Professor Martha Augoustinos

Room 521, Hughes Building Phone +61 (08) 8303 4627 Fax +61 (08) 8303 3770 martha.augoustinos@adelaide.edu.au Personal Page

Area of Research

Social psychology and discourse.

Senior Appointments and Memberships

Convenor Academic Women’s Forum (AWF)

Convenor Social and Organisational Research Unit, School of Psychology

Co-Director Discourse and Social Psychology Group (DASP), School of Psychology

Member Australian Psychological Society (APS), Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP) 

Awards

2007 – Award for Excellence in Higher Degree by Research Supervision

1995 - Early Career Award, Australian Psychological Society (APS)

Psychology Research Interests

My major research interests are in the areas of social psychology and discourse. Most of my research in this area has focused specifically on the peculiarities of racist discourse in Australia. This has involved mapping the trajectory of the 'race debate' that has dominated Australian public discourse since 1995. This has included an analysis of the ways in which Indigenous Australians are constructed in everyday conversation; an analysis of argumentative forms, discursive practices and rhetorical devices mobilised in everyday public reasoning on the appropriateness of apologising to the Stolen Generations; constructions and representations of reconciliation; the analysis of political rhetoric on debates over Native Title and Wik; and the categorisation and representation of asylum seekers in public discourse and everyday conversation (see Personal page for publications).

More recently I have been involved in research pertaining to public understandings of science. This has included an international collaboration with the University of Surrey examining both media and public debates in the UK around scientific advances in genomics.

Book Publications

Augoustinos, M., Walker, I. & Donaghue, N. (2006). Social cognition: An integrated introduction. London: Sage.

Augoustinos, M., & Reynolds, K. (2001). (Eds). Understanding prejudice, racism, and social conflict. London: Sage.

Recent Key Publications

Augoustinos, M., Russin, A. & LeCouteur, A. (in press). The stem-cell cloning fraud: From scientific breakthrough to managing the stake and interest of science. Public Understanding of Science.

Augoustinos, M., Crabb, S., & Shepherd, R. (in press, 2009). GM food in the news: Representations of stakeholders in the GM debate in the UK. Public Understanding of Science.

McCann, P., Augoustinos, M. & LeCouteur, A. (2004). ‘Race’ and the Human Genome Project: Constructions of scientific legitimacy. Discourse & Society, 15, 409-432.

Augoustinos, M. & LeCouteur, A. (2004). On whether to apologize to Indigenous Australians: The denial of white guilt. In N. R. Branscombe & B. Doosje (eds.). Collective guilt: International perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press. (pp. 552-609).