Research Strengths

The research strengths of the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies are in media and cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, philosophy, critical race studies, visual culture, sociology, literature, post colonial theory, online cultural studies, rural cultural studies, youth studies and cultural history. The Department has a strong record of publications, research supervision and research grant success.

Please see the staff profiles and the profiles of our associates for the range of areas in which we offer research supervision.

See the postgraduate research page for more information on research in process and other current projects.

Networking Gender and Cultural Studies

The Department is actively involved in developing international collaborations with researchers around the world. As a major partner in the World University Network's Gender Studies Global Network, we are developing projects with universities in the UK, USA, China and Singapore. http://www.wun.ac.uk/genderstudies/participants.html

The Department includes four members of the Australian Research Council's Cultural Research Network and two members of the Academy of the Humanities.