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Thematic Groups

TASA members can join up to 3 Thematic Groups.

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 Hosking
  • Amy Shields Dobson
  • Angela Dwyer
  • Ann Evans
  • Archana Preeti Jetti
  • Arundina Dijah Retno Pratiwi
  • Barbara Cosson
  • Belinda Hewitt
  • Brigid Henley
  • Briony Horsfall
  • CUONG LA
  • Caroline Cox
  • Cassie Curryer
  • Cate Morriss
  • Catherine Kowalski
  • Catherine Waldby
  • Cathryn Hunter
  • Christina Malatzky
  • Christine Tillig
  • Clare Bartholomaeus
  • Daniela Stehlik
  • Deborah Dempsey
  • Deborah Lupton
  • Donna Read
  • Dragica Veselinovic
  • Duncan Munnings
  • Eloise Zoppos
  • Emily Rose
  • Emma Kirby
  • Fiona Brookes
  • Gemma Edgar
  • Genine Hook
  • Harry Blatterer
  • Indigo Willing
  • Jacinthe Flore
  • Jaleh McCormack
  • Janeen Baxter
  • Jessica Gunson
  • Jo Lindsay
  • Joel Robert McGregor
  • John Scott
  • Jui-shan Chang
  • Juliet Richters
  • Kate Cornwall
  • Katherine Carroll
  • Kathryn Daley
  • Kirsten McLean
  • Kirsti Rawstron
  • Kristin Natalier
  • Kristin Lehmann
  • Kyja Noack-Lundberg
  • Kylie Sait
  • Laura Gobey
  • Lauren Sanford
  • Lien Le
  • Lisa Worthington
  • Louise Meroni
  • Luke Gahan
  • Lyn Craig
  • Maelisa McNeil
  • Mara Yerkes
  • Margaret Tiyce
  • Maria Carolina Hernandez Losada
  • Mashitah Hamidi
  • Maureen Baker
  • Meg Carter
  • Meredith Nash
  • Michael Gilding
  • Michael Flood
  • Michelle Skinner
  • Millsom Henry-Waring
  • Mohammad Salehin
  • Monika Dryburgh
  • Nafiseh Ghafournia
  • Natasha Cortis
  • Nicola Pitt
  • Patrick McMaster
  • Paul Priday
  • Penelope Robinson
  • Peter Robinson
  • Petya Fitzpatrick
  • Pol Dominic McCann
  • Rachael Saward-Boric
  • Raelene Wilding
  • Riki Lane
  • Robert Buttigieg
  • Roger Patulny
  • Roger Wilkinson
  • Rose van Dijk
  • Sabrina Makaroff
  • Sally Pascoe
  • Seforosa Carroll
  • Shari Bonnette
  • Sharon Pitman
  • Sharon Ee Ling Quah
  • Sheree Gregory
  • Susan Kentlyn
  • Teresa Flynn
  • Tristan Kennedy
  • Vanessa Leahy
  • Vickie Wormington
  • Virginia Mapedzahama
  • Yarrow Andrew
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