Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Steve Roberts is Professor of Education & Social Justice in the School of Education, Culture and Society. Steve is an internationally recognised expert in research on youth, social class inequality and young people’s transitions to adulthood, and also on the changing nature of men and masculinities. The latter includes men’s engagement with risky drinking; sexting; emotionality; computer gaming; violence; domestic labour; compulsory and post-compulsory education; employment. He has published widely in a variety of esteemed international journals, including The Sociological Review, Sociology, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Continuing Studies in Education, Boyhood Studies, British Educational Research Journal, Journal of Youth Studies, and New Media and Society. He is also (co)author of three research monographs, (co)editor of five edited volumes, and co-author of the teaching text book 'Youth Sociology' (Palgrave, 2020).
Steve is currently Associate Editor of Journal of Youth Studies, on the Editorial Board of Sociology, an International Advisory Editor of Men and Masculinities and a member of VicHealth's inaugral Research Expert Advisory Panel. He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Group of the Australian Institute for Family Studies ‘Ten to Men’ study from 2019-2021.
Steve has been awarded competitive research funding from the UK's ESRC, the Australian Research Council, VicHealth, ANROWS, Dept. of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Dept. of Education, Skills and Employment, among others. Notably, he was lead CI for the much publicised and prize winning 'Men’s Risky Drinking' project, funded by VicHealth.
Steve joined Monash University in February 2015, and was based in the School of Social Sciences for seven years before moving to the Faculty of Education. Prior to joining Monash he held ongoing academic positions at the School of Education, University of Southampton, and then at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent. Steve obtained an MA in Social Research Methods, a PhD in Social Policy (both funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council) and his teaching qualifications all at University of Kent.
Supervision interests
Steve is keen to hear from prospective research students who are interested in projects focussing on some aspect of either (broadly speaking):
1) men, masculinity, inequality and social change – this might be changes and continuities in masculinity, men's employment, men's education trajectories, men’s risk taking, men’s friendships, homophobia, sexuality, drinking practices.
2) young people’s transition to adulthood and their experience of the contemporary world - this might be gender identities (especially masculinity), housing, family formation, leisure lives, risk taking, cultural consumption, education or work, for example.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Research Expert Advisory Panel, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (trading as VicHealth) (Victoria)
2021 → 2024
Co-editor, Emerald Advances in Masculinities, Emerald Publishing
2020 → …
Associate Editor, Journal of Youth Studies
Jan 2018 → …
International Advisory Editor, Men and Masculinities
2018 → …
Co Editor in Chief, Sociological Research Online
Jan 2016 → Jan 2020
Research area keywords
- Masculinities
- Youth transitions
- Social Class
- Young People
- Social Justice
- Men and masculinity
- Social Change
- Higher education and lifelong learning
- Precarity
- Sexting
- Alcohol
- Men's Behaviour Change
- Education and Work
- Education aspirations
- Digital cultures
Network
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Alcohol consumption practices in crisis
Savic, M., Roberts, S., Elliott, K., Robards, B. & Dwyer, R.
12/05/21 → 30/03/24
Project: Research
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Barriers and drivers into young people aged 15-24 years utilising the National Careers Institute’s School Leavers Information Service
Roberts, S., Lyall, B., Smith, J., Robards, B., Trott, V., Wright, B., Waite, C. & Smith, J.
30/06/21 → 31/10/21
Project: Research
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Adolescent family violence in Australia: A national study of prevalence, use of and exposure to violence, and support needs for young people
Fitz-Gibbon, K., Meyer, S., Maher, J., Roberts, S. & Benier, K.
1/02/21 → 28/02/22
Project: Research
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A Citizen Science Approach to Monitoring unhealthy industry digital marketing to young people
Robards, B., Carah, N., Elliott, K., Tanner, C., Roberts, S., Dobson, A. & Savic, M.
1/09/20 → 17/09/21
Project: Research
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Young australians navigating the ‘careers information ecology’
Roberts, S., Lyall, B., Trott, V., Foeken, E., Smith, J., Robards, B., Genat, A., Graf, D., Jones, C., Marple, P., Waite, C. & Wright, B., Feb 2023, In: Youth. 3, 1, 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Adolescent family violence in Australia: A national study of prevalence, history of childhood victimisation and impacts
Fitz-Gibbon, K., Meyer, S., Boxall, H., Maher, J. & Roberts, S., Sep 2022, Australia. 88 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other › peer-review
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Caring masculinities among working-class men in blue-collar occupations in the UK: understanding biographies of care
Elliott, K. & Roberts, S., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Gender, Work and Organization. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Dark marketing tactics of harmful industries exposed by young citizen scientists
Robards, B., Carah, N., De Lazzari, C., Rangiah, L., Brown, M-G., Elliott, K., Tanner, C., Roberts, S., Savic, M. & Dobson, A., 2022, VicHealth.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other
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Evaluating programs aimed at gender transformative work with men and boys: a multi-cohort, cross-sector investigation
Elliott, K., Roberts, S., Ralph, B., Stewart, R., Walker, J. & O'Brien, K. S., 2022, VicHealth.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Other
Open Access
Prizes
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Dean's Award for Excellence in Honours Supervision, Faculty of Arts, 2019
Roberts, Steven (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Dean’s Award for Research Enterprise, Faculty of Education, 2022
Roberts, Steven (Recipient), Robards, Brady (Recipient) & Lyall, Ben (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Monash Graduate Association Supervisor of the Year Award, 2020
Roberts, Steven (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Special Commendation, Faculty of Arts Dean's Awards for Research Excellence 2021, Excellence for Research Enterprise
Robards, Brady (Recipient), Roberts, Steven (Recipient), Lyall, Ben (Recipient), Barbosa Neves, Barbara (Recipient), Ghazarian, Zareh (Recipient), Trott, Verity (Recipient), Lindsay, Jo (Recipient), Smith, J. (Recipient) & Laughland-Booy, J. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Special Commendation, Faculty of Arts Dean’s Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision, 2020
Roberts, Steven (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press/Media
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The Unfairer Sex podcast: The politics of masculinity
24/10/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs, Podcasts and Social Media › Podcasts
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What happens when your child turns 18 in Australia?
20/09/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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The myth of working-class men blocking gender equality
28/06/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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No, Prime Minister, not good enough: Scott Morrison’s tone-deaf response to Will Smith’s Oscars’ slap
Steven Roberts & Rebecca Stewart
31/03/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature