Associate ProfessorKiran Pienaar

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

TEACHING EXPERTISE

  • Health sociology
  • Sexuality, gender and the body
  • Research methods
  • Theories and epistemologies (Honours level)
  • Research ethics (Honours level)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • COURSE DIRECTOR
    FEATURED
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    Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
    1 Jan 2026
  • UNIT CHAIR
    ASC287 Love, Sex & Relationships
    1 Jan 2025
  • UNIT CHAIR
    ASC206 Sociology of Health
    1 Jun 2020
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ASC250 Contemporary Social Research
  • TEACHING EXPERIENCE
    AIX493 - Honours Research Design
  • TEACHING EXPERIENCE
    AIX494 - Honours Research Communication
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Women in STEM Initiatives: A sociological analysis of women's experiences
    Angela Leigh Bennette - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Qualities of Care: Investigating sexual healthcare for transmasculine and adjacent people in australia
    Florin Douglas - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    'We're not flower, we're fire': exploring the new wave of digital feminism in China across multiple platforms
    Shu Li - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Women?s Spirituality After Experiencing ?Church Hurt? in a Pentecostal Megachurch
    Larney Peerenboom - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    When women change the rules: Australian womens everyday resistance to housework and parenting gender norms.
    Bree-Anne Allingham-MacLaren - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Breastfeeding support: Assemblages that shape mothers? embodied breastfeeding experiences.
    Tracey Squire - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Governing Therapyspeak: A Foucauldian Analysis of the Discursive Regulation of Everyday Psychological Language
    Alma Marshall - School of Humanities and Social Sciences