Academic Resources: Graduate Programs
Postgraduate Program in Health, Sexuality and Cultures at the University of New South Wales
- This interdisciplinary research program allows students from the social sciences, humanities, and health sector to undertake a research Masters or PhD in Health, Sexuality and Culture. The program is co-ordinated through the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and is guided by a social paradigm that understands persons and communities as social beings. Much of the research at the centre is oriented to the needs of practitioners working in the policy field. There is also the scope to conduct more conceptual inquiry into questions of bodily and erotic practice or the practices of medicine. The program in Health, Sexuality and Culture provides students with the empirical skills necessary to participate in the global field of sex and/or drug research, as well as an understanding of critical debates in social theories of sex, drugs and the politics of medicine. It is this mix of practical empirical skills and critical understandings that makes Health, Sexuality and Culture a! t UNSW unique.
Who We Are
- The National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR) was established in 1990 with funding from the Commonwealth government of Australia. NCHSR is internationally recognised for its contribution to social understandings of the HIV epidemic among gay men, with a growing body of work on drug use, gender, and medical technologies.
NCHSR works with a range of partners including:
- the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research -the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society -social scientists in Australia, notably with researchers at the University of New England
- clinicians and other public health workers
- government, at the national and state levels
- non-government and community-based organisations
The NCHSR is committed to the involvement of affected communities in its research. This ensures relevant research as well as an effective interface with those members of the partnership engaged in program development and delivery. NCHSR academic staff come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, with expertise in sociology, psychology, anthropology, gender studies, public health, science studies, linguistics, education, history, social work, librarianship, statistics and cultural studies represented at the Centre. While the core work of NCHSR has to do with HIV and Hepatitis C, we welcome postgraduate proposals on any aspects of the social study of sex or drugs, including issues of gender, embodiment, medicine, technology, culture and globalisation.
- FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE http://nchsr.arts.unsw.edu.au
OR CONTACT Kane Race k.race@unsw.edu.au
Ph: (02) 9385 6411
