Associate Lecturer in Sociology
BA (HONS)
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Social Sciences |
| Room Reference | 433 |
| Telephone | +61 3 62262607 |
| Brendan.Churchill@utas.edu.au |
Brendan teaches Sociology of Health and Illness and Australian Society.
Brendan is an associate lecturer in sociology in the School of Social Sciences. Previously, Brendan was a research fellow at the Menzies Research Institute and the School of Nursing and Midwifery working on health-related projects in dementia and health services research. Brendan is currently completing his doctoral thesis in sociology, which is look at attitudes towards egalitarianism over the life course.
Brendan is a quantitative sociologist in the area of life course studies specialising in longitudinal survey data. Brendan’s research focuses on how individuals change over the life course and the impact of life course transitions (from education to the labour market; from the family household to having a family) on individual lives. Brendan is interested in how life course trajectories differ across generations and the related issues of intergenerational inequity.
Brendan is also currently working with Dr. Emily Hansen (Sociology) and Associate Professor Richard Eccleston (Politics and International Relations) on a research project funded by the Department of Health and Human Services/Population Health on place-based approaches to health and health equity in Tasmania.