Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy
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Anthropology
| COHEN, Anjalee | Youth Culture in Northern Thailand |
| DOUANGPHET | Mobility and Reproductive Health amongst an Ethnic Minority Group (Akha) in Northwest, Laos. |
| EVERETT, Kristina | 'Impossible Realities: Indigenous and Non-indigenous Relationships in a Sydney Aboriginal Community' |
| GIBSON, lorraine | Articulating Culture(s): Being Black in Wilcannia |
| HARITAVORN, Niphattra | Access to Treatment Programs by Injecting Drug Users in Thailand |
| LYNCH, Tim | Memories of Ritual Child Abuse in Satanic Cults in Australia |
| MAUD, Jovan | 'Buddhism and Transnational Culture in Southern Thailand' |
| SPENCER, Rochelle | 'Encountering Development, Rethinking Tourism: The Convergence of Development and Tourism' |
| SULLIVAN, Patrick | t.b.a |
| WARDELL, Martina | Indigenous Education, Christianity, and Community at Woolaning Homeland Christian College |
Critical & Cultural Studies
- A comparative study of Australian and Japanese theatres in the 60's and 70's: alternative theatre movement and nationalism
- "Being-Fat-In-The-World: Theorising the Fat Female Body"
- Catholic Martrydom
- Cults, coalitons and communities
- Dreaming of Eurasia:Hybridity and the Eurasian Identity
- J.Lacan: Desire in theory and literature
- Liusglede - A study of Janet Achurch - her role in introducing Ibsen to the Antipodes
- Machine metaphyisics: On the history of a metaphor
- Mute bodies: Women's voice and Silence in cinema
- Performance Studies
- Punishment without crime: Legal mistreatment of refugees
- Scoring Australia. Music and Australian identities in Young Einstein, Strictly Ballroom and Priscilla
- Science fiction, Women and empowerment
- Visual culture
- Analysis of Shakespearean Film adaptation
- White like who? Unmasking "whiteness/ (re) configuring skin
- The worlding of cyborgs/the cyborging of worlds: The disciplining of technology
- Written on the Body: Cultural production, Aids, Genocide and corporeal representation
International Communication
Media
Philosophy
| Name | Degree | Thesis topic |
| Lise Marie Andersen | PhD | Mental causation |
| Michaela Baker | PhD | A Sartrean account of subjectivity and intersubjectivity |
| Paolo Bolanos | PhD | Between modernity and difference: Nietzsche and Adorno on the ethics of thinking |
| John Buckmaster | PhD | Memory, film and cognitive science |
| Wilson Cooper | PhD | Mental causation |
| Ruth Cox | PhD | Applying the ethics of recognition |
| Marco Crespo | MPhil | A critical investigation of Martin Heidegger’s interpretation of energeia in Aristotle’s Metaphysica, and its role in the Seinsfrage |
| Russell Downham | PhD | An interdisciplinary study of ante biographical memory and self-knowledge |
| Andy Hill | MPhil | Psychiatry and moral responsibility |
| Brennan Jacoby | PhD | Betrayal - a philosophical analysis |
| Jerry Larson | PhD | On Albert Camus |
| Andrew Montin | PhD | The critical potential of Luhmann's systems theory |
| William Paton | PhD | An examination of the psychological basis to recognition and its significance to work |
| Jacqui Poltera | PhD | A critical investigation of moral identity |
| John Quilter | PhD | Luck and agency |
| Stephen Reid | PhD | Rorty on religion |
| Melanie Rosen | PhD | Philosophy of mind and consciousness, specifically dreams |
| Stephane Savanah | MPhil | Self-consciousness |
| Berndt Sellheim | PhD | Expressive negativity in Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
| Kevin Sinclair | MA(Hons) | Consciousness: Phenomenology and Intentionality |
| Joel Stafford | PhD | The unreasonable effectiveness of statistics |
| Titus Stahl | PhD | The normative character of social practices |
| Adam Tate | PhD | The confrontation between Heidegger and the Tradition |
| Dale Tweedie | PhD | Work in contemporary Australia: Theory and policy |
| Mary Walker | PhD | Personal and practical identity |
| Carl Windhorst | PhD | Mnemonic influences on consciousness |
Sociology
| Student | Research thesis topic or area | Supervisor | Advisors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niko Antallfy | Sociology of science; critical theory and science studies; emerging technologies, biotechnology; sociology of knowledge | Pauline Johnson | Michael Fine |
| Vicki Chartrand | Women prisoners and transitional release | Mitchell Dean | - |
| Russell Daylight | The philosophy of language; Derrida and Saussure; structuralism and post-structuralism | John Lechte | - |
| Chris Doran | Australian corporations and the war in Iraq | John Lechte | Shaun Wilson |
| Marios Elles | Jimi Hendrix; popular music, the 1960s | John Lechte | Eduardo de la Fuente |
| Christina Jarron | Corporations in society; deviance and social control | Michael Fine | John Lechte |
| Rhianna Keen | Gender inequality in the intimate sphere | Pauline Johnson | Michael Fine/Shaun Wilson |
| Silvia Lanzetta | Post-modernity and Wittgenstein | John Lechte | Eduardo de la Fuente (Dr Robert Sinnerbrinck, Philosophy from July) |
| Fiona McAllan | Poststructural theories of subjectivity, textuality, ethics, law: interrogating democratic foundations within Australian communities | John Lechte | - |
| Heather Middleton | Sociology of time | John Lechte | - |
| Megan Mitchell | Mixed economies of welfare - changes in community care in Australia and the United Kingdom | Michael Fine | Pauline Johnson |
| Joshua Mullan | The concept of community in Derrida, Foucault and Nancy | Mitchell Dean | John Lechte |
| Kirsty Nowlan | The relationships between international trade law and human rights law | Pauline Johnson | - |
| Frances Press | Politics of Australian childcare | Michael Fine | Deborah Brennan (University of Sydney) |
| Adam Stebbing | Social inequality in the 'public' and 'private' welfare state | Michael Fine | Shaun Wilson |
| Sheila Watkins | Families; social capital | Michael Fine | Eduardo de la Fuente |
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