Researchers
WSU Members
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
Professor Kerry Robinson
Acting Director - Human Rights and Diversity 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
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.
Professor Janette Perz
School of Medicine
Research interests: reproductive and sexual health with a particular focus on gendered experiences, subjectivity and identity
Professor Jane Ussher
School of Medicine
Research interests: LGBTQ Health; sexuality and the reproductive body; as well as exploring gendered and sexuality in cancer survivorship
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.
Associate Professor Kate Huppatz
School of Social Sciences
Research interests: work and employment, social class, households and embodiment
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
Associate Professor Alison Downham Moore
School of Humanities and Communication Arts
Associate Professor Tania Ferfolja
School of Education
Associate Professor Jacqueline Ullman
School of Education
Associate 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
Dr Amira Aftab
School of Law
Dr Peter Bansel
School of Social Sciences
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
Dr Quah Ee Ling
School of Humanities & Communication Arts
Research interests: Dr Quah Ee Ling (she/her) is a fire dragon feminist and Senior Lecturer in Culture & Society, School of Humanities & Communication Arts. Ee Ling is Singaporean of Chinese-Hokkien and Indonesian-Peranakan heritage. The correct order of her name is surname first followed by given name. Ee Ling developed her own strand of feminism - fire dragon feminism to blow flames at injustices and rebuild communities for a more just and equitable world. She has very little patience for racism, queerphobia, patriarchy, misogyny and white male mediocrity. Ee Ling is the author of Transnational Divorce: Understanding Intimacies and Inequalities from Singapore (Routledge 2020) and Perspectives on Marital Dissolution: Divorce Biographies in Singapore (Springer 2015). Her research interests include feminisms, intersectionality, gender & sexuality, queer studies, race, migration, transnational studies, emotions, intimacies and families.
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 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
Dr David Lim
School of Health Science
Research interests: workforce and health service planning for vulnerable, disadvantaged and marginalised communities
Associate 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 George Turner
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
Dr Brahm Marjadi
School of Medicine
Research interests: Cross-cultural knowledge translation; Disease prevention and control in low-resource settings; Methods, evaluation and impact of community engagement and community engaged learning
Dr Ryan Thorneycroft
Sociology
Research interests: Crip Theory; Queer Theory; Subjectivity; Violence
Dr Sowbhagya Michael
School of Medicine
Research interests: teaching innovations, community engagement in medical education, women's health, gender and human rights.
Dr Ashlee Gore
Sociology
Research interests: gender, including feminist jurisprudence, feminist legal theory, discourse analysis, psychosocial criminology, feminist psychoanalysis, and cultural theory.
Dr Ben Hanckel
Institute for Culture and Society
Research interests: youth studies, sexuality and gender, Digital Health and wellbeing, social activism.
Bijan Kardouni
b.kardouni@westernsydney.edu.au
Research interests: Queer Theory, LGBTIQ Studies, Homophobia, Execution of Gay Men, Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, Media Analysis, Autoethnography.
Dr Rimple Mehta
Social Work and Community Welfare
Research interests: gender, criminalisation of mobility, trafficking and incarceration.
Adjunct Members
Associate Professor Nicole Asquith
University of Tasmania
Research interests: Criminology; LGBTIQ+ inclusion; Policing; Victimology
Cristyn Davies
University of Sydney
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
Associate Professor Michael Salter
University of NSW
Research interests: child abuse; adult survivors of child abuse; violence against women; social media; childhood trauma; complex trauma; dissociation
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