Recipient of an Australian Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning and a UniSA Teaching & Learning Citation for contributions to research degree supervisor development and measuring the impact of supervisor professional development.
Hello and welcome! I provide academic development and support for higher degree by research supervisors and students through the provision of services, workshops and resources. One of the key services that I provide is Supervising@UniSA, the UniSA HDR supervisor induction program designed for academic staff who have applied (or intend to apply) for admission to the UniSA Register of Postgraduate Research Degree Supervisors. I also design and facilitate with my Research Education... Read more
About me
Recipient of an Australian Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning and a UniSA Teaching & Learning Citation for contributions to research degree supervisor development and measuring the impact of supervisor professional development.
Hello and welcome! I provide academic development and support for higher degree by research supervisors and students through the provision of services, workshops and resources. One of the key services that I provide is Supervising@UniSA, the UniSA HDR supervisor induction program designed for academic staff who have applied (or intend to apply) for admission to the UniSA Register of Postgraduate Research Degree Supervisors. I also design and facilitate with my Research Education Team colleagues Advanced Supervisory Practice workshops and online resources. In regard to higher degree by research students, I facilitate the Business, Social Sciences and Humanities (BSSH) and the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Medical/Health Sciences (STEMM) Thesis/Exegesis Writing series and the Journal Article Writing Series. I also design and facilitate blended workshops for both HDR supervisors and students on topics including publishing, thesis completion and submission, thesis examination and ethics in supervision.
I bring to the position a history of tutoring, lecturing and course-coordinating undergraduate courses in: sociology; gender and sexuality studies, critical masculinity studies; critical disability studies; communication and cultural studies; politics, and qualitative social inquiry methods. I also have experience developing resources and services for higher degree by research students through my previous role as Research Education Adviser. I actively supervise higher degree by research students in the fields of the sociology of education, disability studies and gender and sexuality studies.I am currently conducting research in the field of postgraduate research education and work collaboratively with members both within the institution and other scholars across Australia on funded research projects including the experiences of early career HDR supervisors. I am also studying the development of more inclusive pedagogic practices for both undergraduate students and higher degree by research candidates with disabilities.
Theoretically and conceptually, I have a strong interest in the value of an ethics of the embodied self for analysing identity and subjectivity, such as that suggested in the works of Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche, Judith Butler and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. This interest was initially established during my doctoral candidature and evidenced in my thesis Embodiment, Ethics and the Ear: Constructions of Masculine Subjectivity by Yound Men with Hearing Disabilties in Contemporary Australia. I am interested in postmodernist, post-structuralist, and particularly, post-essentialist and queer conceptualisations of the inter-relations between gender, sexuality, class, 'race' and ethnicity, and disability. I am the proud mother of 16-year-old twin daughters.
AWARDS AND GRANTS RECEIVED TEACHING AWARDS 2017 Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning as part of thee Australian awards for University Teaching with Professor Alistair McCulloch - $10,000 awarded for professional development 2016 Division of Education Arts and Social Sciences URIPA Funding of $10,000 for the project 'Intersectionality as a lens to explore the first-year student experience at university' with Dr Garth Stahl and Associate Professor Sue Nichols 2016 UniSA Teaching Citation for Supervisor Development with Professor Aliair McCulloch with $5000 for professional development 2006 University of South Australia Supported Teacher Award with $1000 for professional development 2005 University of South Australia Supported Teacher Award with $1500 for professional development 2004 High Commendation Certificate for Teaching Excellence Awards 2003 High Commendation Certificate for Teaching Excellence Awards
RESEARCH AWARDS 2011Supported Researcher Status 2010Supported Researcher Status 2006 Commendable Results - ED61 Graduate Certificate in Education (Queensland University of Technology) 2003 University of South Australia Research Degree Student of the Year for the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences 1998 Golden Key National Honour Society Scholarship Golden Key National Honour Society Membership Chancellor's Merit List Dean's Merit List
RESEARCH GRANTS 2010 UniSA Learning and Teaching Grant The Aspirations and Experiences of Students with Disabilities Undertaking Higher Degrees by Research at the University of South Australia Awarded to Dr Cassandra Loeser (principal applicant) Dr Vicki Crowley, Mr Stephen Manson, Ms Jayne Ayliffe and Ms Dale Wache.2006 Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies small grant for writing of ARC Discovery proposal. Awarded to Dr. Lia Bryant and Dr. Cassandra Loeser 2005 Divisional Scholarship for the Queensland University of Technology Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education) 1999 Australian Postgraduate (APA) University of South Australia Postgraduate Research Award (USAPRA) for doctoral research 1998 Recipient of one of seven $500 Golden Key National Honour Society Scholarships (University of South Australia Chapter).
About me
Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association University of South Australia Hawke Research Institute Research Centre for Gender Studies The Australian Sociological Association
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of South Australia
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies University of South Australia
Men, masculinities and sexualities; disability and hearing disability (particularly in men); bodies and embodiment;Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's work on ethics; post-essentialism; emotions and affect; higher degrees by research candidature and supervision; doctoral education; gender and subjectivity.
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Director: Network for Studies in Gender, Sexualities and Equity, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Open access
3
4
53
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| 2022 |
Open access
5
3
|
| 2021 |
Open access
9
8
1
|
| 2018 |
20
15
3
|
| 2017 |
2
5
|
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2017 |
2
5
|
| 2014 |
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2017 |
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| 2014 |
|
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Open access
3
4
53
|
| 2022 |
Open access
5
3
|
| 2021 |
Open access
9
8
1
|
| 2018 |
20
15
3
|
| 2018 |
7
4
9
|
| 2016 |
29
23
8
|
| 2015 |
6
1
1
|
| 2010 |
2
1
|
| 2009 |
2
2
|
| 2009 |
2
|
PUBLICATIONS
2024 (forthcoming)
Bastalich, W., Loeser, C. and McCulloch, A. 'Rethinking doctoral transition support and preparation for the PhD', in Hallett, F. (ed.) Debates in doctoral education: Challenges and opportunities, Routledge.
2017
Loeser, C., Crowley, V and Pini, B (2017) 'Introductory Essay: Disability and masculinities: Corporeality, pedagogy and the critique of otherness' in Loeser, C., Crowley, V and Pini, B (eds) Disability and masculinities: Corporeality, pedagogy and the critique of otherness, Palgrave MacMillan, London, UK, pp: xxv-lxxiv.
2006
Loeser, C and Crowley, V. (2006) 'Audible Acts: The theatre of hearing (dis)abled masculinities', in Kiernander, A., Bollen, J and Parr, B. (eds) What a man's gotta do: Masculinities in performance, CALLTS, University of New England, Armidale, NSW.
2003
Loeser, C. (2003) 'The ecstasies of exchange: Hearing disabled masculine subjectivities in rave space', Australian Journal of Communication 30(3): 69-82.
2002
Loeser, C. (2002) 'Bounded bodies, mobile selves: The significance of the muscular body in young hearing-impaired men's constructions of masculinity', in Pearce,S adn Muller,V. (eds) Manning the next millenium: Studies in masculinities, Black Swan Press, Bentley, WA, pp: 55-84.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
International (2009-2024)
2024
Loeser, C., Bastalich, W., Kearns, H. and McCulloch, A. 'Shifting supervisors voices from the margins to the centre of debates about research degree student mental wellbeing', Quality Postgraduate Research Conference, National Wine Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 18 April 2024.
2022
Loeser, C. 'Corporeal contingencies: Intimate relationships, ethics and research writing', Social change in a feminist perspective: Situating gender research in times of political contention, 11th European Feminist Research Conference, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, 18 June 2022.
Loeser, C. 'Towards an embodied ethical practice in sociological inquiry as a means of performing research', A Better Body? Towards a Sociology of Health: An online symposium, supported by The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), 17 February 2022.
2016
Loeser, C. 'Hearing (dis)abled masculinities in Australian-rules football: Possibilities for pleasure', Doing the Body in the 21st Century International Conference: Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, USA, 2 April 2016.
Loeser, C. and Harper, R. 'Gender and the doctoral student experience', Quality Postgraduate Research Conference, National Wine Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 19 April 2016.
Invited workshop presentation by Dr Fathimath Shifaza, Chair EBP Conference: Loeser, C. 'Negotiating the student/supervisor relationship: Issues and strategies', 1st International Conference for Evidence-based Practice (EBP) Champions - Maldives, Bandos Island, Republic of Maldives, July 2016.
2013
Loeser, C. 'The potentialities of post-essentialism for hearing (dis)abled masculinities in friendship', 3rd Global Conference Femininities & Masculinities: A Gender and Sexuality Project, Prague, Czech Republic, 24 May 2013.
2009
Crowley, V. and Loeser, C. ‘The Potentialities of Post-essentialist Pedagogy’. Virtual presentation. 4th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. July 8-11 2009, University of Athens, Greece.
National and State
2017
Stahl, G., Nichols, S. Loeser, C. ‘Intersectionality, Storytelling and Text Production: Researching the First Year University Experience.’ Research Methods in Youth Studies: Doing ‘Difference Differently.’ The Australian Sociological Association (TASA). Melbourne Graduate School, Melbourne, Australia. 22 November 2017.
Stahl, G., Nichols, S. and Loeser, C. Navigating the university: An exploration of the intersectionality of first-year experience. Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference 2017. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, NSW, Australia. 26-30 November 2017.
Roberts, S, Wilkinson, J, Webb, S, Bunn, M, Burke, P. J., Loeser, C. Nichols, S., Stahl, G., Dunwoodie, K. ‘Struggles and strategies: Interrogating linear and non-linear transitions from higher education into the labour market.’ Australian Association of Educational Research, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 26-30 November 2017.
Research
Men, masculinities and sexualities; disability and hearing disability (particularly in men); bodies and embodiment;Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's work on ethics; post-essentialism; emotions and affect; higher degrees by research candidature and supervision; doctoral education; gender and subjectivity.
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Central European University | HUNGARY |
| Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student LearningDepartment of Education and Training, Australian Government |
2017 |
Australian and New Zealand Communications Assocation Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association University of South Australia Network for Studies in Gender, Sexualities and Equity The Australian Sociological Association International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers (IGODAP) Arts Access International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| Constructions of femininities and learner identities of first-in-family girls transitioning from secondary school into Australian universities | Completed |
| The marketisation and commodification of leaders¿, teachers¿ and students¿ work: an institutional ethnography of an all-boys school | Completed |
| Thinking through multiplicities: movement, affect and the schooling experiences of young men with autism spectrum disorder | Completed |
