Adjunct Researchers
(15%)
(85%)
Professor James Arvanitakis
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: citizenship, resilience, piracy, trust, hope, the Future of Universities
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Dr Kylie Budge
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: digital and material cultures of art and design; cultural institutions, their audiences and social media; cultures of making; identity; creativity; cultural theory and theories of value.
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Kate Clark
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Cultural heritage policy and practice; Multiple values for the past; Values in conservation practice (buildings and landscapes); Industrial archaeology; Transport policy.
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Dr Eloise Florence
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Cultural Memory, Material Heritage, Environmental Humanities, Cultural Histories, Memory and the Built Environment
Professor Robert J Foster
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Social Theory, Political Economy, Nationalism, Globalization, Material Culture, Consumption, Commodity Chains, Corporations, Mass Media, Ethnographic Areas: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania.
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Professor Megan Watkins
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Cultural Pedagogies, Affect, Habit and Embodiment, Education, Cultural Diversity, Multicultural Education, Asian Migration and Education Cultures, Literacy
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Professor Heather Horst
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and SocietyResearch Areas: Digital Anthropology; Mobile Media; Material Culture; Digital Ethnography
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Dr Tsvetelina Hristova
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Critical digital studies; Infrastructure studies; Critical data governance; Post-socialism
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Professor Paul James
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Culture and Society Research Areas: Globalization and its impact upon social relations; Social change and the human condition; Sustainable urbanization
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Dr Declan Kuch
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society Research Areas: Climate policy; Energy technologies; Social license issues with science and technology; Diverse Economies; Social dimensions of automation
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Deborah Lawler-Dormer
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Posthumanist theoretical frameworks and museum practices; Science technology and art interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary practices; Curatorial and creative practice research; Industry, tertiary and community collaborative practices; Cognition and perception of digital and physical artefacts; Nuclear heritage, methods and imaging of museum collection objects
Dr. Daren Shi-Chi LEUNG
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Discard Studies, Critical Food Studies, More-than-human Ethnography, Science and Technology Studies
Contact Dr. Daren Shi-Chi LEUNG [[link]]
Dr Isaac Lyne
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship; Rural community development; Rural livelihoods and resilience; Impact of digital finance on farming
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Dr Phillip Mar
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Migration studies, Transnational Chinese communities, Urban space, Arts and cultural policy, Violence and political contestation, Infrastructure theory, Conceptions of control in social theory
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Dr Luigi Di Martino
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Use of social media in public; Political communication and everyday life; Ethical implications of organisational listening and monitoring activities through digital technologies.
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Professor Sandro Mezzadra
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: borders, migration, globalisation
Professor Daniel Miller
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: digital anthropology, material Culture, anthropology of consumption
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Associate Professor George Morgan
Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: urban studies to Aboriginality and post-colonialism, youth and precarious labour, and the politics of moral panics.
Associate Professor George Morgan [[link]]
Dr Pariece Nelligan
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: vocational aspiration and creative careers, precarious labour and gig work; and youth employment and transitions.
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Dr Bonnie Pang
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: (Critical) socio-cultural aspects of Health/Physical Education (H/PE), and physical culture, specialising in Chinese youth experiences, diversity and critical pedagogy, and healthy and inclusive communities.
Contact Dr Bonnie Pang [[link]]
Dr Jack Parkin
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: political economy and software studies, including cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
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Dr Adam Sargent
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Capitalism, Infrastructure, Labor, Debt, Urbanisation, Materiality, Social Inequality, India
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Eric Sidoti
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Public Policy, Democracy, Human Rights and Civil Society, Policy Development in Parliamentary Democracy and Democratic Institutions.
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Dr Jolynna Sinanan
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: Digital anthropology, digital ethnography, anthropology of development, regionally comparative mobilities, and family relationships, work, gender, political engagement.
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Dr Zoë Sofoulis
Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society
Research Areas: technology, culture, gender, and cultural aspects of urban water.
Professor Paul Tabar
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Culture and Society Research Areas: Migration, diasporic relations, multiculturalism, racism, home-grown terrorism, and the Lebanese state and society.
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Dr Cecelia Cmielewski
Cecelia Cmielewski is a Research Fellow at the Institute and an arts industry leader with over twenty-five years’ experience in the cultural sector. She is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University (WSU) on the ARC funded The Collaborative Museum – Embedding Culture in the City (2021 -2025).