Postgraduate Programs
The Gender and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Sydney is the leading centre for research into gender and culture in Australia, renowned internationally for interdisciplinary research and teaching in feminist, gender and cultural studies.
With some of Australia's foremost academics and theorists on staff, the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies provides you with critically engaging ideas and the tools to analyse a wide range of issues. The Department's academics draw on a number of theoretical and empirical research paradigms, spanning social science and humanities research methods.
The postgraduate program involves an active community of research students, with PhD and MA candidates pursuing research through a broadly based interdisciplinary program. Postgraduate students in the Department are often given opportunities to teach at undergraduate level, to work as paid researchers in projects lead by staff members, and are also encouraged to present or publish their work within and outside the university.
Postgraduate students are normally required to attend the department’s research seminar series.
Research
Research supervision in a range of fields is available through the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies. The areas of specialisation of staff members include media and cultural studies, film and visual culture, popular culture and consumption, philosophy and cultural theory, sociology (including of health and biomedicine), ethics, biopolitics, social policy, critical and comparative race studies, post colonial theory, Asian and Asian American Studies, cross-cultural studies, literature, cultural history, affect, embodiment and body technologies, queer theory and alternative culture. Please select the research link for more information.
Coursework
Postgraduate coursework students participate in the Department's intellectual community, and attend research seminars and postgraduate work-in-progress seminars. Postgraduate coursework students have a supervisor within the Department for any dissertation component and always have an adviser in the Department.
An overview of the new Master of Cultural Studies program is available here.
