Emma Rush Explained

Emma Rush
Nationality:	Australian
Workplaces:	Charles Sturt University Faculty of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Alma Mater:	Department of Philosophy/Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne
Thesis Title:	Consume with care: ethics, economics and industrialised world over-consumption
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/224910719
Thesis Year:	2004
Known For:	Reports for The Australia Institute

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

• Ph.D. . Rush . Emma . September 2006 . Consume with care: ethics, economics and industrialised world over-consumption . . Melbourne . 224910719 .

2006 papers for The Australia Institute

2006 discussion papers for the Australia Institute

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

2006 web papers for the Australia Institute

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

Chapters in books

• • • • • • • • • 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 . A multivalent conception of path dependence: The case of transport planning in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia . Environmental Sciences . 2 . 4 . 391 - 408 . 10.1080/15693430500405146 . 2005 . free .
• Rush . Emma . Response to Taylor: the full picture of the sexualisation debate . Australasian Journal of Early Childhood . 36 . 4 . 111 - 119 . December 2011 . 1836-9391. 10.1177/183693911103600415 . 146453273 . free .
• Rush . Emma . Mungai . Ndungi wa . Wairire . Gidraph G. . The challenges of maintaining social work ethics in Kenya . Ethics and Social Welfare. 8 . 2 . 170 - 186 . 10.1080/17496535.2014.895401 . 2014 . 143642509 .
• Rush . Emma . A Gaitian account of environmental ethics . Environmental Ethics . 37 . 2 . 187 - 206 . 10.5840/enviroethics201537217 . Summer 2015 .
• Rush . Emma . Fine . Cordelia . Cordelia Fine . "Why does all the girls have to buy pink stuff?" The ethics and science of the gendered toy marketing debate . . 149 . 4 . 769–784 . 10.1007/s10551-016-3080-3 . February 2016 . 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

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr Emma Rush. Charles Sturt University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. 20 August 2017.
2. Rush. Emma. La Nauze. Andrea. Corporate paedophilia: the sexualisation of children in Australia (discussion paper number 90). Population Ageing: Crisis or Transition?. 2006. The Australian Institute. Canberra. 156752334 . 1322-5421 . Pdf version.
3. Rush. Emma. La Nauze. Andrea. Letting children be children: stopping the sexualisation of children in Australia (discussion paper number 93). Population Ageing: Crisis or Transition?. 2006. The Australian Institute. Canberra. 225513585 . 1322-5421 . Pdf version.
4. Book: Senate inquiry into the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media environment. 2008. The Commission for Children and Young People (CCYP), State Government Victoria. Victoria, Australia. 15 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20130510203521/http://www.ccyp.vic.gov.au/childsafetycommissioner/downloads/submission_senateinquiry_media_sexn_of_kids.pdf. 10 May 2013. dead. dmy-all.
5. Scott Stephens (presenter), Dr. Emma Rush (guest) . RN Drive. Can an anti-abortion activist be called a feminist? ]. Radio show. ABC. 6.45pm . Australia. 7 February 2012. 15 July 2014.
6. News: Rush. Emma. Media must do better on porn debate. 15 July 2014. ABC News. 1 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20140719043801/http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/02/01/3420737.htm. 19 July 2014. live. dmy-all.
7. News: Rush. Emma. Norma. Caroline. Sexed up tween advertising shows fashion needs to grow up. 12 July 2014. Sydney Morning Herald. 16 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121104180610/http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/sexed-up-tween-advertising-shows-fashion-needs-to-grow-up-20120215-1t788.html. 4 November 2012. live. dmy-all.
8. News: Rush. Emma. Girls on film: could new regulations stop the sexualisation of children?. 15 July 2014. The Conversation. 23 May 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20140719172918/http://theconversation.com/girls-on-film-could-new-regulations-stop-the-sexualisation-of-children-6762. 19 July 2014. live. dmy-all.
9. Web site: Rush. Emma. Teens have hearts, not just bodies. Melinda Tankard Reist. 15 July 2014. 8 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20140720233755/http://melindatankardreist.com/2012/02/teens-have-hearts-not-just-bodies/. 20 July 2014. live. dmy-all.