Research supervision

Applicants to postgraduate research in the Department are advised to discuss their research proposal with a potential supervisor in the department before submitting their application. Below is a list of supervising staff in the department and the research topics they are able to cover. Click on a name to find out more about each staff member.

Wayne Atkinson
. indigenous studies
. land and heritage issues
. native title
. history of Koori political struggle in south east Australia

Jo Barraket
. social policy and networked governance
. community capacity building and policy
. third sector organisations and civic engagement
. contemporary social movements
. socio-political effects of information and communication technologies

Verity Burgmann
. labour politics
. social movements
. radical political ideologies
. race relations in Australia
. protest and globalisation

Ann Capling
. Australian foreign economic policy and history
. trade policy
. international economic institutions
. globalisation and anti-globalisation parties and movements
. intellectual property rights

Jui-shan Chang
. manhood and womanhood in contemporary societies
. marriage, families, and relationships
. courses of life
. east-west sexuality

John Chesterman
. rights
. citizenship
. Australian Indigenous political and legal affairs
. access to the law
. third sector (community) organisations
. judicial politics
. Victorian State politics and Australian politics

Mark Considine
. Australian politics
. social policy and theories of the state
. civil society and social organisation
. the relations between public and private sector governance
. managerialism, economic rationalism and public culture

Michael Crozier
. Political communication and culture
. Theory and history of the social sciences
. Australian political culture
. Political and social theory

Robyn Eckersley
. global politics
. environmental philosophy, politics and policy
. political theory (liberalism, democracy, justice, the state and the 'politics of difference')

Brian Galligan
. citizenship and human rights
. federalism & constitutional politics
. business/government relations

Millsom Henry-Waring
. 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

Leslie Holmes
. comparative communist and post-communist politics (mainly Central and Eastern Europe)
. comparative corruption
. legitimation theories
. German politics
. nationalism in Europe

Sheila Jeffreys
. the politics of sexuality
. feminist theory
. lesbian and gay theory
. the sex industry

Adrian Little
. political and social theory
. democratic theory and practice
. Northern Ireland
. British politics

Kevin McDonald
. forms of social action and identity, from social movements to sub-cultures
. transformations in youth identity and action
. the Green movement
. forms of urban action and identity in zones of high unemployment

Derek McDougall
. Australian foreign relations - particularly diplomatic and security aspects
. International politics of the Asia-Pacific

Tim Marjoribanks
. work, management, labour, and globalisation
. medicine, health and illness
. the media
. technology and society
. sociological theory
. post-industrial society

Philomena Murray
. European integration
. European Union governance, policies, member states and institutions
. EU-Australia relations
. politics of France, UK, Italy, Germany, Northern Ireland

Paul Smyth
. contemporary Australian social policy
. local governance and social inclusion
. international perspectives on social inclusion

Jacqueline Siapno
. Southeast Asian history and politics
. gender studies and feminist theory
. Islamic studies
. classical Malay and modern Indonesian literature
. human rights in comparative perspective
. Critical Race Theory
. Postcolonial Studies
. Comparative Development

Other links

• Staff profiles
• Research strengths