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Dr Timothy Phillips

BA (Hons), PhD Qld

Senior Lecturer, Sociology

Contact Details
Telephone: +61 3 6324 3627
Fax: +61 3 6324 3652
Location: Launceston Campus, Arts Building, L231
Email: Timothy.Phillips@utas.edu.au

Discipline: Sociology


Click here for link to UTas Web Access Research Portal (WARP) which lists Tim's funded projects, graduate research supervision and publication information.


Career Summary

Tim obtained a PhD in Sociology from the University of Queensland in 1997.

Before coming to Tasmania, Tim worked as a Research Officer at the Criminal Justice Commission in Queensland, and as a Lecturer in Sociology at La Trobe University in Victoria.


Research Interests

  • Australian Society
  • Research Methods
  • Culture and Identity
  • Deviance


  • Recent highlights of his work in these areas include (i) being awarded the 2002 Australian Sociological Association (TASA) prize for best paper in the Journal of Sociology for the article 'Popular Understandings of "UnAustralian"', and (ii) receiving an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant from 2002 to 2004, to undertake a nationwide survey on experiences of rude and inconsiderate behaviour in everyday life.



    Research Affiliations

  • Faculty Fellow, The Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, USA
  • Research Associate, Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, IRELAND

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