​Social Sciences and Humanities

Focus Areas:
  • Teaching and Learning the Arts
  • Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy
  • Arts Theory and Criticism
  • Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
  • Visual Arts Practices
  • Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
  • Literary Arts Practices
  • Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media
  • Other Arts
  • Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
  • Aesthetics, Design
  • Language, Linguistics
  • Knowledge
  • Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
  • History, Historiography
  • Literature/Literary Studies
  • Political Science, Politics
  • Teaching and Learning
  • Globalisation
  • Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
  • Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation
  • First Nations and Indigenous Peoples
  • Sexuality, Gender, Families
  • Religion, Spirituality
  • Cyberspace, Technology
  • Science, Environment and the Humanities
  • Other Humanities
  • Sociology: concepts and practices
  • Geographical perspectives on spaces and flows
  • What are the behavioral sciences?
  • Psychology of the social
  • Where mind meets world: cognitive science as interdisciplinary practice
  • Economics as social science
  • Sociology and history: the dynamics of synchrony and diachrony
  • Philosophy’s place in the social sciences
  • Social welfare studies as interdisciplinary practice
  • Health in community
  • Horizons of interest: agenda setting in the social sciences
  • Research and knowledge in action: the applied social sciences
  • Social sciences for the professions
  • Social sciences for social welfare
  • Accounting for inequalities: poverty and exclusion
  • Social breakdown: dysfunction, crime, conflict, violence
  • Social sciences addressing social crisis points
  • Technologies in and for the social
  • Economics, politics and their social effects: investment, ownership, risk, productivity, competition, regulation and deregulation, public accountability, stakeholders, trust, worklife, resource distribution, consumption, wellbeing, living standards
  • Commonalities, differences and relationships between the social and the natural sciences: research methodologies, professional practices and ethical positions
  • Research methodologies involving ‘human subjects’
  • The social sciences in the applied sciences and professions: engineering, architecture, planning, computing, tourism, law, health
  • Political science as disciplinary practice
  • Investigating public policy
  • Law as a social science
  • Criminology as social science
  • Public health
  • Social sciences in the service of social policy: risks and rewards
  • Social transformations: structure and agency in social dynamics
  • Accounting for the dynamics of citizenship, participation and inclusion
  • Trust, social capital, social cohesion and social welfare
  • Politics in, and of, the social sciences
  • Interdisciplinary perspectives on politics, public policy, governance, citizenship and nationality
  • Security and insecurity, conflict and cohesion, war and peace, terror and anti-terror
  • The neo-liberal state and its critics
  • Policy measures: assessing social need and social effectiveness
  • Of human lifeways: anthropology in its contexts
  • Of human lifecourses: family, childhood, youth, parenting and aging
  • Of human origins: paleontology, primate evolution, physical anthropology
  • Ethnographic methods
  • Social meanings: language, linguistics, discourse, text
  • Cultural studies as a constitutive field
  • Social science stances: modernism and postmodernism; structuralism and poststructuralism
  • Where humanities and social sciences meet
  • Social structure and human culture: the sociological and the anthropological
  • Interdisciplinary perspectives on human differences
  • Identities in social science: generational, gender, sexuality, ethnic, diasporic
  • Perspectives on, and voices of, difference: multiculturalism and feminism
  • Religion and the human sciences
  • Health, wellbeing and culture
  • Human movement: migration, refugees, undocumented migrants
  • The dynamics of globalization, diaspora and diversity
  • Globalized economics: inequalities, development, ‘free’ and ‘fair’ trade
  • Developed and developing worlds
  • Inequalities in international perspective
  • Poverty and global justice
  • Human rights in global perspective
  • The local and the global
  • The natural and the social: interdisciplinary studies
  • Human environments
  • Sustainability as a focus of interdisciplinary study
  • Health and the environment
  • People, place and time: human demography
  • Environmental governance: consumption, waste, economic ‘externalities’, sustainability, environmental equity
  • Human interests in the natural sciences: the politics of the environment
  • Management as social science
  • Culture in organizations
  • Technology and work
  • The social dynamics of organizations
  • Human resource management
  • Workers’ rights
  • Corporate governance
  • Organizational and social sustainability
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Knowledge ecologies: embedded knowledge in the organizational setting
  • Tacit and explicit knowledge
  • Private and public knowledge
  • Scenario building and futures forecasting
  • Organizational change
  • Education as a social science
  • The learning sciences as an interdisciplinary endeavor
  • Action research: the logistics and ethics of interventionary social science
  • Teaching and learning the social studies
  • History teaching and learning
  • Economics teaching and learning
  • Geography teaching and learning
  • Technology in learning and learning about technology
  • Media studies as social science
  • Communications as a social science
  • Information and communications technologies
  • The social web: the internet in its social context
  • Human-computer interactions
  • Literacies as a social learning experience