Area(s) of study
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Area(s) of supervision
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| Anthropology |
| Professor Bryce Barker |
Australian Prehistory, Aspects of Cultural Anthropology |
| Dr Lara Lamb |
Aspects of cultural anthropology: medical anthropology, ritual, religion, gender and sexuality. Aspects of archaeology: stone technology, heritage management, pre-European settlement and subsistence on off shore islands |
| Dr Celmara Pocock |
Environmental anthropology and history; the anthropology of tourism; Aboriginal history and heritage; cultural heritage tourism; human senses; emotion and museum interpretation; Great Barrier Reef and Tasmania |
| Communication and Media Studies |
| Dr Karey Harrison |
Philosophy of Language and Science, Epistemology, Models and Metaphor, Feminist and Political Theory, Discourses on media, education, environment, economics and power, climate change communication |
| A/ Prof Jill Lawrence |
Transactional and cross cultural communication; Critical discourse theory, Multiliteracies, Higher Education |
| Dr Kelly McWilliam |
Film, media and cultural studies; uses and impact of digital media on youth; communities of media consumption and participation; representations and practices of gender and sexuality |
| English Literature |
| A/Prof Laurie Johnson |
Continental Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Early Modern Studies, Literary Theory, Phenomenology, Shakespeare Studies, Trauma Theory |
| Professor Chris Lee |
Victorian Literature; Australian Literature, Australian Studies, Popular Literature, Post-colonial Literature; History of the Book, Public Memory; Representations of War |
| History |
| Dr Libby Connors |
Australian and Queensland History, Legal History, Social Movement History, Environmental History, Australian race relations and Indigenous history |
| Dr Catherine Dewhirst |
Italian, European and World histories; immigration and transnational history; migrant identity, ethnicity and community-construction; historiography; women’s/gender; historical experience; biography; family history |
| Dr Robert Mason |
Migration and multiculturalism; Australian history; Ethnic and political identities; Perceptions of conflict and peace; Cultural landscapes; Social and political memories; Luso-Hispanic identities |
| International Relations |
| Dr Anna Hayes |
Human security theory, pandemic illness as a source of human insecurity, women’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, contemporary Chinese history and politics, the status of women in contemporary China |
| Journalism |
| Dr Caryn Coatney |
Leadership media strategies; political communication; the media and political representation of war; international news coverage; the media portrayal of race/ethnicity; journalism ethics; journalism history; new media |
| Media Production/Creative Media |
| Dr John Hetherington |
Film, television and cross media/networked production. Effects of technology on production processes, roles and product; interactive television and satellite delivery of free to air and IP content |
| Multimedia |
| Dr Daryl Sparkes |
Film and Television Production; Documentary Film Production; Short Film Production; Media Theory, Film History; Australian Cinema |
| Music |
| Dr Phillip Gearing |
Aural Perception, Analysis, Organ/Keyboard |
| A/Prof Rhoderick McNeill |
Music History and Theory, Repertory Studies |
| Performing Arts |
| Dr Rebecca Scollen |
Audience research, reception and development; arts marketing; arts management; events management; performance analysis; regional arts |
| Public Relations |
| Dr Chris Kossen |
Discourse Analysis, Organisations and Older Workers, Organisational Communication, Participative Planning and decision-making, Corporate Branding |
| Social Science |
| Dr Malcolm Brown |
Islam, Orientalism and Islamophobia; racism and ethnicity; sociology of religion; religious conversion; pacifism; humour studies; comparative methodology |
| Theatre |
| Dr Darryl Chalk |
Theatre in the European Renaissance, Shakespearean Studies |
| A/Prof Janet McDonald |
Children’s and young people’s theatre, collaborative playbuilding, postcolonial performance, queer and gender performance, creative community development, fictional gender, the body in performance |
| Visual Arts |
| Dr David Akenson |
Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Art History, Art Theory, German Idealism, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies |
| Dr Beata Batorowicz |
Contemporary Art, The role of narratives, fairytales and mythology within Western Art History, Cultural Theory, Feminist Theory, Psychoanalysis |
| Dr Kyle Jenkins |
Painting, Contemporary Art Theory and Practice |
