Professor Martha Augoustinos
Room 521, Hughes Building |
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Level III Coordinator
Area of Research
Social psychology and discourse.
Senior Appointments and Memberships
Co-Director: Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender
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 examining both media and public debates around climate change and scientific advances in genomics.
Book Publications
Augoustinos, M., Walker, I. & Donaghue, N. (2006). Social cognition: An integrated introduction. London: Sage.
Augoustinos, M. & Every, D. (2010). Discourse and the denial of racism. Discourse & Society (Special Issue).
Augoustinos, M., & Reynolds, K. (2001). (Eds). Understanding prejudice, racism, and social conflict. London: Sage.
Recent Key Publications
Kurz, T., Augoustinos, M. & Crabb, S. (in press). Contesting the national interest and maintaining our lifestyle: A discursive analysis of political rhetoric around climate change. British Journal of Social Psychology.
Augoustinos, M., Crabb, S., & Shepherd, R. (2010). GM food in the news: Representations of stakeholders in the GM debate in the UK. Public Understanding of Science, 19, 98-114.
Augoustinos, M., Russin, A. & LeCouteur, A. (2009). The stem-cell cloning fraud: From scientific breakthrough to managing the stake and interest of science. Public Understanding of Science, 18, 687-703.
Fogarty, K. & Augoustinos, M. (2008). Feckless fathers and monopolising mothers: Motive, identity and fundamental truths in the Australian Public Inquiry into Child Custody. British Journal of Social Psychology. 22, 535-556.McCann, P., Augoustinos, M. & LeCouteur, A. (2004). ‘Race’ and the Human Genome Project: Constructions of scientific legitimacy. Discourse & Society, 15, 409-432.
