Nathan Manning

Dr Nathan Manning

Senior Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Nathan joined The University of Adelaide in July 2018. Prior to this he worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK and as Research Fellow at the University of Bradford, UK.

Nathan has research interests which largely fit within political sociology, with a focus on young citizens, political dissatisfaction and disillusionment, and the role of emotions in politics and citizenship. Together with Djordje Stefanovic, he’s recently conducted a pilot study to explore the ways in which university education may undermine support for right-wing populism. This work also explores the role of masculinity and emotions in rejecting right-wing populist politics. He continues to work with archival data from the UK’s Mass Observation Project to explore the emotional dimensions of dutiful forms of citizenship. He is a founding Co-Editor of the journal Emotions and Society (Bristol University Press) and his research has been funded by the British Academy & Leverhulme Trust, and the Economic and Social Research Council.

Nathan is the Programme Coordinator for the Bachelor of Sociology and currently teaches the following courses:

Social Problems (SOCI 1004)

Sociological Theory in Action (SOCI 2009)

Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences (SOCI 3014)

Sociological Research Project (SOCI 3017)

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2023 Co-Supervisor Causes and Motivations of Antisemitic Hate Crime in Australia - A Systematic Literature Review and Critical Discourse Analysis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Sarah Clare Rubinshtein
    2022 Principal Supervisor Political influencing goes online: How social media influencers create, and users interpret political content in the context of platform's affordances and algorithms Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Carina Kraft
    2020 Co-Supervisor Encountering Online Hate: Exploring the interactional factors associated with youth participation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Sarah Marie Fox
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2008 - 2011 Co-Supervisor International Collaboration in Health Sciences Research: Manna, Myth and Model Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Prof Zoe Jordan
  • Position: Senior Lecturer
  • Phone: 83134938
  • Email: nathan.manning@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Napier, floor 1
  • Org Unit: School of Social Sciences

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