Head of School
BA, BA (Hons) first class, PhD, Adelaide
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Social Sciences Building |
| Room Reference | 516 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2329 |
| Catherine.Palmer@utas.edu.au |
Professor Palmer joined UTAS in April 2013 after appointments at Deakin University, Durham University (UK), Flinders University and the University of Adelaide. Catherine’s research principally involves qualitative and ethnographic methods to explore aspects of sport and social policy, and she has published research on sport and alcohol, the commercialization of risk in adventure tourism and lifestyle sports, sport and newly arrived refugee communities, and the Tour de France. Catherine’s latest book is Global Sports Policy (Sage, 2012), and her next is Rethinking Drinking and Sport (Ashgate, 2014).
Catherine’s current research is focused on three main areas:
i) the social contexts of sport and alcohol, particularly social practices and drinking identities, including under-represented identities (women, non-drinkers), culture change interventions and “athlete addicts”.
ii) sporting mega-events, human rights and violence against women.
iii) sport and social change: refugees and resettlement, sports-related activism and athlete advocates.
Professor Palmer is on the editorial board of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and has received funding for her research from the ARC, the NHMRC, the Alcohol Education Rehabilitation Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation.
