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]

Emma Rush
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	Department of Philosophy/Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne
Known for	Reports for The Australia Institute
Scientific career
Institutions	Charles Sturt University Faculty of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Thesis	Consume with care: ethics, economics and industrialised world over-consumption (2004)
Website	Official website

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. 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.
• 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.
• Rush, Emma (April 2006). Skip dipping in Australia (web paper number 85). Canberra: The Australia Institute. OCLC 224947742. Pdf version.
• 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

1. "Dr Emma Rush". Charles Sturt University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
2. Rush, Emma; La Nauze, Andrea (2006). "Corporate paedophilia: the sexualisation of children in Australia (discussion paper number 90)". Population Ageing: Crisis or Transition?. Canberra: The Australian Institute. ISSN 1322-5421. OCLC 156752334. Pdf version. 16 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine
3. Rush, Emma; La Nauze, Andrea (2006). "Letting children be children: stopping the sexualisation of children in Australia (discussion paper number 93)". Population Ageing: Crisis or Transition?. Canberra: The Australian Institute. ISSN 1322-5421. OCLC 225513585. Pdf version. 17 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
4. (PDF). Victoria, Australia: The Commission for Children and Young People (CCYP), State Government Victoria. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
5. Scott Stephens (presenter), Dr. Emma Rush (guest) (7 February 2012). Can an anti-abortion activist be called a feminist?] (Radio show). RN Drive. Australia: ABC. Event occurs at 6.45pm. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
6. Rush, Emma (1 February 2012). "Media must do better on porn debate". ABC News. from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
7. Rush, Emma; Norma, Caroline (16 February 2012). "Sexed up tween advertising shows fashion needs to grow up". Sydney Morning Herald. from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
8. Rush, Emma (23 May 2012). "Girls on film: could new regulations stop the sexualisation of children?". The Conversation. from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
9. Rush, Emma (8 February 2012). "Teens have hearts, not just bodies". Melinda Tankard Reist. from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.

External links

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