Research and supervision
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The Discipline of Sociology at UNE has expertise in the following areas:
- health sociology
- recreational drugs and drug use; HIV/AIDS (Dr Cary Bennett)
- sexual wellbeing (A/Prof. Gail Hawkes)
- cultural and symbolic aspects of death (A/Prof. Peter Corrigan)
- political sociology, democratisation and civil society
(Prof. Alan Scott and A/Prof. Habib Zafarullah)
- sexuality: the history of Western sexuality, childhood sexuality, transexuality and homophobia (A/Prof. Gail Hawkes)
- consumption, fashion and the media (A/Prof. Peter Corrigan)
- development studies and globalization
- international development (A/Prof. Habib Zafarullah)
- post-development and environment (Dr Cary Bennett)
- social theory
- Classical and contemporary social thought, particularly Weber, Simmel, (Karl) Polanyi and neo-institutionalism (Prof. Alan Scott)
- French social theory, particularly Durkheim, Tarde and Bourdieu
(A/Prof. Peter Corrigan) - Freudian theory and queer theory (A/Prof. Gail Hawkes)
- Post-structuralism and Foucault (Dr Cary Bennett)
- social, public and health policy
- public policy and administration (A/Prof. Habib Zafarullah)
- health policy and governmentality (Dr Cary Bennett)
- higher education policy (Prof. Alan Scott)
- area specialisms
- Europe (Prof. Alan Scott)
- South Asia (A/Prof. Habib Zafarullah)