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Dr Kath Albury - Bio

Dr Kath Albury

Kath is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communications at the University of NSW. She has lectured in Media and Communications and Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is a member of the Australian Society of Sex Educators, Researchers and Therapists (ASSERT NSW), and the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia.

Since 1996 she has worked with the fabulous Vanessa Wagner as sexual health educator/entertainer, in the guise of her alter ego 'Nurse Nancy. With Vanessa, she has performed for organizations including the AIDS Treatment Project Australia, and National Association of People with AIDS. Kath has been a member of the NSW Health Ministerial Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS and STIs, Health Promotion Sub Committee since 2004.

In 2004-2005 Kath was a member of the 'Playing By the Rules' project, commissioned by the National Rugby League, devising and delivering educational workshops for professional Rugby League players. The project won a NSW Premier's Violence Against Women Prevention Award in 2005. Her current research - a collaboration between UNSW, the National Rugby League and the NSW Rape Crisis Centre - will expand and extend this work.

Kath is an experienced media commentator, and has written opinion articles and features for publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, and New Matilda. She was a founding member of 'The Brains Trust' on ABC TV's The Einstein Factor, and was television reviewer for ABC Radio National's The Deep End from 2004-2005.

Her first book Yes Means Yes: getting explicit about heterosex was published by Allen and Unwin, 2002.

Research Projects

ARC Linkage Grant 2006-2008 'Safer Sex Beliefs and Practices in Multi-Partner Heterosexuals' Research Partnership with the Family Planning Association of NSW Co-Chief Investigator with Clifton Evers and Catharine Lumby (University of NSW)

ARC Discovery Grant 2006 –2011 'The Well-Rounded Person: The role of sport
in shaping Physical, Emotional and Social Development' Co-Chief Investigator with Catharine Lumby, Jenny O'Dea and Elspeth Probyn (University of Sydney)

ARC Discovery Grant 2001-03 'Understanding Pornography in Australia'
Co-Chief Investigator with Catharine Lumby and Alan McKee (Queensland University of Technology)

Publications

Books

    The Porn Book
    Co-authors Alan McKee and Catharine Lumby
    University of Melbourne Press (in press)

    F**k Buddies: Sex, Love & Friendship (working title)
    University of Melbourne Press (forthcoming, 2008)

    Yes Means Yes: getting explicit about heterosex
    Allen & Unwin, 2002

Chapters

    'Pornography' in
    Perspectives in Human Sexuality,
    Gail Hawkes and John Scott (eds)
    Oxford University Press, 2004

    'The Ethics of Porn on the Net' in
    Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics,
    Catharine Lumby and Elspeth Probyn (eds)
    Cambridge University Press, 2003

Research Report

    Playing By the Rules: On and Off the Field
    Co-authors Catharine Lumby, Wendy McCarthy
    University of Sydney, National Rugby League
    December 2004

Refereed articles

    'Full-body-mega-kundalinigasm: sacred sex and sexual politics'
    Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
    15 (2) 2001

    'Spaceship Triple J: making the national youth network'
    Media International Australia (incorporating Culture and Policy) No 91, May 1999

    'Instant Sexpert: academic expertise and media experiences'
    Media International Australia (incorporating Culture and Policy) No 92, August 1999

    'Spanking stories: reading and writing bad female heterosex'
    Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
    12(1) April 1998

    'Homie-Erotica': Heterosexual Female Desire in The Picture'
    Media International Australia, No 84, May 1997

Other articles - journalism

Review

    'Girls Like You' by Paul Sheehan
    Sydney Morning Herald 15 August 2006
    http://www.smh.com.au/news/book-reviews/girls-like-you/
    2006/08/15/1155407792829.html

Feature

    'Swinging subcultures'
    HIV Australia Vol 5 No 4 July 2007
    http://www.afao.org.au/view_articles.asp?
    pxa=ve&pxs=103&pxsc=127&pxsgc=138&id=630

    'Go and get Real'
    New Matilda Issue 78 www.newmatilda.com
    February 2006

    'Porno-chic, Fembots and Girly-girls'
    New Matilda Issue 62 www.newmatilda.com
    November 2005

    'The trouble with sex'
    Sydney Morning Herald, 24-25 April 2004

    'Porn again'
    The Big Issue Australia, No 197 23 Feb 2004

    'Public Sex'
    HIV Australia Vol 12 No 4 July 2003
    http://www.afao.org.au/index_afa_771.asp?
    section=1006&action=view_article&id=2942&third=sec_clo#jul3

    'NVE and community standards: whose community are we talking about?'
    Adult Industry Review, Vol 2, No 3, 1999
    Online at http://libertus.net/censor/odocs/alburynve.html

Opinion

    'Ethics of porn are in the eye of the beholder'
    Sydney Morning Herald, 28 May 2007
    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/05/27/1180205070043.html

    'Blanket censorship stifles access to help'
    The Australian, 20 August 2004

    'Sexing the memoir' The Australian, 19 May 2003
    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/
    story_page/0,5744,6455602%255E12377,00.html

    'Curious teens need to be informed about sex, not controlled'
    Sydney Morning Herald, 4 March 2003
    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/03/1046540134744.html

    'NVE is Back...and it sucks' (as Nurse Nancy)
    Eros, Vol1, No 2, 2000
    Online at http://libertus.net/censor/odocs/nveisback.html