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Cathy Waite

0000-0002-3631-7291

Research Fellow (Economics; Education)

Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Cathy Waite is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University. Cathy’s scholarly work is concerned with highlighting the inequalities faced by young people in contemporary Australia and providing a voice for those on the margins. In particular, she is interested in young people in Australia’s rural and regional areas and their subjective experiences of space and place through the lens of digital media. Cathy’s current work in the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice seeks to change the conversation about young people in Australia within the current Covid-recovery landscape.

Publications

  • Smith, J., Waite, C., Lohm, D. and Arunachalam, D. (2020). Understanding the Lived Experiences of Housing and Transport Stress in the “Affordable” Outer Ring: A Case Study of Melbourne, Australia, accepted for publication at Urban Policy and Research.
  • France, A., Coffey, J., Roberts, S. and Waite, C. (2020). Youth Sociology. Macmillan: London (authors ordered alphabetically after first author)
  • Waite, C. (2019). Making place with mobile media: Young people’s blurred place-making in regional Australia, Mobile Media and Communication (published first online)
  • Waite, C. (2018). Young people’s place-making in a regional Australian town, Sociologia Ruralis, 58(2): 276-292.
  • Caygill, R., Peardon, M., Waite, C. and Wright, J. (2017). Comparing a longitudinal integrated clerkship with traditional hospital-based rotations in a rural setting, Medical Teacher, 39(5): 520-526.
  • Caygill, R., Peardon, M., Waite, C., Bradley, D., McIntyre, I. and Wright, J. (2016). Attitudes towards peer-review of teaching in medical education, Focus on Health Professional Education: A Multi-disciplinary Journal, 18(2): 47-52
  • Waite, C. and Bourke, L. (2015). Rural young peoples’ perspectives on online sociality: crossing geography and exhibiting self through Facebook, Rural Society, 24(2): 200-218
  • Waite, C. and Bourke, L. (2015). Using the cyborg to re-think young people’s uses of Facebook, Journal of Sociology, 51(3): 537-552
  • Bourke, L., Waite, C. and Wright, J. (2014). Mentoring as a retention strategy to sustain the rural and remote health workforce, The Australian Journal of Rural Health, 22(1): 2-7
  • Wright, J., Bourke, L., Waite, C., Holden, T., Goodwin, J., Marmo, A., Wilson, M., Malcolm, H. and Pierce, D. (2014). A short-term rural placement can change metropolitan students’ knowledge of, and attitudes to, rural practice, Medical Journal of Australia, 201(2): 106-108
  • Waite, C. and Bourke, L. (2013). ‘It’s different with a horse’: horses as a tool for engagement in a horse therapy program for marginalised young people, Youth Studies Australia, 32(4): 10-16
  • Bourke, L. and Waite, C. (2013). 'It's not like I have a disability or anything!’ Perceptions of disability and impairment among young, rural people, Disability Studies Quarterly, 33(3): 14-20
  • Bourke, L. and Waite, C (2011). ‘We’re not all the same!’ Heterogeneity of young people’s education and health in six country towns in northern Victoria. In J. Martin and T. Budge (eds) The Sustainability of Australia's Country Towns: Renewal, Renaissance, Resilience. VURRN Press Inc: 251-275
  • Negotiating senses of belonging and identity across education spaces
  • Young Australians Navigating the ‘Careers Information Ecology’
  • In their own words: 41 stories of young people’s digital citizenship
  • Constructing ‘Micro-territories of the local’: young people making place in regional Australia
  • Making place beyond the city through the lens of digital media: Culturally diverse young people negotiating social change in a rural city
  • Understanding the Lived Experiences of Housing and Transport Stress in the “Affordable” Outer Ring: A Case Study of Melbourne, Australia
  • Making place with mobile media: Young people’s blurred place-making in regional Australia
  • Young People's Place-Making in a Regional Australian Town
  • Comparing a longitudinal integrated clerkship with traditional hospital-based rotations in a rural setting
  • Attitudes towards peer review of teaching in medical education
  • Rural young people's perspectives on online sociality: crossing geography and exhibiting self through Facebook
  • Using the cyborg to re-think young people’s uses of Facebook
  • Mentoring as a retention strategy to sustain the rural and remote health workforce
  • A short‐term rural placement can change metropolitan medical students' knowledge of, and attitudes to, rural practice
  • "It's not like I have a disability or anything!" Perceptions of impairment and disability among rural, young people
  • The digital mediation of everyday lives in the city: young people negotiating troubled transitions during Covid-19
  • Young people, education, employment and civic life during a pandemic: Four provocations to social educators
  • Youth Sociology
  • ‘It’s different with a horse’: horses as a tool for engagement in a horse therapy program for marginalised young people
  • ‘We’re not all the same!’ Heterogeneity of young people’s education and health in six country towns in northern Victoria
  • ). Sociality online: An exploratory study into the online habits of young Australians
  • Building better food solutions: International students’ perspectives and experiences
  • The 2022 Australian Youth Barometer
  • Young women choosing careers: Who decides?
  • Realities of food insecurity for young people: Insights from the 2021 Australian Youth Barometer
  • Queer Young People in Australia: Insights from the 2021 Australian Youth Barometer
  • Young people's financial strategies: Insights from the Australian Youth Barometer
  • The 2021 Australian Youth Barometer
  • Soaring prices give out nation food for thought
  • ‘We get the raw deal out of almost everything’: a quarter of young Australians are pessimistic about having kids
  • Tax cuts for the young miss a key point: climate change

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