Dr Julia Coffey
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci (Sociology and Anthropology)
- Email:julia.coffey@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:02 4348 4081
Julia Coffey is advancing our sociological understanding of body image and health
Body image is a persistent and intensifying concern for young people and new approaches are urgently needed to address this significant health and well-being issue. By listening to young people's ways of tackling problems, Dr Julia Coffey is advancing our sociological understanding of body image and health.
Julia’s research highlights the importance of the body in young people’s lives. Young people’s body image is formed against the backdrop of increasingly intense social and cultural pressures regarding bodily appearance. Julia explains that sociological approaches are important in addressing the social dimensions of the issue, with key factors of consumer culture, development of new lifestyles, and an emphasis on crafting a fit, beautiful body as vital for understanding the heightened significance of the body in western societies such as Australia.
Julia, a member of the Newcastle Youth Studies Group, has contributed significantly to the sociology of youth and health by advancing our understanding of how young bodies are produced in relation to socio-cultural contexts. These issues are the focus of her recently published books, Body Work: Youth, Gender and Health in Routledge’s Youth and Young Adulthood Series, and Learning Bodies: The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies, co-edited with University of Birmingham’s Shelley Budgeon and University of Melbourne’s Helen Cahill.
Her empirical studies engage cutting-edge concepts and perspectives on the body, gender and identity to understand the body as actively produced through affective relations, rather than a passive object upon which social and cultural meanings are inscribed.
Through her research she aims to uncover how young people negotiate their identities and the world to find ways of supporting their health and wellbeing.
"I believe that young people are experts in their own issues and wellbeing," Julia said.
"I am trying to change the perspective that people often have of young people. They have a lot of knowledge and expertise around how to address the problems they face, and this research can inform policy that will make a real difference to their health."
Julia has applied her expertise to issues relating to youth, the body and gender to inform understandings of steroid use, cosmetic surgery, exercise and diet, health, and appearance pressure for young women and men.
Her 2012 PhD at the University of Melbourne explored ‘body work’ practices in young people – how they change their appearance in ways ranging from diet and exercise to surgery and taking steroids in order to influence how they are perceived in the world. These themes are the focus of her book, Body Work: Youth, Gender and Health (Routledge, 2016).
“While their body work ranged from the mundane to the extreme, what was common in both genders was that young people felt these practices were important in order to maintain their identity – and that stopping them would entail a loss of self,” Julia explained.
"Body image is one of the top three concerns of young people in Australia, for both young women and men. But people negotiate body image at a range of different levels.
“By understanding how bodies are thought of and lived by young people, we can better understand the pressures that are leading to this increasing anxiety, in both genders, about the body."
Her post-doctoral work has involved a range of research projects related to the health and wellbeing of young people, including the Learning Partnerships Project, an education project using high school students to role play issues around help seeking to train student teachers and doctors. The project has been highly successful in promoting student wellbeing in Melbourne and it’s hoped it will be developed into a national resource.
In addition, Julia has worked on a UNESCO curriculum and training program that targets key populations vulnerable to HIV in South Asia and the Pacific by training young people to deliver information to their own groups.
In 2015, Julia was awarded the University of Newcastle Vice Chancellor’s Early Career Researcher of the Year, and Research Excellence and Innovation Awards. She was also awarded an International Visiting Fellowship to host Professor Jessica Ringrose, from University College London, UK.
This Fellowship is a significant collaboration with an internationally renowned researcher in gender and education including young people’s digital sexual cultures, which encompasses issues such as ‘sexting’ and cyberbullying. Ringrose is a member of the Institute of Education, London; the world’s leading centre for education and applied social sciences, which currently ranked number one for education worldwide. In collaboration with Helen Cahill and researchers from the Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Julia and Ringrose are working to refine new participatory arts-based research methods for investigating young people’s perceptions of the influences on their gender identity, body image and body work practices.
“Poor body image is debilitating and can significantly impact on an individual’s capacity to participate fully in society,” Julia said.
“My research will be useful in producing strategies to promote the wellbeing and full engagement of Australian youth in society – in education as well as employment.”
Julia Coffey is advancing our sociological understanding of body image and health
Julia Coffey is advancing our sociological understanding of body image and health.
Career Summary
Biography
Julia Coffey is a Senior Lecturer in sociology in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Newcastle, Australia. She is currently co-convenor of the TASA Sociology of Youth thematic group. Her research is in the field of health sociology, with a focus on youth, the body, and gender. Julia has also worked on areas related to health and youth in education and development. Julia has published on young people’s body work practices and identity, health and the body, and pedagogy. She is especially interested in the ways body work practices are shaped by health and gender ideals and theories of the body.
Julia is currently working on a project titled: ‘Youth, transitions and bodies’, which aims to advance sociological understandings of body image and health in young people’s transitions from education to employment in rural and urban contexts.
Recent research projects have investigated: Youth health issues, such as ‘Learning Partnerships’ which explored young people’s willingness to seek help for sexual health, mental health and substance issues; and ‘NewGen Asia’ which targets a leadership and advocacy course to young people from key populations at higher risk of HIV exposure in Asia.
Research ExpertiseMain areas of research expertise are feminist sociology, gender, youth, health, and the body. I have worked on a range of research projects including youth mental health and wellbeing, body image and identity, health inequalities, and health pedagogy in education. My PhD in Sociology was completed and awarded in 2012. I completed my doctoral study under Professor Johanna Wyn at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. My thesis title was: ‘Exploring Body Work Practices: Bodies, Affect and Becoming’, and used qualitative interviewing methods. Health was a major emphasis in the interpretation of data and the research findings, as discourses of health were central to young women’s and men’s body work practices, and how they understood the benefits and risks. Key research projects: ‘Learning Partnerships’ (2012-2013), Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne Funded by the CASS Foundation, researching the impact of the ‘Learning Partnerships’ curriculum which involves collaborations between school students and tertiary students of Medicine and Education, and investigating the impact of the program on adolescent help- seeking through collecting interview and survey data. Chief investigator: Helen Cahill ‘NewGen Asia’ (2012-2013), Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne In collaboration with UNESCO, UNICEF and YouthLEAD, researching the impact of the ‘NewGen Asia’, a leadership course designed specifically to equip young people from key populations at higher risk of HIV exposure in Asia with knowledge and skills in communication, advocacy and leadership.The course employs conceptually driven, participatory pedagogical approaches to youth health initiatives. This is very applied, high impact work which contributes directly to policy. Chief investigator: Helen Cahill ‘Drug Education in Victorian Schools’ (2009-2013) Australian Research Council Linkage Grant with partner organisations Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, the University of Melbourne, Oxford Brookes University (UK) and the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Chief investigator: Helen Cahill (University of Melbourne), Richard Midford (Charles Darwin University) Role: Research officer, 2012-2013.
Teaching Expertise
Between 2009 – 2013 I taught in four Sociology courses in the School of Social and Political Science, two Masters of Education courses in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, and one Breadth course (all at the University of Melbourne). o Sociology of Youth (2012, 2013) o Leading Educational Ideas (2013, 2014); o Reading Educational Research (2013); o Ethics, Gender and the Family (2013, 2014); o Social Science Research Methods (2010); o Sociology of the Body (2009) I have delivered guest lectures on health and body image, identity, gender and sexuality, in sociology, education and health courses.
Collaborations
Julia is a co-director of the Newcastle Youth Studies Network.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Monash University
Keywords
- Gender
- Health
- Identity
- Methodology
- Sociology
- The body
- Youth
Fields of Research
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441010 | Sociology of gender | 50 |
441006 | Sociological methodology and research methods | 20 |
441004 | Social change | 20 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
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Associate Professor | University of Newcastle School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci Australia |
Academic appointment
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1/7/2011 - 1/6/2014 | Research fellow | The University of Melbourne Youth Research Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of Education Australia |
Awards
Recipient
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2014 |
Dr Julia Coffey University of Melbourne |
Research Award
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2015 |
Vice Chancellor's Early Career Researcher of the Year 2015 The University of Newcastle |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (6 outputs)
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2022 |
Burke PJ, Coffey J, Gill R, Kanai A, Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism: Pedagogies, Challenges and Strategies (2022) What does it mean to be pedagogical in a post-truth landscape? How might feminist thought and action work to intervene in this environment? Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism... [more] What does it mean to be pedagogical in a post-truth landscape? How might feminist thought and action work to intervene in this environment? Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism draws together leading feminist scholars of gender and education to explore the current significance of the rise of populist policies and discourses and the challenges it poses to the hard-won battles regarding the rights of women, immigrants, and minorities. Offering the first detailed feminist intervention in this space, the collection explores the significance of populism for feminist pedagogies and practices in relation to gender and education. This exploration has significance for broader and urgent questions of our times regarding knowledge, authority, truth, power and harm and considers the potential for feminist interventions in relation to pedagogies and activisms to speak back and disrupt populist agendas.
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2021 |
Coffey J, Everyday Embodiment: Rethinking Youth Body Image, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 164 (2021) [A1]
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Coffey J, Everyday Embodiment: Rethinking Youth Body Image, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 164 (2021) [A1]
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2016 | Coffey J, Body Work: Youth, Gender and Health, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 170 (2016) [A1] | Nova | ||||||
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Chapter (19 outputs)
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2022 | Burke PJ, Coffey J, Gill R, Kanai A, 'Troubling Post-truth Populism: Feminist Interventions', Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism: Pedagogies, Challenges and Strategies 1-18 (2022) | ||||||||||
2022 | Kanai A, Coffey J, Burke PJ, Gill R, 'Conclusion: Beyond True and False: Reflecting and Rebuilding towards Feminist Pedagogies of Care', Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism: Pedagogies, Challenges and Strategies 229-236 (2022) | ||||||||||
2021 | Coffey J, 'Creating Distance from Body Issues: Exploring New Materialist Feminist Possibilities for Renegotiating Gendered Embodiment', Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges, Routledge, London (2021) | ||||||||||
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Threadgold S, Farrugia D, Coffey J, 'Challenging the Structure/Agency Binary: Youthful Culture, Labour and Embodiments', Structure and Agency in Young People s Lives Theory, Methods and Agendas, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon 15-29 (2021) [B1]
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2020 |
Coffey J, Cahill H, 'Embodying gender in the everyday: exploring space, scrutiny and safety', Ageing, the Body and the Gender Regime, Routledge, London 1-23 (2020) [B1]
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2019 |
Coffey J, Kanai A, 'Gender and Sexualities', Public Sociology: An introduction to Australian society, Allen & Unwin, London, UK 265-265 (2019) [B1]
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2017 |
Coffey J, 'Aestheticized bodies', Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies, Routledge, Oxon, UK 218-227 (2017) [B1]
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2017 |
Coffey JE, Landstedt E, 'The social context of youth mental health', Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood, Routledge, London and New York 346-355 (2017) [B1]
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2016 |
Coffey J, 'Youth, health and morality: Body work and health assemblages', Neoliberalism, austerity, and the moral economies of young people's health and well-being, Palgrave Macmillan, London 69-86 (2016) [B1]
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2016 |
Coffey JE, ''She was becoming too healthy and it was just becoming dangerous': Body work and assemblages of health', Learning Bodies: The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies, Springer, Singapore 191-203 (2016) [B1]
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Coffey JE, Ringrose J, 'Boobs and Barbie: Feministposthuman perspectives on gender, bodies and practice', Practice Theory and Education: Diffractive readings in professional practice, Routledge, London and New York 175-192 (2016) [B1]
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2016 |
Coffey JE, Budgeon S, Cahill H, 'Introduction: The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies', Learning Bodies: The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies, Springer, Singapore 1-22 (2016) [B1]
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2016 |
Budgeon S, Cahill H, Coffey JE, 'Conclusion: Towards Embodied Theories, Methodologies and Pedagogies', Learning Bodies: The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies, Springer, Singapore 259-267 (2016) [B1]
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2016 |
Coffey JE, Budgeon S, Cahill H, 'Introduction: The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies', Learning Bodies: The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies, Springer, Singapore 1-22 (2016) [B1]
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2015 |
Coffey JE, Watson J, 'Bodies: Corporeality and Embodiment in Childhood and Youth Studies', Handbook of Children and Youth Studies, Springer, New York 185-200 (2015) [B1]
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2015 |
Stokes H, Aaltonen S, Coffey JE, 'Young People, Identity, Class, and the Family', Handbook of Children and Youth Studies, Springer, New York 259-278 (2015) [B1]
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2015 |
Cahill H, Coffey JE, Beadle S, 'Performative Pedagogy: Poststructural Theory as a Tool to Engage in Identity Work Within a Youth-Led HIV Prevention Program', Handbook of Children and Youth Studies, Springer, New York 301-314 (2015) [B1]
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Journal article (46 outputs)
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2024 |
Coffey J, Senior K, Haro A, Farrugia D, Threadgold S, Cook J, et al., 'Embodying debt: youth, consumer credit and its impacts for wellbeing', JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES, [C1]
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Cook J, Farrugia D, Threadgold S, Coffey J, 'The impact of pandemic-related loss of work on young adults plans', Journal of Youth Studies, 27 439-454 (2024) [C1]
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2023 |
Coffey J, Burke PJ, Hardacre S, Parker J, Coccuzoli F, Shaw J, 'Students as victim-survivors: the enduring impacts of gender-based violence for students in higher education', Gender and Education, 35 623-637 (2023) [C1]
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2023 |
Burke PJ, Coffey J, Parker J, Hardacre S, Cocuzzoli F, Shaw J, Haro A, ' It s a lot of shame : understanding the impact of gender-based violence on higher education access and participation', Teaching in Higher Education, (2023) [C1] This paper draws on new empirical research examining the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on students' experiences of higher education. While GBV across the life-course ... [more] This paper draws on new empirical research examining the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on students' experiences of higher education. While GBV across the life-course is an extremely prevalent and pressing social problem, it has been invisible within higher education. Indeed, experiences of GBV, which may profoundly shape access to and participation in higher education, are largely perceived as irrelevant to student equity, unless experienced on campus. Institutional silence around the impact of GBV on student equity is related to the gender injustice of misrecognition, whereby the social problem of GBV is located at the personal level. This manifests in the social emotion of shame, experienced at the personal level as disconnection, isolation and not belonging. This paper draws from our analysis of 47 in-depth interviews with student victim/survivors exploring their experiences of higher education to illuminate how deficit discourses and stigmatisation intersect to reproduce gender injustice in higher education.
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Cook J, Davies K, Farrugia D, Threadgold S, Coffey J, Senior K, et al., 'Buy now pay later services as a way to pay: credit consumption and the depoliticization of debt', Consumption Markets & Culture, 26 245-257 (2023) [C1]
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2023 |
Farrugia D, Coffey J, Threadgold S, Adkins L, Gill R, Sharp M, Cook J, 'Hospitality work and the sociality of affective labour', The Sociological Review, 71 47-64 (2023) [C1]
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2023 |
Coffey J, Kanai A, 'Feminist fire: embodiment and affect in managing conflict in digital feminist spaces', Feminist Media Studies, 23 638-655 (2023) [C1] Digital spaces are crucial in enabling participation in contemporary feminism and activism, as key sites through which feminist knowledges are dispersed, taken up, and debated. Ho... [more] Digital spaces are crucial in enabling participation in contemporary feminism and activism, as key sites through which feminist knowledges are dispersed, taken up, and debated. However, little is known about how feminist learning is practically enacted, and how the potential for conflict and debate in online feminist spaces are navigated and have implications for feminist pedagogies. Through a qualitative participatory study with self-described ¿digital feminists¿, this article contributes to some of the first accounts of the role and significance of politicised embodiment in digital spaces, andempirically explores women and non-binary people¿s experiences and understandings of digital feminist practice. Participants described that the ¿feminist fire¿ which propelled participation in digital spaces could be difficult to manage in online textual-only contexts, where careful communication was required to mitigate the absence of bodily cues such as tone of voice and facial expression. We argue that bodies matter differently in text-based online interactions and explore how feminists manage the parameters of online architectures and strong affective embodied responses to conflict and difficult conversations online. We argue a focus on bodies and embodied sensations are crucial for understanding how contemporary feminist learning is navigated in digital spaces.
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2023 |
Coffey J, 'Images as 'potentials': Feminist new materialist orientations to photovoice', QUALITATIVE RESEARCH, 23 847-865 (2023) [C1]
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2023 |
Kanai A, Coffey J, 'Dissonance and defensiveness: orienting affects in online feminist cultures', Cultural Studies, (2023) [C1] Are there certain shared feelings that orient contemporary feminists? And what does it mean to feel like a feminist now, at a time when digital networks and media culture signific... [more] Are there certain shared feelings that orient contemporary feminists? And what does it mean to feel like a feminist now, at a time when digital networks and media culture significantly shape the conditions for what feminism ¿is¿ (Banet-Weiser 2018)? This paper considers how digital culture, as a crucial but potentially disorienting site of feminist encounter and contestation, may reshape norms of feminist feeling, and what feminist feeling is used to do. Feminists have long understood feeling as an ¿orienting device¿ (Ahmed 2006). in the question of how subjects come to know the world and situate themselves in it. Feminism itself has been associated with a ¿willfulness¿ creating dissident subjectivities moving against the grain of prevailing patriarchal gender norms. Following Ahmed¿s queer phenomenology where feeling is theorized as an ¿orientation¿ towards objects, this paper considers how the affective infrastructures and dynamics of digital culture orient and draw boundaries for feminists along particular lines. We explore self-identifying feminists¿ accounts of learning, interaction and deliberation as feminists within digital environments, suggesting that what it means to be feminist is significantly determined by what it means to feel feminist. While digital culture makes feminism more ¿accessible¿ to many, we suggest that the commercialized architectures and rhythms of digital culture complicate and intensify the politics of emotion connected to differences and histories of power relations within feminism.
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2023 |
Coffey J, Farrugia D, Gill R, Threadgold S, Sharp M, Adkins L, 'Femininity work: The gendered politics of women managing violence in bar work', Gender, Work and Organization, 30 1694-1708 (2023) [C1]
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2022 |
Coffey J, 'Assembling wellbeing: bodies, affects and the conditions of possibility for wellbeing', Journal of Youth Studies, 25 67-83 (2022) [C1] Wellbeing is a loaded term in youth sociology, due to its associations with individualising narratives which call on young people to manage the effects of structural disadvantage ... [more] Wellbeing is a loaded term in youth sociology, due to its associations with individualising narratives which call on young people to manage the effects of structural disadvantage or hardship through personal practices such as ¿cultivating resilience¿. This article extends relational approaches in youth sociology to develop an understanding of wellbeing as assembled and patterned by the diverse socio-material conditions of young people¿s lives, including stress, abuse, trauma, financial hardship, friendships, families, work, study, and landscapes. I draw on case study examples and photographic images from a study of young people¿s ¿everyday embodiments¿ to illustrate the rich, non-individual and more-than-human dynamics by which wellbeing assembles. This conceptualisation may be useful for scholars of youth who take a critical view of the traditionally individualised and psychologised remit of ¿wellbeing¿, and wish to thoroughly interrogate the socio-material and affective dynamics which mediate the conditions of possibility in young people¿s lives. The reframing of wellbeing along embodied and affective lines contributes new understandings of the ways structural circumstances and events in young people¿s lives reverberate in the body and mediate how the world is experienced, and the possibilities for living which result.
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2022 |
Farrugia D, Cook J, Senior K, Threadgold S, Coffey J, Davies K, et al., 'Youth and the consumption of credit', Current Sociology, Online Early (2022) [C1]
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2022 |
Sharp M, Farrugia D, Coffey J, Threadgold S, Adkins L, Gill R, 'Queer subjectivities in hospitality labor', GENDER WORK AND ORGANIZATION, 29 1511-1525 (2022) [C1]
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2021 |
Pollock ER, Young MD, Lubans DR, Coffey JE, Hansen V, Morgan PJ, 'Understanding the impact of a teacher education course on attitudes towards gender equity in physical activity and sport: An exploratory mixed methods evaluation', TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION, 105 (2021) [C1]
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2021 |
Fullagar S, Pavlidis A, Hickey-Moody A, Coffey J, 'Embodied movement as method: Attuning to affect as feminist experimentation', Somatechnics, 11 174-190 (2021) [C1] This article explores qualitative research methods that employ materiality and movement, images and body mapping to access research participant knowledges. We examine a methodolog... [more] This article explores qualitative research methods that employ materiality and movement, images and body mapping to access research participant knowledges. We examine a methodologies workshop that we co-facilitated for academics and postgraduates. We position the workshop as a research assemblage, through which we facilitated four different methodological ¿moves¿, to borrow from Barad¿s (2007) notion of ¿cuts¿, to invite learning-knowing through the movement of affect. These embodied methodologies included: moving-writing sport, digital photovoice, movement improvisation, and body mapping somatic movement. Workshop participants were invited to experiment with each method as a means of engaging with tacit, or difficult to articulate knowledges. By exploring what these embodied ¿moves¿ do to our ways of knowing, we traced the affective relations that entangle human and nonhuman worlds, self and others, researcher and researched through the workshop intra-actions. Our accounts of each method are diffracted through affective relations as we attune to bodies, vulnerabilities, openings, objects, texts, thoughts, surfaces, and senses, as means of (un)learning together. We articulate the kinds of productive (un)learning that moved us in different ways, and how embodied, feminist new materialist approaches might contribute to defamiliarised approaches to research.
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2021 |
Cook J, Threadgold S, Farrugia D, Coffey J, 'Youth, Precarious Work and the Pandemic', YOUNG, 29 331-348 (2021) [C1]
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2021 |
Coffey J, Cook J, Farrugia D, Threadgold S, Burke PJ, 'Intersecting marginalities: International students' struggles for "survival" in COVID-19', GENDER WORK AND ORGANIZATION, 28 1337-1351 (2021) [C1]
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2021 |
Threadgold S, Farrugia D, Coffey J, 'Affective labour and class distinction in the night-time economy', The Sociological Review, 69 1013-1028 (2021) [C1]
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2020 |
Pollock ER, Young MD, Lubans DR, Barnes AT, Eather N, Coffey JE, et al., 'Impact of a Father Daughter Physical Activity Intervention: An Exploration of Fathers Experiences', Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29 3609-3620 (2020) [C1] Most family-based physical activity interventions have been modestly successful and failed to engage fathers. Also, program impact on family functioning and psychosocial outcomes ... [more] Most family-based physical activity interventions have been modestly successful and failed to engage fathers. Also, program impact on family functioning and psychosocial outcomes are rarely measured. We explored the impact of an innovative father¿daughter physical activity program on family functioning and psychosocial outcomes for girls using qualitative methods. Of the 115 fathers who participated in the ¿Dads And Daughters Exercising and Empowered¿ (DADEE) pilot study, a random sample (stratified by baseline physical activity status) of 23 fathers (mean (SD) age: 41.4 (4.8) years) participated in semi-structured telephone interviews. Audio recordings were transcribed and analyzed by an independent researcher using a mixed inductive and deductive thematic approach. Seven themes were identified highlighting improvements in: (i) daughters¿ social-emotional well-being, (ii) father involvement and engagement with their daughter, (iii) fathers¿ parenting skills, (iv) the father¿daughter relationship, (v) co-parenting, (vi) family relationship dynamics, and (vii) knowledge and understanding of gender stereotypes and gender bias. A number of strategies were also identified as to how the program improved these outcomes. Engaging fathers and daughters in physical activity programs may have substantive benefits for daughters¿ mental health as well as broader outcomes for fathers and families. Enhancing fathers¿ and daughters¿ knowledge and skills through evidence-based strategies may be a useful approach to optimize the well-being of families.
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2020 |
Coffey J, 'Ugly feelings: gender, neoliberalism and the affective relations of body concerns', JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES, 29 636-650 (2020) [C1]
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2019 | Coffey J, Cahill H, 'What Can Methods Do? Using Drama Methods to Explore the Embodiment of Gender on Campus', MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, 1 (2019) [C1] | Nova | |||||||||
2019 |
Ravn S, Coffey J, Roberts S, 'The currency of images: risk, value and gendered power dynamics in young men's accounts of sexting', FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES, 21 315-331 (2019) [C1]
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2019 |
Farrugia D, Hanley JE, Sherval M, Askland HH, Askew MG, Coffey JE, Threadgold SR, 'The local politics of rural land use: Place, extraction industries and narratives of contemporary rurality', JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, 55 306-322 (2019) [C1]
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2019 |
Coffey J, 'Creating Distance from Body Issues: Exploring New Materialist Feminist Possibilities for Renegotiating Gendered Embodiment', LEISURE SCIENCES, 41 72-90 (2019) [C1]
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2018 |
Sherval M, Askland H, Askew M, Hanley J, Farrugia D, Threadgold SR, Coffey J, 'Farmers as modern-day stewards and the rise of new rural citizenship in the battle over land use', Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability, 23 100-116 (2018) [C1]
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2018 |
Threadgold SR, Farrugia D, Askland H, Askew M, Hanley J, Sherval M, Coffey J, 'Affect, risk and local politics of knowledge: changing land use in Narrabri, NSW', Environmental Sociology, 4 393-404 (2018) [C1]
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2018 |
Threadgold SR, Farrugia D, Coffey J, 'Young subjectivities and affective labour in the service economy', Journal of Youth Studies, 21 272-287 (2018) [C1]
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2018 |
Coffey J, Threadgold SR, Farrugia D, Sherval M, Hanley J, Askew M, Askland H, ' If you lose your youth, you lose your heart and your future : Affective figures of youth in community tensions surrounding a proposed Coal Seam Gas project', Sociologica Ruralis, 58 665-683 (2018) [C1]
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2018 |
Coffey JE, Farrugia DM, Adkins L, Threadgold SR, 'Gender, Sexuality, and Risk in the Practice of Affective Labour for Young Women in Bar Work', SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE, 23 728-743 (2018) [C1]
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2017 |
Landstedt E, Coffey J, Wyn J, Cuervo H, Woodman D, 'The Complex Relationship between Mental Health and Social Conditions in the Lives of Young Australians Mixing Work and Study', Young, 25 339-358 (2017) [C1] Poor mental health in youth has been consistently shown to be rising over the past 20 years. While it is well established that mental health status is associated with social condi... [more] Poor mental health in youth has been consistently shown to be rising over the past 20 years. While it is well established that mental health status is associated with social conditions, population-level perspectives make it difficult to identify the complex ways social and structural conditions impact on mental health. Based on longitudinal (mixed method) data, this exploratory longitudinal study aims to study how the life circumstances of education, work and financial situation are related to mental health in young Australians (aged 20¿22). Findings show that the combination of study, work and financial hardship can be regarded as a stressor contributing to poor mental health, particularly if experienced over several years, and that those in the middle socio-economic bracket have the worst mental health outcomes. This research has implications for welfare policies and the responsibilities of educational institutions for the welfare of young people.
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2017 |
Crofts J, Coffey J, 'Young women s negotiations of gender, the body and the labour market in a post-feminist context', Journal of Gender Studies, 26 502-516 (2017) [C1] This article explores the ways the body and femininity is understood and negotiated in relation to employment. This article draws on interview data from an Australian study which ... [more] This article explores the ways the body and femininity is understood and negotiated in relation to employment. This article draws on interview data from an Australian study which aimed to explore what it meant to be a ¿young woman¿ in neoliberal late modernity, and in relation to the paradoxes of post-feminism. Though there has been an unprecedented rise in youth post-secondary school participation in Australia and elsewhere, girls¿ and young women¿s increased investment and participation in education has not provided the same gains as for their male counterparts. All interview participants described being aware of gender inequalities and gender discrimination in the workplace, including the glass ceiling, the gender pay gap, and demands and pressures on women to balance career and motherhood, however many did not associate these issues with ¿feminism¿. We explore the dynamics of notions of equality, difference and the body in participants¿ discussions of work and their anticipation of motherhood and the logics by which gender inequalities are sustained.
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2016 |
Coffey J, ' What can I do next? : Cosmetic Surgery, Femininities and Affect', Women: A Cultural Review, 27 79-95 (2016) [C1]
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2016 |
Ravn S, Coffey J, ' Steroids, it s so much an identity thing! perceptions of steroid use, risk and masculine body image', Journal of Youth Studies, 19 87-102 (2016) [C1] This paper explores how taste and distaste, body image and masculinity play into young people¿s perceptions of risk related to steroid use. Data are drawn from a qualitative study... [more] This paper explores how taste and distaste, body image and masculinity play into young people¿s perceptions of risk related to steroid use. Data are drawn from a qualitative study on risk-taking among 52 Danish youths enrolled in high school or vocational training. A number of ¿risky¿ practices such as drug use, fights, speeding, etc. were discussed. In contrast to these practices, which were primarily described in relation to ¿physical risks¿, steroid use was understood as part of an ¿identity¿ or ¿lifestyle¿ in a way these other risks were not. Few interviewees had used steroids, and the large majority distanced themselves from the practice. Reasons for not wanting to use steroids were related to (1) perceiving the drug to be part of a broader lifestyle and identity that they are not interested in committing to or embodying and (2) finding the body image, physicality and associations with steroid use ¿fake¿, ¿gross¿ and distasteful. We draw on recent developments in feminist sociological theory related to the gendered body as both a performance and process to understand steroid use as a practice through which the body and self is produced. More than a one-dimensional ¿risky¿ practice, we argue that gendered and embodied identities are crucial to understanding the dynamics of steroid use.
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2016 |
Cahill H, Coffey J, McLean Davies L, Kriewaldt J, Freeman E, Acquaro D, et al., 'Learning with and from: positioning school students as advisors in pre-service teacher education', Teacher Development, 20 295-312 (2016) [C1] This article reports on an innovative pedagogical approach within the Learning Partnerships program in which school students help to ¿teach the teachers¿ within pre-service teache... [more] This article reports on an innovative pedagogical approach within the Learning Partnerships program in which school students help to ¿teach the teachers¿ within pre-service teacher education. Classes of school students join with classes of pre-service teachers to provide input on how teachers can enhance school students¿ engagement and wellbeing. The article draws on data collected from 125 students (aged 13¿16) and 120 pre-service teachers in these workshops. Findings generated from a mixed methods study combining pre-workshop focus groups (n¿=¿Students: 38, Teachers: 33) and post-workshop focus groups (n¿=¿Students: 69, Teachers: 15) and post-workshop surveys (n¿=¿Students: 96; Teachers: 101) demonstrated that the workshops were mutually beneficial for both students and pre-service teachers. Participants found that workshopping together enhanced their belief in the possibility of positive student¿teacher relationships. The pre-service teachers reported greater confidence in communicating with young people about the issues that affect student engagement and wellbeing. The school students reported that they were more willing to use teachers as a source of help. Implications include the need for increased attention to a ¿third space¿ for learning in teacher development which provides opportunity for learning with and from young people about how to foster their engagement and wellbeing.
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2016 |
Cahill H, Coffey J, Smith K, 'Exploring embodied methodologies for transformative practice in early childhood and youth', Journal of Pedagogy, 7 79-92 (2016) [C1]
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2016 |
Landstedt E, Coffey J, Nygren M, 'Mental health in young Australians: a longitudinal study', Journal of Youth Studies, 19 74-86 (2016) [C1]
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2016 |
Coffey J, ''I put pressure on myself to keep that body': 'Health'-related body work, masculinities and embodied identity', Social Theory and Health, 14 169-188 (2016) [C1] This article draws on qualitative interview data exploring men's understandings of their bodies and practices of body work in Australia in the context of increasing 'vis... [more] This article draws on qualitative interview data exploring men's understandings of their bodies and practices of body work in Australia in the context of increasing 'visibility' of men's bodies and increasing attention to young men's body image. For the men discussed in this article, body work practices of eating and exercise in particular relate to their embodiments of masculinity and to their broader understandings of their bodies and 'selves'. While appearance and 'beauty' are typically constructed as feminine concerns and important to women's constructions of identity, these examples show that a concern for the body's appearance is also an important component of current embodiments of masculinity. This article provides an outline of a Deleuze-Guattarian approach to theorising the body through the concepts of affect and assemblage and suggests how this approach can assist in empirical analysis of the complex, contingent and contradictory relationship between the idealisation of health as an 'image' and 'ideal' gendered appearances in young men's gendered and 'health'-related body work practices. This has academic and practical implications for understanding contemporary gender arrangements related to the social and cultural circumstances in which the body is becoming ever more central.
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2016 |
Cahill H, Coffey J, 'Positioning, participation, and possibility: using post-structural concepts for social change in Asia-Pacific youth HIV prevention', Journal of Youth Studies, 19 533-551 (2016) [C1] This article addresses one of the areas of global concern for Southern youth: HIV rates amongst young people from key communities. In the Asia-Pacific region 95% of all new infect... [more] This article addresses one of the areas of global concern for Southern youth: HIV rates amongst young people from key communities. In the Asia-Pacific region 95% of all new infections occur amongst those under 25. Furthermore, in this region the nature of the epidemic is concentrated, chiefly affecting people from certain sub-groups such as those who inject drugs, sell sex, participate in male-to-male sex and people who are transgender. In this article we discuss an innovative peer-led leadership and advocacy program for youth which uses post-structural theoretical frames and concepts in an effort to steer against the dominant medicalised and individualising storylines which tend to inform approaches to HIV prevention. We draw on examples and data collected from the NewGen Asia Leadership training program to illustrate the ways post-structural concepts can be used to inform program design as well as analysis and critique of the impact of change efforts. Rather than the traditional focus on transmission of knowledge, skills, and attitudes in prevention efforts, we aim to show how the concepts of positioning, platform, and possibility may be mobilised in strategies used to address the challenge of HIV prevention amongst key youth populations.
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Conference (36 outputs)
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2023 |
Coffey J, Threadgold S, Cook J, Curtis J, 'Betting with mates: Masculinities, socialities, and financialisation', University of Sydney (2023)
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2022 | Coffey J, 'Images as potentials : Photovoice as a methodology of small data', University of Melbourne; online (2022) | ||||
2022 | Coffey J, ' Having it all : Wellness culture, Instagram bodies and perfect lives'', University of NSW; online (2022) | ||||
2014 | Coffey JE, ' She was becoming too healthy and it was just becoming dangerous : Health affects, youth and embodiment', Challenging Identities, Institutions and Communities. Refereed Proceedings of the TASA 2014., University of South Australia (2014) [E1] | Nova | |||
2014 | Coffey JE, 'Images and the virtual: Bodies, embodiment and youth', Interactive Futures: Young People s Mediated Lives in the Asia Pacific and Beyond. Conference Program Booklet, Monash University, Caulfield (2014) [E3] | ||||
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Presentation (4 outputs)
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2023 |
Farrugia D, Threadgold S, Coffey J, 'Solidarity, Belonging and Precarious Work in the Hospitality Industry', (2023)
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2023 |
Cook J, Curtis J, Threadgold S, Coffey J, 'Betting with mates: Gambling apps and young men s social practices', (2023)
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2023 |
Threadgold S, Coffey J, Cook J, 'The Gamification of Debt: Gimmicks and young people s ambivalent financialised subjectivities', (2023)
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Report (10 outputs)
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2023 |
Cook J, Davies K, Threadgold S, Farrugia D, Coffey J, Matthews B, Healy J, 'How do organisations in the Hunter and Central Coast support young people experiencing debt?', University of Newcastle (2023)
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2022 |
Burke PJ, Coffey J, Cocuzzoli F, Hardacre S, Parker J, Ramsay G, Shaw J, 'Understanding the impact of gender-based violence on access to and participation in higher education', Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education (2022)
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2021 |
Farrugia D, Cook J, Senior K, Coffey J, Threadgold S, Davies K, et al., 'Young people, debt and consumer credit pilot study report', Faculty of Education and Arts (2021)
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Thesis / Dissertation (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2012 | Coffey JE, Exploring Body Work Practices: Bodies, Affect and Becoming, University of Melbourne (2012) |
Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 29 |
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Total funding | $776,169 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20241 grants / $8,676
The rise of ‘Finfluencers’: young people’s engagement with digital financial advice.$8,676
Funding body: Anonymous
Funding body | Anonymous |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Steven Threadgold, Professor Roger Burrows, Doctor Julia Coffey, Doctor Julia Cook, Doctor Josh Healy, Professor Beverley Skeggs |
Scheme | Research and Discovery Fund |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2024 |
Funding Finish | 2024 |
GNo | G2400013 |
Type Of Funding | Scheme excluded from IGS |
Category | EXCL |
UON | Y |
20232 grants / $12,105
Betting with mates: Gambling apps and young men’s social practices$9,732
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Steven Threadgold (Lead) Julia Cook (Co-Investigator) Julia Coffey (Co-Investigator) David Farrugia (Co-Investigator) |
Scheme | CHSF - Pilot Research Scheme: Projects, Pivots, Partnerships |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2023 |
Funding Finish | 2023 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
CHSF Conference Travel Grant $2,373
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | CHSF - Conference Travel Scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2023 |
Funding Finish | 2023 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20224 grants / $212,263
Understanding selfie-editing apps in youth visual digital cultures$188,263
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Doctor Julia Coffey, Doctor Julia Coffey, Amy Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Akane Kanai, Dr Amy Dobson, Professor Rosalind Gill, Dr Akane Kanai |
Scheme | Discovery Projects |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2022 |
Funding Finish | 2024 |
GNo | G2001388 |
Type Of Funding | C1200 - Aust Competitive - ARC |
Category | 1200 |
UON | Y |
Entrepreneurial debt and young people’s investments in their future$14,000
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr Julia Cook (lead), A/Prof Steven Threadgold, Dr David Farrugia, Dr Julia Coffey, Dr Ben Matthews, Dr Kate Davies, Dr Joshua Healy |
Scheme | CHSF - Pilot Research Scheme: Projects, Pivots, Partnerships |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2022 |
Funding Finish | 2022 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Youth and the digital self$5,000
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | CHSF - Pilot Research Scheme: Projects, Pivots, Partnerships |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2022 |
Funding Finish | 2022 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Inter-agency collaboration to develop post-crisis pathways to highereducation for victim-survivors of domestic violence$5,000
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Prof Penny Jane Burke (lead), Mrs Felicity Cocuzzoli, Dr Julia Coffey, Dr Jean Parker, Dr Stephanie Hardacre |
Scheme | CHSF - Matched Funding |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2022 |
Funding Finish | 2022 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20213 grants / $9,247
2021 Faculty of Education and Arts New Start Grant$4,987
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | New Staff Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2021 |
Funding Finish | 2021 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
CHSF Working Parents Research Relief Scheme$3,000
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | CHSF - Working Parents Research Relief Scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2021 |
Funding Finish | 2021 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
CHSF Early Advice Scheme 2021$1,260
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Professor Penny Jane Burke |
Scheme | CHSF - Early Advice Scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2021 |
Funding Finish | 2021 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20204 grants / $103,746
Regional youth in precarious times: Work, wellbeing and debt$70,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr David Farrugia (Lead); Dr Julia Cook; A/Prof Kate Senior; Dr Steven Threadgold; Dr Julia Coffey; Dr Kate Davies; Dr David Savage; Prof Helen Cahill (University of Melbourne). |
Scheme | Research Programs Pilot Scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2021 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Faculty funding for external engagement in 2020 - Centre for 21st Century Humanities$20,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr J McIntyre (Director); Dr K Ariotti; A/Prof G Arrighi; Dr H Askland; Dr J Coffey; A/Prof N Cushing; E/Prof H Craig et al |
Scheme | Faculty funding |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Newcastle Youth Studies Network$12,353
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr David Farrugia (Lead); Prof Penny Lane; Dr Julia Cook; Dr Steven Threadgold; Dr Julia Coffey |
Scheme | Strategic Network and Pilot Project Grants Scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
2020 FEDUA 'Finish that Output' scheme funding$1,393
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr Julia Coffey |
Scheme | FEDUA 'Finish that Output' scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20192 grants / $212,363
Young Hospitality Workers and Value Creation in the Service Economy$207,363
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Doctor David Farrugia, Associate Professor Steven Threadgold, Doctor Julia Coffey, Professor Lisa Adkins, Professor Lisa Adkins, Professor Rosalind Gill |
Scheme | Discovery Projects |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2021 |
GNo | G1800136 |
Type Of Funding | C1200 - Aust Competitive - ARC |
Category | 1200 |
UON | Y |
Journal of Youth Studies Conference 2019$5,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr Steven Threadgold (Lead), Dr David Farrugia, Prof Pam Nilan, Prof Anita Harris (Deakin), Dr Brady Robards (Monash), A/Prof Dan Woodman (Melbourne), Prof Rachel Brookes (University of Surrey, UK) |
Scheme | Strategic Network and Pilot Project Grants Scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2019 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20173 grants / $27,834
Society, Health and Disability Research Group: New Horizons$15,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Scheme | FEDUA Strategic Networks and Pilot Projects (SNaPP) |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2017 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Exploring the ‘everyday embodiment’ of youth body image $9,330
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Julia Coffey |
Scheme | Ourimbah Strategic Pilot Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2017 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | G1701263 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
2017 Women in Research Fellowship$3,504
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Julia Coffey |
Scheme | Women in Research Fellowship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2017 |
Funding Finish | 2019 |
GNo | G1701395 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20163 grants / $20,792
Young People, Insecurity and Affective Labour: a Study of 'Front of House' Service Labour$13,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Dr Steven Threadgold; Prof Lisa Adkins; Dr Julia Coffey; Dr David Farrugia |
Scheme | FEDUA Strategic Networks and Pilot Projects Scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Early Career Researcher of the Year$5,292
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Julia Coffey |
Scheme | VC's Award for Research and Innovation Excellence |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | G1501460 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Research and Innovation Excellence Award$2,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Julia Coffey |
Scheme | VC's Award for Research and Innovation Excellence |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | G1501441 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20153 grants / $42,000
Attitudes to Changing Land Use - the Narrabri Shire$25,000
Funding body: NSW Department of Primary Industries
Funding body | NSW Department of Primary Industries |
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Project Team | Doctor Hedda Askland, Doctor David Farrugia, Doctor Meg Sherval, Doctor Julia Coffey, Associate Professor Steven Threadgold, Dr MICHAEL Askew |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | G1401491 |
Type Of Funding | C2400 – Aust StateTerritoryLocal – Other |
Category | 2400 |
UON | Y |
Newcastle Youth Studies Group - Theoretical Innovations and Challenges in Youth Sociology: One day symposium$15,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Steven Threadgold, Professor Pamela Nilan, Doctor Julia Coffey, Doctor David Farrugia, Doctor Hedda Askland |
Scheme | Strategic Networks Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | G1500904 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Journal of Youth Studies Conference, Copenhagen Denmark, 30 March to 1 April 2015$2,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Doctor Julia Coffey |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | G1500188 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20143 grants / $67,343
Violence Prevention and Respectful Relationships Education in Early Childhood$31,893
Funding body: University of Melbourne
Funding body | University of Melbourne |
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Project Team | Dr Kylie Smith |
Scheme | Melbourne Social Equity Institute Interdisciplinary Seed Fund |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Youth, transitions and bodies$20,450
Funding body: University of Melbourne
Funding body | University of Melbourne |
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Project Team | Julia Coffey |
Scheme | Early Career Research Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Network for Youth Research Outside the Northern Metropole$15,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Professor Pamela Nilan, Associate Professor Steven Threadgold, Conjoint Professor Andy Furlong, Doctor David Farrugia, Doctor Julia Coffey, Doctor Hedda Askland, Doctor Lena Rodriguez |
Scheme | Strategic Networks Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2014 |
Funding Finish | 2014 |
GNo | G1400957 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20121 grants / $59,800
The Learning Partnerships Program$59,800
Funding body: The Cass Foundation
Funding body | The Cass Foundation |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Helen Cahill |
Scheme | Pilot funding |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2012 |
Funding Finish | 2013 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | External |
Category | EXTE |
UON | N |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Current Supervision
Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2023 | PhD | Understanding The Impacts Of Gender-Based-Violence On Access To And Participation In Higher Education In Ghana’s Public Universities. | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2023 | PhD | Exploring Australian Women's Experiences of Sexual Subjectivity in Matrescence. | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2023 | PhD | Factors Identified in Indigenous Women Students’ Success in Higher Education: A Comparative Study to Implement Better Public Policies | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | Exploring Women Veterans’ Experiences of the Australian Defence Force as a Gendered Institution | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | Exploring And Examining Complementary And Alternative Treatments For People Experiencing Effects Of Trauma | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | PhD | Women Entrepreneurs in Enterprise Culture: Women’s Work-life Experiences of Entrepreneurship in the Newcastle and Hunter Region | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2022 | Masters | Amaq Muda: Becoming and Being a Young Father in a Rural North Lombok Village | M Philosophy (Sociol & Anthro), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | More than Just a Physical Activity Program: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Broader Impact of the Dads And Daughters Exercising and Empowered (DADEE) Program | PhD (Education), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | Disidentifying Masculinities: Queer Latinx Embodiment in Australia | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | Affect at Altitude | PhD (Sociology & Anthropology), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
News
News • 20 Jun 2021
Understanding the impact of gender based violence on access to and participation in higher education
A team at the University of Newcastle, Professor Penny Jane Burke, Dr Julia Coffey, Felicity Cocuzzoli and Dr Stephanie Hardacre, have launched a new research agenda to explore the impact of gendered violence on access to and participation in higher education.
News • 31 May 2021
OPINION: Recognising racism must be the starting place for reconciliation
The house I live in is on Darkinjung country. The backyard blends into the dense bush of the National Park. There is a bush track that leads up a steep hill to the ridgeline. The track leads to a marked Aboriginal site, where water still pools in grinding grooves.
News • 5 Oct 2020
New research reveals the challenging experiences of young hospitality workers
Unique qualitative research led by members of the Newcastle Youth Studies Network has revealed the systematic inequalities and exploitation young hospitality workers are subjected to.
News • 20 Aug 2020
New research reveals unequal impact of the pandemic on young people
New research by the directors of the Newcastle Youth Studies Network, Drs Julia Cook, Steven Threadgold, David Farrugia and Julia Coffey, has revealed the extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people working in the hospitality sector.
News • 6 Jul 2020
New book Youth Sociology helps understand youth pressures of today
Youth is a key period of transition with many challenges and issues for young people to contend with. A new book co-authored by University of Newcastle youth sociologist Dr Julia Coffey titled Youth Sociology helps break down and understand the pressures on youth today.
News • 12 Mar 2020
Listening across difference in feminist digital spaces
Is it possible to listen across difference in feminist digital spaces? That is the question being investigated by School of Humanities and Social Science researcher and member of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, Dr Julia Coffey.
News • 27 Oct 2017
Women In Research Fellowships awarded
Thirteen University of Newcastle (UON) researchers have been awarded a Women in Research (WIR) Fellowship thanks to Research Advantage.
News • 6 Oct 2017
Mentor program supports Early Career Researchers
The Centre for 21st Century Humanities has kicked off a program to nurture early career researchers (ECR’s). Five ECRs have been selected to participate in the program that will see them mentored by senior academics and up-skilled in the growing area of digital humanities.
News • 22 Aug 2017
UON Central Coast research boosted with strategic grants
Six UON research teams will accelerate their research thanks to Central Coast specific research grants.
News • 30 Oct 2014
New study on young people's health and self-image
Youth sociology researcher at the University of Newcastle (UON), Dr Julia Coffey, is currently recruiting young people aged 18 to 30 to examine health and self image in relation to study and employment.
News • 24 Jul 2014
Body image an increasing concern for young men
A study by University of Newcastle youth sociology researcher Dr Julia Coffey has shown that body image is an increasing concern for young men, but many consider it something they have to face alone.
News • 11 Jul 2014
Muscle mania: young men aren’t alone with body image concerns
By Julia Coffey, University of Newcastle
Youth can be a difficult phase of life, as young people attempt to forge new identities, while facing challenges at school and in their social life. Many also experience pressure and stress related to their bodies.
Dr Julia Coffey
Position
Associate Professor
Newcastle Youth Studies Group
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
Sociology and Anthropology
Contact Details
julia.coffey@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | 02 4348 4081 |
Fax | 02 4384 4075 |
Office
Room | HO1.12. |
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Building | Humanities Building |
Location | Ourimbah 10 Chittaway Road Ourimbah, NSW 2258 Australia |