ProfessorAndrew Singleton

Andrew is Professor of Sociology and Social Research at the Deakin University School of Humanities and Social Sciences. His research interests include young people, new religious movements (including Spiritualism), global Christianity, secularisation, non-religion, spirituality/the New Age, religious change and contemporary survey methods. Andrew has presented and published extensively in these areas nationally and internationally. He is the author of four books: Let the Dead Speak: Spiritualism in Australia (with M. Tomlinson, Manchester UP, 2025) Freedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity (with A. Halafoff, M.L. Rasmussen & G.D. Bouma, Bloomsbury, 2021); Religion, Culture and Society: A Global Approach (Sage 2014) and The Spirit of Generation Y: Young People's Spirituality in a Changing Australia (with M. Mason & R. Webber, Garrett Publications, 2007).

Andrew is a skilled quantitative and qualitative researcher and specialises in mixed-method projects.

Andrew is a multi-award-winning educator and has supervised many Masters and PhD theses in the sociology of religion, gender studies, health and the media.