Dr Ben Wadham

Dr Ben Wadham
Position/s:Senior Lecturer
School of Education
Phone: +61 8 82013358
Email:
Location: Education Building (5.77)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

Ben is a sociologist within the Schoolof Education.

He is the Director of the Doctor of Education. He teaches about social change, globalisation and cultural relations in Education in developing and developed contexts. A principal teaching intent is innovative and critical leadership.

His main research interest is militarism in Australia. He is an former soldier and military police officer who has an enduring interest in military criminology. His research has engaged with alcohol and drug use, abuse, initiations and hazing, sexual harrassment and other forms of criminal activity in the military or from military personnel. Ben has a strong background in governance and public policy and locates these activities in the changing character of the ADF. His studies in racism and gender provide a theoretical context for this work. The overarching concern is civil military relations: how do we maintain the integrity of the civil military divide in a changing world. This also extends to the militarisation of schooling and curriculum.

Qualifications

BA Hons (Sociology),
PhD (Sociology)
Grad Cert Public Policy

Honours, awards and grants

Australian Postgraduate Award 1998-2003
Australian Defence Forces Medal

Key responsibilities

Director, Doctor of Education
Chair, Postgraduate Exam Board

Teaching

Teaching interests

Qualitative Research Methodologies - Ethnographic Methods
Social and Sociological Theory
Globalisation, Development and Education
Governance and Planning
Policy and Legislation
Social and Cultural Identity/Difference - Race, Gender, Nation

Topic Coordinator:

  • EDUC 9608 Globalisation: Issues and Challenges
  • EDUC 9951 Doctoral Symposium A: Issues in Education
  • EDUC 9952 Doctoral Symposium B: Education and Community Issues
  • EDUC 9953 Doctoral Symposium C: Education and Policy
  • EDUC 9955 Preparation for Research
  • EDUC9764  Methods in Ethnography

Research and consultancy

Research interests

Australian history
Social Theory
Rural Sustainability
Social Assessment and Complexity Science
Civil Military Relations

Postgraduate research supervision

National Assessment
Religious and Secular Education
International education models
Conflict and Leadership in Organisations
Violence prevention
ICT use in schools
Indigenous rights
Gender and equal opportunity
Civil military relations
Military justice
Social Deviance
Crimininology
Moral reasoning in business
Critical whiteness studies
Critical masculinity studies
Women in the military

Publications

Book chapters

Wadham, B.A., Pudsey, J.P., & Boyd, R.M., 2007. 'Boys will be boys and girls will be girls': Gender and sexuality in school. In Culture and Education. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education Australia, pp. 212-246.

Wadham, B.A., 2007. Whose Reconciliation? Conservative white Australian masculinities and their struggle for white Australia. In Intersections: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Australasian Studies. New Delhi, India: Prestige Books, pp. 93-110.

Wadham, B.A., 2004. Differentiating Whiteness: White Australia, White Masculinities and Aboriginal Reconciliation. In WHITENING RACE. Canberra, ACT: AIATSIS Aboriginal Studies Press, pp. 192-207.

Wadham, B.A., 2002. What does the white man want?: white masculinities and aboriginal reconciliation. In Manning the Next Millenium. Studies in Masculinities. Bentley, WA: Black Swan Press, pp. 215-224.

Wadham, B.A., 2001. Global men's health and the crisis of western masculinity. In It's a Man's World? Perspectives of Men's Practices in a Globalised World. London, UK: Zed Books, pp. 69-82.

Refereed journal articles

Willis, E.M., Pearce, M.W., McCarthy, C.M., Wadham, B.A., & Ryan, F.T., 2009. The provision of water infrastructure in Aboriginal communities in South Australia. Aboriginal History, 33, 157-173.

Willis, E.M., Pearce, M.W., McCarthy, C.M., Meagher, S., & Wadham, B.A., 2009. Using the health hardware method to measure poverty in Indigenous Australia. International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, 3(2), 191-202.

Willis, E.M., Pearce, M.W., McCarthy, C.M., Ryan, F.T., & Wadham, B.A., 2008. Indigenous responses to Water policymaking in Australia. Development: The Journal of The Society For International Development, 51(3), 418-424.

Boyd, R.M., Wadham, B.A., & Jewell, P.D., 2007. Prospective teachers' perspectives on teaching and social justice. International Education Journal, 8(2), 304-317.

Wadham, B.A. & Pudsey, J.P., 2005. (Un)masking hegemony: militarism, white masculinity and the logic of contemporary empire. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 16, 146-165.

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Books

Pearce, M.W., Willis, E.M., McCarthy, C.M., Ryan, F.T., & Wadham, B.A., 2008. A response to the national water initiative from Nepabunna, Yarilena, Scotdesco and Davenport Aboriginal settlements, Aliice Springs: Desert Knowledge CRC.

Book chapters

Owens, L.D., Skrzypiec, G.K., & Wadham, B.A., 2011. Thinking patterns, anti-social behaviour and bullying: Implications for practice. In Mental health and wellbeing: Educational perspectives. Adelaide, SA: Shannon Research Press, pp. 117-128.

Wadham, B.A., 2007. Military Masculinities. In International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. London: Routledge, pp. 441-442.

Boyd, R.M., Pudsey, J.P., & Wadham, B.A., 2007. 'Nerds, nightmares and normals': Who is the ideal student?. In Culture and Education. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education Australia, pp. 133-166.

Boyd, R.M., Pudsey, J.P., & Wadham, B.A., 2007. Who knows? Curriculum and education in the new century. In Culture and Education. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education Australia, pp. 96-132.

Lucas, J., Pudsey, J.P., Wadham, B.A., & Boyd, R.M., 2007. Why bother teaching? The aims of education in the 21st century. In Culture and Education. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education Australia, pp. 62-95.

Wadham, B.A., Pudsey, J.P., & Boyd, R.M., 2007. Literacy in a changing world. In Culture and Education. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education Australia, pp. 247-271.

Wadham, B.A., Pudsey, J.P., & Boyd, R.M., 2007. 'We grew here... you flew here': Race, nation and education. In Culture and Education. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education Australia, pp. 167-211.

Wadham, B.A., Pudsey, J.P., & Boyd, R.M., 2007. 'Boys will be boys and girls will be girls': Gender and sexuality in school. In Culture and Education. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education Australia, pp. 212-246.

Wadham, B.A., 2007. Whose Reconciliation? Conservative white Australian masculinities and their struggle for white Australia. In Intersections: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Australasian Studies. New Delhi, India: Prestige Books, pp. 93-110.

Wadham, B.A., 2007. White Men. In International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. London: Routledge, pp. 632-634.

Wadham, B.A., 2007. Men's Health Studies. In International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. London: Routledge, pp. 412-413.

Wadham, B.A., 2007. Armies. In International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 24-25.

Pudsey, J.P., Wadham, B.A., & Boyd, R.M., 2007. What is culture?. In Culture and Education. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education Australia, pp. 1-33.

Pudsey, J.P., Wadham, B.A., & Boyd, R.M., 2007. Culture and education in a global world. In Culture and Education. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education Australia, pp. 34-61.

Wadham, B.A., 2004. Differentiating Whiteness: White Australia, White Masculinities and Aboriginal Reconciliation. In WHITENING RACE. Canberra, ACT: AIATSIS Aboriginal Studies Press, pp. 192-207.

Wadham, B.A., 2002. What does the white man want?: white masculinities and aboriginal reconciliation. In Manning the Next Millenium. Studies in Masculinities. Bentley, WA: Black Swan Press, pp. 215-224.

Wadham, B.A., 2001. Global men's health and the crisis of western masculinity. In It's a Man's World? Perspectives of Men's Practices in a Globalised World. London, UK: Zed Books, pp. 69-82.

Refereed journal articles

Whitehead, K.I. & Wadham, B.A., 2011. Marking a marginal past Schooling and dispossession in the Franklin Harbour district. History Australia: Journal of The Australian Historical Association, 8(3), 25-46.

Pearce, M.W., Willis, E.M., Wadham, B.A., & Binks, B., 2010. Attitudes to drought in outback communities in South Australia. Geographical Research, 48(4), 359-369.

Willis, E.M., Pearce, M.W., McCarthy, C.M., Meagher, S., & Wadham, B.A., 2009. Using the health hardware method to measure poverty in Indigenous Australia. International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, 3(2), 191-202.

Willis, E.M., Pearce, M.W., McCarthy, C.M., Wadham, B.A., & Ryan, F.T., 2009. The provision of water infrastructure in Aboriginal communities in South Australia. Aboriginal History, 33, 157-173.

Willis, E.M., Pearce, M.W., McCarthy, C.M., Ryan, F.T., & Wadham, B.A., 2008. Indigenous responses to Water policymaking in Australia. Development: The Journal of The Society For International Development, 51(3), 418-424.

Willis, E.M., Pearce, M.W., McCarthy, C.M., Ryan, F.T., & Wadham, B.A., 2008. Water for People: The National Water Initiative and Mutual Obligation: Indigenous responses to water policy-making in Australia. Development, 9(1), 21-33.

Boyd, R.M., Wadham, B.A., & Jewell, P.D., 2007. Prospective teachers' perspectives on teaching and social justice. International Education Journal, 8(2), 304-317.

Wadham, B.A. & Pudsey, J.P., 2005. (Un)masking hegemony: militarism, white masculinity and the logic of contemporary empire. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 16, 146-165.

Carson, E. & Wadham, B.A., 2001. Regionalism and contractualism: when principles collide. Just Policy, 24(Dec), 3-11.

Refereed conference papers

Owens, L.D., Skrzypiec, G.K., & Wadham, B.A., 2011. The relationship between thinking and aggressive and anti-social behaviour of adolescents in a South Australian metropolitan secondary school. International Observatory on Violence in Schools 5th World Conference and 4th Ibero-American Congress on Violence in Schools.

Wadham, B.A., 2011. Camouflage: The ADF on Trouble in the Ranks. TASA 2011 Local Lives/Global Networks.

Wadham, B.A., Willis, E.M., & Pearce, M.W., 2009. The cultural relations of water in remote South Australian towns. The Future of Sociology.

Wadham, B.A. & Hamilton, A.R., 2009. Camouflage: how the visual arts and sociology make sense of the military. The Future of Sociology.

Jewell, P.D., Wadham, B.A., & Boyd, R.M., 2007. Ideologies of the teachers of tomorrow. Social Justice and the Teachers of Tomorrow Symposium.

Boyd, R.M., Jewell, P.D., & Wadham, B.A., 2006. Prospective teachers views of teaching and education: an analysis of teaching ideologies. Education for the 21st century: educational research conference, 30-30.

Willis, E.M., Pearce, M.W., Jenkin, T., Wadham, B.A., & McCarthy, C.M., 2006. Indigenous engagement with modernity: domestic water supply, risk and reflexive modernization. TASA 2006 Conference Proceedings.

Wadham, B.A., 2004. Mogan Hunts and Pig Nights: Military Masculinities and the Making of the Arms-Corps Soldier. TASA 2004 Conference Proceedings.

Wadham, B.A., 2004. What is whiteness? Authenticity, dominance, identity. Conference Proceedings, 19-27.

Wadham, B.A., 2003. The turn to whiteness: race, nation and cultural sociology. TASA 2003 conference proceedings: new times, new worlds, new ideas,: sociology today and tomorrow, 1-9.

Journal articles

Wadham, B.A., 2012. US Marines urination video an artefact of war, says expert. The Conversation.

Wadham, B.A., 2012. ADFA Skype scandal: Smith’s reviews could help defence to change its culture. The Conversation.

Wadham, B.A., 2012. Defence Force's great battle within: cleaning up its own act. The Melbourne Age.

Wadham, B.A., 2012. Yumi and Ben: The Militarisation of Australia and the Democratisation of Hate. The Conversation.

Wadham, B.A., 2011. Women in combat: the battle is over but the war against prejudice grinds on. The Conversation.

Wadham, B.A., 2011. Will Defence ever stop defending the indefensible?. The Punch.

Wadham, B.A., 2011. Theorising War. Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association eJournal.

Wadham, B.A., 2011. The Darkside of Mateship in Military Ranks. Crikey.com.

Wadham, B.A., 2011. Drink and Drugs: A Loaded Gun. The Melbourne Age.

Wadham, B.A., 2011. Soldiers’ comments racist, disgusting, embarrassing. The Punch.

Wadham, B.A., 2011. Defence’s head is in the sand, and I don’t mean Afghanistan. The Punch.

Wadham, B.A., 2003. Understanding Bourdieu by J Webb et al (Book Review). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 39(3), 327-328.

Wadham, B.A., 2003. Nationalism and Social Theory (book review). Journal of Sociology, 39(4), 433-435.

Wadham, B.A. & Carson, E., 2001. Regional Devolution, Contractualism and the Corporate Citizen. Hawke Institute Working Paper Series, 12.

Wadham, B.A., 2001. Eggheads, Rednecks and Blackfellas, Review of Gillian Crowlishore. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 37(4), 425-426.

Conference publications

Wadham, B.A., 2011. Bullying Relationships and Adversity. 11th Annual Conference of the APS Psychology of Relationships Interest Group.

Wadham, B.A., Willis, E.M., & Pearce, M.W., 2010. The cultural relations of water in remote South Australian towns. Fenomena?, 9(1), 1-12.

Other public research outputs

Wadham, B.A., 2011. Expert reactions: should death of Australian diggers prompt policy rethink?.

Wadham, B.A., 2006. Our defensive force: a law unto itself. The Melbourne Age: Opinion.

Wadham, B.A., 2005. Defence case offers nothing but denial. Independent Weekly, (63), 9-9.

Schech, S.B. & Wadham, B.A., 2005. Proceedings of the Placing Race and Localising Whiteness Conference (Editors), Bedford Park, SA: Flinders University.

Wadham, B.A., 2004. Men behaving Badly are all part of an unofficial military culture. South Australia Policy Online.

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Professional and community engagement

National Tertiary Education Union
Media commentary on civil military relations

Subject/s

  • Australia
  • Culture
  • Deviance
  • Men
  • Social theory
  • Sociology


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