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DR KATIE WRIGHT



Contact Details

Organization: Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Position: ARC POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
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Homepage: http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/public/staff_profile.cgi?id=13201
Work: 61 3 8344 3372
Fax: 61 3 9347 2468
Room: 441
Level: 04
Building: Alice Hoy Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Cultural Sociology Therapeutic Culture Australia
Historical Sociology History of Psychology & Counselling Australia
Sociology of Education Young People, Social Change, Identity Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
BACHELORS OF ARTS (HONOURS) La Trobe University 31-Dec-1999
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY La Trobe University 28-May-2007

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member The Australian Sociological Association Member of The Australian Sociological Association 01-Jul-2003

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) The Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship Transnational Influences on Child Guidance in Australia, 1920s-30s 20-Oct-2008

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Educating the Adolescent: An historical study of curriculum, counselling and citizenship in Australia 1930s -70s Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • The Talking Cure in Everyday Life: Gender, Generations and Friendship
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Sociology
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 122-139
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Social values and schooling: Curriculum, counselling and the education of the adolescent, 1930-1970s
    Year: 2009
    Event name: AARE 2008 International Education Research Conference
    Conference Publication: AARE 2008 Conference Papers Collection [Proceedings]
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: Australian Association for Research in Education(Coldstream)
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Drastic plastic
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Book Review
    Volume: November
    Issue: 306
    Page numbers: 34-35
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  • Theorizing therapeutic culture: past influences, future directions
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Sociology
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 321-336
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Towards a Cultural Sociology of Whistleblowing
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Re-imagining Sociology: The annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association 2008
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the annual conference of The Australian Sociological Association
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: The Australian Sociological Association(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Making Private Pain Public: Psychology, Counselling and Therapeutic Culture
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons - the TASA and SAANZ Joint Conference 2007
    Conference Publication: Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons - Proceedings of the TASA and SAANZ Joint Conference 2007
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: The University of Auckland(Auckland)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Therapy Culture
    Year: 2006
    Book: Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays
    Publisher: Black Inc(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Arrival of Therapeutic Culture in Australia: Modern Life, Masculinity and the Problem of 'Nerves'
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Sociology for a mobile world: TASA 2006 Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference TASA 2006
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: The Australian Sociological Association(Melbourne)
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