Staff Profiles

Millsom Henry-Waring Phone: 8344 6562 Email: m.henry-waring@unimelb.edu.au Office: Medley Building Room 415

Background

Millsom Henry-Waring joined the Department in February 2003 from Monash and La Trobe Universities in Melbourne. Millsom's PhD - Moving Beyond Otherness: (Re)vealing, Re)centring and (Re)inscribing the Polyvocal Subjectivities of African Caribbean Women across the United Kingdom was completed at Monash University in 2002. This unique study explores in the context of a critical and distinctive Black feminist anti-colonial framework how African Caribbean women individually and collectively internalise, but also resist constructions and representations of ourselves as Other.

Prior to Australia, Millsom was based in the UK and graduated from Durham and Stirling Universities. In addition, whilst in the UK, Millsom co-directed a government funded national centre based at the University of Stirling, which explored the development and implications of the information and communication technologies for teaching and learning. Millsom also taught across a range of social science courses.

Research

Millsom's research and teaching interests include the following:

• Critical Black Studies
• Gender/women's studies and post-colonial studies, especially in the areas of identity, intimacy, popular culture, nationalism and multi-culturalism
• The social and political implications of new technologies for society

Millsom's current research projects are based around:

• Black British and other Feminisms
• Whiteness
• Mixed and Multiple Identities
• Notions of Otherness and intimacy
• Exploring Intimacy Online
• Virtual Connections? Exploring Intimacies in Cyberspace (with Jo Barraket).

Subjects Taught

• 1st year: Cyberspace: The Last Frontier?
• 2nd/3rd year: Qualitative Research Strategies
• 4th year: Critical Feminisms in Sociology (forthcoming)
• Masters: Comparative Social Policy
  

Supervision

Millsom is interested and keen to supervise in any of her current research and teaching interests, namely:

• Critical Black Studies
• Gender/women's studies and post-colonial studies, especially in the areas of identity, intimacy, popular culture, nationalism and multi-culturalism
• The social and political implications of new technologies for society

Recent Publications

Books

IT in the Social Sciences: A Student's guide to the Information and Communications Technologies, Editor, Blackwell: Oxford, February 1999; pp272: ISBN: 1855548232

Using IT Effectively: A Guide to Technology in the Social Sciences, Editor, UCL Press: London, 1998: pp201: ISBN: 1857287959

Desperately Seeking Sisterhood: Still Challenging and Building, Co-editor with Ang-Lygate M and C Corrin - Taylor and Francis/UCL: London, Spring 1997: pp222 ISBN: 0 7484 0410 4

Book Chapters

'The Role of Computers in Social Policy', Chapter 48: pp368-74, edited book by P Alcock, A Erskine and M May - 'The Student's Companion to Social Policy', Blackwell: Oxford, November 1997: ISBN: 0631202404

'Using Computers in Sociology', Chapter 40: pp301-14, edited book by J Gubbay and C Middleton & C Ballard - 'Blackwell's Student's Companion to Sociology', Blackwell: Oxford, May 1997; ISBN: 0631199489

Journal Articles

'Commentary: Dualisms and Female Bodies in the Representations of African Female Circumcision: A Feminist Critique by W Njambi', Feminist Theory Journal, Summer 2004, 5(3): 317-323

'Moving Beyond Otherness: Exploring the Polyvocal Subjectivities of African Caribbean Women Across the United Kingdom', Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, Summer 2004, 30(1): 31-41

'Exploring Otherness using NUD*IST4: Researching Black British Women's Multiple Subjectivities', Qualitative Solutions Research (QSR) Newsletter, No 20, March 2003, pp 6-7

Monash University entitled: 'From Stirling to Melbourne & Beyond', (joint article with Associate Professor Denise Cuthbert), COMPASS, Monash Postgraduate Association, Monash University 2003

Conference Papers

'To be British you have to be White: Black British Women Challenging the Notions of Identity, Gender and the Nation-State', in TASA 2004 Conference Proceedings, Editor - K Richmond, December 2004, CD ROM, ISBN: 0-9598460-4-2

Henry-Waring, M S and Barraket J, 'Exploring Virtual Connections? Sociological Perspectives of Intimacy in Cyberspace', in TASA 2004 Conference Proceedings, Editor - K Richmond, December 2004, CD ROM, ISBN: 0-9598460-4-2

Barraket J and Henry-Waring M S, 'Everybody's Doing It: Examining The Impacts of Online Dating', in TASA 2004 Conference Proceedings, Editor - K Richmond, December 2004, CD ROM, ISBN: 0-9598460-4-2

Awards

The TASA prestigious Jean Martin Award for the best PhD thesis in a social science discipline from an Australian university, 2003-04.