Research expertise:

• Globalisation and Multiculturalism
• Class and intimacy
• Inequality
• Rurality

Key publications:

• Butler, R. 2018. Class, Culture and Belonging in Rural Childhoods. Springer.
• Watkins, M., Ho, C. and Butler, R. (Eds.) 2019. Asian Migration and Education Cultures in the Anglosphere. Routledge.
• Butler, R., Ho, C. and Vincent, E. 2017. ‘Tutored within an inch of their life’: morality and ‘old’ and ‘new’ middle class identities in Australian schools. Journal of ethnic and migration studies 43(14): 2408-2422.
• Butler, R. and Muir, K. 2017. Young people’s education biographies: family relationships, social capital and belonging. Journal of Youth Studies 20(3): 316-331