Professor Andrew Metcalfe

Professor Andrew Metcalfe

Honorary Professor
Arts,Design & Architecture
School of Social Sciences

Andrew Metcalfe is a Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW.  He was trained in Anthropology, but no longer cares to distinguish Anthropology and Sociology, belonging to both the Australian Sociological Association and the Australian Anthropological Society.

 

Andrew works collaboratively with Professor Ann Game. He has recently done research on the first year student's experience of university, the teacher-student relation, creativity and inspiration, the nature of subjectivity, the time and space of ritual, the logic of charity, hospitality and the gift. Their new book, published by Australian Scholarly Publishing in 2015, is called What is a Social Relation? They have a blog -- www.livinginrelation.com -- where copies of their recent articles are available.

 

Andrew’s first book, For Freedom and Dignity (Allen & Unwin, 1988), won the Jean Martin Prize awarded by the Australian Sociology Association; one of the books he co-wrote with Ann Game, Passionate Sociology (Sage, 1996),  was nominated for the Amalfi Prize in European Sociology, the only Australian book ever nominated. Both books have been listed as major milestones in the history of international sociology since 1800.

 

Research Areas

Health, relationship, pedagogy, religion, everyday life, creativity

 

Postgraduate Research Supervision

 

Areas of Supervision

Teacher-student relation; creativity and inspiration; the nature of subjectivity; the time and space of ritual; belonging; intimate relationship; ecology; the logic of charity, hospitality and the gift.

 

Recent Postgraduate Research Completions

 

·       Guy Oliver Hungerford, PhD Sociology, The teflon degree: a Batesonian-Cybernetic study of love in learning

·       Diana Tahhan, PhD Japanese Studies, Touching at depth: intimate spaces in the Japanese family

·       Diana Borinski, PhD Sociology, In sickness and in health: Identity - based and relational discourses of intimacy in the early 21st century

·       Cynthia June A'Beckett, PhD Sociology, Playing in the in-between: implications for early childhood education of new views on social relations

·       Anthony King, PhD Sociology, Violence, suicide, masculinity

 

Current Postgraduate Research Supervision

 

·   Zoe Baker, PhD Anthropology, Camino pilgrimage

     Guat Im Bok, PhD Sociology, Alienation and fashion retailing

·       Kim Chong, PhD Sociology, Gardens and culture

·       Richard Sanchez, PhD Sociology, Ethics of musical performance

·       Rosalind Tan, PhD Sociology, A Sociological interpretation of porcelain consumption in Eighteenth-Century England


                                                         

Teaching

 

Teaching areas

Relationships, theories of self, ecology, health and healing, living and dying, social teory and policy.

Current teaching

ARTS 1871 Understanding Cultural Experience

ARTS 3876 Ecology and Health

SRAP 3000 Policy and Social Theory

 

Affiliation and Memberships

Presiding Member, UNSW HREC (2006-13)

 

Other Information

 

Andrew’s scholarship in the area of learning and teaching has been recognised in a UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003, and an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for team-teaching in 2006. He has served on selection panels for teaching awards at Faculty, UNSW and national levels.

 

Phone
+61 2 9385 2410
  • Books | 2015
    Metcalfe AW; Game A, 2015, What is a Social Relation?, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne
    Books | 2013
    Metcalfe AW; Game A; Marlin D, 2013, On Bondi Beach, 1, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, http://www.scholarly.info/book/360/
    Books | 2006
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2006, Teachers Who Change Lives, First, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
    Books | 2003
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2003, The First Year Experience: Start, stay and succeed at uni, 1, Federation Press, Sydney
    Books | 2002
    Metcalfe AW; Game A, 2002, The Mystery of Everyday Life, 1, Federation Press, Leichhardt NSW, Australia
    Books | 1999
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 1999, Tutkulu sosyoloji, Original, Ayrinti Yayinlari, Istanbul
    Books | 1996
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 1996, Passionate sociology, Original, Sage Publications, London
  • Book Chapters | 2011
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2011, 'Learning as Devotional Practice: The Role of the Teacher', in Day C (ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Teacher and School Development, edn. 1, Routledge, London, pp. 159 - 168, http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/toc/0415669707/ref=dp_toc?ie=UTF8&n=266239
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Metcalfe AW; Ferguson L, 2001, 'Half-opened Being', in May J; Thrift N (ed.), Timespace, edn. Original, Routledge Press, London, pp. 240 - 261
  • Journal articles | 2014
    Metcalfe A, 2014, 'Human research ethics committees', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 25, pp. 383 - 384, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/taja.12109_5
    Journal articles | 2013
    Metcalfe AW; Game A; Marlin D, 2013, 'How to Understand Custodial Belonging', Cultural Studies Review, 19, pp. 175 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v19i2.2505
    Journal articles | 2013
    Metcalfe AW; Game A, 2013, 'Ecological being', Space and Culture, 17, pp. 297 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331213495779
    Journal articles | 2013
    Metcalfe AW, 2013, 'Sociology teaching as a vocation', Journal of Sociology, 49, pp. 531 - 544, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783313504063
    Journal articles | 2013
    Metcalfe AW, 2013, 'Solitude as a Community of Difference', Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 15, pp. 3 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2013.744629
    Journal articles | 2013
    Metcalfe AW, 2013, 'Who Am I Interviewing?', International Journal of Social Science Studies, 1, pp. 44 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v1i2.123
    Journal articles | 2011
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2011, 'Belonging: From identity logic to relational logic', Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 25, pp. 347 - 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2010.506949
    Journal articles | 2011
    Krastev Y; Grimm M; Metcalfe AW, 2011, 'Research governance and change in research ethics practices at a major Australian university', Monash Bioethics Review, 29 (4), pp. 16.1 - 16.7
    Journal articles | 2011
    Metcalfe AW; Game A, 2011, ''In the Beginning is relation': Martin Buber's Alternative to Binary Oppositions', Sophia, 51, pp. 351 - 363, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-011-0278-9
    Journal articles | 2010
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2010, 'Hospitality: How Woundedness Heals', Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 12, pp. 25 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19349630903495533
    Journal articles | 2010
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2010, '‘My Corner Of The World’: Bachelard And Bondi Beach', Emotion, Space and Society, in press, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2010.10.002
    Journal articles | 2010
    Metcalfe AW; Game A; Clayton BJ; De Francesco L, 2010, 'Morning Routines on Bondi Beach', Kurungabaa, 3, pp. 4 - 9, http://kurungabaa.net/latest-issue/
    Journal articles | 2010
    Metcalfe AW; Game A, 2010, 'Creative practice: The time of grace', Time and Society, 19, pp. 165 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463X09354431
    Journal articles | 2010
    Metcalfe AW; Game A, 2010, 'Presence of the Gift', Cultural Studies Review, 16, pp. 189 - 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v16i1.1441
    Journal articles | 2009
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2009, 'Caring for the Desititute: Finding a Calling', Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 11, pp. 264 - 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19349630903307191
    Journal articles | 2009
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2009, 'Dialogue and team teaching', Higher Education Research and Development, 28, pp. 45 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360802444354
    Journal articles | 2008
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2008, 'Meetings: Gifts without exchange', European Journal of Cultural Studies, 11, pp. 101 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549407084966
    Journal articles | 2008
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2008, 'The Significance of Signs', Social Semiotics, 18, pp. 493 - 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330802469987
    Journal articles | 2008
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2008, 'The Teacher`s Vocation: Ontology of Response', Studies in Philosophy and Education, 27, pp. 461 - 473, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11217-008-9098-y
    Journal articles | 2008
    Metcalfe AW; Game A, 2008, 'From the De-Centred subject to Relationality', Subjectivity, 23, pp. 188 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/sub.2008.12
    Journal articles | 2008
    Metcalfe AW; Game A, 2008, 'Potential Space and Love', Emotion, Space and Society, 1, pp. 18 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2008.08.001
    Journal articles | 2008
    Metcalfe AW; Game A, 2008, 'Significance & Dialogue in Learning & Teaching', Educational Theory, 58 (3), pp. 343 - 356, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-5446.2008.00292.x
    Journal articles | 2007
    Metcalfe AW; Game A, 2007, 'Becoming who you are - The time of education', Time and Society, 16, pp. 43 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463X07074101
    Journal articles | 2007
    Metcalfe AW; Game A, 2007, 'The Implications of Dialogue: First-year sociology', UNSW Compendium of Good Practice in Learning and Teaching, 5, pp. 7 - 22
    Journal articles | 2006
    Metcalfe AW; Game A, 2006, 'The Teacher`s Enthusiasm', Australian Educational Researcher, 33(3), pp. 91 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03216843
    Journal articles | 2004
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2004, 'Everyday Presences', Cultural Studies, 18:2/3, pp. 250 - 362
    Journal articles | 2004
    Metcalfe A; Game A, 2004, 'Everyday presences', Cultural Studies, 18, pp. 350 - 362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950238042000201554
    Journal articles | 2003
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2003, 'Creative Knowledge', Critical Psychology: the INternational Journal of Critical Psychology, pp. 168 - 178
    Journal articles | 2001
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2001, 'Care and Creativity', Australian Psychologist, 36, pp. 70 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050060108259633
    Journal articles | 2001
    Metcalfe AW, 2001, 'Meeting', Space and Culture, 1, pp. 192 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/120633120000300516
    Journal articles | 2001
    Metcalfe AW, 2001, 'Nothing: The Hole, the Holy, the Whole', Ecumene, 8, pp. 247 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/096746001701557011
    Journal articles | 2000
    Game A; Metcalfe AW, 2000, 'Collaboration', Literature and Theology, 14, pp. 261 - 275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/14.3.261
    Journal articles | 2000
    Metcalfe AW, 2000, 'Doorways', Janus Head, pp. 283 - 312
    Journal articles | 2000
    Metcalfe AW, 2000, 'Meeting', Space and Culture, pp. 184 - 197
    Journal articles | 2000
    Metcalfe AW, 2000, 'Middle age', UTS Review: Cultural Studies and New Writing, pp. 150 - 164
    Journal articles | 2000
    Metcalfe AW, 2000, 'Wonder, creativity and knowledge', Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 1, pp. paragraph1 - paragraph
    Journal articles | 1999
    METCALFE AW, 1999, 'Inspiration*', Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 36, pp. 217 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-618x.1999.tb01276.x
    Journal articles | 1999
    Metcalfe AW, 1999, 'Inspiration', Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology - Revue Canadienne de Sociologie et d Anthropologie, 36, pp. 217 - 240, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000080497200004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a
    Journal articles | 1995
    Metcalfe AW, 1995, 'The hands of home faber', Body and Society, 1, pp. 105 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034X95001002005
    Journal articles | 1994
    METCALFE AW; BERN J, 1994, 'Stories of Crisis: Restructuring Australian Industry and Rewriting the Past', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 18, pp. 658 - 672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.1994.tb00291.x
    Journal articles | 1993
    Higginbotham N; Heading G; Pont J; Plotnikoff R; Dobson AJ; Smith E; Metcalfe A; Valenti L; Croce N, 1993, 'Community worry about heart disease: a needs survey in the Coalfields and Newcastle areas of the Hunter region', Australian Journal of Public Health, 17, pp. 314 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-6405.1993.tb00161.x
    Journal articles | 1992
    Metcalfe AW, 1992, 'The curriculum vitae: Confessions of a wage-labourer', Work Employment & Society, 6, pp. 619 - 641, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095001709264005
    Journal articles | 1990
    Metcalfe AW, 1990, 'The Demonology of Class: The iconography of the coalminer and the symbolic construction of political boundaries', Critique of Anthropology, 10, pp. 39 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308275X9001000103
    Journal articles | 1989
    METCALFE A, 1989, 'BLACK, WHITE OR BRINDLE - RACE IN RURAL AUSTRALIA - COWLISHAW,GK', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, 13, pp. 723 - 724, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1989CG63500010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
  • Conference Papers | 1998
    Metcalfe AW, 1998, 'The horizon of cannibalism', in Lundberg A; Owler K (ed.), Food for Thought: New Directions in Sociology 5: Post-Graduate Conference, Food for Thought: New Directions in Sociology 5: Post-Graduate Conference, School of Sociology, The University of New South Wales, pp. 33 - 37, presented at Food for Thought: New Directions in Sociology 5: Post-Graduate Conference, School of Sociology, The University of New South Wales, 19 September 1998 - 20 September 1998