We are a group of academics who share a strong commitment to applied social research, policy analysis and advocacy.
Staff
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
- Zozan Balci - Sociolinguistics
- 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
- Meg Foster - Historian of crime and policing
- Lucy Fiske – Refugees in South-East Asia
- Mark Gawne - Deindustrialisation and the sociology of work
- James Goodman – Climate Change, energy, and social change
- Christina Ho – Education and diversity in Australia
- Elizabeth Humphrys – Workers and Climate Change
- Siobhan Irving
- Kyungja Jung – Women and Feminism in South Korea
- Jonathan Marshall – Community-based renewable energy
- Olga Oleinikova – Democracy and the state in Ukraine
- Tamson Pietsch – History of the University
- Julia Scott-Stevenson – Immersive Media and Climate Change
- Archie Thomas - Schooling, media and marginalisation
- 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)
- Australian Centre for Public History (Clarke, Foster, Humphrys, Pietsch, Thomas)
- Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre, C-SERC (Gawne, Goodman, Fabinyi, Humphrys, Marshall, Scott-Stevenson, Walker)
- Diversities and Social Inclusion Research Group (Balci, Ho, Irving, Oleinikova, Thomas)
