Fields of Research

Environmental sociology
Religion, society and culture
Urban sociology and community studies
Counselling, wellbeing and community services
Health and community services

Research Objectives

Environmental ethics
Religion and society
Expanding knowledge in human society
Arts
Structure, delivery and resourcing
Mental health services
Evaluation of health and support services

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Emotion, vulnerability, ontology: operationalising 'ontological security' for qualitative environmental sociology; Environmental Sociology
Empathetic ecocultural positionality and the forest other in Tasmanian forestry conflicts; Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity
Religious diversity in Australia: rethinking social cohesion; Religions
Religious diversity, legislation, and Christian privilege; Journal of Sociology
Resisting the marginalisation of the non-human: Interdependency, wonder, and humility in Tasmanian forests; TASA 2018: Precarity, Rights and Resistance
‘A walk among the gum trees’: bushwalking, place and self-narrative; Conference Proceedings TASA 2017 Conference
‘Everyday resistance’: challenging the norms of human–nonhuman engagements through bushwalking in Tasmania; Journal of Sociology

Research Projects

The Tasmania Project - Sexual Assault Support in the time of COVID-19
The Tasmania Project: Wellbeing

Research Candidate Supervision