Associate Professor Judith Gill

After teaching high school students for ten years, I came to educational research in order to investigate gender effects and schooling.

My research interest moved from the identification of factors associated with student motivation to the schooling practices that are involved in gender construction in students. This area canvassed the whole broad range of schooling structures and processes and led to several publications about the effects of school gender context.

More recently my research interests have focussed on questions of power and politics as evidenced by qualitative research into young people's understandings of the world.

As a foundation member of the Research Centre for Gender Studies I am interested in promoting research relating to gender across a range of disciplines and applications.

I have maintained an interest in gender as a key dimension of social, intellectual and cultural organisation and have conducted research into the ways in which gender impacts on people's self understanding, world vision and life choices.

• Gender and education, with particular interest in gender contexts and learning.
• Feminist pedagogy, especially in terms of higher degree supervision.
• Schooling and citizenship in Australia.
• Education, gender and work.

Australian Association for Research In Education - President

Australian Women's Studies Association

American Education for Research In Education

British Educational Research Association

PhD University of Adelaide 1991 Thesis title: "Differences in the making: the construction of gender in Australian schooling."

MEd University of Adelaide 1981 Thesis title: "Fear of success: a theoretical investigation of the concept and an empirical study in an Australian high school setting."

BA (Melb) TSTC (Melb) Dip ED (Adelaide)

• Gender and Education. Investigation of the ways in which gender continues to impact on experience and outcomes at all levels of education.
• Women, work and lifestyles.
• Young people and Australian citizenship
• Current doctoral research students include:
• Sue Bennett : "Coeducation: past, present and future?"
• Deb Tranter: "Why not University? The influence of school culture on higher education aspirations in disadvantaged schools."
• Jennifer Werner: “Missing”: An Analysis of the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in Australian organizations.
• Ros Yuen: Adolescent girls' vocational and curriculum choices
• Successful phD students include:
• Julie Matthews (1997): Making Spaces: Australian Asian girls at school
• Sue Gelade PhD (2000): "The Spaces in between: Expatriate teachers in Papua New Guinea."
• Lana Zannettino (2002): "The crystal ball: The role of cultural texts in the construction of young girls' envisioning of womanhood."
• Sue Rimmer (2003): "The everyday as problematic in the work/lives of women TAFE teachers."
• Trish Carroll (2006): "The time of our lives. A longitudinal study of women and retirement."
• Val Paltridge (2006): "More than just meeting places? Neighbourhood Houses, social capital and women's well being."

BOOKS:

Gill Judith & Sue Howard (2009); Knowing Our Place: Children talking about power, identity and citizenship. Melbourne, ACER Press.

Gill Judith (2004): Beyond the Great Divide: Single sex or coeducation? UNSW press

Gill Judith and Maureen Dyer (eds.) (1997): Schooldays: women and education: past,present and future. Cruickshank Press. Adelaide.

Gill Judith (1988, 89) : Which Way to School? A Review of the Evidence on the Single Sex/Coeducation Debate and an Annotated Bibliography of the Research. Canberra, Commonwealth Schools Commission, 1st edition; Melbourne, Curriculum Corporation 2nd edition.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES: Gill Judith and Sue Howard, forthcoming 2008: Gaps in the record: Working with curriculum and young people’s imagined Australias. Curriculum Perspectives

Gill Judith and Sue Howard, 2006,: Revisioning the social: Young Australians and the rural/urban divide. Citizenship Teaching and Learning. Vol 2, No 1 pp 66-78.

Jouve, D, Bryant, L, Gill, J and Tedmanson, D ,2006. If I don’t speak to my child in my own language then who will? Kanak women writing culture for children, Kunapipi, Journal of Post Colonial Writing. Vol XXVII pp 9 - 22

Mills, J., Bastalich, W. Franzway, S., Gill, J. and Sharp, R., (2006) “Engineering in Australia: an uncomfortable experience for women” Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. Vol 12 #2 pp 41-60

Howard S and Gill J (2005): Learning to belong: Children talk about feeling ‘Australian’. Childrenz Issues, Journal of the Children’s issues Centre, Vol 9 #2 pp 43-49

Gill J, Mills J., Franzway S and Sharp R. (2005) : ‘I wanna be an engineer!’ A tale of high achieving women, professional power and the ongoing negotiation of workplace identity. Redress, Vol 14 #2 pp 13 - 22

Moyle K and Gill J (2005) Just how far have we come? A retrospective on girls’ education and an analysis of the present situation. Redress Vol 14 #2 pp 2 - 12

Gill, J., Mills. J., Sharp, R. and Franzway, S., 2005, “Education beyond technical competence: Gender issues in the working lives of engineers”, Global Colloquium on Engineering Education, September 26-29, Sydney, Australia on CD Rom.

Gill Judith (2004): Having our work cut out! Reflections on the Australian Association for Research in Education and the current state of Australian educational research. Australian Educational Researcher, vol 31, #1.

Franzway, S., Gill, J., Mills, J., Sharp, R. & Bastalich, W., 2004, “Towards a Feminist Politics of Work: Revisioning a Research Project on Women Engineers”, 2004 conference of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), December 8-11, Beechworth, Australia, on CD-Rom.

Howard Sue and Gill Judith (2002): Somewhere to call home? Schooling and a sense of place and belonging in an increasingly globalised world. Curriculum Perspectives.Vol 22 #3 pp33-43

Gill Judith and Howard Sue (2001): 'It's like we're a normal way and everyone else is different': Australian children's constructions of citizenship and national identity. Educational Studies, Vol. 27 (1).

Gill Judith and Karen Starr (2001): Sauce for the goose? Deconstructing the boys-in-education push. Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education Vol 23 #3.

Gill Judith and Howard Sue (2000): Under the power lines: reflections on schooling, civics education and citizenship. Change and Transformation in Education. Vol 3, #1.

Howard Sue and Judith Gill (2000): The pebble in the pond: children's constructions of power, politics and democratic citizenship. Cambridge Journal of Education. Vol. 30, No. 3.

Gill Judith and Alan Reid (1999) : Civics Education: the state of play or the play of the state? Curriculum Perspectives Vol 19 No.3.

Gill Judith (1997) : Mathematics and Gender: Beyond rational numbers? Mathematics Education Research Journal. Volume 9, No 3.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Education and Gender Studies

• Gender issues in education.
• Young people and citizenship.
• Women and life choices.