Freud and Poe Walked Into a Bar
Why yes, that is a Freud doll (with Edgar Allan Poe staring in the background)! Continue reading Freud and Poe Walked Into a Bar
Category: Research in Action
Marriage Equality
I marched at the Marriage Equality rally in Sydney this afternoon among with 30,000 people! It’s the biggest LGBTQIA protest in Australian history and also the biggest rally ever in Sydney.
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Justice for Elijah
Fourteen year old Elijah Doughty was killed by a White man who only received three years backdated to his arrest. We cannot allow this nation to continue killing Indigenous people with impunity.
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‘As Long as Poverty, Injustice and Gross Inequality Persist in Our World’
In the month of August, people who are homeless occupied one of Sydney’s most famous sites, Martin Square, to protest lack of secure, affordable housing.
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I interviewed Associate Professor Kathleen Butler, sociologist and Aboriginal woman belonging to the Bundjalung and Worimi peoples of coastal New South Wales, who led the “Indigenous Sociology for Social Impact” workshop. Continue reading Decolonising Theory, Methods, and Practice
Marketing Sociology
I’ve been thinking a bit about social marketing lately because I’ve being managing communications and media for research organisations and not for profits for many years. In general, marketing in the social sciences could be enhanced, especially in my field of sociology.
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End the Hero-Worship of Bigoted Scientists
I’ve been participating in an ongoing conversation on Twitter with other researchers about the sustained hero-worshipping of famous scientists who have a public record of sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination.
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Space and the Museum
Social science shows how space affects people’s enjoyment in public places. One study of the Tate Museum used behavioural observation methods and computer simulations to study visitors.
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In Support of the Public Library
Public funding for libraries tends to be decreasing in many parts of the world. The idea that libraries and librarians are redundant because we can search for information online is false.
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Decolonising Sociology
Much like the challenges facing educators looking to transform education in a way that is more meaningful to Indigenous students, Australian sociology has many issues of colonialism to address.
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