Centre Staff
DIRECTORS
Associate Professor Marion Maddox, Director
| Email: | marion.maddox@mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 4431 |
| Office: | C5C 379 |
| Research Interests: | Religion and politics; religion and law; religion and citizenship; religious diversity; religious freedom; democracy, difference and inclusion; Durkheim |
Associate Professor Michael Fine, Deputy Director
| Email: | michael.fine@mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 8037 |
| Office: | C3B 510 |
| 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. |
Associate Professor Robyn Dowling, Deputy Director
| Email: | robyn.dowling@mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 7477 |
| Office: | E7A 613 |
| Research Interests: | Gender and class issues within suburban neighbourhoods, suburban houses, and suburban women's travel patterns. |
RESEARCHERS
Professor Deborah Rose, Professor of Social Inclusion
| Email: | deborah.rose@mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 1820 |
| Office: | C5C 377 |
| Research Interests: | Entwined social and ecological justice; decolonisation and indigenous land rights |
Professor Mitchell Dean, Professor of Sociology
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Phone: |
(02) 9850 8703 |
Office: |
C5C 375 |
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. |
Professor Jacqueline Hayden, Professor in Early Childhood and Social Inclusion
| Email: | jacqueline.hayden@aces.mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 9877 |
| Office: | X5B 238 |
| 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 |
Associate Professor Lynda Yates, Associate Professor in Linguistics
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 9646 |
| Office: | W6C 103 |
| 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. |
Dr Amanda Wise, Senior Research Fellow
| Email: | amanda.wise@mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 8835 |
| Office: | C5C 383 |
| 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. |
Dr Rochelle Spencer, ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
| Email: | rochelle.spencer@mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 9678 |
| Office: | C5C 381 |
| Research Interests: | Ethnographic and cultural qualitative research with a particular interest in rights-based development, community capacity building, social cohesion, development anthropology and anthropology of development. |
Dr Lorraine Gibson, VC Innovation Research Fellow
| Email: | lorraine.gibson@mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 4115 |
| Office: | C5C 379 |
| Research Interests: | Ethnography; Aboriginal Australia; work, identity and social placement; race relations; socio-economic conditions; capacity building; cultural emotions; material culture; Aboriginal visual art. |
Dr Linda Graham, ARC Discovery Postdoctoral Research Fellow
| Email: | linda.graham@mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 9874 |
| Office: | C3A 902 |
| 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. |
Dr Gillian Vogl, Research Fellow
| Email: | gillian.vogl@mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 4468 |
| Office: | C5C 383 |
| Research Interests: | Organisational sociology, community capacity building, sociology of work, intercultural relationships, qualitative research methodologies. |
Dr Virginia Simpson-Young, Research Fellow
| Email: | Virginia.Simpson-Young@mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 1816 |
| Office: | C5C 384 |
| Research Interests: | Case management as a model of service delivery in community aged care |
Matthew Chrulew, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
| Email: | Matthew.Chrulew@scmp.mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 4444 |
| Office: | C5C 374 |
| Research Interests: | Animal studies; ecocriticism; history and philosophy of ethology; philosophy of religion; biblical studies; critical theory; Foucault; medievalism; science fiction. |
HONOURARY FELLOWS
Professor Robert Fagan, Emeritus Professor of Human Geography
| Email: | robert.fagan@mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 4114 |
| Office: | C5C 374 |
| Research Interests: | Globalisation and place; local geographies of resistance to globalisation; global commodity chains and industrial change in Australia; labour geography. |
Professor Julian Disney, Visiting Fellow
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 4114 |
| Office: | C5C 374 |
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Professor Michael Pusey, Research Professor of Sociology
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 4114 |
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| Office: | C5C 374 |
Professor Eva Cox, Senior Lecturer in Social Inquiry
| Email: | eva.cox@uts.edu.au |
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Dr Christopher Jones Kavelin, Associate Lecturer/Researcher in Law
| Email: | chris.jones@law.mq.edu.au |
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| Research Interests: | Indigenous medical knowledge; Indigenous education; Environmental protection; Intellectual property |
Associate Professor Margaret Walton-Roberts, Visiting Fellow
| Email: | Margaret.WaltonRoberts@scmp.mq.edu.au or mwaltonroberts@wlu.ca |
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| Research Interests: | Canadian multiculturalism; ethnicity; gender; Indian immigration and transnationality; skilled migration; immigrant settlement and social inclusion in second tier Canadian cities. |
ADMINISTRATORS
Mrs Ashley Soytemiz , Centre Manager
| Email: | crsi@scmp.mq.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 9850 9171 |
| Office: | C5C 376 |