Amanda Elliot

Room 132 RC Mills Building +612 9351 5131

Current Position:
Lecturer

Research interests:
Dr Amanda Elliot's key research interests focus around the relationship between social movements and welfare states, the politics of policy-making and the restructuring of contemporary welfare states. She has particular expertise in the field of Australian and comparative health policy and financing having spent two years as a senior health policy analyst in the Australian Parliament. Current research projects include the use of language and metaphor in policy making and comparative analysis of the relationships between social movements and welfare regimes.

Current Teaching:

• SCLG2607 Social Movements and Policy Making (March Semester)
• SCLG2611 Comparative Sociology of Welfare States (July Semester)
• SCLG2613 Sociology of Childhood and Youth (July Semester)
• SCLG40xx Sociology Honours (Both Semesters)

Post Graduate Supervisions:
Michelle Hsiao - Ageing Population and Retirement Income Systems: A comparative study between Australia and Taiwan
Masters of Arts (Research)

Kylie Malone - Gay and Lesbian Marriage and the Australian Parliament
Masters (minor thesis)

Regis SperDeBrito - Social Policy and the construction of youth
Masters (minor thesis)

Myra Hamilton (Associate Supervisor with Bettina Cass) - Retirement Income support in Australia and the UK
PhD Thesis

Ellen Adele (Associate Supervisor with Bettina Cass) - Citizenship, young people and housing policies
PhD Thesis

Samantha Saidi (Associate Supervisor with Robert van Krieken) - Young people and cultural change in Iran
PhD Thesis

Grants, Fellowships and Awards:
2004 Unspeakable Words: The manipulation of language in debates about Medicare, SSCP Strategic Development Grant

2002 The Next Generation, a study of subcultures of youth disaffection, Research Infrastructure Block Grant

2001 Excellence in Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney,

1999 Space Knowledge Action: Youth and Citizenship in Geelong, Deakin University Priming Grant, 1999

Consultancies:
2001 Sailing into the Future, Young Endeavour Foundation and Department of Defence Research Consultancy

Parliamentary Publications
Elliot, Amanda (2003), The Regulation of Private Health Insurance Premiums, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra

Elliot, Amanda (2003) Is Medicare Universal?, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra

Elliot, Amanda & Hancock, Nathan (2003) Health Legislation Amendment (Medicare and Private Health Insurance) Bill 2003, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra

Elliot, Amanda & Martyn, Angus (2003) Health Legislation Amendment (Private Health Insurance Reform) Bill 2003, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra

Elliot, Amanda & Hancock, Nathan (2003) Health Care (Appropriation) Amendment Bill 2003), Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra

Elliot, Amanda & Martyn, Angus (2003) Health Insurance Amendment (Diagnostic imaging, Radiation Oncology and Other Measures) Bill 2002, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra

Elliot, Amanda (2002) The Decline in Bulk Billing: Explanations and Implications, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra

Elliot, Amanda & Hancock, Nathan (2002) Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review and Other Matters) Bill 2002, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra

Elliot, Amanda (2002) Health Care (Appropriation) Amendment Bill 2002, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra

Elliot, Amanda (2002) Health Legislation Amendment (Private Health Industry Measures) Bill 2002, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra

Elliot, Amanda (2002) Health Insurance Commission Amendment Bill 2002, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra

Invited Papers
Elliot, Amanda (2004) Women's Health Centres in a Restructuring State, Women's Health NSW Statewide Conference, Sydney

Elliot, Amanda and Yeend, Peter (2003) Using Data in a Parliamentary Environment, invited presentation at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare with Peter Yeend, AIHW, 23 September 2003

Elliot, Amanda (1998) Negotiating the State: Lessons from Australian Feminist Research, invited presentation at the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand Conference, Macquarie University, 9-11 July, 1998

Elliot, Amanda (1998) Feminism and Economic Rationalism: Negotiating a new policy environment, Some lessons from South Australia, invited presentation at the annual Joint Women's Studies and WHIRRCA Conference, University of Sydney, 17 March, 1998

Conference Papers
Goodwin, Susan, Elliot, Amanda and Flannery, Kate (2001) Bridging the Digital Divide? Youth services, computers and citizenship presented at The Australian Sociological Association Conference, University of Sydney, December 2001

Elliot, Amanda (1997) From History to Historicity: Social Movements and Social Policy, paper presented at The Australian Sociological Association Conference, University of Wollongong, 10 December, 1997

Elliot, Amanda (1997) Artificial Choices: Social Policy and Feminist Social Movement Organisations, some thoughts on the Cooption debate, presented at the Australian Political Science Conference, Flinders University of South Australia, 30 September, 1997

Elliot, Amanda (1997) Gender Questions in Social Policy: Does Generation F have a New Agenda? co-convenor, National Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 16-18 July, 1997

Elliot, Amanda (1997) Gender Questions in Social Policy: Does Generation F Have a New Agenda? opening paper for the National Forum (of the same name) held at the National Social Policy Conference, University of New South Wales, 17 July 1997

Elliot, Amanda (1997) Being Out in the Field, presented at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 April, 1997

Elliot, Amanda (1996) Re-theorising Social Movement Organisations: Women�s Health Centres as Agents for Change, presented at The Australian Sociological Association Conference, University of Tasmania, 5 December 1996

Elliot, Amanda (1996) Social Policy, Social Movements and the State: intersections in theory and practice, presented to the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of New South Wales, 15 June 1996

Elliot, Amanda (1996) Women�s Health Centres: Government Bureaucracies or Agents of Change?, presented at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 March, 1996

Elliot, Amanda (1995) Feminist Services and Changing Demographics: The landscape of Service Delivery, presented at the Urban Research Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 22 June, 1995