Rate My Professor Jeremy Northcote

Jeremy Northcote is a Lecturer in Sociology at Murdoch University in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Murdoch University and has been teaching sociology and related subjects at Western Australian universities since 1999. Previously, he served as a lecturer at Edith Cowan University and as a research fellow at Curtin University. Northcote's academic career includes supervising numerous honours, masters, and PhD theses at Murdoch University, covering topics such as youth spaces, peer-gatekeeper mental health programs, human ecology in student residences, refugee resettlement policy, and the precariat in academia.

His research specializations include health sociology, tourism studies, and refugee integration, with a focus on sustainable tourism management, youth alcohol consumption patterns, paranormal beliefs, brand communities, climate vulnerability in farming, and women's political participation. Key publications encompass the book 'The Paranormal and the Politics of Truth: A Sociological Account' (2007); 'Conceptualizing Yield: Sustainable Tourism Management' (2006, with Jim Macbeth); 'Accuracy of Self-Reported Drinking: Observational Verification of "Last Occasion" Drink Estimates' (2011, with Michael Livingston); 'Nightclubbing and the Search for Identity: Making the Transition from Childhood to Adulthood in an Urban Milieu' (2006); 'Sustainable Visitation Index: A New Visitor Management Framework for Assessing Destination Sustainability' (2020); 'Women’s Participation in Bangladesh Politics: The Gender Wall and Quotas' (2020); 'Getting Up Close and Personal: Using Peer Research Assistants for Participant Observation in a Youth Alcohol Project' (2019); and 'Climate, Vulnerability and Farming: A Preliminary Study Among Australian Food Growers' (2014, with Abel Duarte Alonso). Northcote's scholarship has been cited over 1,300 times, contributing to discussions in sustainable tourism yield, observational studies of drinking behaviors, and social impacts of tourism through publications in journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Alcohol and Alcoholism, Journal of Youth Studies, and Qualitative Research Journal. His work on tourism yield has influenced visitor management frameworks, while studies on self-reported drinking have advanced methodological approaches in alcohol research.