Professor Roger Patulny
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Position: Visiting Fellow
School and/or Centres: School of Sociology

Email: rpatulny@hkbu.edu.hk

Website: https://rpatulny.com/

Roger Patulny is a Professor of Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has held prior positions at the University of Wollongong and the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the University of Surry, UK. His research interests include sociological studies of loneliness, social isolation, the sociology of emotions, emotion management, social capital, social inclusion and connection, unemployment and the future of work, social mix in public housing, gender and social networks, volunteering, trust, and digital interaction.

He has been a Chief Investigator on competitive grants that have attracted over $1.1 million AUS in funding. These include the ARC Discovery 2009-11: ‘Poor Women and Lonely Men: Examining Gendered Social Inclusion and Connection in Australia’, the ARC Linkage 2015-17: ‘Who You Know or Where You Go? The Role of Formal and Informal Networks in Finding Employment and Maintaining Wellbeing’, and the ARC Discovery 2023-25 ‘How parents manage climate anxiety: coping and hoping for the whole family’. He has served on the executive of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and co-founded TASA's Sociology of Emotions and Affect (TASA_SEA) Thematic Group.

Loneliness; Social Isolation; the Sociology of Emotions; Emotion Management; Social Capital; Social Inclusion and Connection; Unemployment and the Future of Work; Social Mix in Public Housing; Gendered Social Networks; Volunteering; Trust; and Digital Interaction

Roger has published over 100 academic publications, including 3 books, 3 special editions, 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, 21 book chapters/discussion papers, 7 refereed conference papers, 14 social policy reports, and 10 articles for The Conversation. He has over 2,400 citations in Google Scholar, with an h-index of 28 and i10-index of 57. His research has been reported in various news outlets including: The Guardian, The Australian, ABC, SBS, BBC, The New Daily, The Australian Women’s Weekly, News.com, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Daily Telegraph, and Xinhua, and on TV on Chanel 10’s The Project. His 10 articles written for The Conversation have attracted over 483,000 reads.

Roger's publications can be found here.

  • 2015-2017 ARC Linkage Grant, 2015-2017, ‘Who You Know or Where You Go? The Role of Formal and Informal Networks in Finding Employment and Maintaining Wellbeing.’ (CIs G. Ramia, G. Marston, R. Patulny), $197,800, Project ID – LP140100033
  • 2015 UOW LHA Faculty Challenge Grant (FCG), ‘National Survey of Emotions and Emotion Management.’ (CIs R. Patulny), $15,000
  • 2014 UOW LHA Faculty Challenge Grant (FCG), ‘Survey of Mentoring, Wellbeing and Emotion in the Lives of Students (MWELS).’ (CIs R. Patulny, S. Brown, S. Cooper), $3,000
  • UOW LHA Conference, Exhibition and Performance Grant (CEPS) ‘6th Midterm Conference of the Research Network Sociology of Emotions.’ (CIs R. Patulny), $3,000
  • 2013 UOW Faculty of Arts ARPF Grant, ‘Examining social networks and connections amongst Australian War Veterans’ (CIs R. Patulny, P. Siminski), $6,000
  • UOW Faculty of Arts Conference Grant, ‘American Sociological Association (ASA) Conference, New York, USA, 10-13 August 2013’ (CI R. Patulny), $1,957
  • TASA Thematic Group Workshop Support for ‘Measuring Emotions‘, 2013 (CIs R. Patulny, M. Homes, J Sinclair), $2,000
  • 2012 TASA Thematic Group Workshop Support Grant, ‘Mapping the Terrain‘, (CIs R. Patulny, M. Homes, J. Sinclair CI’s), $2,000
  • 2011 UNSW-SPRC Grant ‘Workshop on Emotions in Social Life – (CIs R. Patulny, N. Cortis), $6,400
  • UNSW-SPRC Grant, ‘Examining Gender networks and social support using the Australian Social Attitudes Survey’, (CIs R. Patulny), $4,000
  • 2009-2011 ARC Discovery Grant, 2009-2011, ‘Poor Women and Lonely men – Examining gendered social connections and social exclusion in Australia’, (CI R. Patulny, Post-Doctoral Research), $270,000, Project ID – DP0988102
  • 2006 Consultancy European Commission Report, ’Indicators on informal and non-formal educational contributors to citizenship within Europe’, (CIs J. Holford, P. Sturgis, R. Patulny), $5,000
  • 2004 University of Essex, UK Consultancy, ‘Harmonisation of the US Heritage Tme Use File, 1995 and 1998-99’, $5,000
  • 2004 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW, Competitive overseas conference travel funding, IATUR, Rome, $2,500
  • 2003 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW, Competitive overseas conference travel funding, IATUR, Brussels, $3,000.