Lecturer in Sociology
| Contact Campus | Newnham Campus |
| Room Reference | 236 |
| Telephone | +61 3 63243236 |
| brady.robards@utas.edu.au |
Brady coordinates the following units in sociology:
HGA102 Sociology B (from 2014)
HGA277/377 Sociology of Youth (2013 and 2014)
HGA272/372 Gender, Culture & Identity (from 2015)
See Brady's WARP profile for a list of publications.
Visit Brady's homepage www.bradyrobards.com for more information and recent blog posts.
Brady's research explores how young people use and thus produce the social web. Brady’s current research project is an investigation of the sustained use of Facebook by people in their twenties who have been using the site for the more than five years. The project seeks to explore how Facebook’s ‘timeline’ might serve as both the site upon which reflexive identity work takes place and also as an archive of both critical and mundane moments that can be reflected upon.
Brady’s research has appeared in various international journals, including Sociology, Continuum, and the International Journal for Educational Integrity. Brady is the co-author (with Sarah Baker) of the forthcoming Teaching Youth Studies: Practice, innovation and popular culture (Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, 2013) and the co-author (with John Carl, Sarah Baker, John Scott, Wendy Hillman, and Geoffrey Lawrence) of Think Sociology (Pearson, 2012). Brady is the co-editor (with Andy Bennett) of the forthcoming edited collection Mediated Youth Cultures: The internet, belonging and new cultural configurations (Palgrave, forthcoming) and co-editor (with Sian Lincoln) of an upcoming special issue of New Media & Society on ‘10 years of Facebook’.