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Overview

Bruce Tranter is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Social Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work primarily spans Sociology and Political Science, as well as areas related to Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Health, and Ecology.

The research topics explored by Tranter include Climate Change Communication and Perception, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Polar Research and Ecology, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, and Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving.

Tranter's recent publications cover a range of social and environmental issues. These include:

  • "In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change," 2023, Public Understanding of Science
  • "Loneliness and the cultural, spatial, temporal and generational bases of belonging," 2021, Australian Journal of Psychology
  • "Climate Change Knowledge and Political Identity in Australia," 2021, SAGE Open
  • "Only in Queensland? Coal mines and voting in the 2019 Australian federal election," 2020, Environmental Sociology
  • "House and contents underinsurance: Insights from bushfire-prone Australia," 2022, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Frequent co-authors in Tranter's research include Adrian Franklin, Elizabeth Leane, Jonathan Smith, Libby Lester, and Kerrie Foxwell-Norton.

The primary venues where Tranter has published regularly include:

  • Australian Journal of Social Issues
  • Australian Journal of Psychology
  • Public Understanding of Science
  • Antarctic Science
  • Environmental Sociology

Best Publications

  • Scepticism in a changing climate: A cross-national study

    Bruce Tranter;Kate Booth

  • Beyond the 'digital divide' Internet diffusion and inequality in Australia

    Suzanne Willis;Bruce Tranter

  • Political divisions over climate change and environmental issues in Australia

    Bruce Tranter

  • Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale: Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties.

    Michael J. Annear;Christine M. Toye;Christine M. Toye;Claire E. Eccleston;Frances J. McInerney

  • General practitioners’ attitudes toward complementary therapies

    G Easthope;BK Tranter;GF Gill

  • Expecting the unexpected Young people's expectations about marriage and family

    Zlatko Skrbis;Mark Western;Bruce Keith Tranter;David Hogan

  • Neoliberalism, inequality and politics: The changing face of Australia

    Mark C. Western;Janeen H. Baxter;J Pakulski;Bruce Tranter

  • The Great Divide: political candidate and voter polarisation over Global Warming in Australia

    Bruce Tranter

  • Civic, national and denizen identity in Australia

    Jan Pakulski;Bruce Tranter

  • Colonial and post-colonial aspects of Australian identity.

    Bruce Tranter;Jed Donoghue

  • What should we know about dementia in the 21st century? A Delphi consensus study.

    Michael J Annear;Christine M Toye;Frances J McInerney;Claire E A Eccleston

  • Normal medical practice of referring patients for complementary therapies among Australian general practitioners.

    G Easthope;B Tranter;Gerard Gill

  • Acupuncture in Australian General Practice: Patient Characteristics

    Gary Easthope;Gerard F. Gill;Justin J. Beilby;Bruce K. Tranter

  • Home Visits: Transnationalism among Australian Migrants

    Martin O'Flaherty;Zlatko Skrbis;Bruce Tranter

  • The influence of political leaders on climate change attitudes

    Thad Kousser;Bruce Tranter

  • The Dynamics of Environmental Issues in Australia: Concerns, Clusters and Carriers

    Jan Pakulski;Bruce Tranter;Stephen Crook

  • The social bases of environmentalism in Australia

    Bruce Tranter

  • Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: Gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging:

    Adrian Franklin;Barbara Barbosa Neves;Nicholas Hookway;Roger Patulny

  • A New Standard in Dementia Knowledge Measurement: Comparative Validation of the Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale and the Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge Scale.

    Michael J. Annear;Claire E. Eccleston;Frances J. McInerney;Kate Ellen J. Elliott

  • When disaster strikes: Under-insurance in Australian households

    Kate Booth;Bruce Tranter

  • Environmental activists and non-active environmentalists in Australia

    Bruce Tranter

  • Social and political influences on environmentalism in Australia

    Bruce Tranter

  • It’s only natural: conservatives and climate change in Australia

    Bruce Tranter

  • Environmentalism and Social Differentiation A paper in memory of Steve Crook

    Jan Pakulski;Bruce Tranter

  • Paying for Environmental Protection in a Cross-national Perspective

    Galina Ivanova;Bruce Tranter

  • Bushrangers: Ned Kelly and Australian identity:

    Bruce Tranter;Jed Donoghue

  • Postmaterial Values and Age: The Case of Australia

    Bruce Tranter;Mark Western

Frequent Co-Authors

Rowland Atkinson
Rowland Atkinson University of Sheffield
Janeen Baxter
Janeen Baxter University of Queensland
Thad Kousser
Thad Kousser University of California, San Diego

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