ProfessorCatherine Driscoll

Catherine's research is organised around three streams. The first is youth studies, with a focus on ideas about adolescence, the impact of media and popular culture on youth, and gendered formations of youth (she is an internationally recognised leader in the field of girls studies). The second stream is rural cultural studies, with an emphasis on the history and experience of Australian rurality, on rural youth, on retirement migration and aging populations, and on the cultural sustainability of country towns. The final stream is broadly cultural theory, with an emphasis on theories of modernity and of gender, drawing particularly on theories of modernity and on post-structuralism. Outcomes from some of her team-based research projects can be found on the following websites: an ARC-funded study of media classification systems, with Liam Grealy and a team of research partners (http://mediaclassification.org/); a feminist boys studies research group initiated by another ARC-funded project (https://boysresearch.org/). Other in-process research includes publications on feminist cultural studies, both a De Gruyter handbook on feminist cultural studies (with Meaghan Morris and Shawna Tang) and a monograph.

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