Gender and Cultural Studies
Postgraduate Research 2012 Overview

The Gender and Cultural Studies department at the University of Sydney is the leading centre for research into gender and culture in Australia, renowned internationally for interdisciplinary research and teaching in feminist, gender and cultural studies.

With some of Australia’s foremost academics and theorists on staff, the department of Gender and Cultural Studies provides you with critically engaging ideas and the tools to analyse a wide range of issues. The department’s academics draw on a number of theoretical and empirical research paradigms, spanning social science and humanities research methods.

In the discipline of Gender and Cultural Studies, students engage critically with the changing representations and meanings of gender and culture in the everyday world. The department is renowned globally for its interdisciplinary research and teaching in feminist, gender and cultural studies.

The department has a vibrant research culture where students are actively involved in research seminars and are frequently offered the chance to contribute to teaching and collaborative research projects. The program profoundly enriches study and work in the humanities and social sciences as well as law, the physical sciences, government and education.

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Graduate appointments from the department of Gender and Cultural Studies

• Dr Gilbert Caluya, Postcolonial Research Centre, University of South Australia
• Dr Adam Eldridge, Urban Development, University of Westminster
• Dr Clifton Evers, Journalism and Media Centre, University of New South Wales
• Dr Suzanne Fraser, Women’s Studies, Monash University
• Dr Melissa Gregg, Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
• Dr Natalya Lusty, Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
• Dr Celia Roberts, Sociology, Lancaster University
• Dr Jane Simon, English, Massey University
• Dr Catherine Thill, Sociology, University of Notre Dame
• Dr kylie valentine, Social Policy, University of New South Wales