Our research

Research in this discipline contributes both practically and theoretically towards anthropological issues. This research maintains a broad international focus, extensive social engagement, concentration on the politics of everyday life and concern about the ethical requirements of anthropology.

We conduct research into:

• development studies
• embodied consciousness and experience
• medical anthropology including global health, infectious disease, reproductive and sexual health and gender
• mobility and migration, human rights
• new social movements
• phenomenology
• psychological anthropology
• social and political anthropology
• studies of religion, particularly Islam, Christianity, and new religious formations
• the anthropology of emotion
• the social impact of globalising economic formations.

Research in the geography and planning discipline focuses on the complex relationships between human and environmental systems in cities and regions. With projects across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, we have established research expertise in four broad areas:

• critical development and Indigenous geographies
• cultural and political geography
• environments, societies and power
• cities planning and governance.

While our research is theoretically informed, our projects have a real-world impact by informing policy development and implementation. We give the public access to the very latest knowledge on crucial environmental and developmental challenges.

Within this discipline, our research specialisations include:

• cultural studies
• digital media
• entertainment
• film studies
• interactive design
• journalism
• media and communications studies
• non-fiction storytelling
• public relations and social media
• radio and podcasting
• screen practice and production.

Our sociology discipline brings together social theory and social research methods to understand how society works and how it can be changed for the better. We work on a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary projects, collaborating with scholars, policy makers and service providers both locally and globally.

Our research includes consultancies and ARC funded projects with a focus on:

• gender, generations and the intimate sphere
• markets, policy and inequality
• migration, mobilities and diversities
• social movement and citizenship
• the sociology of culture and everyday life
• urban and global sociology
• work and society.