Rate My Professor Hamed Hosseini

S. A. Hamed Hosseini is a tenured Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Humanities, Creative Industries, and Social Sciences, College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle, Australia. He earned his PhD in Sociology and Global Studies from the Australian National University in 2006, along with a Graduate Teaching Program Certificate from the same institution. An elected Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Hosseini's research specializations encompass economic and political sociology, global studies, development studies, social movement studies, post-capitalist alternatives, transversal cosmopolitanism, the well-living paradigm, pluriversality, and transformative praxes. His work integrates liberation methodologies, including social network analysis, Q methodology, discourse network analysis, and big data analytics, to explore post-carbon, post-capital, and post-colonial futures, commonist tendencies, critical open-mindedness, and quality of life reconceptualizations.

Throughout his career at the University of Newcastle, Hosseini has held key appointments, including Inaugural Head of the Societies, Cultures, and Human Services Cluster from 2018 to 2019 and elected Academic Senate member from 2017 to 2020. He founded and convenes the Alternative Futures Research Network and the Well-living Lab, co-founded the Alternative Futures Research Hub and New Economy Network Australia Research Hub, and serves as Lead Chief Investigator for the Re-imagining Quality of Life Post-COVID project in partnership with New Economy Network Australia. His major publications include co-authoring Capital Redefined: A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life (2024, with Barry K. Gills), leading the editorial team for The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies (2021, with James Goodman, Sara Motta, and Barry K. Gills), authoring Conscientious Sociology: A New Paradigmatic Shift (2013), and Alternative Globalizations: An Integrative Approach to Studying Dissident Knowledge in the Global Justice Movement (2011). Selected articles feature The well-living paradigm: reimagining quality of life in our turbulent world (2023), Navigating the pluriversal terrain: dilemmas, dynamic diversities, and synergies (2025), Compartmentality, commonist impulses, and the path to pluriversal futures (2025), and Towards Transversal Cosmopolitanism: Understanding Alternative Praxes in the Global Field of Transformative Movements (2017, with Barry K. Gills and James Goodman). Hosseini's scholarship has attracted grants such as the Early Career Researcher Grant, international science linkages funding, and pilot research schemes, influencing global debates on ecological sustainability, social justice, and economic democracy through extensive international collaborations.