Rate My Professor Duane Duncan

Dr. Duane Duncan serves as Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education at the University of New England. He earned his PhD in Sociology from Monash University, MA from Victoria University of Wellington, and BA (Hons) from the same institution. Previously, Duncan held the position of Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Duncan's academic interests focus on sex, sexuality, and intimacy; theories of the body and embodiment; and men, masculinity, and health. Notable grants include one from beyondblue on gay men's experiences of prostate cancer and an Australian Research Council Discovery grant for 'Muscling Up,' a qualitative study of young Australian men's body modification practices, weight training, and anabolic steroid use in relation to self-improvement, health, and sexual life amid shifting masculine norms. Key publications comprise 'Men, bodywork, health and the potentiality of Performance and Image-Enhancing Drugs' (Health Sociology Review, 2023, with Dowsett, Waling, Angelides, Nourse); 'The hammer and the nail: The triple lock of methods, realities and institutional contexts in Australian research on nightlife violence' (International Journal of Drug Policy, 2022, with Moore, Keane, Ekendahl, Graham); 'Noticed and then forgotten: Gender in alcohol policy stakeholder responses to alcohol and violence' (Qualitative Health Research, 2022, with Farrugia et al.); 'Obscuring gendered differences: The treatment of violence in Australian government alcohol policy' (Social Politics, 2021); 'Displacements of gender: Research on alcohol, violence and the night-time economy' (Journal of Sociology, 2020, with Moore, Keane, Ekendahl); and 'Women’s accounts of men’s bodies and objectification in post-feminist times' (Sexualities, 2020, with Waling et al.). Duncan coordinates the Bachelor of Criminology and Bachelor of Social Science programs and teaches courses such as SOCY110 Thinking Sociologically, SOCY321 Health in Social Perspective, SOCY360 Social Inequality, and SOCY593 The Social Body: Identity, Diversity, Embodiment.