PhD Candidate Social Work
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Social Sciences |
| Room Reference | 487 |
| Telephone | +61 3 62262337 |
| christopher.brophy@utas.edu.au |
Chris is a PhD candidate in Social Work in the School of Social Sciences, Hobart. His PhD research is supervised by Professor Sandra Taylor and Dr Anne Coleman.
Chris’ PhD research explores the lived experience of being queer and disabled. Using participatory narrative methods, it explores how queer disabled people negotiate and transform normative discourses of able-bodiedness, heterosexuality and homonormativity.
Prior to Social Work at UTAS, Chris’ experience has been in the Tasmanian disability and community services sector. He holds a BSW (Hons) and graduated with the Tasmanian AASW Student of the Year Award for highest academic achievement in Social Work.
Research Interests
Chris’ current research interests include:
· Postmodern and critical social work practice and theory
· Disability and embodiment
· Queer futurity, subjectivity and anti-normative sexualities
· Narrative research methods