CAPSTRANS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Dr Terry Leahy

Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Qualifications

PhD School of Sociology, University of N.S.W.  1991
M.A. Research Sociology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 1972
BA (1st Class Honours, University Medal) University of Sydney. Australia. 1971

Research Programs

Globalisation and International Development

Australia in the Asia Pacific

Research Specialisation

Dr. Terry Leahy has undertaken research and consultancy work on environmental attitudes, landcare and sustainability in the Hunter Valley, Australia, as well as Indonesia and South Africa.  He is currently undertaking research on landcare initiatives in South Africa, and utopian environmental thinking in Australia. He has recently completed a book on sustainable agriculture and food security for South Africa which is with the publishers.  His research draws on theories of intentional communities, gender, and anarchist strategies for social change. 

Current Research Projects

Land and sustainability in cross-national perspective

The Effect of Development Interventions on Power Relations in the Villages of Les and Penuktukan (with Nazrina Zuryani)

Recent Publications

• Forthcoming “Unsustainable Food Production: Its Social Roots and Remedies”, In J. Germov & L. Williams (eds), The Social Appetite, Oxford University Press, third edition.
• (2007), “Sociology and the Environment”, In J.Germov and Marilyn Poole (eds), Public Sociology, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, Sydney, ABN 79 003 994 278, ISBN 1-74175-060-1 pp. 429 - 452 .
• (2006) With J. Coates, ‘Ideology and politics: Essential factors in the path toward sustainability’ Electronic Green Journal 17 pages.
• (2006) With N. Zuryani, ‘Structural impediments to the empowerment of women within organisations in northern Bali’ Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs 40, 113-142.
• (2005) With John Gow, ‘Apocalypse probably: agency and environmental risk in the Hunter region’ Journal of Sociology 41, 117-141.
• (2004) ’Food, Society and the Environment’ In J. Germov & L. Williams (eds) A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 52-76.
• (2003) ‘Ecofeminism in Theory and Practice: Women's responses to Environmental Issues’ Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 7, 106-125.
• (2003) ‘Nature and Social Theory’ Journal of Sociology 39, 195-197.

Current Research Students

• Nazrina Zuryani, PhD, “Empowerment and Development Initiatives: Two Villages from the European Union Project in North Bali”. Expected submission 2007.
• Anne Gardiner, PhD, “Implementing Water Sensitive Urban Design: The Context of Changing Urban Stormwater Management in Australia”. (Co-supervisor). Expected submission 2007.
• Alec David McHarg, PhD, “Social Connectedness And The Built Environment”. Expected submission 2010.
• Julie Elizabeth Guihot, Masters, “The "Cinema of Attractions" and Contemporary Film: New Film Technologies and their Aesthetic Implications”. Expected submission 2009.
• Donna Lee Russo, Masters, “The Moral Construction of Place and Murder”. (Principle supervisor) Expected submission 2010.
• Jessica Rose Seeyoung Walton, PhD, “Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption: Representations, Challenges and Negotiations of Identity” (Co-supervisor). Expected submission 2010.
• Carl Meredith Bradley, PhD, “The Celtic Response to Caesar”. (Co-supervisor). Expected submission date 2014.

Past Research Students

• Beverley Ann Simmons, PhD, “Travel Talk: When Knowledge and Practice Collide. Tracking gendered discourses in popular texts; in the stories of contemporary Australian women who work in the travel industry; and women who begin international leisure travel in mid-life”. Completed studies October 2003.
• Elyssa Joy, PhD, “The Soap Opera of Everyday Life: A Political Economy Of Privacy”. Completed studies October 2005.
• Sandra Kay Darab, PhD, “Out of Time: Women's Unpaid Work”. (Co-supervisor). Completed studies June 2003.
• Stephen Craig Kerry, PhD, “Are You A Boy or A Girl? Contesting the Uncontested: Intersex and Genders”. (Principle supervisor). Completed studies January 2006.
• Allen Owen George, PhD, “'Anti-Gay' Violence, Criminal Justice and Victimhood in New South Wales” (Co-supervisor). Completed studies August 2006.

Organisational Affiliations

Member, The Australian Sociological Association