Research Strengths

The research strengths of the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies are in media and cultural studies, philosophy, critical race studies, visual culture, sociology, literature, post colonial theory 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.

Current funded research projects include:

• The Age of Consent (Faculty of Arts Seed Funding project). Driscoll.
• Australian Country Girlhood (Australian Research Council Discovery project). Driscoll.
• Broadcast Yourself: presence, intimacy and community online (funded by both a Faculty of Arts FARSS grant and the ARC's Cultural Research Network). Driscoll, with Dr Melissa Gregg.
• Communicating Safer Sexual Health via Mobile Telephony: PRC, HK, UK, and Australia (International Development Fund project). Probyn.
• Complicity: critical double agency (University of Sydney Research & Development project). Probyn-Rapsey
• Cultural Consumption and Social Capital: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (University of Sydney RIHSS cluster funding). Probyn.
• Footballers as role models (Faculty of Arts Seed Funding project). Moller.
• The Well-rounded Person: The role of Sport in Shaping Physical, Emotional and Social Development (Australian Research Council Discovery project). Probyn, with Professor Catharine Lumby (Media & Communications), Dr Jenny O’Dea, and Kath Albury.
• Whiteness: A Critical Genealogy (Australian Research Council Discovery project). Probyn-Rapsey
• Youth Cultures of Eating: A Cultural Analysis of Youth Obesity, Gender, Class, Ethnicity and Generation (Australian Research Council Discovery project). Probyn, with Dr Jenny O’Dea.

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

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