Associate Professor Julie Matthews
BA(Hons) Brookes, PGCE Leic., PhD S.Aust.
Position: Associate Professor and Director of Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Associate Director of the Sustainability Research Centre
Office: Accelerator Building Room 1.24
Tel: +61 7 5459 4441
Email: jmatthew@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Sociology of Education
- Gender Studies
- Research Methods
Research areas
- Postcolonial, foucauldian and feminist theory
- Sustainability and education
- Minority, antiracist and refugee education
- Critical pedagogy, reconciliation
- Internationalisation, international education and community engagement
- Japanese dispora, globalisation and transnationalism
- Visual research methods
Profile
Associate Professor Julie Matthews is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in education, sociology and cultural studies. Her work brings socio-cultural perspectives to bear on a broad range of contemporary issues and problems. She is the Director of Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences and responsible for mentoring staff and students. She is also Associate Director of the Sustainability Research Centre: Transforming Regions. She is convener of the Sociology of Education thematic group in the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and a member of the the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and the International Sociological Association (ISA). Current projects address: adaptive capacity and sustainability education.
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Publications
Many of Associate Professor Julie Matthews' publications are available from the COAST Research Database.
Research grants
- Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant, 2010–2013. Negotiating a Space in the Nation: the case of the Ngarrindjeri, Hattam, Bishop, Ahluwalia, Matthews, Rigney, Hemming, Boast. Investigating governmentality in relation to caring for country, community leadership and governance, economic development, media representation and international coalition building.
- Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant, 2005–2007. Schooling, globalisation and refugees in Queensland. Matthews, Hattam, Christie, Singh, Taylor, Sidhu,. An analysis of international, national and state policy informing the education of refugee background students.
- Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant, 2004–2006. Rethinking reconciliation and pedagogy in unsettling times, Hattam, Matthews, Christie, Ahluwalia, Bishop. Recognising that 'reconciliation' is a contested concept with different kinds of salience in different political contexts, the project explores the conceptual and pedagogical foundations of reconciliation imperatives in Australia and South Africa.
- Responding to racism: 'Having their say' about Racism No Way!, University of the Sunshine Coast and the NSW Department of Education and Training, USC Internal Grant, 2002.
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