Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor David de Vaus

Graduate Supervision

I am happy to supervise in a wide range of research areas that relate to:

• Sociology of marriage and family
• Ageing
• Retirement
• Life course transitions
• Evaluating methods of social research – especially Survey research

I am currently supervising theses in the following areas:

• Measuring attitudes about workforce participation of mothers
• Pathways to retirement
• International students in Australia
• Young people’s orientation to social justice
• Living alone among young people
• Living alone in middle age
• Why do people marry?
• Living alone: changing trends and meanings