnosis of special educational needs; education policy; sociology of education; continental and political philosophy, qualitative and mixed-method research methodologies.

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Research Interests: Macro socio-political and policy impacts upon young children and their families; early childhood programs and social inclusion in resource poor contexts; childhood discrimination and stigma; global issues in early childhood development and education

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Research Interests: Extinction Studies, Ecological Humanities, Animals and Society, Indigenous Philosophies.

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Research Interests: Development anthropology with a particular interest in rights-based development, community capacity building, social solidarity, and the anthropology of development.

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Research Interests: Organisational sociology, community capacity building, sociology of work, intercultural relationships, qualitative research methodologies.

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Research Interests: Multiculturalism and intercultural relations; ethnicity; refugees; transational and migrant communities; forms of hope, belonging, inclusion and exclusion in urban Australia (especially around age, class and ethnicity); neighbourhood and community studies (especially communities based on place, ethnicity, class/working people); place change; ethnographic and community based qualitative research methodologies.

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Research Interests: Adult language learning and use; Workplace language and TESOL; Cross cultural and interlanguage pragmatics; Teaching and learning pronunciation; Inclusive approaches to classroom teaching at tertiary level; Professional development of teachers.

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Social and political philosophy, especially Critical Theory, recognition, work.

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Research Interests: Labour migration and demographics.

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Research Interests: Cities, architecture and Islamizing social movements; Turkish history and politics, anthropology of Islam, nationalism; ethnicity; memories of spatial use in times of urban conflict.

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Research Interests: Australian Indigenous experience; native title; social impact assessment.

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Research Interests: HIV/AIDS in Southeast Asia, rapid social change amongst ethnic minority groups in the Mekong.

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Research Interests: Ethnicity and ethnic concentrations.

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Research Interests:The impact of modernization, capitalist transformation, and development on marginalized social groups in India, especially women.

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Research Interests: The ethics of recognition; political philosophy and social hope; religion and modernity.

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Research Interests: Migration; diaspora; transnationalism; globalisation; nationalism; politics of identity; culture and everyday life; Singapore and Tamil cultural studies.

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Research Interests: Sociology of work and welfare, political sociology, institutions promoting democratic inclusion.

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Research Interests: international migration, international business visits, knowledge formation and exchanges and economics of education

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Australian alternative, political and community theatre practice; the politics and ethics of cross-cultural and intercultural performance.

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Politics and practice of occupational, environmental, and public health regulation; geosocial determinants, distribution, and consequences of population health and
ill-health; innovative and ethical management practice.

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Comparative welfare states and inequality and globalization and nationalism.

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Relationships between epidemics of infectious diseases and human reaction and behaviour; emerging infections and the role of the biophysical environment; infectious diseases, bioterrorism and national security; pathological environments within developed societies; epidemics as natural disasters; the globalisation of infectious diseases.

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Theoretical and applied aspects relating to Aboriginal Australia and other Indigenous groups in the areas of cultural (re)emergence in urban contexts; Indigenous education and Indigenous Studies.

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Migrants and migration; cultural diversity & multiculturalism; racism and social exclusion.

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Educational communication and technology, development communication, inter-cultural and cross-cultural communications, health promotion in culturally diverse societies.

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History of sociological thought and contemporary social theory; the Frankfurt school and Habermas; feminism; urbanism; current institutional and ideological threats to democracy.

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The political philosophy of Hannah Arendt; the popular right and radical nationalists in Australia; gun activism; secessionist micronations; culture and gendered harm.

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Social, cultural, economic and political change in Southeast Asia; international tourism; globalisation.

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Sustainable urban development; urban transport sector; strategic planning and public health implications of "seachange" led urbanisation in Australia 's subtropical coastal zones.

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Moral Philosophy, moral psychology, applied ethics, feminist philosophy.

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Ageing and health; health and scale, elderly social well-being, and the epidemiology of ageing.

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Cultural geography, post-development theory and practice, the politics of indigeneity, ethnicity and nationalism, particularly in Southeast Asia.

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Ethnicity, ethnic conflict, and the nation, with particular reference to Fiji and similar postcolonial societies.

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Analyses of nationalisms and transnational movements in relation to race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, terrorism, and religion through poststructuralist and postcolonial theoretical approaches. Sites of research include newsmedia representations, political and cultural events, museums, and popular cultural texts across the U.S., Australia and India.

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Ethics, social theory, republican political theory and philosophy of religion.

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Urban regeneration and use of space; urban governance and governmentality; government interventionism, urban space and everyday life; managerial strategies for the post-industrial city at risk; terrorism, civil contingencies, resilience and counter-terrorism legislation.

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Hegel, Heidegger, the critique of metaphysics and modernity.

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Indigenous governance, development and identity.

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Transnationalism; tourism and travel; gender; identity and nationalism; medical anthropology; new reproductive health technologies; sexuality; the language of medicine; cyberfatwas; Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Canada.

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Professor Eva Cox, Senior Lecturer in Social Inquiry

Professor Mitchell Dean, Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: Governing, state and politics; Power; International and national; Liberalism and neo-liberalism; Sovereignty, decision, bio-politics; Exception, emergency, and world order; Risk and crisis of governing; Governmentality and Foucault.

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Professor Robert Fagan, Emeritus Professor of Human Geography

Dr Christopher Jones Kavelin, Associate Lecturer/Researcher in Law

Professor Michael Pusey, Research Professor of Sociology

Dr Adrian Konik, Visiting Fellow

Professor Morny Joy, Visiting Fellow

Professor Hilary Carey, , Visiting Fellow