Juliet Watson

Dr. Juliet Watson

Associate Professor

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Industry Projects

About

Juliet Watson is Associate Professor, and Program Manager (Higher Degrees by Research), in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. An award-winning sociologist and social worker, Juliet has extensive research, practice and teaching experience in housing and homelessness, gender-based violence, young people, and alcohol and other drugs. She also publishes across feminist media studies and activism. Juliet is the secretary of the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the Australian regional representative on the Women, Gender and Society Research Committee (RC 32) for the International Sociological Association. She is a past president of the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association. 

 

 

Supervisor projects

  • An Ethnographic Study of Two Mixed Tenure Sites in Melbourne 
  • 4 Jul 2024
  • Caring, Commercial, and Conflicting Roles: Managing Tenancies in Social Housing
  • 21 Jun 2024
  • Is that a Threat?: An exploration into the phenomena of 'sextortion'
  • 19 Oct 2023
  • The harms of Child Protection against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children.
  • 2 Dec 2021

Research interests

Housing and homelessness, gender-based violence, feminist media studies and activism.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.