Patulny, Roger

Overview

Roger Patulny is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His primary research areas are in the sociology of emotions, emotion management and wellbeing, social capital and social connection, social networks, meaningful work futures, precarity and unemployment, and aspects of urban studies. He is a co-founder of the Contemporary Emotions Research Network (CERN), and the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Thematic Group on the Sociology of Emotions and Affect (SEA). He has published widely on the topics of emotions, social capital, social inclusion and connection, gender, social networks, volunteering and trust. He completed the ARC Discovery 2009-11: ‘Poor Women and Lonely Men: Examining Gendered Social Inclusion and Connection in Australia’, and the ARC Linkage 2015-18: ‘Who You Know or Where You Go? The Role of Formal and Informal Networks in Finding Employment and Maintaining Wellbeing’. He also contributed to and co-edited the 2012 Special Edition on ‘Emotions in Social Life and Social Policy’ for the Australian Journal of Social Issues, the 2015 Special Sections on the Sociology of Emotions for Emotion Review, and is the lead editor of the 2019 Routledge collection on Emotions in Late Modernity.

Research Areas

1608 - SOCIOLOGY

Research Overview

Dr Roger Patulny is an Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has published two books, 14 book chapters/discussion papers, 40 peer-reviewed journal articles (80% in Q1/Q2 journals), and 7 refereed conference papers (57 total) on topics around the sociology of emotions, emotion management, social capital, social inclusion and connection, unemployment and work, social mix in public housing, gender, social networks, volunteering and trust. He presently has 1,298 citations in Google Scholar, with an h-index of 18 and i10-index of 34.

He has been a CI on various ARC and other competitive grants that have attracted approximately $725,000 in funding. These include the ARC Discovery 2009-11: ‘Poor Women and Lonely Men: Examining Gendered Social Inclusion and Connection in Australia’, and the recent ARC Linkage 2015-18: ‘Who You Know or Where You Go? The Role of Formal and Informal Networks in Finding Employment and Maintaining Wellbeing’.

He is the lead editor of the 2019 collection Emotions in Late Modernity. He also contributed to and co-edited the 2012 Special Edition on ‘Emotions in Social Life and Social Policy’ for the Australian Journal of Social Issues, and the 2015 Special Sections on the Sociology of Emotions for Emotion Review. He is a co-founder and co-convenor of the Contemporary Emotions Research Network (CERN), and co-founded the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Thematic Group on the Sociology of Emotions and Affect (SEA). A detailed description of his research and teaching, and a full list of his publications, can be found at: http://rpatulny.com

Available as Research Supervisor

Head Of

Contemporary Emotions Research Network Convenor 2015 - 2019

Member Of

The Sociology of Emotions and Affect Thematic Group (TASA) Member 2012 - 2019
The Australian Sociological Association Member 2004 - 2019

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Does social media make us more or less lonely? Depends on how you use it Published In The Conversation
2020	Networks, case managers, and the job-search experiences of unemployed people Published In Social Policy and Administration
2020	Reconnecting after coronavirus – 4 key ways cities can counter anxiety and loneliness Published In The Conversation
2020	Should I use my ‘weak’ social capital or ‘strong’ guanxi? Reviewing and critiquing two theories in the context of Western-Chinese migration Published In Journal of Sociology
2020	The emotional trade-off between meaningful and precarious work in new economies Published In Journal of Sociology
2019	Emotion management and solidarity in the workplace: A call for a new research agenda Published In The Sociological Review
2019	Emotional Compliance and Emotion as Resistance: Shame and Anger among the Long-Term Unemployed Published In Work, Employment and Society
2019	Gendered emotion management and teacher outcomes in secondary school teaching: A review Published In Teaching and Teacher Education
2019	Social Emotions: A Multidisciplinary Approach Published In Emotions: History, Culture, Society
2019	Social Isolation as Stigma-Management: Explaining Long-Term Unemployed People’s ‘Failure’ to Network Published In Sociology
2019	The strong, the weak and the meaningful: Do friends or acquaintances help us get “any” job, or “meaningful” work? Published In International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
2019	These ‘job snob’ claims don’t match the evidence Published In The Conversation
2019	To move or not to move: mobility decision-making in the context of welfare conditionality and paid employment Published In Mobilities
2019	Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: Gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging Published In Journal of Sociology
2018	The Relationship between Governance Networks and Social Networks: Progress, Problems and Prospects Published In Political Studies Review
2017	'I'll just text you': is face-to-face social contact declining in a mediated world? Published In Journal of Sociology
2017	Generalising men’s affective experiences Published In Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies
2017	Indigenous children's multimodal communication of emotions through visual imagery Published In Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
2017	The sociology of emotions: A meta-reflexive review of a theoretical tradition in flux Published In Journal of Sociology
2015	Exposing the “wellbeing gap” between American men and women: revelations from the sociology of emotion surveys Published In Emotion Review
2015	Introduction: Embracing emotional research: methodological challenges in the sociology of emotions Published In Emotion Review
2015	Liveable cities: who decides what that means and how we achieve it? Published In The Conversation
2015	The front line of social capital creation – A natural experiment in symbolic interaction Published In Social Science and Medicine
2013	Are we reaching them yet? Service access patterns amongst attendees at the headspace youth mental health initiative Published In Child and Adolescent Mental Health
2013	Don’t be fooled, loneliness affects men too Published In The Conversation
2013	Poor mothers and lonely single males: the ‘essentially’ excluded women and men of Australia Published In Social Policy and Society
2013	The global financial crisis and child poverty: The case of Australia 2006-10 Published In Social Policy and Administration: an international journal of policy and research
2012	Advancing wellbeing research: Would Americans be happier if they lived like Australians? Published In Australian Journal of Social Issues
2012	Introduction to the Special Issue on emotions in social life and social policy Published In Australian Journal of Social Issues
2012	Is social mixing of tenures a solution for public housing estates? Published In Evidence Base
2012	Questioning the need for social mix - the implications of friendship diversity amongst Australian social housing tenants Published In Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies
2012	Social connectedness and generalized trust: a longitudinal perspective Published In ISER Working Paper Series
2012	Social contact, efficacy and support amongst Australian fathers Published In Journal of Family Studies
2011	Does partnership funding improve coordination and collaboration among early childhood services? Experiences from the Communities for Children Program Published In Child and Family Social Work
2011	Early impacts of Communities for Children on children and families: findings from a quasi-experimental cohort study Published In Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
2011	Social Trust, Social Partner Time and Television Time Published In Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement
2009	The golden years?: social isolation among retired men and women in Australia Published In Family Matters
2007	Exploring the social capital grid: bonding, bridging, qualitative, quantitative Published In International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

Book

Year	Title
2010	Society Building – Welfare, Time and Social Capital Publisher Saarbrueken

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	Conclusion emotions in late modernity Published In Emotions in late modernity Publisher NewYork
2019	Introduction Published In Emotions in late modernity Publisher New York
2019	Loneliness and love in late modernity: Sites of tension and resistance Published In Emotions in late modernity Publisher Oxon, United Kingdom
2015	A spectrum of integration: examining combinations of bonding and bridging social capital and network heterogeneity amongst Australian refugee and skilled migrants Published In Migrant Capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies Publisher United Kingdom
2015	Social connectedness and generalized trust: a longitudinal perspective Published In Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Social Capital Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom
2013	Counting men: quantitative approaches to the study of men and masculinities Published In Men, Masculinities and Methodologies Publisher United Kingdom
2013	Time and emotion in public and private spaces Published In Personal and Public Lives and Relationships in a Changing Social World Publisher United Kingdom
2010	Re-evaluating the links between social trust, institutional trust and civic association Published In Spatial and Social Disparities: Understanding Population Trends and Processes, Vol 2 Publisher London
2009	The sociability of nations: international comparisons in bonding, bridging and linking social capital Published In Hand Book of Social Capital: The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics Publisher Cheltenham

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2012	The need for an emotional work survey Published In Proceedings of 'Emerging and Enduring Inequalities', the Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference (TASA 2012), St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
2011	Advancing wellbeing research: would Americans be happier if they lived like Australians? Published In Emotions in Social Life: New Advance in Sociological and Policy Research
2011	The social penalty of work/family balance. Comparing Australian men and women's social contact with ex-household friends and family Published In The 2011 Australian Sociological Association Conference - Local Lives/Global Networks
2011	Understanding the role of social contact in wellbeing, time and emotions research Published In Happiness and Well-being: Advancing the contribution of sociology
2010	Are we enjoying our time? a gender perspective Published In Personal and Public Lives: Exploring Relationships, Roles and Responsibilities
2010	Are we having a good time, boys and girls? The need for time and affect methodologies in understanding gendered wellbeing Published In Wellbeing Workshop, Centre for Human and Social Capital Research
2010	Do men and women care if they are socially excluded or isolated? Published In The Australian Sociological Association Conference
2009	Ex-household social contact amongst retired men and women in Australia Published In Australian Social Policy Conference 2009
2009	Increasing the social participation of young people with mental health problems Published In Disability Studies and Research Centre Conference
2009	The Metropolis and Mental Strife - measuring the effect of urban living and conformity to emotion norms in urbanised societies upon emotionality, using the European Social Survey Published In Abstract book of ESA2009: 9th Conference of European Sociological Association
2009	The relationship between mental health and perceived wellbeing for people with mental illness Published In UNSW Research Showcase
2008	Social time and social trust Published In International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) Conference 2008)
2008	The harried leisure class? Time stress and social activity in Australia Published In International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) Conference 2008
2008	The social engagement of older people in Australia Published In Families Through Life: 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference Proceedings
2007	'Generalised' or ‘particularised’ happiness measures? Implications for time diary research into happiness Published In International Conference on Policies for Happiness
2007	Can we trust the general trust question? A survey experiment Published In 62nd American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference
2007	Re-evaluating the individual level causes of trust: a panel data analysis Published In Reciprocity: Theories and Facts Conference
2007	Social and political trust: a longitudinal and comparative perspective? Published In Understanding Trends And Processes (UPTAP) 2007 Conference
2007	Social trust, political trust and civic engagement Published In European Survey Research Association (ESRA) 2007 Conference
2007	What makes trusters trust? Published In International Conference Reciprocity: Theories and Facts Conference

Editor Of

Book
- Emotions in late modernity. Oxon, United Kingdom. 2019

Investigator On

Year	Title
2014	Who you know or where you go? The role of formal and informal networks in finding employment and maintaining wellbeing Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Other Research Activities

Poor Women and Lonely men – Examining gendered social connections and social exclusion in Australia’ Chief Investigator 2009 - 2012

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Emotions, Sociology of Emotions, Emotion Management, Social Capital, Social Cohesion, Urban Communities, Masculinities, Intimacy

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Can online applications alleviate offline loneliness? An analysis of the Meet-Up website
Doctor of Philosophy	Cyber-deviance: online (in)appropriateness, troll communities and the use of irony/satire	Smith, Vern

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4510-6987 (confirmed)

Research Areas

1608 - SOCIOLOGY

Research Overview

Dr Roger Patulny is an Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has published two books, 14 book chapters/discussion papers, 40 peer-reviewed journal articles (80% in Q1/Q2 journals), and 7 refereed conference papers (57 total) on topics around the sociology of emotions, emotion management, social capital, social inclusion and connection, unemployment and work, social mix in public housing, gender, social networks, volunteering and trust. He presently has 1,298 citations in Google Scholar, with an h-index of 18 and i10-index of 34.

He has been a CI on various ARC and other competitive grants that have attracted approximately $725,000 in funding. These include the ARC Discovery 2009-11: ‘Poor Women and Lonely Men: Examining Gendered Social Inclusion and Connection in Australia’, and the recent ARC Linkage 2015-18: ‘Who You Know or Where You Go? The Role of Formal and Informal Networks in Finding Employment and Maintaining Wellbeing’.

He is the lead editor of the 2019 collection Emotions in Late Modernity. He also contributed to and co-edited the 2012 Special Edition on ‘Emotions in Social Life and Social Policy’ for the Australian Journal of Social Issues, and the 2015 Special Sections on the Sociology of Emotions for Emotion Review. He is a co-founder and co-convenor of the Contemporary Emotions Research Network (CERN), and co-founded the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Thematic Group on the Sociology of Emotions and Affect (SEA). A detailed description of his research and teaching, and a full list of his publications, can be found at: http://rpatulny.com

Head Of

Contemporary Emotions Research Network Convenor 2015 - 2019

Member Of

The Sociology of Emotions and Affect Thematic Group (TASA) Member 2012 - 2019
The Australian Sociological Association Member 2004 - 2019

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Does social media make us more or less lonely? Depends on how you use it Published In The Conversation
2020	Networks, case managers, and the job-search experiences of unemployed people Published In Social Policy and Administration
2020	Reconnecting after coronavirus – 4 key ways cities can counter anxiety and loneliness Published In The Conversation
2020	Should I use my ‘weak’ social capital or ‘strong’ guanxi? Reviewing and critiquing two theories in the context of Western-Chinese migration Published In Journal of Sociology
2020	The emotional trade-off between meaningful and precarious work in new economies Published In Journal of Sociology
2019	Emotion management and solidarity in the workplace: A call for a new research agenda Published In The Sociological Review
2019	Emotional Compliance and Emotion as Resistance: Shame and Anger among the Long-Term Unemployed Published In Work, Employment and Society
2019	Gendered emotion management and teacher outcomes in secondary school teaching: A review Published In Teaching and Teacher Education
2019	Social Emotions: A Multidisciplinary Approach Published In Emotions: History, Culture, Society
2019	Social Isolation as Stigma-Management: Explaining Long-Term Unemployed People’s ‘Failure’ to Network Published In Sociology
2019	The strong, the weak and the meaningful: Do friends or acquaintances help us get “any” job, or “meaningful” work? Published In International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
2019	These ‘job snob’ claims don’t match the evidence Published In The Conversation
2019	To move or not to move: mobility decision-making in the context of welfare conditionality and paid employment Published In Mobilities
2019	Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: Gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging Published In Journal of Sociology
2018	The Relationship between Governance Networks and Social Networks: Progress, Problems and Prospects Published In Political Studies Review
2017	'I'll just text you': is face-to-face social contact declining in a mediated world? Published In Journal of Sociology
2017	Generalising men’s affective experiences Published In Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies
2017	Indigenous children's multimodal communication of emotions through visual imagery Published In Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
2017	The sociology of emotions: A meta-reflexive review of a theoretical tradition in flux Published In Journal of Sociology
2015	Exposing the “wellbeing gap” between American men and women: revelations from the sociology of emotion surveys Published In Emotion Review
2015	Introduction: Embracing emotional research: methodological challenges in the sociology of emotions Published In Emotion Review
2015	Liveable cities: who decides what that means and how we achieve it? Published In The Conversation
2015	The front line of social capital creation – A natural experiment in symbolic interaction Published In Social Science and Medicine
2013	Are we reaching them yet? Service access patterns amongst attendees at the headspace youth mental health initiative Published In Child and Adolescent Mental Health
2013	Don’t be fooled, loneliness affects men too Published In The Conversation
2013	Poor mothers and lonely single males: the ‘essentially’ excluded women and men of Australia Published In Social Policy and Society
2013	The global financial crisis and child poverty: The case of Australia 2006-10 Published In Social Policy and Administration: an international journal of policy and research
2012	Advancing wellbeing research: Would Americans be happier if they lived like Australians? Published In Australian Journal of Social Issues
2012	Introduction to the Special Issue on emotions in social life and social policy Published In Australian Journal of Social Issues
2012	Is social mixing of tenures a solution for public housing estates? Published In Evidence Base
2012	Questioning the need for social mix - the implications of friendship diversity amongst Australian social housing tenants Published In Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies
2012	Social connectedness and generalized trust: a longitudinal perspective Published In ISER Working Paper Series
2012	Social contact, efficacy and support amongst Australian fathers Published In Journal of Family Studies
2011	Does partnership funding improve coordination and collaboration among early childhood services? Experiences from the Communities for Children Program Published In Child and Family Social Work
2011	Early impacts of Communities for Children on children and families: findings from a quasi-experimental cohort study Published In Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
2011	Social Trust, Social Partner Time and Television Time Published In Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement
2009	The golden years?: social isolation among retired men and women in Australia Published In Family Matters
2007	Exploring the social capital grid: bonding, bridging, qualitative, quantitative Published In International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

Book

Year	Title
2010	Society Building – Welfare, Time and Social Capital Publisher Saarbrueken

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	Conclusion emotions in late modernity Published In Emotions in late modernity Publisher NewYork
2019	Introduction Published In Emotions in late modernity Publisher New York
2019	Loneliness and love in late modernity: Sites of tension and resistance Published In Emotions in late modernity Publisher Oxon, United Kingdom
2015	A spectrum of integration: examining combinations of bonding and bridging social capital and network heterogeneity amongst Australian refugee and skilled migrants Published In Migrant Capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies Publisher United Kingdom
2015	Social connectedness and generalized trust: a longitudinal perspective Published In Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Social Capital Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom
2013	Counting men: quantitative approaches to the study of men and masculinities Published In Men, Masculinities and Methodologies Publisher United Kingdom
2013	Time and emotion in public and private spaces Published In Personal and Public Lives and Relationships in a Changing Social World Publisher United Kingdom
2010	Re-evaluating the links between social trust, institutional trust and civic association Published In Spatial and Social Disparities: Understanding Population Trends and Processes, Vol 2 Publisher London
2009	The sociability of nations: international comparisons in bonding, bridging and linking social capital Published In Hand Book of Social Capital: The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics Publisher Cheltenham

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2012	The need for an emotional work survey Published In Proceedings of 'Emerging and Enduring Inequalities', the Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference (TASA 2012), St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
2011	Advancing wellbeing research: would Americans be happier if they lived like Australians? Published In Emotions in Social Life: New Advance in Sociological and Policy Research
2011	The social penalty of work/family balance. Comparing Australian men and women's social contact with ex-household friends and family Published In The 2011 Australian Sociological Association Conference - Local Lives/Global Networks
2011	Understanding the role of social contact in wellbeing, time and emotions research Published In Happiness and Well-being: Advancing the contribution of sociology
2010	Are we enjoying our time? a gender perspective Published In Personal and Public Lives: Exploring Relationships, Roles and Responsibilities
2010	Are we having a good time, boys and girls? The need for time and affect methodologies in understanding gendered wellbeing Published In Wellbeing Workshop, Centre for Human and Social Capital Research
2010	Do men and women care if they are socially excluded or isolated? Published In The Australian Sociological Association Conference
2009	Ex-household social contact amongst retired men and women in Australia Published In Australian Social Policy Conference 2009
2009	Increasing the social participation of young people with mental health problems Published In Disability Studies and Research Centre Conference
2009	The Metropolis and Mental Strife - measuring the effect of urban living and conformity to emotion norms in urbanised societies upon emotionality, using the European Social Survey Published In Abstract book of ESA2009: 9th Conference of European Sociological Association
2009	The relationship between mental health and perceived wellbeing for people with mental illness Published In UNSW Research Showcase
2008	Social time and social trust Published In International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) Conference 2008)
2008	The harried leisure class? Time stress and social activity in Australia Published In International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) Conference 2008
2008	The social engagement of older people in Australia Published In Families Through Life: 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference Proceedings
2007	'Generalised' or ‘particularised’ happiness measures? Implications for time diary research into happiness Published In International Conference on Policies for Happiness
2007	Can we trust the general trust question? A survey experiment Published In 62nd American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference
2007	Re-evaluating the individual level causes of trust: a panel data analysis Published In Reciprocity: Theories and Facts Conference
2007	Social and political trust: a longitudinal and comparative perspective? Published In Understanding Trends And Processes (UPTAP) 2007 Conference
2007	Social trust, political trust and civic engagement Published In European Survey Research Association (ESRA) 2007 Conference
2007	What makes trusters trust? Published In International Conference Reciprocity: Theories and Facts Conference

Editor Of

Book
- Emotions in late modernity. Oxon, United Kingdom. 2019

Investigator On

Year	Title
2014	Who you know or where you go? The role of formal and informal networks in finding employment and maintaining wellbeing Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Other Research Activities

Poor Women and Lonely men – Examining gendered social connections and social exclusion in Australia’ Chief Investigator 2009 - 2012

Potential Supervision Topics

Emotions, Sociology of Emotions, Emotion Management, Social Capital, Social Cohesion, Urban Communities, Masculinities, Intimacy

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Can online applications alleviate offline loneliness? An analysis of the Meet-Up website
Doctor of Philosophy	Cyber-deviance: online (in)appropriateness, troll communities and the use of irony/satire	Smith, Vern

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4510-6987 (confirmed)

Overview

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Research Areas

Research Overview

Available as Research Supervisor

Affiliation

Head Of

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Affiliation

Head Of

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Identity

Orcid Id

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Research Areas