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Dr Katie Wright |
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Education, Equity and Social Change
Phone: +61 3 8344 3372
Fax: + 61 3 8344 8515
Email: kwright@unimelb.edu.au
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Membership
Role
Katie Wright is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2011. She is working on a history of child and adolescent guidance in Australia for the ARC Discovery Project (with Julie McLeod): 'Educating the Adolescent: An Historical Study of Curriculum, Counselling and Citizenship in Australia, 1930s-1970s'.
Associations
The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
Cultural Sociology Group (TASA)
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Qualifications
PhD (Sociology) La Trobe
BA (Hons) La Trobe
Publications
ARTICLES & CHAPTERS
Wright, Katie (2009) 'Engendering a Therapeutic Ethos: Modernity, Masculinity & Nervousness', Journal of Historical Sociology, 22(1): 84-107.
McLeod, Julie and Katie Wright (2009) 'The Talking Cure in Everyday Life: Gender, Generations and Friendship', Sociology, 43(1): 122-139.
Wright, Katie (2008) 'Theorizing Therapeutic Culture: Past Influences, Future Directions', Journal of Sociology, 44(4): 321-336.
Wright, Katie and Margaret Robertson (2007) ‘Keeping Connected: Young People, Identity and Schooling’, Curriculum Leadership, Vol. 5, Issue 22, July.
Wright, Katie (2006) ‘Therapy Culture’ in Peter Beilharz and Robert Manne (eds.) Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays. Black Inc: Melbourne, 302-312.
CONFERENCES
McLeod, Julie and Katie Wright (2009) ‘Social Values and Schooling: Curriculum, Counselling and the Education of the Adolescent, 1930-1970s' in Refereed Proceedings of the 2008 Australian Association for Research in Education: Brisbane.
Wright, Katie (2008) ‘Towards a Cultural Sociology of Whistleblowing’ in Re-Imagining Sociology, Refereed Proceedings of the Australian Sociological Association: Melbourne.
Wright, Katie (2007) ‘Making Private Pain Public: Psychology, Counselling and Therapeutic Culture’ in Public Sociologies, Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons, Refereed Proceedings of the Joint Conference of TASA and SAANZ: Auckland, NZ.
Wright, Katie (2006) ‘The Arrival of Therapeutic Culture in Australia: Modern Life, Masculinity and the Problem of Nerves’. Sociology for a Mobile World, Refereed Proceedings of the Australian Sociological Association Conference: Perth.
Wright, Katie (2004) 'Reading Therapeutic Culture: From Reiff to Furedi and Beyond', Conference of the Australian Sociological Association: Beechworth.
Wright, Katie (2003) ‘The Psychotherapeutic Self: Purchasing Self-care and the Promise of Transformation’, in New Times, New Worlds, New Ideas, Refereed Proceedings of the Australian Sociological Association Conference: Armidale.
McLeod, Julie and Katie Wright (2003) ‘Shaping the Self through Psychotherapeutic Means: Gender and Cross-generational Perspectives’, Educational research, risks and dilemmas: NZARE/AARE International Conference Proceedings: Auckland: NZ.
BOOK REVIEWS
Wright, Katie (2009) 'Review Elemér Hankiss, The Toothpaste of Immortality: Self-Construction in the Consumer Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), Thesis Eleven, 98(1): 149-152.
Wright, Katie (2008) 'Drastic Plastic', Australian Book Review, November, pp. 34-35.
Projects
2009-11 Educating the Adolescent: An Historical Study of Curriculum, Counselling and Citizenship in Australia, 1930s-1970s, Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant, Julie McLeod (Chief Investigator); Katie Wright (Postdoctoral Fellow).
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