Skip to Content

Institute for Social Research

Current research students and completed projects


Current research students

Ron Aspin: Public-private partnerships as a solution to housing affordability problems: A case study of inner urban development

Christopher Baker: The intergenerational transfer of wealth and philanthropy

Dina Bowman: Gender, entrepreneurial business, and family life

Michaela Callaghan: Quechua, dance, and memory and historical justice in Peru

Michelle Dimasi: Christmas Islanders and asylum seekers

Scott Ewing: Wired High Rise: A case study in new forms of governance

John Fowler: The impact of public policy on the (Australian) pharmaceutical industry

Lee Glezos: The state as market actor: how the Australian medical device market is made

Samantha Henderson: Actual and imagined space in online friendship: a case study of two online communities

Ian McShane: Building communities: Managing public assets to provide social value

Sue Malta: Older Adults and their Online Romantic Relationships

Kevin O'Dea: Family trusts and divorce

Paul Reade: The Zapatista movement of Mexico and social remembering

Jill Stockwell: Social memory, historical justice, and  gender in Spain

Wendy Stone: Downshifting and housing: How changing consumption patterns relate to housing in contemporary Australia

 

Completed theses

Tom Alves: Managing medium density development: A municipal case study

Glenn Jessop: Mobile telephony and driving: a historical and sociological investigation

Andrea Sharam: Reform to the electricity industry in Victoria

John Stone: Political and social factors in the decline of mass transit: an investigation of failed policies to rebuild Melbourne's mass transit