My name is Andrew Whelan (he/him), and I am a sociologist at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. I was born in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, and I live and work on unceded Yuin country. I was an IASH-SSPS Research Fellow at Edinburgh University in 2022, and a 2025/26 Fellow at the HWK in Delmenhorst.
I research the culture, politics and ethics of organizational media under datafication. I have a monograph forthcoming with MIT Press, titled Destruction of Documents. I also have current projects on automation in social welfare, on the history of predictive analytics in mental health, and on the history of algorithmic management.
I have taught undergrad subjects in microsociology, social theory, qualitative methods, youth cultures, and digital media culture. I currently teach a second year critical penology subject, and a third year subject called Cultures of Dispossession.
I have supervised Honours and PhD theses on online interaction, critical university studies, bureaucratic proceduralism in wildlife management, environmentalist opposition to fracking, youth social capital, horror as theory, working class animal activism, and (un)popular music, among other things.
This website, forever a work in progress, is a holding site for processing whatever research, reading or writing I am working on. I do not write on behalf of my employer, and what I write does not reflect the views of my employer.
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