Researchers

WSU Members

Lucy Nicholas Dec 2020

Associate Professor Lucy Nicholas

Director - Sexuality and Gender Research
Associate Professor In Gender and Sexuality Studies

Research interests: gender and sexual diversities, non-binary and genderqueer, trans*, men and masculinities, social and political theory, queer theory, whiteness and feminisms

Prof Kerry Robinson

Distinguished Professor Kerry Robinson

Director of the Diversity and Human Rights Research Center

Research interests: childhood studies; diversity and difference in educational contexts; gender equity; gender and sexuality studies; gender and sexuality diversity in childhood and young people; sexual citizenship; sexuality education; feminist theory, queer theory and feminist poststructural theory

SaGR School of Social Science Members

Dr Jenna Condie
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: Activism; Curriculum Design; Identity; Place identity; Qualitative Methodologies; Sustainable Urban Environments; User-experience design; public housing; social entrepreneurship; social media; urban redevelopment

Dr Selda Dagistanli
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: Racialised Gender Violence; Cultures of abuse; Racism and multiculturalism

Associate Professor Nida Denson
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: Diversity, diversity-related initiatives, educational contexts; student-institution fit; educational access and opportunity, impact of diversity on student development, hierarchical linear modelling, meta-analysis.

Dr Suzanne Egan
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: Feminist theory, queer theory, Foucauldian and post structural methodologies,  sexual violence, trauma studies, academic sexual misconduct

Dr Ashlee Gore
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: gender, including feminist jurisprudence, feminist legal theory, discourse analysis, psychosocial criminology, feminist psychoanalysis, and cultural theory.

Professor Andrew Gorman-Murray
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: Social and Cultural Geography; Gender, Sexuality and Space; Urban Studies; Rural Studies; Geographies of Home.

Associate Professor Kate Huppatz
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: work and employment, social class, households and embodiment

Ben Joseph

Dr Benjamin Joseph
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: Masculinities, mentoring, and violence prevention in youth sport (men and boys)

Julia Kantek

Dr Julia Kantek
School of Social Sciences

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Sam Lane

Dr Sam Lane
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: Masculinities, mentoring, and violence prevention in youth sport (men and boys)

Dr Rimple Mehta
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: gender, criminalisation of mobility, trafficking and incarceration.

Dr Genevieve Ritchie

School of Social Sciences

Research interests: Social reproduction; gender, sexuality, age, and race at work; feminist, queer, and antiracist social movements and histories of resistance; transnational migration; informal learning; citizenship education; transnational care and family abolition; queer and trans approaches to historical materialism; and feminist research methods

Erika Smith

Dr Erika Smith

School of Social Sciences

Research interests: Gender and sexuality, precarious workers (casual/sessional academics) in universities, workplace sexual harassment and bullying

Professor Karen Soldatic
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: Social security, social protection regimes and local livelihoods (inc. digitisation, financialisation, spatialisation); Social inequality, marginality and autonomy; Disability, race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender diversity and intersectionality; War, conflict and transitional/reparatory justice

Associate Professor Corrinne Sullivan

Professor Corrinne Sullivan
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: experiences and effects of body and Identity in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Dr Ryan Thorneycroft
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: Crip theory, queer theory, violence, sexuality studies

George Turner

Dr George Turner
School of Social Sciences

Research interests: reducing health disparities by advancing sexual health equity in areas such as sexual justice, LGBTQIA2S issues, disability, and sexuality education; social work, psychotherapy, sex therapy

SaGR WSU Members

Dr Amira Aftab
School of Law

Research interests: anti-discrimination law, gendered institutions, feminist theory, and gender and human rights.

Professor Denis Byrne
Institute for Culture and Society

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Associate Professor Alison Downham Moore
School of Humanities and Communication Arts

Research interests: European cultural or intellectual history, historiography or historical theory, sexuality or gender studies, history of medicine, science, sport or health across time and place

Professor Tania Ferfolja
School of Education

Research interests: LGBTQI issues in education; preservice teacher education; academic service learning; refugee youth and schooling
Susanne Gannon

Associate Professor Susanne Gannon
School of Education

Research interests: educational research including gender equity and diversity; creative writing pedagogies; media and cultural studies in educational research and educational policy

Emilee Gilbert

Associate Professor Emilee Gilbert
School of Psychology

Research interests: gender, health and sexuality; women's negotiation of paid and unpaid work; qualitative research methods, public health policies and practices, post-structural feminist theory

Associate Professor Benjamin Hanckel
Institute for Culture and Society

Research interests: youth studies, sexuality and gender, Digital Health and wellbeing, social activism.

Dr David Lim

Dr David Lim
School of Health Science

Research interests: workforce and health service planning for vulnerable, disadvantaged and marginalised communities

Dr Quah Ee Ling

Dr Quah Ee Ling
School of Humanities & Communication Arts

Research interests: feminisms, intersectionality, gender & sexuality, queer studies, race, migration, transnational studies, emotions, intimacies and families.

Brahm Marjadi

Associate Professor Brahm Marjadi
School of Medicine

Research interests: Equity, intersectionality, diversity and inclusion in medicine, public health and health professional education; Intersectionality between LGBTQIA+ and other identities; Gender, sexuality and reproductive health education in Indonesian schools; Community engagement and community-engaged learning.

Dr Sowbhagya Micheal
School of Medicine

Research interests: teaching innovations, community engagement in medical education, women's health, gender and human rights.

Professor Janette Perz
School of Medicine

Research interests: reproductive and sexual health with a particular focus on gendered experiences, subjectivity and identity

Cris Townley

Dr Cris Townley
Translational Health Research Institute

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Associate Professor Jacqueline Ullman
School of Education

Research interests: Equity and Social Justice Education; Gender and Sexuality; LGBTQI issues in education; Developmental Psychology; Research Design and Analysis; Self-Concept; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Gender and Sexuality; Stigma Management

Professor Jane Ussher
Translational Health Research Institute

Research interests: LGBTQ Health; sexuality and the reproductive body; as well as exploring gendered and sexuality in cancer survivorship

Adjunct Members

Professor Nicole Asquith
University of Tasmania

Nicole.Asquith@utas.edu.au

Research interests: Criminology; LGBTIQ+ inclusion; Policing; Victimology

Cristyn Davies
University of Sydney

cristyn.davies@sydney.edu.au

Research interests: HPV and HPV vaccination; vaccination delivery systems; gender and sexuality; child and adolescent health and development; LGBTI health, discrimination and violence; women’s sexual and reproductive health; research methods design; Implementation Science and Knowledge Translation; health and education policy practice; and (heritage and new) media.

Associate Professor Jane Mears
Retired

Research interests: collaborative engaged action research projects with communities and government in the areas of women and caring, aged care and violence against older women

Professor Michael Salter
University of NSW

michael.salter@unsw.edu.au

Research interests: child abuse; adult survivors of child abuse; violence against women; social media; childhood trauma; complex trauma; dissociation