Christine Beasley

Research Interests

Cultural Studies Culture, Gender, Sexuality Education Film and Television International Relations Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies Political Theory Social Theory

EaPr Christine Beasley

School of Society and Culture

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

Chris Beasley is Emerita Professor at the University of Adelaide, and is located in the university's Dept of Politics and International Relations. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and was named as the leading researcher in Feminism and Women’s Studies in November 2018 in The Australian's annual assessment of national Research based on major journal publications in the field (see p. 36). She was founder and inaugural Co-Director of the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender (2009-2013), at the University of Adelaide. Emerita Prof Beasley primarily taught, before her retirement in 2018, in three areas of Politics—social and political theory, gender, masculinity and sexuality studies, and cultural politics. Her academic background includes interdisciplinary work in both Social Sciences and Humanities. She has also been employed as a teaching and learning academic, and has coordinated enclave programs for Indigenous students. In 1994 she received the peak teaching prize from the University of Adelaide.Her books thus far include 'Internet Dating: Intimacy and Social Change' (with Mary Holmes, Routledge, 2021), 'The Cultural Politics of Popular Film: Power, Culture and Society' (with Heather Brook, Manchester UP, 2019) , 'ReValuing Care in Theory, Law and Policy' (co-edited with Rosie Harding and Ruth Fletcher, Routledge, 2017), 'Heterosexuality in Theory and Practice' (with Heather Brook and Mary Holmes, Routledge, 2012),' Engaging with Carol Bacchi' (co-edited with Angelique Bletsas, University of Adelaide Press, 2012), 'Gender & Sexuality: Critical Theories, Critical Thinkers' (Sage, 2005), ' What is Feminism' (Sage, 1999) and 'Sexual Economyths: Conceiving a Feminist Economics (Allen & Unwin, 1994). Emerita Prof Beasley has also developed special issues in several leading journals, such as in 'Sexualities', 'Men and Masculinities', 'Australian Feminist Studies' and 'Health Sociology'. She is presently working on a further co-edited book titled 'Living Legacies of Social Injustice' (with Pam Papadelos, Routledge, forthcoming).Emerita Professor Beasley is engaged in several research projects, including migration and national identity, internet dating, intimacy and social change, gender/sexuality and Hollywood films, boys’ schooling, embodied ethics and revaluing care, the impact of neoliberalism upon academic practices, and innovations in heterosexuality and hetero-masculinity.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Emerita Professor Beasley is engaged in several research directions. She is located in POLIR (Politics and International Relations) and is also linked with The Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender (University of Adelaide), GEXcel: Centre for Excellence in Gender (Sweden), and the Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality (UK). Em/Prof Beasley retired at the end of 2018 but continues to be an active researcher in her capacity as an Emerita Professor associated with POLIR.

Her main current projects include

  • theorising social change
  • social change and sexualities
  • socio-political theory
  • citizenship and national identity
  • social change and masculinities
  • masculinity and violence
  • boys’ schooling and advancing gender equity
  • women and politics: comparative issues
  • embodied ethics: the politics of the body, and revaluing care
  • older people, sexuality and care services
  • internet dating
  • the impact of neoliberalism upon the welfare state, the academy and on academic practices
  • the politics of 'Hollywood' film, of mass media
  • the politics of visual art
  • issues in 'intersectionality': class, gender, race, ethnicity, indigeneity and culture
INVITED PRESENTATIONS & KEYNOTES

  • Keynote Addresses, 2005-2021 (Australia, Canada, Sweden, Italy, and Spain)

    C. Beasley, ‘What matters in social change?: the uncertain significance of caring’, The Fay Gale Annual Lecture, Academy of Social Sciences, hosted by University of Sydney, June 2017 and later by University of Adelaide, September 2017)

    C. Beasley, ‘Mending the World?: Care is not enough—Beyond Care and vocabularies of altruism?’, Keynote Address for the Church of Sweden Conference, Mending the World?: Possibilities and Obstacles for Religion, Church and Theology, the National Church of Sweden, Uppsala, Sweden, October 13-15, 2015

     C. Beasley, ‘Caution! Hazards ahead: Considering the potential theory/practice gap between men/masculinities theorising and practical pro-feminist interventions’, Conference—‘Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality, Centre for Research on Men and Masculinities (CROMM), University of Wollongong, November 29-30, 2012

     C. Beasley, ‘The Politics of Libidinal Relationality: Hetero-masculinity and “Transgression” ’, Conference—‘In relation to what? – Critical Gender Research on Masculinities and Relationality’, Uppsala University, Centre for Gender Research, Sweden, January 18-20, 2012

     C. Beasley, ‘The state of Masculinities scholarship: possibilities and problems in relation to contemporary Gender/Sexuality thinking’, Inaugural Conference, Centre for Research on Men and Masculinities (CROMM), University of Wollongong, March 17-18, 2011

     C. Beasley, ‘No Standing Anytime, Move Along’: Men/Masculinities in a Globalising World’, GEXcel Symposium, Theme 9, ‘Rethinking Transnational Dominance: Men and other creatures’, Linköping University, Sweden, January 26-27, 2011

     C. Beasley, ‘Is Masculinity Studies increasingly the “odd man out”?: Considering problems and possibilities in contemporary Gender/Sexuality Thinking’, GEXcel Conference, Theme 2, ‘Men, Masculinities, Moving On!’, Linköping University, Sweden, April 27-29, 2009

     C. Beasley, ‘The Challenge of Pleasure: Let’s Talk about Sex in Gender-Masculinity Studies’, GEXcel Symposium, Theme 2, ‘Men/masculinities, transnational, spatial, virtual—Hegemony, Power and Deconstruction’, Linköping University, Sweden, May 5, 2009

     C. Beasley, ‘Gender and Sexual Violence: Gender Identities, Men and Strategies for Change’, Conflict or Violence? Transformations of Gender Identities and Violence against Women, Milan-Bicocca University, Milan, Italy, May 8-9, 2008

     C. Beasley, ‘Re-thinking Hegemonic Masculinity in a Globalising World’, ‘Experts Meeting’ on Gender Identity in a Globalized Society, Social Trends Institute (Barcelona, Rome & NY), Barcelona, Spain, October 13, 2006

     C. Beasley, ‘What happens when Women's Studies becomes Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies?’, McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, November 3, 2005 and Dept of Women's Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, November 4, 2005

JOURNAL & PUBLISHER REVIEWER ROLES
International Journals:
  • Politics and Gender
  • Gender & Society
  • Men & Masculinities
  • British Journal of Sociology
  • Sexualities
  • Journal of Homosexuality
  • Signs
  • Journal of Political Geography
  • Sexuality and Culture
  • Sex Roles
  • International Feminist Journal of Politics
  • Feminist Theory
  • Feminist Review
  • Gender, Place and Culture
  • thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory and culture
  • NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
  • NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies
  • Citizenship Studies
  • Sex Education
  • Sexual and Relationship Therapy International Perspectives on Theory, Research & Practice
National Journals:
  • Australian Journal of Political Science
  • Australian Journal of Politics and History
  • Journal of Sociology
  • Australian Feminist Studies
  • Outskirts
  • Australian Journal of Social Issues
  • Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Reviewer for Publishers: Sage, Routledge, Polity, Oxford University Press, Bentham Science Publishers, Intellect Publishers, Duke University Press, Palgrave Macmillan

 

Date Position Institution name
1998 - ongoing Professor/Assoc Prof/Senior Lect/Lect, POLIS (Politics and International Studies) University of Adelaide
1991 - 1994 Lect in Politics University of Adelaide
1986 - 1991 Lect in Women's Studies University of Adelaide
1986 - 1986 Lect in Cultural Studies University of Western Sydney
1984 - 1984 Senior Research Officer, TAFE TAFE National Centre for Research and Development
1982 - 1982 Lect in Sociology & Aboriginal Studies SACAE, Magill Campus

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
1994 Teaching Award Stephen Cole the Elder Prize for Excellence in Teaching University of Adelaide Australia $2k

Date Institution name Country Title
Flinders University Australia Phd
Flinders University Australia MEd
University of Birmingham United Kingdom MA
Flinders University Australia Dip. Ed.
Flinders University Australia BA

Year Citation
2025 Papadelos, P., & Beasley, C. (2025). What Is Valued and What Counts: Relationality, Gender, and Science Communication in Scientific Societies. Science Communication, 26 pages.
DOI Scopus1
2024 Beasley, C., & Papadelos, P. (2024). What's care go to do with it? Feminism and the uncertain radical potential of care. Thesis Eleven, 183(1), 12-32.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2024 Warin, M., Beasley, C., & Chao, S. (2024). Leveraging feminist approaches to care. Thesis Eleven, 183(1), 3-11.
DOI
2021 Papadelos, P., Beasley, C., & Treagus, M. (2021). Social change and masculinities: exploring favourable spaces?. Journal of Sociology, 59(2), 144078332110482.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2017 Eate, P., Beasley, C., Papadelos, P., Treagus, M., & Augoustinos, M. (2017). Schooling the public on boys: the ongoing salience in media representations of the "crisis" in boys' education. Feminist Media Studies, 17(2), 248-263.
DOI Scopus12 WoS12
2016 Jones, K., Merrick, J., & Beasley, C. (2016). A content analysis of oral health messages in Australian mass media. Australian Dental Journal, 61(1), 16-20.
DOI Scopus4 WoS3 Europe PMC2
2015 Beasley, C. (2015). Libidinal heterodoxy: heterosexuality, hetero-masculinity, and “transgression”. Men and Masculinities, 18(2), 140-158.
DOI Scopus34 WoS26
2015 Beasley, C. (2015). Introduction to special issue of men and masculinities: heterodox hetero-masculinities. Men and Masculinities, 18(2), 135-139.
DOI Scopus9 WoS7
2015 Brook, H., Mulholland, M., Beasley, C., & Holmes, M. (2015). Introduction to the special section: Challenging heterodoxies. Sexualities, 18(5-6), 645-648.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2015 Beasley, C., Holmes, M., & Brook, H. (2015). Heterodoxy: challenging orthodoxies about heterosexuality. Sexualities, 18(5-6), 681-697.
DOI Scopus28 WoS21
2015 Beasley, C. (2015). Caution! Hazards ahead: Considering the potential gap between feminist thinking and men/masculinities theory and practice. Journal of Sociology, 51(3), 566-581.
DOI Scopus43 WoS34
2014 Jones, K., Beasley, C., & Merrick, J. (2014). The Social Construction of Oral Health in Australian mass media. Australian Dental Journal: Special Research Supplement, 59(4), S16.
2013 Howson, R., Beasley, C., & Augoustinos, M. (2013). Men/Masculinities: new directions in Australian theory and practice. Australian Feminist Studies, 75(27), 2-6.
DOI
2013 Beasley, C. (2013). Mind the gap? Masculinity studies and contemporary gender/sexuality thinking. Australian Feminist Studies, 28(75), 108-124.
DOI Scopus36 WoS25
2012 Beasley, C., & Cao, B. (2012). Transforming first-year university politics students into critical thinkers. Ergo, 2(3), 41-52.
2012 Beasley, C. (2012). Problematizing contemporary Men/Masculinities theorizing: The contribution of Raewyn Connell and conceptual-terminological tensions today. British Journal of Sociology, 63(4), 747-765.
DOI Scopus76 WoS62 Europe PMC1
2011 Beasley, C. (2011). Libidinous politics: heterosex, 'transgression' and social change. Australian Feminist Studies, 26(67), 25-40.
DOI Scopus29 WoS26
2011 Holmes, M., Beasley, C., & Brook, H. (2011). Heterosexuality. Australian Feminist Studies, 26(67), 3-7.
DOI Scopus6 WoS8
2010 Beasley, C. (2010). The elephant in the room: Heterosexuality in critical gender/sexuality studies. Nora - Nordic Journal of Women's Studies, 18(3), 204-209.
DOI Scopus17 WoS15
2010 Beasley, C. (2010). Some implications of the debate on the origins of gender: A Response to Bowdler and Balme. Australian Feminist Studies, 25(66), 407-411.
DOI
2010 Beasley, C., Bulbeck, M., & McCarthy, G. (2010). Ambivalent globalization, amorphous vulnerable nationalism Considering debates about nation and national positioning within the global from the point of view of young Australians. Journal of Sociology, 46(1), 5-25.
DOI Scopus7 WoS7
2009 Elias, J., & Beasley, C. (2009). Hegemonic Masculinity and Globalization: 'Transnational Business Masculinities' and Beyond. Globalizations, 6(2), 281-296.
DOI Scopus89 WoS80
2008 Beasley, C., & Warin, M. (2008). Guest editorial: Re-imaginging preventive health. Health Sociology Review, 17(2), 124-128.
2008 Beasley, C. (2008). The challenge of pleasure: re-imagining sexuality and sexual health. Health Sociology Review, 17(2), 151-163.
DOI Scopus46 WoS39
2008 Beasley, C. (2008). Rethinking hegemonic masculinity in a globalizing world. Men and Masculinities, 11(1), 86-103.
DOI Scopus354 WoS285
2008 Beasley, C. (2008). Reply to Messerschmidt and to Howson. Men and Masculinities, 11(1), 114-115.
DOI Scopus13 WoS4
2008 Beasley, C., & Warin, M. (2008). Editorial. Health Sociology Review, 17(2), 124-128.
DOI Scopus1
2008 Beasley, C., & Warin, M. (2008). Untitled. HEALTH SOCIOLOGY REVIEW, 17(2), 124-128.
DOI WoS1
2007 Beasley, C., & Bacchi, C. (2007). Envisaging a new politics for an ethical future: Beyond trust, care and generosity - Towards an ethic of 'social flesh'. Feminist Theory, 8(3), 279-298.
DOI Scopus105
2005 Bacchi, C., & Beasley, C. (2005). The limits of trust and respect: Rethinking dependency. Social Alternatives, 24(4), 55-59.
WoS5
2005 Beasley, C., & Bacchi, C. (2005). The political limits of 'Care' in re-imagining interconnection / community and an ethical future. Australian Feminist Studies, 20(46), 49-64.
DOI WoS25
2002 Bacchi, C., & Beasley, C. (2002). Citizen bodies: is embodied citizenship a contradiction in terms?. Critical Social Policy, 22(2), 324-352.
DOI Scopus95
2000 Beasley, C., & Bacchi, C. (2000). Citizen bodies: embodying citizens - a feminist analysis. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2(3), 337-358.
DOI Scopus66
1999 Beasley, C. (1999). The politics of sex: Prostitution and pornography in Australia since 1945. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 34(2), 282-283.
1998 Beasley, C. (1998). The end of capitalism (as we knew it): a feminist critique of political economy. AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST STUDIES, 13(28), 361-363.
DOI
1996 Beasley, C. (1996). Charting An/other Direction?: Sexual economyths and suggestions for a feminist economics. Australian Feminist Studies, 11(23), 99-113.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
1987 Beasley, C. (1987). The patriarchy debate: should we make use of the term "patriarchy" in historical analysis?. History of Education Review, 16(2), 13-20.

Year Citation
2023 Papadelos, P., & Beasley, C. (Eds.) (2023). Living Legacies of Social Injustice: Power, Time and Social Change. London: Routledge.
DOI
2021 Beasley, C., & Holmes, M. (2021). Internet Dating (1 ed.). Routledge.
Scopus12
2019 Beasley, C., & Brook, H. (2019). The Cultural Politics of Contemporary Hollywood Film: Power, Culture and Society. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
2017 Harding, R., Fletcher, R., & Beasley, C. (Eds.) (2017). ReValuing Care in Theory, Law and Policy: Cycles and Connections. Routledge.
2012 Beasley, C., Brook, H., & Holmes, M. (2012). Heterosexuality in theory and practice. United States: Routledge.
DOI Scopus63
2005 Beasley, C. (2005). Gender & sexuality : Critical theories, critical thinkers. 1 Oliver's yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP: Sage Publishing/Sage Publications.
DOI Scopus181
1999 Beasley, C. (1999). What is Feminism?. Sage Publications.
1994 Beasley, C. (1994). Sexual Economyths Conceiving a Feminist Economics. Palgrave Macmillan.

Year Citation
2023 Beasley, C., & Papadelos, P. (2023). Ongoing Legacies of Social Injustice: A Critical Interrogation. In C. Beasley, & P. Papadelos (Eds.), Living Legacies of Social Injustice: Power, Time and Social Change (pp. 1-17). London: Routledge.
DOI
2023 Beasley, C., & Papadelos, P. (2023). Re-imagining Legacy (Power-Time) and Social Change. In C. Beasley, & P. Papadelos (Eds.), Living Legacies of Social Injustice: Power, Time and Social Change (pp. 231-241). London: Routledge.
DOI
2023 Beasley, C. (2023). Haunted by the Heteronorm: Contemporary Hollywood Romance. In C. Beasley, & P. Papadelos (Eds.), Living legacies of Social Injustice: Power, time and social change (Vol. 1, 1 ed.). London: Routledge.
2023 Beasley, C. (2023). Haunted by the Heteronorm: Contemporary Hollywood Romance. In C. Beasley, & P. Papadelos (Eds.), Living legacies of Social Injustice: Power, time and social change (Vol. 1, 1 ed.). London: Routledge.
2022 Beasley, C. (2022). Embrace or engagement? Critical studies of men and masculinities and feminist posthumanism/new materialism. In Posthumanism and the Man Question Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities (pp. 139-153). Routledge.
DOI Scopus3
2020 Beasley, C. (2020). Feminism and men/masculinities scholarship: connections, disjunctions and possibilities. In L. Gottzen, U. Mellstrom, & T. Shefer (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies (1st ed., pp. 31-40). Abingdon, Oxon; United Kingdom: Routledge.
DOI
2018 Beasley, C., Harrison, K., Holmes, M., & Wamala-Larsson, C. (2018). Innovations in intimacy—Internet dating in an international frame. In R. Andreassen, M. Petersen, K. Harrison, & T. Raun (Eds.), Mediated Intimacies: Connectivities, Relationalities and Proximities (pp. 89-102). London and New York: Routledge.
DOI Scopus5
2017 Beasley, C. (2017). Care is not enough—Beyond Care and vocabularies of altruism?. In N. Blader, & K. Kjellin (Eds.), Mending the World?: Possibilities and Obstacles for Religion, Church, and Theology (pp. 370-388). Eugene, Oregon, USA: Wipf and Stock Publishers.
2017 Harding, R., Fletcher, R., & Beasley, C. (2017). ReValuing Care: Cycles and Connections. In R. Harding, R. Fletcher, & C. Beasley (Eds.), ReValuing Care in Theory, Law & Policy: Cycles and Connections. United Kingdom: Routledge.
2017 Beasley, C. (2017). Beyond care and vocabularies of altruism: considering sexuality and older people. In R. Harding, R. Fletcher, & C. Beasley (Eds.), ReValuing Care in Theory, Law & Policy: Cycles and Connections (1 ed., pp. 233-250). United Kingdom: Routledge.
2016 Beasley, C., & Holmes, M. (2016). Internet dating: Sexual intimacy and older people. In E. Peel, & R. Harding (Eds.), Ageing and Sexualities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1 ed., pp. 205-222). United Kingdom: Routledge.
DOI Scopus4
2015 Beasley, C., & Jaworski, K. (2015). Passionate Activism as Academic Labor: The Emotional Body of Pedagogical Politics. In L. Bryant, & K. Jaworski (Eds.), Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses: Walking on the Grass (1st edition ed., pp. 35-51). Langam, USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc..
2014 Beasley, C., & Cao, B. (2014). Thinking critically about critical thinking in the first-year experience. In H. Brook, D. Fergie, M. Maeorg, & D. Michell (Eds.), Universities in Transition: Foregrounding social contexts of knowledge in the first year experience (pp. 205-227). Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press.
2013 Beasley, C. (2013). The challenge of pleasure: Let's talk about sex in feminist and masculinity studies theorizing. In M. Albertson Fineman, & M. Thomson (Eds.), Exploring Masculinities: Feminist Legal Theory Reflections (1 ed., pp. 115-125). Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing.
Scopus3
2013 Beasley, C. (2013). Salute sessuale, educazione sessuale e violenza. In S. Magaraggia, & D. Cherubini (Eds.), Uomini contro le donne? Le radici della violenza maschile (1 ed., pp. 169-186). Italy: Utet University.
2012 Beasley, C., & Bacchi, C. (2012). Making politics fleshly: The ethic of social flesh. In A. Bletsas, & C. Beasley (Eds.), Engaging with Carol Bacchi: Strategic Interventions and Exchanges (1 ed., pp. 99-120). Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
DOI Scopus22
2012 Bletsas, A., & Beasley, C. (2012). Introduction. In A. Bletsas, & C. Beasley (Eds.), Engaging with Carol Bacchi: Strategic Interventions and Exchanges (1 ed., pp. 1-5). Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
DOI WoS28
2009 Beasley, C. (2009). Male bodies at the edge of the world: Re-thinking hegemonic and 'other' masculinities in Australian cinema. In Santiago Fouz Hernandez (Ed.), Mysterious skin. Male bodies in contemporary cinema (pp. 59-76). London, New York: IB Tauris.
Scopus6
2008 Beasley, C. (2008). Re-thinking Hegemonic Masculinity in a globilizing world. In A. González, & V. Seidler (Eds.), Gender in a Globalized World Identitiies (pp. 167-194). USA: Humanity Books.
2007 Beasley, C. (2007). Feminism. In B. Galligan, & W. Roberts (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics (pp. 0 pages). Victoria, Australia: Oxford University Press.
2006 Beasley, C. (2006). Speaking of feminism...what are we arguing about?. In Lynda Burns (Ed.), Feminist Alliances (pp. 35-58). New York, USA: Rodopi.
2005 Bacchi, C., & Beasley, C. (2005). Reproductive technology and the political limits of care. In M. Shildrick, & R. Mykitiuk (Eds.), Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges (pp. 175-194). Cambridge, MA 02142: MIT Press.
2001 Beasley, C. (2001). Negotiating Difference: Debatable Feminism. In P. Nursey-Bray, & C. Bacchi (Eds.), Left Directions: Is There a Third Way? (pp. 193-209). Crawley, WA 6009: UWA Press.

Year Citation
2012 Beasley, C. (2012). Problematising current men/masculinities theorising: Theoretical and terminological debates today. In J. Hearn, & A. Biricik (Eds.), GEXcel work in progress report volume XVI. Proceedings from GEXcel Theme 9: Gendered sexualed transnationalisations, deconstructing the dominant: Transforming men, 'centries' and knowledge/policy/practice (pp. 29-40). Online: Institute of Thematic Gender Studies.
2011 Beasley, C., & Cao, B. (2011). Transforming first-year university Politics students into critical thinkers. In The Journal of the Education Research Group of Adelaide Vol 2, No 3 (pp. 41-52). Adelaide, Australia: The University of Adelaide.
2010 Beasley, C. (2010). The question of 'Transgression': (hetero)normativity, heterosexuality and heteromasculinity. In Proceedings of XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology (pp. 1-6). online: ISA.
2009 Beasley, C. (2009). The Challenge of Pleasure: Let's Talk about Sex in Gender-Masculinity Studies. In GEXcell Work in Progress Report Volume VII (pp. 29-42). Sweden: CFS Report Series.
2009 Beasley, C. (2009). Is masculinity studies increasingly the 'Odd Man' out?: Considersing problems and possibilities in contemporary gender/sexuality thinking. In Proceedings of GEXcel Theme 2 - Deconstructing the hegemony of men and masculinities (pp. 173-182). Sweden: Center of Gender Excellence.
2006 Beasley, C., & Elias, J. (2006). Situating masculinities in global politics. In Robyn Eckersley (Ed.), Proceedings of the Oceanic Conference on International Studies (pp. www1-www18). www: University of Melbournq.
2006 Bulbeck, M., Beasley, C., & McCarthy, G. (2006). 'Australians are always boring, overly religious and try to be American': 'vulnerable nationalism' among young Australians. In D. Colic-Peisker, & D. Tilbury (Eds.), Proceedings of TASA 2006 (pp. 1-10). Australia: TASA.
2004 Bacchi, C., & Beasley, C. (2004). An Ethic of Social Flesh: Moving Beyond Care and/or Trust. In C. Beasley, L. Hill, C. ohnson, G. McCarthy, & C. Macintyre (Eds.), Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004 (pp. www 1-www 30). www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/papers: APSA.
1998 Beasley, C. (1998). ‘To Market, To Market’? Responding to the Keynote Address and the West Review. In M. Kiley, & G. Mullins (Eds.), QUALITY IN POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH:Proceedings of the 1998 Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference. Adelaide.

Year Citation
2011 Treagus, M. A., Cover, R., & Beasley, C. (2011). Integrity in Sport Literature Review. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission.
1985 Beasley, B., & Beasley, C. (1985). Looking back: a review of the TAFE transition education program (ED 275 837). Payneham South Australia: TAFE National Centre for Research and Development.
 
2020-2013

 

Guest Professor, Karlstad, Stockholm and Gothenberg Universities ($3.5k) [2020]

Research Network Development, Karlstad University ($1.7k) and University of Edinburgh ($2.5k) [2018]

Priority Partner Grant, Ongoing Legacies of Discrimination and Violence International Research Network ($5k) [2017]

Institute of Advanced Studies 2016 Short Stay Fellowship Grant at University of WA ($2k) [2016]

Faculty Research Centres Competitive Funding Scheme, Advancing gender equity in male single-sex environments: elite boys’ schools (with Prof Augoustinos, Dr Treagus and Dr Papadelos) ($4k)[2014]

Aust Dental Health Research Foundation, Social Construction of Oral Health in Aust mass media (with Dr Jones and Dr Merrick) ($9.12k) [2013]

 
2012 Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK), ‘Revaluing Care’ Research Network (with Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality), Keele Law School (70k GBP)

2011

Health in All Policies Unit, SA, Improving the health and wellbeing of overseas students (with Prof Augoustinos and Dr Hanson-Easy) ($22k)

2011

Australian Sports Commission, Integrity in Sport (with Dr Treagus and Dr Cover) ($24k)
2009 University funding for designated Research Centres: The Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender (with Prof Augoustinos) ($300k)
Research Funding

2016

Institute of Advanced Studies 2016 Short Stay Fellowship Grant at University of WA ($2k)
2014 Faculty Research Centres Competitive Funding Scheme, Advancing gender equity in male single-sex environments: elite boys’ schools (with Prof Augoustinos, Dr Treagus and Dr Papadelos) ($4k)

2012

Aust Dental Health Research Foundation, Oral Health-Aust mass media (with Dr Jones) ($5k)
2011 Faculty Research Grant (with Dr Treagus and Dr Cover) ($5k)

2011

School Grant, Teaching Pol Science: Graduate Skills & Critical Thinking (with Dr Cao) ($2k)

2010

Faculty Research Grant, XVII World Congress of Sociology, Sweden ($5k)

2006

Preventive Health Research Cluster, Social, Cultural and Economic Influences ($10k)

2005

Faculty Grant, Globalizing culture (with Prof Bulbeck and Prof McCarthy) ($8k)

2000

Small ARC Grant, Women’s Bodies in Australian Public Policy (with Prof Bacchi) ($7k)

1997-8

Primary Health Care Initiatives Program, SA Health Commission, at Women’s and Children’s Hospital, ‘Improving Continuity of Care—families dealing with a health crisis’ ($70k)
Selected previous courses at Undergraduate Level
  • Faculty Foundation Course: ‘The Enquiring Mind’
  • ‘The Politics of Gender and Sexuality’
  • ‘Justice, Liberty & Democracy’
  • ‘The Politics of Media: Film’
  • ‘Introduction to International Politics’,
  • ‘Politics of Popular Culture’,

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2012 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Women in Leadership: The Role of Individual Agency in Leadership Career Decisions of Female Executives in South Australian Public Service Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mrs Syeda Nuzhat E Ibrat
2010 - 2019 Principal Supervisor The Thai State and Sexual Health Policy: Deconstructing the culture of silence and stigmatisation of young people's non-marital heterosexual activity Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Brendan Robert Drew
2009 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Adam Smith in Immanuel Kant's Moral Philosophy Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Guy Richardson
2008 - 2017 Co-Supervisor The Subject of Television: A Methodology of Subject-Oriented Textual Analysis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Jessie Edwards
2008 - 2012 Principal Supervisor Rethinking Masculinities and Young Age: Primary School Students Constructing Gender Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Clare Bartholomaeus
2007 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Looking Out for the Aussie Bloke: Gender, Class and Contextualizing the Hegemony of Working-Class Masculinities in Australia. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Kirsty Whitman
2005 - 2011 Principal Supervisor A Radical Alternative? A Re-Evaluation of Chantal Mouffe's Radical Democratic Approach Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Leah Skrzypiec
2005 - 2011 Principal Supervisor Community Gardening As Social Action: The Australian Community Gardening Movement and Repertoires for Change Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Claire Elizabeth Nettle
2005 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Reconsidering Aboriginal welfare dependency: The Howard Government years through the lens of Postcolonial theory Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Zoe Gordon
1994 - 2002 Principal Supervisor POLITICISING THE PRODUCTIVE: SUBJECTIVITY, FEMINIST LABOUR THOUGHT AND FOUCAULT Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Wendy Bastalich
1993 - 2005 Principal Supervisor Emotions and the Prelinguistic Maternal: their Place in Theories of Subjectivity Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Belinda Jane Hewlett Sanders

Date Role Membership Country
2016 - ongoing Member Australian Population and Migration Research Centre, Adelaide University Australia
2016 - ongoing Member Stretton Institute Australia
2013 - ongoing - Australian Gender and Women's Studies Assoc -
2011 - ongoing - Australian Political Studies Association -
2010 - 2010 - International Sociological Association -

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2015 - ongoing Editor Editorial Board for international journal, Men & Masculinities - -
2015 - ongoing Board Member Advisory Board for NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies several Swedish universities Sweden
2015 - ongoing Associate Editor Guest Editor for journal, Men & Masculinities - -
2015 - ongoing Associate Editor Guest editor for journal, Sexualities - -
2013 - ongoing Consulting Editor Consultant editor for journal, Outskirts - -
2012 - ongoing Board Member International Advisory board for Routledge Social Justice book series - -
2012 - ongoing Consulting Editor Advisory editor, Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Gender & Sexualities Studies - -
2011 - ongoing Associate Editor Guest editor for journal, Australian Feminist Studies - -
2008 - ongoing Associate Editor Guest editor for journal, Health Sociology Review - -

Date Topic Presented at Institution Country
2024 - 2024 Exploring the Sense of Community and Belonging among South Australian Drag Queens Virtual LGBTQ Research Symposium co-hosted by the University of Kansas and the University of Connecticut United States

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