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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 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
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