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Members of staff and their fields of special interest

CHRIS ATMORE Feminist poststructuralist theories; media and cultural studies; sexual violence and representation; lesbian and gay studies.

ROBERT BIRRELL Immigration policy and the implications; Australian society from an historical and developmental perspective.

GARY BOUMA Sociology of religion; sociology of the family; social psychology; sociology of occupations and professions.

CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN Homelessness; social class; the petty bourgeoisie; sociology and public policy.

BERNARD DALY Sociology of health and illness; sociology of nursing.

BARRY ELLEM Prison issues; technological change; environmental issues; the future of work; qualitative research techniques.

JOANNE FINKELSTEIN Cultural studies; sociology of fashion and consumer conduct; sociology of self; sociology of health and illness.

WILLIAM FODDY Privacy; obscenity; self processes; cluster housing; survey methodology.

PENELOPE GRAHAM The anthropology of Southeast Asia; religion and religious conversion; socio-economic change and regional migration; ethnicity and the state; orality and literacy.

PETER HILLER Analysis of data on child abuse; methodology/philosophy of social science; ideology; class/social stratification; computers in sociology.

RAY JUREIDINI Sociology of work and industry; medical sociology, sociology of the law; economic sociology.

NEVILLE KNIGHT Young people and their groups, in leadership; sociology of religion.

CATHERINE LEWIS Mass media; social history; education; gender, gender studies, family.

CHRIS LLOYD Sexuality, gender and gender identity; feminist approaches to research; feminist theory; unconscious processes in social life.

ANTHONY MCMAHON Men and gender relations; feminist theory; marriage and family; contemporary social theory; sociology of emotions.

DON MILLER Religion and social inequality in India and Bali; social theory; socio-cultural construction of `disabilities,' sign language and deaf culture.

ANDREW MILNER Contemporary social theory; literary and cultural theory; sociology of literature; Milton, Orwell and political writing; literary radicalism in Australia.

DAWN RYAN Urban anthropology; Melanesian society; anthropology of religion; population mobility in the Pacific; socio-religious movements in Melanesia; theory and practice in ethnographic fieldwork.

MICHAEL STEVENSON Comparative studies of social and cultural transformations; social movements and their political and cultural consequences; third world studies; political economy; the history of social theory.

MONI STORZ Stress and mental health and illness; women's studies; Asia's business cultures; crosscultural research methodologies and intercultural communications skills; accelerated learning methodology.

ULLA SVENSSON Gender relations in the family; women, the welfare state and social policies; use of official statistics.

JAN VAN BOMMEL Feminist theory; sexual division of labour; women, female subjectivity and madness.

BRUCE WEARNE History of the social sciences; religion and theoretical thought; American sociological thought.

NAOMI ROSH WHITE Social construction of identity; sociology of children and childhood; testimony memory and social knowledge; Holocaust.

ROBERT WOLFGRAMM Charisma; multiculturalism; the `new physics'; tradition and tribalism in post-coup Fiji; postwar popular music.


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