University of Tasmania, Australia

Research in these areas include: national and state housing policies, social exclusion, housing management, homelessness, public and private rental markets, home ownership, community empowerment and regeneration, housing for the elderly, citizenship and the policy process.

Visit the Housing and Community Research Unit (HACRU) webpages for details of research activity.

Director of HACRU: Associate Professor Daphne Habibis

Research in this area examines the relationship between nature and society, the place of animals in Australian global cultures, the development of "green" issues and movements, environmental harm and environmental regulation, corporate reporting and environmental management.

Professor Adrian Franklin

Professor Bruce Tranter

Research focuses on issues such as juvenile justice, restorative justice, youth crime prevention, ethnicity and crime, prison reform, offender employment histories, youth gangs, hate crime, delinquency and uncivil behaviour and corporate crime.

Professor Rob White

Research in this field covers immigrant and refugee settlement experiences; ethnic minorities and access to services; migrant health and mental health; social capital and ethnic communities; globalization, migration and citizenship; transnationalism, social networks and communities; diasporas and the politics of identity; the role of migration in relation to population ageing; migration and development including remittance-led development.

Associate Professor Roberta Julian

Research on religion and spirituality in contemporary society. This includes New Age, Christianity, Witchcraft, Islam and various new religious movements with a focus on contemporary religious experience and practice in the context of consumerism and the new information technologies.

Associate Professor Doug Ezzy

Research in this area investigates changing concepts of citizenship and national identity. Also studied are the changing salience of class identity and other sources of identity - such as gender, sexuality, generation and ethnicity - in contemporary society.

Associate Professor Maggie Walter, Associate Professor Roberta Julian, Associate Professor Bruce Tranter and Dr Brady Robards

Research topics studied include the changing state of mental health; the effect of new health and medical technologies such as mammography and xenotransplantation; embodied experiences of health; the corporatisation of general practice; public health, primary healthcare, allied health and the healthcare workforce and practices; women's health issues; the politics of men's health; health, disability, risk and illness; lifestyle and health; health inequality; lay and medical/scientific knowledge; evidence based medicine; new genetic technologies and genetic testing; gender, health and medicine; dementia; chronic illness; cancer; transplantation; smoking; ageing; end of life and palliative care; and human/animal relations in scientific experimentation.

Dr Peta Cook, Dr Emily Hansen, Kim McLeod, Dr Santi Rozario

Research topics include bodily practice and performance; body modification; cosmetic surgery; Botox; and embodied experiences of health.

Dr Peta Cook, Kim McLeod

Research in these areas include policy and social inclusion; socially inclusive practice; building inclusive and sustainable communities; strengths and solutions-focused practice;

Dr Kristin Natalier, Associate Professor Daphne Habibis

The main emphasis of Forensic Studies is on providing a generalist understanding of the forensics field, including how developments across the field might feed into particular criminal justice processes. Research is inter-disciplinary (criminology, sociology, psychology, law and police studies) and focuses on the overall implications of forensic science for society as a whole, with analysis drawing upon the special expertise and concepts of the social sciences. This involves providing space for critical reflection on specific forensic practices (for example, the expanded use of DNA testing), and to inquire into the effectiveness or otherwise of forensic science in regards to how the police, the courts and corrective services undertake their basic roles.

Visit the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies (TILES) webpages for details of research activities in the Forensic Studies area.  

Director of TILES:  Associate Professor Roberta Julian 

Research in this area is investigatively focused on the fields of Indigeneity and Citizenship, Critical Race Theory and Whiteness studies and Australian and comparison Indigenous policy directions, especially in relationship to health, education and families. A central theme of the Indigenous research approach is how these topics are positioned within the wider fields of race relations in Australia.

Associate Professor Maggie Walter

Research in this area captures the experience and governance of relationships   in contemporary societies.  It explores people’s meaningful relationships with others across a range of  longstanding and emergent relationship types and contexts, including post-separation parenting, families, sexual and emotional intimacy, social network sites and  un/ethical connections with others in our communities.
 
Brendan Churchill, Dr Nicholas Hookway,  Dr Kristin Natalier, Dr Santi Rozario, Associate Professor Maggie Walter