The following areas of research are available in the AOUs of the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law:

School of Education

• Arts Education
• Assessment
• Attitudes to school
• Behaviour management in schools
• Child, adolescent, family development
• Cognitive analysis of learning and teaching
• Critical thinking
• Early Childhood Education
• Educational leadership and management
• Emotional and behavioural problems
• Ethics
• Gender, culture and education
• Gifted education
• History of education
• Inclusion of students with special needs and inclusive practices
• Indigenous Education
• Indigenous research methodologies
• Information and communication technologies
• Instructional psychology and problem solving
• International education
• Literacy
• Literacy education
• Literacy learning difficulties 
• Mathematics education
• Metacognition
• Motivation
• Numeracy
• Numeracy Education
• Numeracy learning difficulties
• Organisational structures and systems
• Peer relationships involving peer conflict, aggressive behaviour and bullying
• Philosophy of education
• Physical education curriculum development
• Place-based education
• Problem-based learning
• Race, culture and education
• Race, gender, nation and education
• Religion and education
• Rural education
• School-wide and systems-wide approaches to management of student behaviour
• Science education
• Second language acquisition
• Social justice education
• Sociology of education
• Sports coaching pedagogy
• Student wellbeing
• Teacher education
• Teacher wellbeing 
• Teachers learning and professional development
• Teachers' lives and works - contemporary and historical
• Tertiary teaching
• Vision impairment

School of Humanities

Archaeology

• Anthropological Archaeology
• Archaeological Science
• Bio-Archaeology
• Community and Public Archaeology
• Cultural Heritage Management
• Environmental Archaeology
• Faunal Analysis
• Forensic Anthropology
• Historical Archaeology
• Indigenous Australian Archaeology
• Maritime Archaeology
• Modern Material Culture
• Museum Studies
• Palaeo-Ecology and Palaeo-Climate
• Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry

Australian Studies

• Aboriginal Art and education
• Aboriginal literature(s) and languages
• Australia/Asia literary responses
• Australian cultural history (Performing Arts/Popular)
• Australian cultural studies
• Australian feminist theory
• Australian poetry
• Australian studies/Indigenous studies - interdisciplinary approaches
• Australian women's writing
• Community studies
• Contemporary Australian literature
• Cultural heritage
• Cultural policy
• Curriculum initiatives in teaching, learning and ethics
• Indigenous education
• Indigenous history
• Indigenous Knowledges
• Indigenous research methodologies and epistemes
• Museology
• Post-Colonial writing and theory
• Racialisation theory
• Reconciliation studies
• Travelling/touring as cultural practice

Drama

• Comedy and satire
• Corporeality, dance and physical theatre
• Directing, performance making and actor training
• Dramaturgy, adaptation and creative development
• Emotion and corporeality
• e-Research methdologies for the performing arts
• Ibsen studies
• Intercultural studies and the cultural politics of performance
• Modernist theatre
• Music theatre, Brecht and Sondheim
• New media and technologies in performance
• Performance and gender 
• Popular performance and social performance
• Reviewing and criticism
• Shakespeare on stage and screen
• Social performance
• Television drama
• Theatre historiography

English and Creative Writing

• Australian cultural studies, especially about everyday life
• Australian literature (including Asian links, political satire, South Australian writing, colonial writing, travel writing, memoirs and 'Race' relations in Neo/Post colonial Australia)
• Authorship and reading practices
• Autobiographical writing
• Children's literature
• Contemporary American Literature
• Contemporary Australian fiction
• Contemporary British fiction
• Contemporary life narrative (auto/biography) in various media
• Creative writing - poetry, short stories, journals, novels, pedagogy
• Cultural memory and commemoration; trauma
• Eighteenth-century satire
• Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century poetry
• Historical fiction
• Life writing
• Medieval and epic poetry
• New literatures in English
• Postcolonial and travel writing
• Postmodern Literature in English
• Professional English and editing
• Renaissance drama and poetry
• Scottish language and literature since 1700
• Shakespeare's oeuvre and related topics
• Thrillers and crime fiction
• Twentieth-century American literature
• Twentieth-century novels and poetry
• Women's writing

French

• Discourse analysis 
• French migration to Australia
• General French grammar (modern trends, historical developments)
• Intercultural communication 
• Lexicography
• Second language acquisition
• Second/foreign language reading - theory and practice
• Sociolinguistics
• The French media

Italian

• 20th century Italian poetry and narrative
• Applied linguistics
• CALL (Computer assisted language learning)
• Dante studies
• Italian migration to Australia
• Italian-Australian poetry and narrative
• Second language acquisition
• Translation theory

Legal Studies

• Children, young people and the law
• Citizen's access to justice
• Comparative family law reform
• Comparative legal cultures
• Cultural heritage and the law
• Family law and social policy
• Family violence
• Law and history
• Law and inequality in Australia 
• Law, welfare and social justice
• Legal Aid in China
• Regulating New Technologies
• Victims of violent workplace crime

Modern Greek

• Greek-Australian writing
• Greek migration to Australia (history, multiculturalism, literature)
• Nineteenth and twentieth century French and Greek literature and literary criticism
• Research and develop material for Modern Greek teaching and learning

Philosophy

• Aesthetics
• Cognitive science
• Epistemology and metaphysics
• Greek philosophy
• History and philosophy of science
• History of philosophy
• Marxism and economic theory
• Moral philosophy
• Philosophy of mind
• Philosophy of psychology
• Political philosophy

Spanish

• Communicative competence, multimedia and personal variables in second language learning
• Comparative Literature: Argentina and Australia
• Contemporary Argentinian narrative
• Contemporary Spanish narrative
• Contemporary Spanish Women Writers
• Contemporary Spanish Poetry
• Creative writing in Spanish
• Humberto Maturana's Biology of Cognition
• Images of life in Spanish poetry
• Latin American Contested Theories
• Latin American Film
• Latin American Literature and Popular Culture
• Methods and approaches to teaching and learning a second language/Spanish as a second language
• Micro-fiction: Theory and Practice
• Poetic images of the Spanish family
• Processes of De-linking and Decolonization in Latin American Popular Practices
• Spanish poetic reworkings of religious texts
• The poet and Spanish society
• The role of computers in second language learning
• The Spanish Civial War in Spanish Literature
• Topics in contemporary Latin American and Spanish cultural history and politics
• Translation (Spanish/English, English/Spanish)
• Twentieth Century Spanish poetry

Screen and Media

• 3D modelling, animation, compositing 
• American cinema history
• Anti bullying educational resources
• Asian cinema
• Aspergers educational resources
• Australian cinema
• Censorship and other forms of regulation in film and television industries
• Children's media
• Cinema as social and aesthetic institution
• Cross-cultural issues in media communication
• Digital aesthetics / critical theory of techology 
• Digital game preservation 
• Digital life narrative (online)
• Digital media and multimedia
• Digial music composition
• Directing
• Documentary
• Educational resources for health professionals - dementia
• Ethnographic and anthropological filmmaking
• Feminist and queer theories of screen media
• Film theory and analysis
• Games critical review/analysis
• Game design 
• Histories of digital technology
• Information Visualisation
• Interaction design
• Interactivity
• Japanese cinema aesthetics
• Low budget feature film production
• Maritime documentary production
• Natural history film making
• Producing
• Psychoanalytic theory
• Real-time panorama capture
• Social impact of new media technologies
• Television history, theory and critical analysis
• Usability studies

Tourism

• Children's Interpretation
• Cruise ship tourism
• Cultural Landscape identification, interpretation and management
• Festival and Event design, marketing, management and evaluation
• Geotourism
• Indigenous Tourism - its delivery and interpretation
• Interpretation, planning and implementation
• Optimal experience at festival and events
• Regional Tourism
• Site interpretation which incorporates appropriate understanding of evolution, history and function, leading to an accurate and entertaining understanding of "sense of place"
• Site management for sustainable tourism development
• Social impact for festivals and events
• Sustainable tourism
• Tourism, culture and heritage interaction, partnerships and best practice

School of Law (including Criminal Justice)

• Children 
• Commercial law
• Court Policy and Administration
• Crime, law and justice
• Corporate and Transnational Crime (including white collar crime, trafficking in human beings and environmental)
• Criminal Justice System (including juries, youth justice, detention and imprisonment, policing, crime policy, restorative justice and victims)
• Criminal Law
• Cultural Criminology (including crime and the media and representations of crime)
• Dispute resolution
• Health law and policy
• Human rights
• Indigenous legal issues
• International Law (including international criminal law and humanitarian law)
• Labour law and industrial relations
• Legal and criminal justice education
• Legal profession and legal practice
• Legal theory and legal history
• Media Law 
• Professional and research ethics
• Property housing and heritage law
• Public law
• Women gender and law
• See also http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/law/research/expertise.php

Department of Theology

• Bioethics
• Church and society
• Church history
• Church, sacraments and ministry
• Doctrines of God and creation
• Ecology and theology
• Ethics and ageing
• Gospels
• Liturgy and worship
• Old Testament studies
• Pauline literature
• Social setting of early Christians
• Spirituality
• Theology and philosophy
• Theology and science
• Wisdom literature