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I am a Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations. I was a Faculty Member at the Department from July 2017 to June 2020 and since July 2020 am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Universite Laval, Canada. My research investigates the...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Professor Gabrielle Meagher’s research engages with pressing problems in social policy and the world of work. These themes come together in her research on the way social care services are practised, organised, distributed, experienced and understood by different groups. She works with colleagues in Australia and Sweden to understand how...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Adam Stebbing is a sociologist broadly interested in the interactions of social policy, tax and inequality in ageing societies. He teaches and undertakes research in applied sociology in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University in Sydney. He also directs and advises in the undergraduate social science degree, teaching core...View full profile in our Researcher's database

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, where I teach public policy. I received my PhD from the University of Pittsburgh (2006). Before I joined Macquarie in July 2017, I taught in the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Malaysia. Most recently, my research...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Noah’s intellectual work has always focused on the structural and systemic legacies of colonialism and neoliberal capitalism as the basis for understanding contemporary politics. Historical analysis is the foundation on which he explained the conflict in Darfur, Sudan that broke out in the early 2000s.  That interest in the Darfur conflict led...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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I was educated in Paris (Lycée Louis-le-Grand, École Normale Supérieure and Paris IV-Sorbonne), and Germany (Hegel-Archiv at the Ruhr Universität Bochum and Freie-Universität in Berlin). I received my PhD from Paris IV-Sorbonne in 1998 and began working in the Philosophy Department at Macquarie in 2002. I am an editor of Critical Horizons, a journal of...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Francesca Dominello is a Lionel Murphy Scholar. She holds a combined BALLB degree from Macquarie University, and a LLM (Research) and PhD degree from UNSW. In 2009 Francesca was awarded the CCH-ALTA 'Best Paper' Award for the paper she presented at the 2008 ALTA Conference titled 'Beyond Symbolism: Aboriginal Sovereignty...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Research Interests work and employent; sociology of work; critical social theory...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Tobia Fattore's empirical research is in the broad areas of the sociology of childhood and sociology of work. He is currently working on several projects in these areas. This includes a sociological examination of children's well-being, that analyses children's understandings and sense of well-being and how this reflects processes of...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Nicholas Harrigan is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His major areas of research include social networks, particularly networks of conflict; low wage migrant workers in Australia and Asia; and participatory approaches to social research. Before joining Macquarie University, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology...View full profile in our Researcher's database

In her research to date, Kumiko has investigated the nexus between individual lives, labour and consumption in post-industrial contexts, as well as social transformation through the lens of transnational migration. Trained in qualitative methods, she particularly values ethnography as a way to observe everyday practices and approach questions that have...View full profile in our Researcher's database

I am Chair of the Discipline of Politics and International Relations in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences (since 2023). I am a Director on the Executive Board of the Australian Political Studies Association (2021-2024) and was elected to serve on the Executive Board of the Korean Studies Association of...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Hang Young Lee’s research areas span social inequality, social stratification and mobility, economic sociology, and social networks. His research has centered on illuminating social processes that facilitate or constrain social mobility of individuals, more precisely the mechanism of cumulative advantage/disadvantage whereby the advantaged remain privileged, and the disadvantaged remain underprivileged....View full profile in our Researcher's database

Vijaya Nagarajan researches and teaches in the areas of regulation, corporate governance, sustainability and corporate responsibility, competition law and policy and legal spatialities and gender equality. She has supervised students, published widely and undertaken several consultancies in these areas. ...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Kristian is an urban and economic geographer. His research interests centre on issues of urban governance, housing and planning. Kristian's research has explored social housing provision in New South Wales, in particular residents' experience of their neighbourhood and the evaluation of policies tied to urban renewal and community regeneration. Kristian...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Nick moved to Macquarie as a Lecturer in Philosophy in July 1997. He was Director of Macquarie University's Centre for Research in Social Inclusion from 2003 to 2007 and was Head of the Department of Philosophy from 2008 to 2012. External appointments include: international research fellow at Queen's University Belfast,...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Teresa first joined Macquarie Law School in January 2017. She had previously taught in Universities in both Australia and the UK. She is currently undertaking her PhD through the University of South Australia, examining the legal position of the older person in an asset for care arrangement. The thesis highlights the limitations...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Ben Spies-Butcher teaches Economy and Society in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences. He is co-director of the Australian Basic Income Lab, a collaboration between the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, the School of Social and Political Science at Sydney University and the Crawford School at ANU. Ben completed his...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Adam Stebbing is a sociologist broadly interested in the interactions of social policy, tax and inequality in ageing societies. He teaches and undertakes research in applied sociology in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University in Sydney. He also directs and advises in the undergraduate social science degree, teaching core...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Sonya Willis is a senior lecturer at Macquarie Law School.  Sonya researches and teaches primarily in civil procedure, taxation and private international law. Sonya is currently engaged in researching the potential for an online litigant vulnerability assessment tool. Sonya completed her PhD in Law at the University of Sydney...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Shaun Wilson is currently Chair of the Sociology Discipline at Macquarie University (on leave). Shaun's primary research investigates the distributional and ideological conflicts that are reshaping the politics of liberal welfare states. His recent book Living Wages and the Welfare State with Policy/University of Bristol Press was published in 2021...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Matt Withers is a research fellow within the Department of Sociology, having completed his PhD within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. His research is concerned with the developmental implications of temporary labour migration and remittances, both in Sri Lanka and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. His...View full profile in our Researcher's database