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Team of three sociology professors join UNE

January 18, 2005

Three leading Social Scientists have been appointed professorial positions at the University of New England.
The new appointees bring to UNE’s School of Social Science a wealth of knowledge in their respective areas, including the study of rural crime, time-diary studies and studies of census data.
Professor Kerry Carrington will become Professor of Sociology at UNE; Professor Michael Bittman will become a Professorial Fellow in Sociology, and Professor Russell Hogg will become Adjunct Professor in Criminology, dividing his time between the School of Social Science and the Institute for Rural Futures, also located at UNE.
“These new professors will be enormously important in re-invigorating applied social science research in our school and linking up with applied research in social science across the UNE campus,” said Associate Professor Jeff Archer, Head of the School of Social Science.
“They are sociologists and criminologists, all with a fine record of gaining competitive research grants and publishing high quality publications including books.”
Professor Carrington will fill the professorship vacated by Professor Elim Papadakis in 1997.
She comes to UNE with an extensive career as a sociologist and criminologist, most recently as Head of the Children, Youth and Families Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra.
She has published five books, including one edited in 2002 with fellow UNE-appointee Russell Hogg, “Critical Criminology: Issues, Debates and Challenges”.
Professor Hogg was a leading academic in the Faculty of Law at ANU. His research expertise includes the study of rural crime and he is currently preparing a manuscript on this topic with Professor Carrington.
Professor Bittman comes from the University of NSW, where he was Senior Research Fellow, Acting Head of the Social Policy Research Centre, and an internationally renowned expert on time-use statistics.
His interests include family dynamics, time spent in unpaid work and trends in working hours.
Associate Professor Archer said that the members of the School of Social Science were very much looking forward to working with the new appointees.
They will be on board at UNE from February 14.
For more information, phone Associate Professor Archer on 6773 2619 or
Lydia Roberts on 6773 2779.

Posted by Lydia Roberts at January 18, 2005 12:55 PM