Emma Rush

Emma Rush is a lecturer in philosophy and ethics at Charles Sturt University Faculty of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, notable for her work on sexualisation of children.^[1]

In 2006, Rush worked on a series of reports for The Australia Institute. Two of the reports which she co-authored^[2][3] led to a senate inquiry into the sexualisation of children.^[4]

Rush has also been consulted by the media, including Australia's ABC News and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Research

Rush's main areas of research are: ethics in public life, particularly, sexualisation of children and the corporatisation of child care; professional ethics, particularly social work ethics, with a developing project on resilience; and environmental ethics.

Media

Rush has acted as a media consultant over issues relating to sexualisation, advertising and pornography debates by ABC Radio, Australia,^[5] ABC News, Australia,^[6] The Sydney Morning Herald,^[7] The Conversation,^[8] and Melinda Tankard Reist's website.^[9]

Selected bibliography

Ph.D thesis

• Rush, Emma (September 2006). Consume with care: ethics, economics and industrialised world over-consumption (Ph.D. thesis). Melbourne: Department of Philosophy/Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. OCLC 224910719.

2006 papers for The Australia Institute

2006 discussion papers for the Australia Institute

• Rush, Emma (April 2006). "Child care quality in Australia (discussion paper number 84)". Population Ageing: Crisis or Transition?. Canberra: The Australia Institute. ISSN 1322-5421. OCLC 156571048. Pdf version. Archived 23 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine
• Rush, Emma; Downie, Christian (June 2006). "ABC learning centres: a case-study of Australia's largest child care corporation (discussion paper number 87)". Population Ageing: Crisis or Transition?. Canberra: The Australia Institute. ISSN 1322-5421. OCLC 156757390. Pdf version.
• Rush, Emma; La Nauze, Andrea (October 2006). "Corporate paedophilia: the sexualisation of children in Australia (discussion paper number 90)". Population Ageing: Crisis or Transition?. Canberra: The Australia Institute. ISSN 1322-5421. OCLC 156752334. Pdf version.
• Rush, Emma; La Nauze, Andrea (December 2006). "Letting children be children: stopping the sexualisation of children in Australia (discussion paper number 93)". Population Ageing: Crisis or Transition?. Canberra: The Australia Institute. ISSN 1322-5421. OCLC 225513585. Pdf version.

2006 web papers for the Australia Institute

• Rush, Emma (February 2006). Skip dipping in Australia (web paper number 85). Canberra: The Australia Institute. OCLC 224947742. Pdf version. Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
• Rush, Emma (April 2006). Skip dipping in Australia (web paper number 85). Canberra: The Australia Institute. OCLC 224947742. Pdf version. Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
• Rush, Emma; Hamilton, Clive (September 2006). The attitudes of Australians to happiness and social well-being (web paper number 90). Canberra: The Australia Institute. OCLC 225280784. Pdf version.

Chapters in books

• Rush, Emma (2007), "Plastic fantastic: the sexualisation of children", in Fleetwood, Julian (ed.), The sex mook: what is our sex?, Melbourne, Australia: Vignette Press, pp. 108–110, ISBN 9781876110000
• Rush, Emma (2007), "Employees' views on quality", in Hill, Elizabeth; Pocock, Barbara; Elliott, Alison (eds.), Kids count: better early childhood education and care in Australia, Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press, pp. 154–178, ISBN 9781920898700
• Rush, Emma (2009), "What are the risks of premature sexualisation for children?", in Tankard Reist, Melinda (ed.), Getting real: challenging the sexualisation of girls, Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press, pp. 41–54, ISBN 9781876756758
• Rush, Emma (2012), "Children, media and ethics", in Warburton, Wayne; Braunstein, Danya (eds.), Growing up fast and furious, Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press, pp. 159–174, ISBN 9781862878235
• Rush, Emma (2013), "Ethics of food security", in Farmar-Bowers, Quentin; Higgins, Vaughan; Millar, Joanne (eds.), Food security in Australia: challenges and prospects for the future, New York: Springer, pp. 35–48, ISBN 9781461444831
• Rush, Emma (2015), "(Applied) ethics", in Handsley, Elizabeth; MacDougall, Colin; Rich, Michael (eds.), Children's wellbeing in the media age: multidisciplinary perspectives from the Harvard-Australia Symposium, Sydney: The Federation Press, pp. 56–76, ISBN 9781760020286
• Rush, Emma; Anscombe, A.W. (Bill) (2017), "Respect and integrity – John Gavaghan", in Pawar, Manohar S.; Hugman, Richard; Alexandra, Andrew; Anscombe, A.W. (eds.), Empowering social workers: virtuous practitioners, Singapore: Springer, pp. 77–86, ISBN 9789811038099
• Rush, Emma; Anscombe, A.W. (Bill) (2017), "What can we do to make changes? – Virginia (Ginni) Hall, AO", in Pawar, Manohar S.; Hugman, Richard; Alexandra, Andrew; Anscombe, A.W. (eds.), Empowering social workers: virtuous practitioners, Singapore: Springer, pp. 87–99, ISBN 9789811038099
• Rush, E., Short, M., Burningham, G., Cartledge, J. (2020). ‘Philosophy and ethics: Sustaining social inclusion in the disability sector’. In Crisp, B.R. and Taket, A. (Eds.), Sustaining Social Inclusion, Routledge, pp. 203–217. ISBN (electronic) 9780429397936

Journal articles

• Rush, Emma; Gleeson, Brendan; Low, Nicholas (2005). "A multivalent conception of path dependence: The case of transport planning in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia". Environmental Sciences. 2 (4): 391–408. doi:10.1080/15693430500405146.
• Rush, Emma (December 2011). "Response to Taylor: the full picture of the sexualisation debate". Australasian Journal of Early Childhood. 36 (4): 111–119. doi:10.1177/183693911103600415. ISSN 1836-9391. S2CID 146453273.
• Rush, Emma; Mungai, Ndungi wa; Wairire, Gidraph G. (2014). "The challenges of maintaining social work ethics in Kenya". Ethics and Social Welfare. 8 (2): 170–186. doi:10.1080/17496535.2014.895401. S2CID 143642509.
• Rush, Emma (Summer 2015). "A Gaitian account of environmental ethics". Environmental Ethics. 37 (2): 187–206. doi:10.5840/enviroethics201537217.
• Rush, Emma; Fine, Cordelia (February 2016). ""Why does all the girls have to buy pink stuff?" The ethics and science of the gendered toy marketing debate". Journal of Business Ethics. 149 (4): 769–784. doi:10.1007/s10551-016-3080-3. S2CID 147209519.
• Strong, C. and Rush, E. (2018) Musical genius and/or nasty piece of work? Dealing with violence and sexual assault in accounts of popular music’s past, Continuum, https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2018.1483009.
• Short, M., Dempsey, K., Ackland, J., Rush, E., Heller, E. & Dwyer, H. (2018). What is a person? Deepening students’ and colleagues’ understanding of person-centredness, Advances in Social Work & Welfare Education, vol. 20, no.1, pp. 139–156. ISSN 1329-0584

References

External links

• Profile page: Dr Emma Rush School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University
• Emma Rush OCLC WorldCat Identities