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Assoc Professor Kim Humphery

Position	Deputy Head, Research and Innovation
School / Work Unit	Global Studies, Social Science &Planning
Contact Details	+(61 3) 9925 8253 kim.humphery@rmit.edu.au
Location	Building: 48 Level: 4 Room: 38 City Campus
Portfolio	Design & Social Context

 

Qualifications

BA(Hons) MA PhD Melbourne, MPhil Cambridge

Profile:

Kim has studied politics, social theory and history at the Universities of Melbourne, Cambridge and Essex. He has taught social and cultural theory at Melbourne and Monash Universities and Australian politics and society at La Trobe University. He has also worked as a qualitative social researcher at King’s College London and at La Trobe University in the areas of ageing and HIV/AIDS respectively.

Between 1996 and 2002 he worked as a senior researcher on the socio-cultural aspects of Indigenous health in both the Northern Territory and Victoria, and this work culminated in the publication of Forgetting Compliance: Aboriginal Health and Medical Culture (NTU Press 2001). Over the last five years he has also consolidated his historical and theoretical work on consumption, particularly through the publication of his book Shelf Life: Supermarkets and the Changing Cultures of Consumption (CUP 1998). In his most recent work he has turned his attention to issues of overconsumption and community sustainability (see below)

.Kim is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne and an Honorary Senior Fellow with the Centre for the Study of Health and Society, also at Melbourne. In 1998 his book Shelf Life was awarded a ‘Special Mention’ in the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies National Awards and in 2000 received a ‘High Commendation’ in the Australian Historical Society W.K.Hancock Award.

Teaching/Work Responsibilities:

Kim Humphery joined the School of Social Science and Planning in February 2002 and is presently the coordinator of the Higher Degree by Research (PhD and Masters) program. He also teaches in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

His past teaching responsibilities have included:

Undergraduate

• Debates in Classical Social Theory.
• Western Materialism
• Contemporary Debates in Sociology and Society
• Making the Modern Western World

Postgraduate

• Contemporary Social and Political Theory
• Minor Thesis Preparation/Presentation

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