YOUR RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN THE HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES STUDY A PHD AT FLINDERS Fine tune your research and expand your career opportunities, in any area you’re interested in with a PhD at Flinders. Study what you’re interested in, or explore some of the amazing Contact the supervisor attached to the project to begin your PhD opportunities already available. journey, or contact [email protected] if you have any questions. You could explore PhD projects as diverse as gender equality, new media and technology, contemporary screen culture, motion capture, global culture, colonial history and more. INEQUALITY PROJECT 1: CONFRONTING SEXISM: PROJECT 2: A TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT 3: FINANCIAL ABUSE IN BUILDING GENDER EQUALITY HISTORY OF ABORTION: AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA SINCE 1975 THROUGH PERFORMANCE-BASED AND THE UNITED STATES, Financial abuse, also known as economic PEDAGOGY 1980S–2010S abuse, is a troubling and frequent part of domestic and family violence in Australia. Achieving gender equality remains a Abortion is routine yet still controversial The recognition of financial abuse as one difficult, ongoing and necessary process in contemporary Australia. Although the of many dimensions in domestic and family for contemporary societies. Eliminating the Australian public is overwhelmingly pro- violence has increased in scholarship since tenacious sexism and sexual harassment that choice, public and political debates over the 1990s. However, its history as a concept underpins gender inequalities is challenging. abortion decriminalisation remain charged, and a lived experience remains under- One essential avenue for changing gender and barriers to access exist in most states. explored. norms is to educate young people and How can abortion be both routine and We invite prospective PhD candidates children in schools. But how are those controversial in modern Australia? interested in exploring the history of financial lessons best achieved? We invite prospective PhD candidates abuse. Drawing on and contributing to the The PhD candidate will address this interested in investigating the politics, history expanding history of domestic violence in significant problem by working closely and provision of abortion in Australia in a Australia, this project will trace the explicit with young women in South Australian high transnational context. This project is directed development of the term and excavate the schools to investigate how performance specifically towards how American abortion connotations and assumptions embedded and dramaturgical techniques might discourses and rhetoric flowed into, and within its many definitions and responses. enhance lessons around sex and sexism. were adapted for, Australia. The project is In doing so, candidates might explore how The candidate will assist students open to prospective candidates from a range the emergence of understandings of financial to conceptualise, write and direct a of disciplinary areas who have an interest in abuse relate to the history of ideas about performance piece with the aim of exploring histories of bodies and medicine, sexual and families, intimate relationships, gendered student strategies of resistance and reproductive health care, transnationalism, autonomy and financial dependence. transformation within a broader analysis social movements, feminism, or gender and Potential methodologies include oral of the possibilities of performance-based politics. histories and testimony analysis or deep pedagogy. policy histories and analyses. Come to Flinders and join Dr Prudence Come to Flinders and join Dr Monique Flowers and Associate Professor Barbara Come to Flinders and join Associate Mulholland and Dr Sarah Peters. Baird. Dr Flowers is a leading historian Professor Catherine Kevin, a leading Dr Mulholland has extensive experience in of women’s health in Australia and the Australian historian tackling significant social research with community partners United States, and Associate Professor and pressing questions surrounding the and a vibrant research program that explores Barbara Baird is a leading academic in history of domestic violence. Kevin is part young people’s experiences of gender, sex cultural politics and histories of sexuality of a large and dynamic group of scholars in and sexuality norms. Dr Peters has expertise and reproduction, abortion and feminism in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social in community engagement through the Australia. The candidate will join a large and Sciences working in the areas of Women’s development of practice-based research and dynamic group of scholars in the College and Gender Studies and History. verbatim plays that enable communities to of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Areas of interest: Sociology; History; share their stories with broader audiences. working in the areas of Women’s and Women’s and Gender Studies; Cultural The candidate will benefit from the broad Gender Studies and History. Studies; Social Work; Policy Studies; range of research and community expertise Law and Socio-legal Studies in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Areas of interest: Sociology; History; Women’s and Gender Studies; Cultural Sciences. Supervisory Team: Studies; Political Science; Public Health; Associate Professor Catherine Kevin Areas of Interest: Sociology; History; Policy Studies; Media Studies; Law and [email protected] Women’s and Gender Studies; Creative and Socio-legal Studies (Primary supervisor) Performing Arts; Education; Cultural Studies Supervisory Team: Associate Professor Kristin Natalier Supervisory Team: Dr Prudence Flowers Dr Monique Mulholland [email protected] [email protected] (Primary supervisor) (Primary supervisor) Associate Professor Barbara Baird Dr Sarah Peters POSTHUMANITIES PROJECT 1: MORE-THAN-HUMAN PROJECT 2: STREAMING SERVICES, PROJECT 3: SOUTHERN COASTS: KNOWLEDGE AND ABORIGINAL NEW MEDIA AND POST-CINEMA HISTORIES MARINE COMMUNITIES WALKING TRAILS Streaming video services such as YouTube, AND CULTURES ACROSS THE Netflix and Amazon Prime have introduced SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Aboriginal Walking Trails are cultural dramatic change to the screen media technologies for intergenerational industries. Sharing platforms provide new knowledge transfer. They allow learning Saltwater runs through the memories and possibilities for user-creators to bypass the cultures of communities across the globe. while walking. When History, Literary conventional ‘gatekeepers’ of distribution. Studies, or Philosophy become field studies The ocean and its animal communities have Industrial power is consolidated around a been central to human development across (like Anthropology and Archaeology) shrinking number of horizontally-integrated and go on Country, writing can take new history, yet today the ocean is under grave conglomerates, and vertically-integrated threat from over-fishing, pollution and climate shapes, informed by the new field of the subscription video on-demand services. Posthumanities. change, among other issues. Behind these Legislation struggles to keep pace. contemporary changes and challenges are deep histories that connect people and The PhD candidate will investigate the We invite prospective PhD candidates oceans. intersections of Indigenous and colonial to investigate what this means for media place-making with the new decolonising production, distribution and exhibition in the The PhD candidate will investigate methodology of experiential knowledge twenty-first century. Areas of investigation that moves through different Countries. connections and comparisons between may include digital aesthetics, algorithms marine communities across the Southern The Living Kaurna Cultural Centre at and viewer behaviour, and the reconstitution Warriparinga, close to Flinders, is a good Hemisphere. The project will concentrate of transnational media industries in the wake on historical research but will also actively place to start such an inquiry, extending into of technological change. coastal trails following the Kaurna’s Tjilbruke engage with the Environmental Humanities and Posthumanities to assess change and Dreaming. Trails also follow trade routes that Come to Flinders and join Dr Nicholas continuity of human–ocean relations from underpin collaborative networks in South Godfrey, Dr Tully Barnett and Associate the late eighteenth century to the present. Australia crossing the Countries of the Professor Julia Erhart, leading researchers Oceans and coasts are vibrant areas of Kaurna, the Ngarrindjeri, the Peramangk, the in the fields of screen, media and digital historical research, yet marine cultures in Ngadjuri and Adnyamathanha among many studies, with expertise in American, Australia, southern Africa, South America, others. With due permission, place names Australian and Asian cinema, film aesthetics, the Pacific Islands, and Antarctica remain might be restored, tracks rediscovered and and the history of film distribution. They are understudied compared with the North layers of history described. part of Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts Atlantic. at Flinders, and the large, internationally Come to Flinders and work with leading recognised Creative and Performing Arts Come to Flinders and join Dr Alessandro scholars of Indigenous Australia. The PhD research and teaching programs in the candidate will join Professor Stephen Antonello and Professor Penny Edmonds, College of Humanities, Arts and Social leading historians of marine and