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Sociologists in the media

As part of TASA’s aim to promote the expertise of sociologists and raise the public profile of sociology, we encourage members to send us details of their engagement with the media by making use of our online form below.

September 26, 2006

  • TASA Public Lecture, Flinders University, Adelaide. In early 2006 Anthony Elliott was appointed Professor to the Sociology Department at Flinders University, Adelaide. Anthony was interviewed, photographed, filmed and taped on his topic of ‘Extreme Reinvention: The Rise of Makeover Culture’. Just prior to the Lecture he could be seen on the Channel 7 news (nationally), read about in The Advertiser (a full one page article, plus a smaller ‘advertorial’) and on the front page of The Australian Higher Education and listened to on ABC Radio. The Lecture itself was taped for ABC Radio National’s ‘Big Ideas’ series and we look forward to that being scheduled later in the year. Since the Lecture, Anthony has continued to attract media interest and promote sociology as being topical and appealing to a broad audience.

December 17-18, 2005

  • Dr Scott Poynting and Dr Greg Noble were heavily quoted in a feature article in the Sydney Morning Herald’s News Review section entitled ‘A Great Divide’ about the riots in Cronulla (NSW).

October 2005

  • Dr Adam Possamai’s new book, Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament, was the inspiration behind the publication of many articles in, for example, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Courier-Mail, The Advertiser and Canberra Times, on Star Wars as a religion when the latest movie of the series was released in May 2005. The book was also mentioned in an article on religion and popular culture in Men’s Style (October 2005).

April 2005

March 2005

  • Professor John Carroll, La Trobe University, wrote a ‘op ed’ article entitled ‘How the West leads the fight against itself’ in the Sydney Morning Herald (p. 17).
  • Dr Tim Phillips from the University of Tasmania commented on the term “un-Australian” in the recent Sydney Morning Herald article. For full transcript see http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/03/14/1110649126449.html

January 13, 2005

  • ‘Health lessons learned from 21-year scientific study’. Professor Jake Najman and others were interviewed on The 7.30 Report (ABCTV) about the findings of the longitudinal Mater-University of QLD Study of Pregnancy (MUSP). Click here for a program transcript.
  • Professor Chilla Bulbeck’s (University of Adelaide) commentary on gender inequality in Australia, entitled ‘Feed the kids, luv, I’m watching the footy’ was published in the Sydney Morning Herald (p. 13).

October 31, 2003

  • Professor Clive Kessler of the School of Sociology at UNSW was interviewed on Triple J radio about the reign and retirement of Malaysia’s PM Mahathir Mohamad.

October 23, 2003

  • Associate Professor of Sociology David de Vaus of La Trobe University, was interviewed in the SMH about changing cohabitation and divorce patterns in Australia.

July 17, 2003

  • Professor Rob White, Chair in Sociology & Head of Discipline in the School of Sociology & Social Work at the University of Tasmania was interviewed on ABC national radio. He exposed the problematic nature of the NSW Opposition Liberal-National party proposal to impose a curfew on children aged up to 14.

April 20, 2003

  • Professor Michael Pusey was the subject of the feature article ‘Michael in the Middle’ in The Age/Sun-Herald Sunday Life magazine, about his new book ‘The Experience of Middle Australia’.

March

  • TASA member Dr Stephanie Short, senior lecturer in health care sociology in the School of Public Health & Community Medicine at UNSW, was asked for her diagnosis of what’s wrong with the state’s health system. See: Sydney Morning Herald online, March 12 2003 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/12/1047431079215.html

February 2003

  • TASA members Philip Smith and Tim Phillips article on ‘What is UnAustralian’, published in the Journal of Sociology (2001, 37/4), was the major source in a feature story on ‘being unAustralian’. The piece was called ‘Aussie Rules’ and was written by Mark Dapin. It appeared in ‘The Good Weekend Magazine’ in both ‘The Melbourne Age’ and ‘The Sydey Morning Herald’ on February 22, 2003.
  • A feature article entitled ‘Anatomy of a boycott’ by Professor of Sociology Andrew Jakubowicz (UTS) was published in the Spectrum supplement of the Sydney Morning Herald, February 8-9, 2003. The article examined calls by academics to boycott Israeli colleagues.

January 2003

  • A feature article about a current ARC Discovery research project on experiences of everyday incivilities in Australia, involving TASA members Tim Phillips (School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania) and Philip Smith (Sociology Department, Yale University), was published in the Higher Education Supplement of’The Australian’ newspaper on January 22, 2003. The piece was titled ‘A little rudeness can be a good thing’.

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