Faculty of ArtsSchool of Social and Political Sciences

Dr Dan Woodman

 

Background

Dr Dan Woodman is TR Ashworth Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences. He was previously a Research Fellow in the Research School of Social Science at the Australian National University (2009-2011), a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Youth Research Centre (2005-2009) and a research assistant in Melbourne’s School of Rural Health (2003). Prior to his academic career, Dan spent a number of years as an intellectual disability support worker and had a short stint in the Victorian Public Service.

Dan is founding convener of the Sociology of Youth Thematic Group within The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), Associate Editor of the Journal of Youth Studies and on the International Editorial Board of Youth Studies Australia. He is also a member of the Sociology Discipline Reference Group developing Threshold Learning Outcomes to be used by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) in regulating the award of sociology qualifications in Australia.

His current research activity is focused on two large projects. Firstly, the Life-Patterns Project (with Prof. Johanna Wyn and Prof. Lesley Andres). Life Patterns is a 20-year and ongoing longitudinal study following approximately 1500 Australians from the end of secondary school into middle age. Secondly, a project called Meeting the Needs of Young Growers (with Dr Lyndal Thompson). This study is funded by Australian Wool Innovation and is investigating what programs and resources that can support wool growers under the age of 35 to survive and thrive in the industry.

In 2010 Dan was awarded the International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Youth’s 2nd Worldwide Prize for Junior Scholars (early-career researchers) in Youth Sociology and Youth Research 2006-2010. 

 

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Recent Publications

 

Edited Collections

Woodman, D. & Threadgold S. (eds) (2011) The Future of the Sociology of Youth, Youth Studies Australia, 30 (3).

 

Journal Articles

Furlong, A., Woodman, D., Wyn, J. (forthcoming 2011) ‘Changing Times, Changing Perspectives: Reconciling ‘transition’ and ‘cultural’ perspectives on youth and young adulthood’, Journal of Sociology.

Woodman, D. & Threadgold S (2011) ‘The Future of the Sociology of Youth: Institutional, theoretical and methodological challenges’, Youth Studies Australia, vol 30, no. 3, pp. 8-12.

Woodman, D. (2011) ‘Young People and the Future: Multiple temporal orientations shaped in interaction with significant others’, Young, vol. 19, no.2, pp. 11-128.

Woodman, D. (2010) ‘Class, Individualisation and Tracing Processes of Inequality in a Changing World: A reply to Steven Roberts’, Journal of Youth Studies, vol 13, no. 6, pp.737-746.

Woodman, D. (2009) ‘The Mysterious Case of the Pervasive Choice Biography: Ulrich Beck, structure/agency and the middling state of theory in the sociology of youth’, Journal of Youth Studies, vol 12, no. 3, pp. 243-256.

Woodman, D., & Tyler, D. (2007) ‘Participatory Approaches to Longitudinal Large-Numbers Research with Young People’, Youth Studies Australia, vol 26, no 2, pp. 20-26.

Wyn, J., & Woodman, D. (2007) ‘Researching Youth in a Context of Social Change: A reply to Roberts’, Journal of Youth Studies, vol 10, no.3, pp. 373-381.

Wyn, J., & Woodman, D. (2006) ‘Generations, Youth and Social Change in Australia’, Journal of Youth Studies, vol 9, no.5, pp. 495 – 514.

Woodman, D. (2004) 'Responsibility and Time for Escape: The meaning of wellbeing to young Australians' , Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol 29, pp. 82-95.

 

Book Chapters

Woodman, D. (2011) ‘A Generations Approach to Youth Research’, in S Beadle, R Holdsworth & J Wyn (eds.), For We are Young and…? Young people in a time of uncertainty: possibilities and challenges, Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press, pp. 29-48.

Woodman, D., & Wyn, J (2011) ‘Youth Research in a Changing World’ in S Beadle, R Holdsworth & J Wyn (eds.), For We are Young and…? Young people in a time of uncertainty: possibilities and challenges, Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press, 5-28.

 

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