I am currently a PhD candidate with the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Sydney.

My research is in the fields of masculinity studies and literary journalism, with a focus on ethnography, gender politics and multiculturalism. The project involves primary data collection via interview and survey.

You can follow my thesis research project “Our Boy: Raising Australian Men” at its Facebook page, here. To participate in this study, visit the survey page, here and/or contact me directly at rachael.bolton@sydney.edu.au.

In addition to my research I also work as a sessional academic, teaching on a variety of media topics including social media communication and literary journalism at the University of Sydney and in the field of international security and politics at Macquarie University.

Visit this page for updates and links to publications related to my field of study.

“What if we’ve had gender the wrong way around? What if, for workplace parity, we focused on men?”, The Conversation, 7 March 2019

“The struggles of being an Aussie bloke in 2017”, The New Daily, 11 November 2017

What if we’ve had gender the wrong way around? What if, for workplace parity, we focused on men? https://t.co/s7Bcvn5lUp @mediahaze #iwd #ausecon #auspol

— The Conversation (@ConversationEDU) March 6, 2019

You can view my ORCID research profile here: orcid.org/0000-0003-3348-2344