Associate Professor Moira Carmody Moira is an experienced researcher with a particular interest in anti-violence education and prevention, sexual ethics, policy analysis re interpersonal violence, gender, sexuality and the law, prison policy and practice. Website.
Clifton is Senior Project Manager for the Australian Research Council project 'The Well-Rounded Person: The role of sport in shaping physical, emotional and psycholoigcal development'. He is a Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage grant 'Safer Sex Beliefs and Practices in Multi-Partner Heterosexuals'. His research includes working with NSW Department of Education, National Rugby League, the Refugee Youth Soccer Development Program and various other community groups. Other research includes masculinity, tourism and emotion, and communicating sexual health to young Australians. He is currently writing a book about young men's experiences in the surfing culture.
Kelli has been a lecturer at the University of London and Monash University. Her recent publications include Visual Cultures and Critical Theory and New Media: Culture and Image. Publications have focused on the areas of visual culture and critical theory; apocalypse and cultural acts of response, subjectivity, and psychoanalytic theories of the body. Her research interests also include: film studies, psychoanalysis, and critical and cultural theory (in particular Foucault, Derrida, and Kristeva). Her current projects include new developments in cultural studies, in particular the political and ethical implications in bio and transgenic art.
Vicki is a Worimi descendent from the midnorth coast of NSW and is a registered Native Title Claimant in that region. Her research interests are the constructions of race, especially as they impact on mixed-race Indigenous families, the impacts of colonialism and public policy and most recently Indigenous knowledges development. She has published widely including in the “history wars” debate and by invitation in journals including the international Indigenous scholarly journal AlterNative. She is currently completing a PhD thesis exploring mixed-race marriages in Worimi and a biography of the Worimi elder Mr Les Ridgeway for which she has received the NSW Indigenous History Fellowship. With Dr Fiona Probyn of the University of Sydney she is researching the experience of mixed-race family life on an individual’s understanding of “race”, through interviews with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal family members to be published as Significant Others: race and the Australian family.
Research interests include cross-cultural philosophies of embodiment, intersubjectivity and desire; aesthetics and ethics; philosophy of religion; gender and spirituality and alternative medicine. She is the author of Angels of Desire: Subtle Subjects, Aesthetics and Ethics (forthcoming, Gnostica: Equinox) and Book Review Editor for Australian Religious Studies Review.
Kristin is a Senior Lecturer in the Sydney Law School. Research interests include reproductive/genetic technologies, reproductive autonomy, sexual autonomy and sexual violence. Webpage.
