- Education Systems and Policy
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Literacy, Media, and Education
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Higher Education Practises and Engagement
- Artistic and Creative Research
- Indigenous and Place-Based Education
- Global Education and Multiculturalism
- Nuclear physics research studies
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Theatre and Performance Studies
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
- Autobiographical and Biographical Writing
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Children's Rights and Participation
Western Sydney University
2015-2024
University of Liverpool
2013-2017
James Cook University
2001-2002
Directed and elliptic flows of neutrons light charged particles were measured for the reaction 197Au+197Au at 400 MeV/nucleon incident energy within ASY-EOS experimental campaign GSI laboratory. The detection system consisted Large Area Neutron Detector LAND, combined with parts CHIMERA multidetector, ALADIN Time-of-flight Wall, Washington-University Microball detector. latter three arrays used event characterization reaction-plane reconstruction. In addition, an array triple telescopes,...
Reflexivity involves turning one’s reflexive gaze on discourse—turning language back itself to see the work it does in constituting world. The subject/researcher sees simultaneously object of her or his and means by which (which may include oneself as subject) is being constituted. consciousness self that writing sometimes entails be seen slip inadvertently into very (real) seems contradict a focus constitutive power discourse. This article explores this site slippage ambivalence. In...
Poststructural theories problematize taken-for-granted humanist notions of the subject as capable self-knowledge and self-articulation while simultaneously providing a rationale for incorporating personal into research. The body, emotions, lived experience become texts to be written read in autoethnography. However, paradox arises poststructural autoethnography that autoethnographic research presumes subjects can speak themselves, whereas poststructuralism disrupts this presumption stresses...
In this paper we explore the very particular forms and productive possibilities of collaborative writing that are generated in collective biography workshops, focusing on generation memory stories. Drawing conceptual resources from Deleuze Barad work our way through paradox working with intensely felt evocative memories within poststructural space deconstructed -of-thought. We analyze a story told workshop writing, it relation to concepts being as emergent encounter, intra-action or...
In this article, we describe a collective biography that convened in order to revisit the site of radical theoretical break with liberal humanist individual marked by poststructuralist work Henriques and colleagues feminist Weedon. These writers suggest new subject theory will be more open changes desired social justice movements. They as heralds possibilities personal cultural transformation. using medium stories, relation between transformative envisaged for poststructuralism. We situate...
This article deploys a collective biographical methodology as political and epistemological intervention in order to explore the emotional affective politics of academic work for women neoliberal universities. The managerial practices contemporary universities tend elevate disembodied reason over emotion; repress, commodify, or co-opt labor; increase individualization competition among workers; disregard relational that suggests is essential well-being at work. apparent marginalization...
AbstractEmerging posthuman paradigms are beginning to influence approaches educational research and pedagogy, including the 'common worlds' investigations of relations among children wild animals in early childhood settings. This paper turns child-animal encounters a secondary school wetlands project explore some implications posthumanism for environmental education. It explores how singular with – swamp hen, turtle an eel became pivot points young people' s affective creative engagement...
This article offers a diffractive methodological intervention into workplace studies of academic life. In its engagement playful, performative research and writing practice, the speaks back to technocratic organisational sociological 'time motion' which centre on human rational, presume linear teleology cause effect. As counterpoint, we deploy posthumanist new materialist practices refuse human-centric approaches aim give matter due. means analyse what comes out our joint workspaces photo...
The highly imagined and contested space of higher education is invested with an affectively loaded 'knowledge economy optimism'. Drawing on recent work in affect critical geography, this paper considers the e/affects promises knowledge its workers. We extend previous analyses discursive constitution academic subjectivity through figuration 'emotional knots' as we explore three stories subjectivities institutional spaces. These were composed a collective biography workshop, where participants...
In the history of modernity, childhood represents societies' hopes and desires for future. An offspring socialist project had a unique preoccupation with children social (re)making societies. However, research on both sides Iron Curtain has explored children's lives in societies by focusing organised efforts state socialisation, largely overlooking how childhoods were actually experienced. this article, first, we delve into utility memory stories exploring everyday variety spaces. Second,...
This article examines the everyday practices of writing in context technologies audit, as they have been practised on and by four authors their capacity students researchers. It activity governmentality, through which academics make themselves into appropriate subjects, also exceed disrupt effects government.
This paper proposes a new move in the methodological practice of collective biography, by provoking shift beyond any remnant attachment to speaking/ writing subject towards her dispersal and displacement via textual interventions that stress multivocality. These include use photographs, drama, various genres writing. Using story selected from biography workshop on sexuality schooling, we document how work across among texts, thereby widening shifting interpretive subjective spaces inquiry....
In this article, the authors respond to Deleuze and Collaborative Writing: An Immanent Plane of Composition. The book’s (Jonathan, Ken, Susanne, Bronwyn) two discussants (Elizabeth St. Pierre Norman Denzin) consider questions such as following: What does book open up? How might it help us think differently (e.g. about inquiry, collaboration, ethics reading writing in an assemblage)? And how contribute growing literature on collaborative method inquiry?
Abstract Breastfeeding initiation rates in Australia are high but duration fall well below the World Health Organization targets. Return to work is a known factor impacting 6 months exclusive breastfeeding and continuation into infants second year of life. Work related factors can influence woman's confidence maintaining breastmilk supply after return employment determine whether she meets her personal goals. This cross‐sectional online survey first Australian study explore women's...
There is considerable debate both in Australia and internationally about the best way for schools to deliver thinking skills required university study professional work life – that are often referred by term “critical thinking”. This article reviews literature on effective teaching of critical looks at one example a secondary school subject aimed developing its graduates, namely Theory Knowledge (ToK) International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (DP). ToK, core element DP, has no set...
This article identifies the salient characteristics of collective memory work and biography research. Methodological dilemmas that can arise in course research are identified an argument is made favor imagination creativity as essential elements any effective response. Particular reference to a project completed by author where she (re)presented texts form poetry.
In this paper we map the traces of power and knowledge as read them at play in our own memories make sense from a Foucauldian perspective. Our question here is twofold: how might use Foucault to embodied knowledge; analysis those stories enable us better see implications Foucault's writing for subjects' enmeshment power/knowledge relations? We ground achieving ourselves appropriate(d) subjects (as girls women, relation men--fathers, lovers, husbands). trajectory double. First, it has been...