Dr Len Palmer
Lecturer
BAHons, PhD La Trobe
Len Palmer
Charles Sturt University School of Social Sciences and Liberal Studies
Email Len Palmer
Building C6
Bathurst Campus
NSW
2640
Australia
Ph:(02) 6338 4532
Fax:(02) 6338 4401
Teaching
- Refugee Studies
- CLT474 Globalisation and Culture
- Cultural Studies Honours and Communication Honours
- Sociology - SOC101 Introduction to Sociology
- SOC102 Social Inequality
- SOC303 Sociological Theory
- SOC203 Sociology of Youth
- SOC306 Nationalism Ethnicity and the State
Research
- Technology and: gender, ethnicity, modernity and culture.
- Discourse theory and cultural discourses around farming, sustainable and organic farming, farmer organisations, democracy, alternative farming, permaculture, gender and ethnicity in farming, gender on the web
Research Grants
- Faculty of Arts Seed Grant 2001. Sustainable Grazing: a post structuralist approach.
- Social Science and Liberal Studies School ethnicity and technology seed grant 1996 ($1,700)
- Research member, National Teaching Development Grants, $20,000, 'Distcon - Electronic Communication and project Pedagogy' 1993
- Telecom Australia Short Term Research Fellowship, 1989-90 ($3,000 + research and accommodation)
- Australian Communication Association electronic mail study 1990 ($1,000)
- Future Communication Technology invited research report for the Public Relations Institute of Australia , National Conference, October 1990 ($2,000)
Recent publications
'Farming discourses: from baa-lambs to bar-codes' in Miles, W & Miller, H (eds) 1997 Mapping Regional Cultures, CQU, Rockhampton.
'Discourses and Knowledge systems: farming the diversity of rural media' Rural Society, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1997.
'Regulating Technology' in Green L.R. & Guinery R. (eds) Framing Technology: Society, Choice and Change, Allen & Unwin, North Sydney , 1994.
'Telephone Exchange Maintenance', in Willis, E. (ed.) Technology and the Labour Process: Australasian Case Studies, Allen and Unwin, Sydney , 1988.
