Families, Relationships and Gender

Aims and objectives:

This group aims to facilitate and support research and collaboration on the sociology of families, relationships and gender. We aim to provide a forum to showcase sociological research on Australian families and relationships and the opportunity to bring theoretical insights, empirical research and policy discussions together in conversation and debate.

Topics of interest include:

• Dating, establishing relationships and family formation
• Relationships, families and technology
• Cohabitation and marriage
• Gay and lesbian relationships
• Transgender people and relationships
• Friends, tribes and new households
• Fertility decision making and reproduction
• Children and childhood
• Work, domestic labour and patterns of care
• Separation, divorce and re-constituted families
• Domestic violence, neglect and abuse
• Money and family relationships
• Mothering, fathering and parenting
• Love
• Pornography
• Family ideologies/ discourses
• The politics of the family
• Theoretical and methodological debates

Year established:

March 2008

Convenors

Dr Deborah Dempsey
Lecturer in Sociology
Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
John St, Hawthorn
Victoria 3122
Australia
Postal address:
PO Box 218 Hawthorn
Victoria 3122
Phone: 61 3 9214 4374
Fax: 61 3 9819 0574
Email: DDempsey@groupwise.swin.edu.au

Belinda Hewitt
Senior Research Fellow
Employment and Education Program
Institute for Social Science Research
The University of Queensland
Room 409, Level 4, GPN3 Building, Campbell Road
ST LUCIA QLD 4072
Tel: 617 3346 7472
Fax: 617 3346 7646
Email: b.hewitt@uq.edu.au
Website: http://www.issr.uq.edu.au

Group Members

Alison McIntosh

Amanda Anderson

Ann Evans

Archana Preeti Jetti

Arundina Dijah Retno Pratiwi

Atsushi Takeda

Aviva Beecher Kelk

Barbara Cosson

Belinda Hewitt

Brendan Churchill

Brigid Henley

Briony Horsfall

Carmen Spears

Cassie Curryer

Catherine Waldby

Catherine ('Cate') Thill

Christina Malatzky

Clare Bartholomaeus

Daniela Stehlik

Deborah Dempsey

Deborah Lupton

Donna Read

Dragica Veselinovic

Duncan Munnings

Eloise Zoppos

Emma Kirby

Eve Bodsworth

Fiona Brookes

Harry Blatterer

Hayley McKenzie

Helen Longlands

Holly Thorpe

Indigo Willing

Jack Chapman

Janeen Baxter

Jennifer Podesta

Jessica Gunson

Jo Lindsay

Joanna Georgiou

John Scott

Judy Rose

Jui-shan Chang

Juliet Richters

Kathryn Daley

Kay Cook

Kirsten McLean

Kirsti Rawstron

Kristin Natalier

Kristin Lehmann

Lara McKenzie

Lara Hulbert Mainka

Laura Gobey

Lauren Williams

Lauren Sanford

Lien Le

Lisa Worthington

Luke Gahan

Lyn Craig

Maelisa McNeil

Mara Yerkes

Margaret Tiyce

Mashitah Hamidi

Maureen Baker

Meg Carter

Meredith Nash

Michael Gilding

Michael Flood

Michele Whitbourne

Millsom Henry-Waring

Mohammad Salehin

Monika Dryburgh

Natasha Cortis

Nicola Pitt

Paul Priday

Penelope Robinson

Peta Hinton

Peter Robinson

Rachael Saward-Boric

Raelene Wilding

Riki Lane

Robert Buttigieg

Roger Patulny

Roger Wilkinson

Rose van Dijk

Sabrina Makaroff

Seforosa Carroll

Shari Bonnette

Sharon Ee Ling Quah

Sue Malta

Sujay Kentlyn

Teresa Flynn

Timothy Barrett

Tristan Kennedy

Yarrow Andrew