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Biography
Associate Professor Karen Farquharson is Academic Head of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Swinburne. Karen is a sociologist with research interests in the areas of race and ethnic relations, the media, sport, and the internet. She teaches in Sociology and convenes the BA (Hons) in Social Science and Industry and Community Studies.
Prior to working at Swinburne, Karen was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne. She holds a PhD from Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cape Town in 1995-1996. Karen is a co-editor of the International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society (http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ijets).
Teaching
HAS316 Race, Migration and Ethnicity HASM201 eSociety: The Sociology of the Electronic Age HAF440 Social Science Honours Seminar A HAF441 Social Science Honours Seminar B
Research Interests
Sociology of the internet Sociology of race and ethnicity Sociology of the media Sociology of sport
Publications Include
Farquharson, Karen and Timothy Marjoribanks. 2006. Representing Australia: Race, Gender, and Nation in Australian Cricket. Journal of Sociology. Betts, Katharine, Karen Farquharson and Anne Seitz. 2005. Writing Essays and Research Reports in the Social Sciences. Melbourne: Thomson Learning. Farquharson, Karen and Christine Critchley. 2004. Risk, Trust and Cutting-edge Technologies: a Study of Australian Attitudes. Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society 2 (2), available at http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ajets. Farquharson, Karen. 2003. Influencing Policy Transnationally: Pro-and Anti-Tobacco Global Advocacy Networks. Australian Journal of Public Administration 62 (4): 80-92. Farquharson, Karen and Timothy Marjoribanks. 2003. Transforming the Springboks: Re-imagining the South African nation through sport. Social Dynamics 29 (1): 27-48.