Centre Members & Affiliates
CRSI Members
Professor Mitchell Dean (Head of Division, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | The history of poverty and the development of liberal forms of government which both include and exclude different types of poverty; social welfare systems; the language of liberal rationalities and programmes of government; e-government; the political geography of world order. |
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Dr Jean-Phillipe Deranty (Philosophy, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | French and German philosophy, Social and Political philosophy, the philosophy of law, critiques of political liberalism, theories of modernity, theories of intersubjectivity, and continental aesthetics. |
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Dr Robyn Dowling (Human Geography, ELS)
| Research Interests: | Gender and class issues within suburban neighbourhoods, suburban houses, and suburban women's travel patterns. |
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Dr Fei Guo (Business, EFS)
| Research Interests: | Labour migration and demographics. |
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Professor Robert Fagan, Deputy Director
| Research Interests: | globalisation and place; local geographies of resistance to globalisation; global commodity chains and industrial change in Australia; labour geography. |
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Associate Professor Richard Howitt (Human Geography, ELS)
| Research Interests: | Australian Indigenous experience; native title; social impact assessment. |
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Associate Professor Michael Fine, Director
| 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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Dr Chris Houston (Anthropology, SCMP)
| 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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Dr Pal Nyiri (Anthropology, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | Political anthropology of ethnicity; migration, mobility, and transnationalism; migration policy and xenophobia; representations of culture in business and government; tourism; comparative post-communism. |
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Associate Professor Michael Poulsen (Human Geography, ELS)
| Research Interests: | Ethnicity and ethnic concentrations. |
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Dr Kalpana Ram (Anthropology, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | The impact of modernization, capitalist transformation, and development on marginalized social groups in India, especially women. |
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Associate Professor Nicholas Smith (Philosophy, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | The ethics of recognition; political philosophy and social hope; religion and modernity. |
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Dr. Selvaraj Velayutham, ARC Postdoctoral Fellow
| Research Interests: | Migration; diaspora; transnationalism; globalisation; nationalism; politics of identity; culture and everyday life; Singapore and Tamil cultural studies. |
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Dr Shaun Wilson (Sociology, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | Sociology of work and welfare, political sociology, institutions promoting democratic inclusion. |
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Dr. Amanda Wise, Senior Research Fellow
| 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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CRSI Affiliates
E/Professor Gill Bottomley (Anthropology, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | Minority rights, inlcusion/exclusion, social identities, refugees, migrations, gender, age, the politics of recognition, music, dance and creative work as processes of identification. |
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Associate Professor Tom Burvill (Critical and Cultural Studies, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | Australian alternative, political and community theatre practice; the politics and ethics of cross-cultural and intercultural performance. |
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Lindie Clark (Human Geography/Health and Chiropractic, ELS)
| Research Interests: | Politics and practice of occupational, environmental, and public health regulation; geosocial determinants, distribution, and consequences of population health and |
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Dr Lloyd Cox (Sociology, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | Comparative welfare states and inequality and globalization and nationalism. |
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Professorial Fellow Peter Curson (Human Geography/Health, ELS)
| Research Interests: | 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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Associate Professor James Forrest (Human Geography, ELS)
| Research Interests: | Migrants and migration; cultural diversity & multiculturalism; racism and social exclusion. |
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Dr Qin Guo (Centre for International Communication, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | Educational communication and technology, development communication, inter-cultural and cross-cultural communications, health promotion in culturally diverse societies. |
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Dr Pauline Johnson (Sociology, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | 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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Dr Judy Lattas (Women's Studies, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | 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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Dr Kate Lloyd (Human Geography, ELS)
| Research Interests: | Social, cultural, economic and political change in Southeast Asia; international tourism; globalisation. |
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Dr Anna Lyth (Graduate School of the Environment, ELS)
| Research Interests: | 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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Dr Chris Lyttleton (Anthropology, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | HIV/AIDS in Southeast Asia, rapid social change amongst ethnic minority groups in the Mekong. |
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Dr Catriona Mackenzie (Philosophy, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | Moral Philosophy, moral psychology, applied ethics, feminist philosophy. |
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Associate Professor Kevin McCracken (Human Geogrpahy, ELS)
| Research Interests: | Ageing and health; health and scale, elderly social well-being, and the epidemiology of ageing. |
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Dr Robert Norton (Anthropology, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | Ethnicity, ethnic conflict, and the nation, with particular reference to Fiji and similar postcolonial societies. |
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Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Philosophy, SCMP)
| Research Interests: | Hegel, Heidegger, the critique of metaphysics and modernity. |
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Dr Sandra Suchet-Pearson (Human Geography, ELS)
| Research Interests: | Indigenous governance, development and identity. |
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