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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Social Policy | Social Change | Sociology | Sociology | Family and Household Studies | Sociology of health | Sociology of family and relationships | Social policy |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Employment Patterns and Change | Work and Family Responsibilities | Time Use, Unpaid Work and Volunteering |
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Publications
Social media use among bisexuals and pansexuals: connection, harassment and mental health
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-07-2022
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2022.2092213
Abstract: Analysing survey data from 1,304 LGBTQ + young people in Australia collected in 2016, this paper considers key distinctions between the experiences of bisexual and pansexual participants, and lesbian and gay participants in relation to social media use and aspects of connection, harassment and mental health. Presenting quantitative data, illustrated by qualitative extracts, we found broad similarities in motivations for using social media and how participants connected to peers and communities. There were some statistically significant differences, however, in respondents' motivations for using social media and who they connected with on these platforms. Importantly, bisexual and pansexual participants reported more negative experiences of harassment and exclusion across all major social media platforms when compared to their lesbian and gay peers. Bisexual and pansexual respondents also reported poorer mental health experiences. These findings speak to the different impacts of discrimination and oppression that young people experience in everyday life. There is a need for focused attention on bisexual and pansexual young people in academic, policy and youth-work domains. Young people will benefit from more substantial school-based education on LGBTQ + identities - beyond the experiences of gay and lesbian people - to 'usualise' varieties of difference in gender and sexual identity.
Book Review: Blau, J. and Frezzo, M., eds, Sociology and Human Rights: A Bill of Rights for the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-08-2014
Dual‐earner parent couples’ work and care during COVID‐19
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-07-2020
DOI: 10.1111/GWAO.12497
‘That’s not necessarily for them’: LGBTIQ+ young people, social media platform affordances and identity curation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-05-2019
Abstract: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and other non-heterosexual and gender erse (LGBTIQ+) young people utilise a range of digital media platforms to explore identity, find support and manage boundaries. Less well understood, however, is how they navigate risk and rewards across the different social media platforms that are part of their everyday lives. In this study, we draw on the concept of affordances, as well as recent work on curation, to examine 23 in-depth interviews with LGBTIQ+ young people about their uses of social media. Our findings show how the affordances of platforms used by LGBTIQ+ young people, and the contexts of their engagement, situate and inform a typology of uses. These practices – focused on finding, building and fostering support – draw on young people’s social media literacies, where their affective experiences range from feelings of safety, security and control, to fear, disappointment and anger. These practices also work to manage boundaries between what is ‘for them’ (family, work colleagues, friends) and ‘not for them’. This work allowed our participants to mitigate risk, and circumnavigate normative platform policies and norms, contributing to queer-world building beyond the self. In doing so, we argue that young people’s social media curation strategies contribute to their health and well-being.
A matter of time? Institutional timescapes and gendered inequalities in the transition from education to employment in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-11-2022
DOI: 10.1177/14407833221135220
Abstract: This article explores why women miss out in the transition from the educational system to the labour market. Using nationally representative longitudinal data (2001–18) from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, we compare how long after graduation it takes men and women with tertiary qualifications (n = 2030) to achieve key labour market milestones: (1) getting a full-time job (2) getting a permanent contract (3) earning an average wage (4) finding a job that matches their skill level. We find significant gender differences in reaching these milestones, confirming that time is a critical dimension for understanding gendered inequalities in the returns to education. We attribute findings to incompatible ‘timescapes’ across the institutions of education, family and employment. The more flexible timescape of education allows women to succeed, but the inflexible timescape of employment (particularly when combined with family responsibilities) impedes them from turning educational achievement into labour market progress.
Children of the Revolution: The continued unevenness of the gender revolution in housework, childcare and work time across birth cohorts
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2023
Men’s and women’s changing attitudes towards fatherhood and working fathers in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-05-2022
DOI: 10.1177/00113921211012737
Abstract: Since the Second World War there have been significant changes in the gender systems of industrialised countries, largely driven by increased female labour force participation. Changes in men’s domestic participation have been comparatively incremental, and researchers contend the gender revolution will only be complete when men’s and women’s commitments are matched. Prior research on attitudes about gender roles has concentrated on women, but in this research, the focus is on men. Using growth curve analyses of Australian longitudinal data ( N = 24,397), this article examines attitudes towards fatherhood and working fathers and how they changed between 2001 and 2015. Workforce status, relationship status and parenthood are strong predictors of different attitudinal outcomes and change for men and women, indicating that views were influenced by interest and exposure in ways that differed by gender. Further, the authors find attitudes towards fatherhood and working fathers have changed over the last 15 years, particularly amongst working fathers and mothers, which have become more supportive of greater father involvement in the care of children and the ability of working fathers to meet the needs of their children.
Young people’s daily activity in a globalized world: a cross-national comparison using time use data
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-08-2019
Labor Force Status, Transitions, and Mothers' and Fathers' Parenting Stress: Direct and Cross-Spousal Influences
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-11-2018
DOI: 10.1111/JOMF.12540
Reviewing changes to housing management on remote Indigenous communities
Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Date: 21-11-2016
Caring during COVID‐19: A gendered analysis of Australian university responses to managing remote working and caring responsibilities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-06-2020
DOI: 10.1111/GWAO.12484
The social life of data: strategies for categorizing fluid and multiple genders
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-12-2021
Forming connections in the digital era: Tinder, a new tool in young Australian intimate life
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-09-2017
Abstract: Tinder is a location-based smartphone application used by young adults. Advertised as a popular and unique way to forge connections, Tinder’s introduction into intimate life is indicative of increased information and communication technology (ICT) usage within this sphere. While the impact of ICT use within intimate life has been debated, little sociological research has investigated Tinder within this context. This article draws on data from a small scale exploratory study, including surveys (n = 203) and interviews (n = 10), examining the use of Tinder by young Australians (aged 18 to 30) and how use contributes to intimate outcomes. While survey results provide insight regarding engagement with Tinder and its use in intimate life, two key themes – (1) Tinder’s use as an additional tool in intimate life and (2) its perceived impact on ‘connection quality’ – demonstrate Tinder’s role in intimate outcomes. Findings support Jurgenson’s depiction of today’s societies as ones characterised by augmented reality rather than digital dualism.
Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-10-2018
COVID‐19 and the immediate impact on young people and employment in Australia: A gendered analysis
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-10-2021
DOI: 10.1111/GWAO.12563
Gender in the gig economy: Men and women using digital platforms to secure work in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2019
Abstract: This article explores the characteristics, experiences, and motivations of men and women who secure work through digital platforms. Drawing on quantitative survey data – the first of its kind – of Australian men (n = 251) and women (n = 253) it finds that the gig economy, much like the wider economy, is highly gender-segregated. Men dominate platforms which specialise in what might be considered traditionally male tasks like transport and women dominate platforms which specialise in more traditional female tasks like caring. The results suggest that the gig economy may be an alternative for women in the creative industries. Men and women are both drawn to the gig economy for income-related reasons, despite a significant proportion of them holding a job outside the gig economy. Flexibility was an important motivator for both genders, but women were more likely than men to report that they did gig work because it ‘fitted with their schedule’, indicating that non-work commitments such as family constrain women more than men. More men than women reported that gig work was effective in generating income.
Cost of Living Pressures on Tasmanian Households Causes and Options for Reform
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2014
The mental load: building a deeper theoretical understanding of how cognitive and emotional labor overload women and mothers
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-11-2022
Working and Caring at Home: Gender Differences in the Effects of Covid-19 on Paid and Unpaid Labor in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-11-2020
Parenting Stress and the Use of Formal and Informal Child Care: Associations for Fathers and Mothers
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-05-2018
Abstract: We investigated relationships between nonparental care and psychological strains of parenthood. Using data from employed parents of children below 5 years of age ( n = 6,886 fathers and mothers) from Waves 4 to 11 of the household panel survey Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA), we constructed a parenting stress scale from the average of four items (α = .76) administered in the Self-Completion Questionnaire. We ran panel random-effects regression models testing associations between amount and type of nonparental care and parenting stress, for both mothers and fathers. We distinguished between formal care, informal and family care (mainly grandparents), and mixed care. Results showed that fathers and mothers’ parenting stress is positively associated with hours of nonparental care, but that for both genders parenting stress is significantly lower if the care is provided by informal/family carers.
Youth, Recession, and Downward Gender Convergence: Young People’s Employment, Education, and Homemaking in Finland, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States 2000–2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 09-05-2018
DOI: 10.1093/SP/JXY015
Making pathways? A mixed methods analysis of young women who have left school early in ‘the new work order’
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-09-2019
Abstract: Much research has investigated how young women with tertiary education fare in contemporary labour markets and pointed to persistent gender inequalities. However, very little is known about how young women who leave school early fare in the present climate. In this article we shed light on the challenges facing these women in the ‘new work order’. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative methods, we investigate how young Australian women who have left school before completing upper secondary education fare, and how they make choices regarding education and work as they envision their futures. Our analyses reveal a perceived and real tension between education and ‘real’ experience in the labour market. This leaves young women without upper secondary qualifications in a difficult position when making decisions about their futures.
Cross-spousal influences on mature-aged Australians’ transitions in and out of employment 2001–2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-09-2021
Abstract: This article uses data from the longitudinal Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey to examine cross-spousal influences on workforce transitions by men ( n = 4667) and women ( n = 5051) aged 50–69. We assess how gender patterns in employment (full- and part-time work) and non-employment activity (unemployment, non-employment and homemaking) changed among this age group over the period 2001–2017, which included the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008. Notwithstanding that more men than women were in full-time work, and more women than men were employed part time or were homemakers, over the period there was an overall rise in employment for both genders, which following the GFC continued most strongly for women. Random effects logistic regression on partnered men and women showed that prior to the GFC one spouse transitioning out of the labour market was associated with significantly higher odds of the other spouse also doing so. This implies coordination, for ex le spouses retiring together. In contrast, following the GFC, one spouse leaving paid employment was associated with higher odds of the other taking up work or increasing their hours, suggesting that the economic slowdown encouraged an added worker effect in those households, with one spouse compensating for the job loss of the other. The finding was apparent for both men and women.
Youth underemployment: A review of research on young people and the problems of less(er) employment in an era of mass education
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-08-2021
DOI: 10.1111/SOC4.12921
Abstract: In this article, we examine the problem of youth underemployment and how it is conceptualised, operationalised and understood within wider sociology, with particular focus on the sociology of youth and youth studies literature. We outline the contours of this body of work, showing how in most cases underemployment is undefined and used as a general term to describe the challenges and inadequacies of the contemporary labour market for young people. Further, we show how despite a lack of clarity, most researchers in this field contend that underemployment is increasing for young people, becoming a normative experience, cutting across class, ethnicity and gender. For some, however, underemployment is a ‘choice’, but as the literature shows, how different groups of young people respond to underemployment varies. In addition, we show how overeducation, another form of underemployment, is being understood by both researchers and young people as a ‘new normal’ rather than being challenged as another flank in the on‐going neo‐liberalisation and massification of education. We conclude with a call to think through the ideas presented and to develop new understandings of youth underemployment that can facilitate change. The sensitising concept of less(er) employment is proposed as best placed to facilitate this reanimation.
Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-07-2014
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