Dr Jennifer Deger - collaborative ethnographic filmmaking; contemporary Yolngu culture;indigenous media; experimental ethnographic writing; visual theory.

Dr Greg Downey - Interests: Social movements; popular culture; sports and violence; sustainable development; human rights and cultural rights; dance; embodiment and the senses.

Dr Alexander Edmonds - Interests: Anthropology of modernity; visual and medical anthropology; the body; 'beauty' and cosmetic surgery; Brazil and East Timor.

Dr Chris Houston - Political Islam in Turkey; republicanism, nationalism and identity; architecture and urban planning

A/Prof Chris Lyttleton - Interests: Sexuality and subjectivity; health and development; social impact of HIV/AIDS in SE Asia; migration and health vulnerability; ethnic minorities in the upper Mekong; drug reduction programs.

Dr Pal Nyiri - Interests: Migration and tourism; cultural politics of tourism development; Chinese migration in Europe and Asia.

Dr Kalpana Ram - Interests: Class, gender and development in India; women's experiences of puberty and maternity; family planning and childbirth.

Dr Lisa Wynn - Interests: Transnationalism; tourism and travel; gender; identity and nationalism; medical anthropology; new reproductive health technologies; sexuality; the language of medicine; cyberfatwas; Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Canada.

Nikki Sullivan - Somatechnics. "Somatechnics" is a newly coined term used to highlight the inextricability of soma and techne, of the body (as a culturally intelligible construct) and the techniques in and through which bodies are formed and transformed.

Joseph Pugliese, Goldie Osuri - Critical Race, Ethnicity and Diaspora Studies. Ethnicity, Race and Migration Studies highlights the racialised and ethnicised constitution and production of contemporary nationalisms,diasporas, and globalisation.

Nick Mansfield, Nicole Anderson - Derrida and Cultural Studies. Jacques Derrida's work increasingly came to focus on explicitly political issues to do with law, hospitality, the relationship between ethics and politics, terrorism and war.

Anne Cranny-Francis, Anthony Lambert - Somatic Technologies. This research concentration deploys both scientific and Foucauldian meanings of 'technology', to study the ways that human embodiment is generated by and generates the technologies - scientific (digital, biological, electromechanical), social, cultural - that characterize a particular space/time.

Professor Naren Chitty’s research is in the areas of media, political economy and identity in relation to communication and development; globalization; public diplomacy and international public relations; and media and terrorism.

Dr Qin Guo’s research is in the areas of educational communication and technology; development communication; diffusion of innovation; and East Asian studies.

Dr Sripan Rattikalchalakorn’s research is in the areas of development communication; public relations and advertising; Thai politics; political economy of mediated crises; and social-info transformation.

Usha Harris' research is in Gender, Media and Social Change in the Pacific Islands, Participatory Video Production, Community/Citizen's Media, Social Justice Journalism.

Cavan Hogue's research is in Intercultural Communication, International Relations, Australian Foreign Policy, South East Asian Studies, Public Diplomacy.

Helen Styles' research is in Public Diplomacy, International Public Relations, International Humanitarian Law, Journalism.

Peter Thompson's research is in public policy, influence & persuasion, changing social behaviour, communication strategy.

Howard Gelman's research is in International radio and television journalism and production training, emphasizing digital production techniques; writing for publication in print media including newspapers, magazines and books; writing techniques for international business.

Dr Steve Collins - The impact of copyright law on new media technologies (and vice versa), fan fiction, film and music sampling; digital rights management; death of the CD; the fair use doctrine; discourses surrounding intellectual property theory; Music 2.0; free cultures.

Dr Maree Delofski - Documentary History, Theory and Production, Cultural History, Screen Production & Screen Writing.

Dr Peter Doyle - Peter's PhD concerned renderings of virtual space in early popular music recording. The history of twentieth century popular music remains among his research interests. As an author of historically-based Australian crime novels, Peter also retains a research interest in fiction and non-fiction crime writing in Australia and overseas. He has a strong (research and production) interest in comics and the graphic novel.

Mr Peter Higgins - Commercial Radio; writing for public communication; Australian media history and communications industry structure; textuality of film/television; the cultural significance of celebrity in contemporary life; the media’s role in shaping the contemporary public sphere and public debate; media ethics; and teaching pedagogies and learning methodologies for communication students.

Dr Susie Khamis - Consumerism in contemporary Australian culture; Australian advertising history; branding; culinary tourism; images of Australian national identity.

Dr Noel King - 'Cultures of Independence': a study of small and/or independent trade and academic publishers in Australia, the UK, and the USA. My research into 'small, national cinemas' (eg Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland) is also gathered under this broad umbrella, as is an ongoing study of contemporary international crime fiction (in English) involving both English language works and translated works: a study of writers, publishers and critics in the UK (eg Serpent's Tail, Bitter Lemon, Harvill) and the US (eg Akashic, Europa)

'Literary cinephilia'. This project updates some earlier work on cinephilia (Willemen/King, in Willemen 1994) and adds to recent books in the burgeoning field of 'histories of cinephilia' (Keathley; 2006; De Valck and Hagener, 2005) by assembling, and writing on, various examples of 'literary cinephilia' by novelists, poets, and filmmakers from Australia, the US and Europe.

Post 1960s US literature, film, photography, and the cultural criticisms that have attached to them. The topics for the most part concern landscape and travel (eg 'road movies', as it were, across each media form); American cinema since the 1960s; the history of film criticism as a form of cultural criticism.

Dr Virginia Madsen - Virginia’s academic research interests span sound and radio theory and history, auditory culture studies, audio arts and the history of public broadcasting radio with a particular emphasis on ‘cultural radio’ forms and their specific development in Europe and Australia.

Dr Nicole Matthews - Nicole's research interests converge around the relation between media, practices of the self and formations of citizenship within neo-liberal political cultures. Her research areas include feminist cultural studies, Deaf and disability studies, popular genres and visual cultures.

Dr Willa McDonald - Creative non-fiction/literary journalism, biography and memoir, journalism ethics, travel writing, place and nature writing, race and the media.

Associate Professor Kathryn Millard - Screenwriting and Production (features, essay films, non-fiction, shorts), Script Editing/Dramaturgy, Theories of Creativity, Performance, Colour Theory, Photography, Media Psychology, Visual Culture.

Mr Alex Munt - New digital cinema; Screen theory; Language & aesthetics of the digital moving image; Digital Media Design; Screen|Writing models for the digital age.

Dr Renata Murawska - National and ?migr? cinemas, with a special focus on Eastern Europe and South America; film comedy; adaptations; authorship; propaganda, theories of persuasion and new concepts in branding.

Associate Professor John Potts - Culture and technology, digital media, audio arts, and intellectual history.

Dr Catherine Simpson - Catherine's main research focuses on gender and geography in cinema and media. She has a special interest in national cinemas, particularly Australian, Turkish and Middle Eastern cinemas. Her other research interests include socio-cultural studies of the body.

Dr Sherman Young - Sherman's interests include technology and society, new media technology and media policy issues.

Tim Bayne works on the unity of consciousness and agency, and on philosophical issues surrounding delusions.

He also has research interests in applied ethics, particularly parenthood, procreation and death. He also has research interests in the philosophy of religion.

Jennifer Duke-Yonge's main interests concern metaphilosophical issues about the relationship between natural language and logic, especially issues concerning truth, paradox, and the semantic universality of natural languages.

Peter Menzies has wide-ranging interests in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind and language. His main interests concern the metaphysics of causation (including mental causation), counterfactual conditionals, response-dependence, and modality.

Nicholas Smith works on anti-representationalist approaches to mind and meaning. He has recently published an edited collection on John McDowell's Mind and World.

He is also well known for his work on Charles Taylor. He is currently researching a number of issues in critical social theory, including the relationship between work and recognition, the bases of social hope, and religion and modernity. In addition, Nick is Director of the Macquarie University Centre for Research on Social Inclusion (based in the Division of Society, Media, Culture, and Philosophy), of which several Macquarie philosophers are members.

John Sutton has worked extensively on memory and has wide-ranging interests in the philosophy of psychology and cognitive science. He also has strong interests in 17th century philosophy and science.

Mitch Parsell works in the philosophy of mind, broadly construed to include the philosophy of psychology and the foundations of cognitive science. His pet area is distributed connectionist models of folk psychological states, like beliefs and desires.

Jean-Philippe Deranty works mainly in French and German Philosophy, with a particular focus on social and political philosophy. His current research interests include the philosophy of law, critiques of political liberalism, theories of modernity, theories of intersubjectivity, and continental aesthetics. He is writing a book on Axel Honneth's ethics of recognition.

Robert Sinnerbrink has wide-ranging interests in 19th and 20th Century European philosophy, contemporary French and German philosophy, critical theory and poststructuralism, philosophy and cinema, and the history of aesthetics. He is currently working on a book project on Hegel, Heidegger, and modernity.

Mianna Lotz has research interests in applied ethics as well as social philosophy, with a particular interest in the ethical and social implications of biotechnological developments in the sphere of human reproduction. She also works on childrens' and parents' interests, rights and obligations, and on questions concerning the moral status and claims of contingent future persons.

Catriona Mackenzie works in moral psychology, moral philosophy, feminist philosophy and applied ethics. Her current research interests include theories of autonomy, agency and practical deliberation, theories of moral responsibility, conceptions of selfhood and identity, and philosophy of the emotions. She is also interested in a range of issues in bioethics, including reproductive ethics, end of life decisions, and conceptions of autonomy, choice and embodiment in bioethics.

Cynthia Townley works on topics within ethics, applied ethics and epistemology including trust, tolerance and intellectual property. A book titled Knowledge, Community and Ignorance, which deals with epistemic virtue theory and interdependence, is in progress.

Dr Alison Leitch - Ethnography of capitalism; theories of labour; creative workers; food and politics; visual sociology

Dr Ben Spies-Butcher

Dr Charlotte Fabiansson

Dr Harry Blatterer - Changing meaning of adulthood in affluent societies & milieux; biographical uncertainty strategies & intergenerational relationships.

Professor John Lechte - Image and society; time and subjectivity; French theory and philosophy; sociology of art, aesthetics and culture; social theory

Dr Justine Lloyd - Cultural sociology; domesticity and material culture; cultural politics; space and subjectivity

A/Prof. Michael Fine - Sociology of care and ageing; social policy and human services; sociology of organisations

Dr Norbert Ebert - social theory, empirical research, individualisation, work society and work-organisation, social differentiation, recognition and integration

Roberta Simpson - Teaching ARTS 200/SOC 231. Practising visual artist, working in drawing and glass

Dr Selvaraj Velayutham - Migration, globalisation, nationalism, politics of identity, culture and everyday life.

Dr Shaun Wilson - Sociology of work and welfare; social attitudes; quantitative social research

Dr Kristina Everett - Kristina’s research focus centres on expressions of (re)emergent traditional Indigenous cultural practices in urban contexts. Her primary research has been conducted in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, but she has also engaged in comparative studies in New Zealand/Aotearoa and North America.

Kristina is also interested in the global development of Indigenous Studies and its contribution to post-modern theory.

Trudy Ambler - Teaching and teacher education; curriculum theory; classroom practice; autobiography and narrative inquiry, collaborative modes of inquiry with teachers; practitioner inquiry and teacher learning; feminist theory and pedagogy, ethical issues in qualitative research.

Lana Leslie - Lana is a Kamilaroi woman from Warren, NSW. Lana teaches Research Methods and Techniques and Issues in Indigenous Research within the Bachelor of Community Management. Lana is a PhD candidate in the Department of Human Geography in the area of Indigenous health. Her research Interests include Indigenous Health; Indigenous Ageing: Indigenous Sport and Physical Activity.