Associate ProfessorRose Butler

• Class, including cross-class relationships, class inequality and class im/mobility
• Migration and mobilities, particularly in regional and rural Australia
• Youth, family and relationships
• Race and ethnicity
• Schooling and education
• Critical rural studies
• Qualitative research methods

Select research grants 

• 'Rural Pacific Youth: Pathways to IT and Other Career Trajectories', Chief Investigator, Scanlon Foundation Community Grant, 2022-2024 (Led by Makiko Nishitani).
• 'Love Across Class: Social Difference and Intimacy in Contemporary Australia', Lead Investigator, ADI Pilot Research Grant, Deakin University, 2020-2022.
• 'Strengthening Intercultural Relationships among Australia's Rural Youth', Lead Investigator, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council, Deakin University, 2019-2024.
• Career Continuity Grant for Researchers who are Primary Carers, Deakin University, 2018-2019.
• ADI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Deakin University, 2017-2020.
• 'Widening Participation and Outreach for Students from Low-SES Backgrounds: A New Evaluative Framework', Lead Investigator, Global Student Recruitment and Mobility, University of Sydney and UNSW Sydney, 2017.
• 'The Ryde and Northern Beaches Project Evaluation', Chief Investigator, Department of Social Services, UNSW Sydney, 2016-2017.
• 'The Financial Economy and Indigenous Young People', Chief Investigator, First Nations Foundation, UNSW Sydney, 2016.
• 'Through Our Eyes: Roebourne Youth Photograpy Project', Country Arts WA Community Grant, Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation, 2010.