We are a group of academics who share a strong commitment to applied social research, policy analysis and advocacy.
Social and Political Sciences
About us
We teach into the Communications degree at UTS through the Social and Political Sciences (SPS) major and across a range of elective and core subjects, and we supervise research degrees at PhD level. Our teaching is informed by our work in a wide range of projects and partnerships. We are sociologists, historians, political scientists, political economists and anthropologists, with a common goal of using knowledge to understand and transform the social world.
Academics and Researchers
- Chelsea Barnett – Masculinities in Australian history
- Lai-Ha Chan – China, Australia and Global Governance
- Feng Chongyi – Human Rights and Constitutionalism in China
- Anna Clark - Australian History and its disputes
- Mike Fabinyi – Fishing communities and climate change
- Lucy Fiske – Refugees in South-East Asia
- Christina Ho – Education and diversity in Australia
- Elizabeth Humphrys – Workers and Climate Change
- James Goodman – Climate Change, energy, and social change
- Kyungja Jung – Women and Feminism in South Korea
- Leah Lui-Chivizhe – Torres Strait colonial histories and ecologies
- Jonathan Marshall – Community-based renewable energy
- Heidi Norman – Indigenous economies and agreement-making
- Olga Oleinikova – Democracy and the state in Ukraine
- Tamson Pietsch – History of the University
- Alana Piper – Crime histories in Australia
- Julia Scott-Stevenson – Immersive Media and Climate Change
- Andrew Song – Small-scale fishing communities
- Jeremy Walker – Ecologies, corporations and sustainability
Research groups
We are involved in the following UTS research groups:
- Asia-Pacific Research Group (Chan, Chongyi, Jung, Oleinikova, Song)
- Australian Centre for Public History (Barnett, Clarke, Humphrys, Pietsch, Piper)
- Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre, C-SERC (Goodman, Fabinyi, Humphrys, Marshall, Norman, Song, Walker)
- Diversities and Social Inclusion Research Group (Ho, Oleinikova)
- Indigenous Land and Justice Research Group (Norman, Liu-Chivizhe)
