Associate Professor Katharine Betts Phd Monash (Sociology) Associate Professor Tel: 61 3 9214 8201 Office: BA1031 Email: kbetts@swin.edu.au

Biography

Katharine Betts teaches Sociology at the Swinburne University of Technology. She has been doing research in population studies for over twenty-five years, beginning with fertility and family planning and then turning to migration studies and questions of national identity.

Her major work is an analysis of the politics of Australian immigration published in Ideology and Immigration (MUP, 1988) and in The Great Divide (Duffy and Snellgrove, 1999), as well as in a number of journal articles.

In 1993 she helped found the quarterly demographic journal People and Place; she and Bob Birrell are the editors. She also serves on the National Council of the Australian Population Association and is currently vice president.

Teaching

Migration and ethnicity

Social Theory

Research Methods

Research Interests

Migration policy and politics

National identity

Social cohesion

Population policy

Environment

Publications Include

'Cosmopolitans and patriots: Australia's cultural divide and attitudes to immigration', People and Place, vol. 13, no. 2, 2005, pp. 29-40

'Demographic and social research on the population and environment nexus in Australia: explaining the gap', Population and Environment', vol. 26, no. 2, 2004, pp. 157-172

'Attitudes to abortion in Australia: 1972 to 2003', Poeple and Place, vol.12, no. 4, 2004, pp. 22-27

'People and parliamentarians: the great divide', People and Place, vol. 12, no. 2, 2004, pp. 64-83

'Immigration policy under the Howard Government', Australian Journal of Social Issues, vol. 38 no. 2, 2003, pp. 169-192