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
Office: Accelerator Building Room 1.24
Tel: +61 7 5459 4441
Email: jmatthew@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Higher Degrees by Research and Honours students
- Sociology of Education
- Gender Studies
- Research Methods
Research areas
- Visual research and education, visual pedagogy
- Sustainability education, ecoversity, animal philosophy
- Postcolonial, Foucauldian and feminist theory
- International education
- Critical pedagogy, reconciliation pedagogy
- Refugee and minority education, multicultural/antiracist education
- Globalisation, forced migration, cosmopolitanism, transnationalism
- Racialisation, sexualisation, identities, new ethnicities, diaspora
Profile
Associate Professor Julie Matthews is a sociologist and education researcher. Over the past decade she has written 30 refereed articles, book chapters and conference papers and delivered over 40 conference presentations, seminars and public lectures at universities in Australia, USA, Canada, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa.
Her research brings postcolonial questions of cultural representation, appropriation, marginalisation and identity into education and conversely educational issues to do with knowledge and pedagogy into sociology. Associate Professor Matthews is also interested in visual pedagogies and visual research methods in education.
Current research projects focus on internationalisation and international education, and sustainability education and excluded knowledges. Prior to her entry into the university sector Associate Professor Matthews was a high school teacher of sociology, integrated humanities, English as a second language, and world studies.
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Publications
Electronic copies of various academic papers from Associate Professor Julie Matthews are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.
Research grants
- Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant, 2005-7. Schooling, globalisation and refugees in Queensland. Julie Matthews, Robert Hattam, Pam Christie, Parlo Singh, Sandra Taylor, Ravinder Sidhu,. An analysis of international, national and state policy informing the education of refugee background students.
- Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant, 2004-6. Rethinking reconciliation and pedagogy in unsettling times, Julie Matthews, Robert Hattam, Pam Christie, Pal Ahluwalia, Peter 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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