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Suzanne FranzwayProf Suzanne Franzway
Director, RCGS


Suzanne Franzway is Portfolio Leader: Research Education in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages. She has taught and researched in the areas of gender studies and sociology. Her research focus is on politics in greedy institutions and work. Projects include an ARC-funded study of women engineers, workplace culture and change, an international project on transnational labour activist networks, and a national project on care work in aged care and child care. She is the author of Sexual politics and greedy institutions: union women, commitment and conflict in public and in private (Pluto Australia, 2001) and Making feminist politics: transnational alliances between women and labor (with Mary Margaret Fonow, University of Illinois Press, 2011). She has longstanding commitments to the South Australian Working Women's Centre, as well as other labour and women's community organisations. Her research interests include:


Lia BryantDr Lia Bryant

Lia Bryant is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy. Her recent work has focused on questions of gender, sexuality and embodiment, and gender relations in large organisations. She has vast experience in studies on rural society and is the author (with Barbara Pini) of Reimagining the rural: gender and intersections in rural settings (Routledge, 2010). Her research interests are:

Elaine ButlerMs Elaine Butler

Elaine Butler is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Education. She is also is the National Co-coordinator of WAVE (Women in Adult Vocational Education Inc), the national NGO for women in adult, vocational and work-related education and training, and a board member of economic Security4Women, one of the Australian government's six national women's alliances that report to the federal Office for Women. In 2011 Elaine attended the UN's 55th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (New York, 22 Feb – 4 Mar 2011) as a member of the Australian delegation. Her research interests include:

Jean DuruzDr Jean Duruz

Jean Duruz is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Hawke Research Institute. Her current research stresses the connections of food, place, identity and memory in contemporary western cultures especially as these represent engagements with meanings of 'Asia', globalisation and cosmopolitanism. Her research interests are:

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Judith GillAssoc Prof Judith Gill

Judith Gill is an Associate Professor in the School of Education. After teaching high school students for ten years, she came to educational research in order to investigate gender effects and schooling. Her current research focuses on questions of power and politics as evidenced by qualitative research into young people's understandings of the world. She has maintained an interest in gender as a key dimension of social, intellectual and cultural organisation and has conducted research into the ways in which gender impacts on people's self-understanding, world vision and life choices. She is the author of Beyond the great divide: coeducation or single sex? (UNSW Press, 2004) and co-author of Knowing our place: children talking about power, identity and citizenship (with Sue Howard, ACER Press, 2009), Gender-inclusive engineering education (with Julie Mills and Mary Ayre, Routledge, 2010), and Globalisation, the nation-state and the citizen: dilemmas and directions for civic and citizenship education (with Alan Reid and Alan Sears, Routledge, 2010). Her research expertise includes:

Kay LawrenceProf Kay Lawrence

Kay Lawrence is the Director of the SA School of Art in the School of Art, Architecture and Design. She supervises postgraduate students enrolled in the PhD Visual Art (major studio project), Master of Visual Arts and the Master of Design. Her particular interest and expertise is in contemporary visual arts, and the area of textiles practice and theory, especially in relation to tapestry weaving. Her research interests are:

Cassandra LoeserDr Cassandra Loeser

Cassandra Loeser works in Academic Development Research Education in the Learning and Teaching Unit. Dr Loeser's PhD research focused on the ways young men with hearing disabilities negotiate the everyday realms of social interaction, friendship, school, sport and recreation, and in particular how the identities of masculinity and disability are inter-related in the construction of their embodied subjectivities. Dr Loeser continues to publish from her doctoral project and is currently undertaking research on the experiences of higher degree by research students with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses. Her research interests are:

Alison MackinnonEmeritus Professor Alison Mackinnon

Alison Mackinnon is a professor of history and gender studies and also holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Umeå in Sweden. She has published widely in women's history, the history of women's higher education, in historical demography and changing patterns of family formation. She is also interested in contemporary issues of family formation, fertility change, of disadvantaged girls and issues of combining work and family. She is the author of Gender and the restructured university: changing management and culture in higher education (Open University Press, 2001), Women, love and learning: the double bind (Peter Lang, 2010) and co-author of Fresh water: new perspectives on water in Australia (with Emily Potter, Stephen McKenzie and Jennifer McKay, Melbourne University Press, 2007) and Hope: the everyday and imaginary life of young people on the margins (with Simon Robb, Patrick O'Leary and Peter Bishop, Wakefield Press, 2010). Her research interests include:

Nicole MouldingDr Nicole Moulding

Nicole Moulding is Program Director for the Master of Social Work in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy. She is a qualified social worker with a background in women's health and community health. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of gender and mental health, social exclusion and mental health and interpretive research methodology, particularly post-structural approaches. She has a particular interest in the social construction of subjectivity and the implications for mental health and well-being. Her current research interests are:

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Margaret PetersAssoc Prof Margaret Peters

Margaret Peters is Dean of Research and Research Education. She is the co-author of Sonic synergies: music, identity, technology, community (with Gerry Bloustein and Susan Luckman, Ashgate, 2007) and Youth, music and creative cultures: playing for life (with Gerry Bloustein, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011). Her research interests are:

Elspeth ProbynProf Elspeth Probyn

Elspeth Probyn is an Adjunct Professor in the Hawke Research Institute. Elspeth has taught media studies, sociology and literature in Canada and the US, and most recently was the Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. As a researcher, she has specialised in the fields of gender, cultural and media studies, cultural geography and sociology. She has held visiting appointments as a Mellon Distinguished Scholar (Liberal Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Noted Scholar (English and Women's Studies, University of British Columbia), and invited professor (Sociology, LSE; Sociology, Goldsmiths; Geography, Edinburgh; Women's Studies, University of California, San Diego), and as a scholar at the Bellagio Rockefeller Centre. Elspeth has published several books: Sexing the self, Outside belongings, Carnal appetites, Sexy bodies and Blush: faces of shame (University of Minnesota Press, and UNSW Press, 2005) which developed an analysis of affects from a psychological and cultural perspective; and she recently co-edited Remote control, a book on media ethics, and new forms of television such as reality TV and food shows. Her forthcoming book is Taste and place (Reaktion Press, London). Her research expertise includes:

Rhonda SharpProf Rhonda Sharp

Rhonda Sharp is an Adjunct Professor of Economics in the Hawke Research Institute. Her research and scholarship have straddled the interrelated areas of economics, political economy, gender studies and public policy. She has undertaken research and policy work on gender and economic issues with governments and community groups in Australia, United Kingdom, Norway, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Italy, the Basque Country, Sweden, Barbados, Samoa and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. She is the author of Budgeting for equity: gender budget initiatives within a framework of performance (UNIFEM, 2003) and co-author of Short-changed: women and economic policies (with Ray Broomhill, Allen & Unwin, 1988). Dr Sharp's research interests include:


Tangi SteenDr Tangi Steen

Tangi Steen is Senior Lecturer in the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research. Her academic interest lies in information technology (IT) education and its uses in learning and research. Her PhD research focused on the problem solving strategies that students use when they encounter difficulties in IT. She is also interested in cultural studies of culturally and linguistically diverse people of Australia and that of the world's indigenous people. In particular, the changing social constructions of themselves as minority groups and their levels of participation in the social, political and economic processes that impact their lives. Her research interests are:

Sarah WendtDr Sarah Wendt

Sarah Wendt is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy. She is the author of Domestic violence in Australia (Federation Press, 2009). Her research expertise includes:

Carole ZufferyDr Carole Zufferey

Carole Zufferey worked as social work practitioner for over 15 years prior to being employed at the university. Since 2006 she has worked on various collaborative research projects particularly in the areas of domestic violence and women's employment, child protection, mental health, homelessness and social work education, with the aims of improving service delivery and/or social work education. She has published a number of articles particularly in the area of homelessness and social work. Her research interests include:

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Associate members
 

Valerie AdamsDr Valerie Adams

Valerie Adams is a Research Associate at the Hawke Research Institute and has worked on research projects across the social sciences since 2004. Formerly a registered nurse for over 25 years, she now researches caring labour from a feminist economics perspective with a focus on the undervaluation of care work in market terms and the interplay of tasks and motivations involved in providing good quality care. Her continuing research interests include:

Dale BagshawAssoc Prof Dale Bagshaw

Dale Bagshaw is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy. Her research interests are:

Vicki CrowleyDr Vicki Crowley

Vicki Crowley is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages. Her research interests are:

John HolmesAssoc Prof John Holmes

John Holmes is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Education. His research interests are:

Elspeth McInnesDr Elspeth McInnes

Elspeth McInnes is Senior Lecturer/Research Degree Coordinator: Early Childhood in the School of Education. Her research interests are:

Julie MillsProf Julie Mills

Julie Mills is an Professor in the School of Natural and Built Environments. Her research interests are:

Elisabeth PorterProf Elisabeth Porter

Elisabeth Porter is Professor in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages. Her research interests are:

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