Associate Professor Nick Osbaldiston is a sociologist who joined JCU in 2015. He has previously worked at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and Federation University (Gippsland). Nick currently works in the College of Arts, Society and Education and a teaching and research academic. He is also currently a research fellow with the Cairns Institute.

Nick's research work predominantly covers the areas of lifestyle migration, internal migration, social theory, place and Australia's coasts, higher education labour and climate change adaptation. In the past, he has published several books including Understanding Lifestyle Migration with Professor Michaela Benson (Palgrave, 2014), Seeking Authenticity in Place, Culture and Self (Palgrave, 2012) and Towards a Sociology of the Coast (Palgrave, 2019). He has also published widely on higher education labour culminating in the book The Social Structures of Global Academia with Dr Fabian Cannizzo (Routledge, 2019).

Nick is currently working on a number of projects including work with colleagues from the University of Sydney investigating internal migration within Australia. In addition to this, he is working on a project detailing return migration of domestic migrants into regional places, such as Tasmania and has produced reports on internal migration to Tasmania in the past. Nick is also working on a follow up monograph on Australian coasts as places of historical and future importance for Australia.

He has extensive experience with honours and PhD students in sociology, geography, planning and theory. Currently he is supervising students in various areas and is available for supervision especially on areas of population and sociology.

Nick currently serves also as the TASA Social Theory Thematic Group co-convener, and on the editorial board of Australian Planner, the American Journal of Cultural Sociology and Societies.

 

 

Teaching

• SY1001: Australian Society: An Introduction to Sociology (Level 1; CNS & TSV)
• SY2005: Qualitative Research (Level 2; CNS & TSV)
• SY2100: Migration, Ethnicity and Belonging (Level 2; CNS)
• SY2101: Sociology of Digital Life (Level 2; CNS)
• SY3012: Social Analysis of Contemporary Australian Issues (Level 3; TSV)

Interests

Research

• Cultural Sociology; Classical Sociology; Social Theory; Lifestyle Migration; Climate Change and Society; Internal Migration

Experience

• 2014 - Lecturer in Sociology, Federation University (Victoria)
• 2014 - Visiting Scholar, Goldsmiths University of London (London)
• 2012 to 2014 - Lecturer in Sociology, Monash University (Victoria)
• 2010 to 2012 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne (Victoria)

Research Disciplines

• Sociology (4410)
• Education policy, sociology and philosophy (3902)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Macroeconomics (1502)

Awards

• 2017 - JCU Rising Star Award
• 2010 - Executive Dean's Commendation for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis (QUT)

Fellowships

• 2014 - Visiting Fellow - Goldsmiths University of London (London)

Memberships

• 2007 - Member of The Australian Sociological Association
• 2010 to 2014 - Executive Committee Member of the Australian Sociological Association
• 2010 to 2012 - Co-convener of the Cultural Sociology Thematic Group (TASA)

Other

• 2010 to 2013 - Co-Editor of Nexus (TASA)

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Journal Articles

• Gilbert A, Busbridge R and Osbaldiston N (2022) ‘Living in crisis’: Introduction to a special section. Thesis Eleven, 170 (1). pp. 3-8
• Osbaldiston N and Buckle C (2022) Lifestyle migration in place: Notes from the field. Thesis Eleven, 172 (1). pp. 114-130
• Osbaldiston N (2022) ‘The Summers Were Getting Hotter’: exploring motivations for migration to Tasmania away from mainland Australia. Australian Geographer, 53 (4). pp. 461-476
• Osbaldiston N, Denny L and Picken F (2020) Seachange in Tasmania: exploring interstate migration into the 'Apple Isle'. Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 26 (1). pp. 55-76
• Osbaldiston N, Picken F and Denny L (2020) Exploring emotional reflexivity in British lifestyle migration to Australia. Population, Space and Place, 26.
• Cannizzo F, Mauri C and Osbaldiston N (2019) Moral barriers between work/life balance policy and practice in academia. Journal of Cultural Economy, 12 (4). pp. 251-264
• Osbaldiston N (2019) Simmel’s Adventure and its relationship to the ought of life. Simmel Studies, 23 (2). pp. 71-96

Book Chapters

• Osbaldiston N (2022) Emotions and under-insurance: Exploring reflexivity and relations with the insurance industry. In: Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance: capacities and limitations. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 156-166
• Osbaldiston N (2022) The View of Lifestyle Migration: a Brief Exploration of the Ethics of Seeking a Better Way of Life. In: Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration: migrants 'in between'. Studies in Migration and Diaspora. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 130-149
• Osbaldiston N, Picken F and Denny L (2021) Dynamics of Seachangers in rural and regional townships. In: Crossroads of Rural Crime: Representations and Realities of Transgression in the Australian Countryside. Emerald Publishing, Bingley, U.K., pp. 149-166
• Osbaldiston N (2020) Writing Noosa's beach: travellers' narratives and modernity. In: Writing the Australian Beach: local site, global idea. Palgrave, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 109-123
• Cannizzo F and Osbaldiston N (2019) An introduction to the Social Structures of Global Academia. In: The Social Structures of Global Academia. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 1-18

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 44+ research outputs authored by A/PROF Nick Osbaldiston from 2010 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Receptivity, Affect, Endurance and Democracy: A Comparison Between Two Political Organizations, La Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina and, the Townsville Feminist Collective in North Queensland, Australia (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• An Exploration of the Digital Nomad Lifestyle in Pandemic Times (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Live Action Role Play (LARP): What do adults "get out of it"? (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Migration and Liveability in Regional Australia: Back to basics in a Post-Pandemic Era (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Settlement and acculturation experiences of French migrants in Far North Queensland. (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• In Defence of the North - The Narrative of Place and the Art of Becoming. North Queensland 1971-1981 (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Rifts and Reconnection: An Examination of Reconnective Mitigative Practices under Capitalism (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• School Gardens Battling Environmental Generational Amnesia and Food Vulnerability (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• Housing the homeless: housing crisis and caravan parks – a Bourdieusian perspective (2021, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Social Media as a zone of violence: Neoliberal ideology and violent self-presentation in online spaces (2023, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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