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Eve Vincent


Social Anthropologist  |  Author








Interviewer: Courtney Boag
Images: Provided by Dr Eve Vincent
Cinematography: Stéphanie Austruy

30 September, 2024





“Anthropology has a really important place in the future... in our complex world and for navigating complex relations across difference. I think it’s a training in being able to generate understanding and knowledge out of human interaction and out of humility.”


Eve Vincent

















Dr Eve Vincent is an anthropologist whose research spans Indigenous rights, environmental politics, welfare policy and social class in Australia. She completed her Honours in History at the University of Melbourne in 2003, examining the British atomic testing program in South Australia. Her subsequent PhD research at the University of Sydney focused on relationships between environmentalists and Indigenous people on South Australia's Far West Coast, leading to the co-edited volume Unstable Relations. During this fieldwork, she also studied the impacts of native title processes on Indigenous communities, publishing Against Native Title; Conflict and creativity in outback Australia.
                                                                         
Eve has conducted research on class and ethnic relations in Sydney schools, with findings published in several leading journals including Emotion, Space and Society and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Her recent work has focused on Australia's changing welfare system, particularly the cashless debit card trial and ParentsNext programme, resulting in Who Cares? Life on Welfare in Australia. In collaboration with Dr Rose Butler, Eve has also studied cross-class relationships and has published incredibly important insights about this research project in her recent book Love Across Class.

Her research consistently examines how policy and social structures affect everyday Australian life, with particular attention to marginalised communities and social inequality.































Interested to learn more about Eve’s research? Follow her work here. 



Learn more about Eve’s latest research in collaboartion with Dr Rose Butler, Love Across Class.


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