Postgraduate - Sociology PhD Candidate
| Contact Campus | Newnham Campus |
| Building | Arts Building |
| Room Reference | L171 |
| Telephone | +61 3 63243657 |
| Fax | +61 3 63243970 |
| Fiona.Proudfoot@utas.edu.au |
Teaching Responsibilities
In 2008, Fiona was employed as a PASS leader for the School of Psychology’s first year students. This program provided academic support through peer assisted study sessions. In 2010, and 2012 Fiona tutored HGA102 Sociology B and is currently employed as a research assistant with the School of Sociology and Social Work Launceston.UTas Web Access Research Portal (WARP) - lists Fiona’s funded projects, and publication information.
Research Areas
Research Interests
Fiona’s Honours thesis provided a comparative critical discourse analysis of populist mainstream and Aboriginal representations of the Northern Territory Emergency Response in 2007. She found that race played a decisive role in the interpretation and representation of Aboriginal Australians within media construction. Her analysis highlighted the existence of a significant racialised divide in understandings of the issues facing remote Aboriginal Northern Territory communities in 2007.
Fiona is currently researching how housing officers within different sectors of the social housing system, understand the relationship between their racialised identity and their professional practice in an intercultural context, especially in relation to Indigenous service users.