Dr Steven Barrett

Australian College of Educators.

Higher Education Research and Development Association (HERDSA).

Australian Association of Research in Education.

International Employment Relations Association .

Pacific Employment Relations Association (Assistant Secretary)

B.A.(hons) B.Ec. Grad.Dip.Ed.(Adelaide) M.A. Ed.D.(Flinders) Ph.D.(candidate)(Adelaide)

• Social exclusion and unemployment.

• Issues relating to access and participation in higher education.

• Curriculum development in university business courses.

• Issues and problems of underdevelopment and third world economic development.

• The application of item response theory to measurement problems in education and the social sciences.

• Developing and applying alternative measures of unemployment and labour underutilisation in South Australia.

BOOKS

Barrett, S.R.F., Bredon, G., Curnow, P. and McIver, R.P. (1994) Study Guide to Accompany Jackson, McIver McConnell and Brue, Economics (fourth edition), McGraw-Hill, Sydney.

Barrett, S.R.F., Bredon, G., Curnow, P. and McIver, R.P. (1998) Study Guide to Accompany Jackson, McIver McConnell and Brue, Economics (fifth edition), McGraw-Hill, Sydney.

Feast, V.D. and Barrett, S.R.F. (1999) Real World Economics: A Media Review, McGraw-Hill Sydney.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

(1989) An Assessment of the Vine Pull Scheme: A Case Study of the Southern Vales of South Australia, Australian Geographer, 20(2).

(1993) Rural poverty in Peninsular Malaysia and the Malaysian National Agricultural Policy, Australian Geographer, vol. 24(2).

(1997) (with Shanahan, M., Findlay, C., Cowie, J. Round, D.K. and McIver, R) Beyond the 'Input-Output' Approach to Assessing Determinants of Student Performance in University Economics,: Implications from Student Learning Centred Research, Australian Economic Papers, Australian Economics Education Special Edition, September 1997.

(2000) The Work/Study Dilemma: A Pilot Study, International Education Journal, 1(2), pp. 127-137.

(2001) The Impact of Training in Rater Variability, International Education Journal, 2(1), pp. 1-10.

(2001) Differential Item Functioning: A Case Study From First Year Economics, International Education Journal, 2(3), pp.1-10.

(2002) Overcoming Transactional Distance as a Barrier to Effective Communication over the Internet, International Education Journal, 3(4), pp. 34-42.

(Forthcoming) Emotional Labour and the Permanent Casual Lecturer: Ideas for a Research Project, International Education Journal.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS

(1995) (with M. Shanahan, J.Cowie, C. Findlay, D. Round, and R.P. McIver) What do we Know About the Determinants of Student Performance in University Economics, Proceedings, Australian Economics Education Symposium, pp. 133-153, University of South Australia, 28-29 September, 1995.

(1999) Question choice and Marker Variability: Insights From Item Response Theory, Unfolding Landscapes in Engineering Education, Proceedings 11th Australasian Conference on Engineering Education, pp. 240-245, University of South Australia, September 1999.

(1999) HECS Lotto: Does marker Variability Make Examinations a Lottery?, Proceedings, Australian Association for Research in Education Conference 1999, Swinburne University of Technology, November 1999.

(2000) Can You Teach Your Grandmother to Suck Eggs: An Unsuccessful Lecturer Training Program. Paper presented at the Inaugural International Employment Relations Association Teaching and Learning Symposium, Sydney 10-12 December 2000.

(2000 with G. Treuren) W(h)ither Flexible Delivery? Paper presented at the Inaugural International Employment Relations Association Teaching and Learning Symposium, Sydney, 10-12 December 2000.

(2000 with G. Treuren) Who are mixed mode students? Do they have a different relationship with the labour market than internal students? Tentative comments based on a preliminary study of undergraduate students, Paper presented at the Inaugural International Employment Relations Association Teaching and Learning Symposium, Sydney, 10-12 December 2000.

(2001) Call Centres: Are They a Sustainable Source of Employment Growth? Paper presented at the 9th Annual International Employment Relations Association Conference and Symposium, Kuala Lumpur.

(2001) Measuring Labour Market Malaise: Does One Size Fit All?, Paper presented at the 9th Annual International Employment Relations Association Conference and Symposium, Singapore.

(2001)Precarious Employment: Operationalising a Slippery Concept, paper presented at the 8th Annual Unemployment Conference, Southern Cross University.

(2001) Integrating Hidden Unemployment into Measures of Labour Market Health, Proceedings, 8th Annual Unemployment Conference, Southern Cross University.

(2002) Just a Call Away? Changing Employment Relations in South Australia, Employment Relations Theory, Strategy and Practice: The Challenges for the 21st Century, Proceeding of the Tenth Annual Conference of the International Employment Relations Association, Gold Coast, 6-9 July 2002, pp. 102-116.

(2002) Reality Bites: Employment Policy in a Measurement Vacuum, The Path to Full Employment, Proceedings 4th Path to Full Employment Conference and 9th National Conference on Unemployment, Newcastle, 4-6 December 2002, pp. 1-12.

(forthcoming) Mainstreaming Tertiary Literacy skills: An Alternative Model of Curriculum Development, Proceeding of the Second International Employment Relations Association Teaching, Learning and Research Symposium, Christchurch, 29-31 January, 2003.

(forthcoming) Mainstreaming Tertiary Literacy skills: Some Suggestions for Curriculum Development, Proceeding of the Second International Employment Relations Association Teaching, Learning and Research Symposium, Christchurch, 29-31 January, 2003.

(forthcoming) Emotional Labour in University Teaching: Notes from the Frontline, Proceedings of the Inaugural International Employment Relations Association, Australian and New Zealand Division Symposium, Melbourne, 13-14 November 2003.

(forthcoming) (with D. Laing) The Emotional Labour of constructing the Temporary Employment Relationship, Proceedings of the Inaugural International Employment Relations Association, Australian and New Zealand Division Symposium, Melbourne, 13-14 November 2003.

SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

(1989) (with J. Browett) Supply Imbalances and Government-Promoted Readjustment in the South Australian Grape growing Sector: A Case Study of the Vine Pull Scheme and its Impact in the Southern Vales District, paper presented to the 23rd Conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers, University of Adelaide, February 1989.

(1989) Sunset on Malaysia? The persistence of rural poverty and the impact of agricultural policy under the New Economic Policy in West Malaysia: An evaluation of the National Agricultural Policy, paper presented at the Development Studies Seminar Series, Centre for Development Studies, Flinders University of South Australia, 2 June 1989.

(1992) New Agricultural Policy or Nice Agrarian Platitudes: An evaluation of the Malaysian National Agricultural Policy, paper presented at the Development Studies Seminar Series, Centre for Development Studies, Flinders University of South Australia, 20 August 1992.

(1993) Loft Living in Australia: A Case Study of Sydney, paper presented at the Institute of Australian Geographers Graduate Student Conference, University of Melbourne, February 1993.

(1993) The effects of economic restructuring and demographic changes on patterns of segregation and spatial inequality in Adelaide, 1981 to 1991, paper presented at the Geography Discipline Seminar Series, School of Social Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, 2 November 1993.

(1994) (with M. Shanahan, J. Cowie, C. Findlay, C. and R.P. McIver) Following footprints: Problems and limitations of evaluating the effect of methodological changes in tertiary teaching, paper presented the HERDSA Conference, Australian National University, June 1994.

(1994) Changes to patterns of residential differentiation and segregation in Adelaide, 1981 to 1991, paper presented at the Geography Discipline Seminar Series, Faculty of Social Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, 6 September 1994.

(1994) (with M. Shanahan, J. Cowie, C. Findlay, and R.P. McIver) Following footprints I: Some problems of evaluating the effect of methodological changes to teaching first-year economics, paper presented at the New Zealand Association of Economists Winter Conference, Massey University.

(1994) (with M. Shanahan, J. Cowie, C. Findlay, and R.P. McIver) Following footprints II: Tracking the problems and limitations of evaluating the effect of methodological changes to tertiary teaching of economics through the literature, paper presented at the New Zealand Association of Economists Winter Conference, Massey University.

(1998) (with V.D. Feast, M. Head and B. Kokkinn) The Janus Approach: Gateways, Beacons and Learning Loops in Economics, paper presented at the Third Pacific Rim Conference, Auckland Institute of Technology, July 1998.

(1998) (with B. Kokkinn, M. Head, M. and V.D. Feast) Transforming the Teaching of Economics: Embedding Tertiary Literacy, paper presented at the HERDSA Conference98, Auckland University, July 1998.

(1998) (with V.D. Feast) Application of Total Quality Management to Higher Education: A Case Study, paper presented at the HERDSA Conference98, Auckland University, July 1998.

(1998) The Use of Rasch Test Models in Ensuring the Validity of Multiple Choice Exam Questions, paper presented at the HERDSA Conference98, Auckland University, July 1998.

(1998) HECS Lotto: Question Choice and Marker Variability, paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Post Session Seminar, Educational Research in a Cross Cultural Context, Flinders University, 4 December.

(1999) (with V.D. Feast) Allocate+: More than State-of-the-Art Class Allocations in Cyberspace, Cornerstones of Higher Education, HERDSA Conference99, Melbourne University, July 1999.

(1999) Question Choice: Does Marker Variability Make Examinations a Lottery?, Cornerstones of Higher Education, HERDSA Conference99, Melbourne University, July 1999.

(1999) (with V.D. Feast) Mainstreaming Graduate Qualities in a Business and Management Faculty core: An Exercise in Educational Contracting, paper presented at the Improving University Learning and Teaching Twenty-Fourth International Conference, 5-8 July, Griffith University.

(1999) Developing Teaching Materials That Work: Using Practical Examples and the SOLO Taxonomy to Increase Student Engagement, Paper presented at the 7th Teaching and Learning Conference, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, September 1999.

(1999) Mainstreaming Generic Skills in Business Subjects: A View From the Antipodes, paper presented at the 7th Teaching and Learning Conference, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, September 1999.

(1999) Differential Item Functioning: A Case Study from First Year Economics, paper presented at the Third Annual Education Conference, Flinders University of South Australia, 6 December.

(2000) What Does Flexibility Mean to Students and What do they Need of Want: Alternative Sources of Flexibility, paper presented at IT's Here: Flexibility in Reaching and Learning Symposium, Flinders University of South Australia, 14 November.

(2000) The Partial Credit Model: An Exciting Geographic Application, paper presented at the Fourth Annual Education Conference, Flinders University of South Australia, 30 November.

(2002) Unemployment Figures: The Story Behind the Numbers, paper presented to the Annual conference of the South Australian Economic Teachers Society, Adelaide University, 8 November, 2002.

WORKING AND DISCUSSION PAPERS

(1993) Rural poverty in Peninsular Malaysia and the Malaysian National Agricultural Policy, School of Economics and Finance Working Papers Series, no. 9, The University of South Australia.

(1999) (with V.D. Feast) Application of Total Quality Management to Higher Education: A Case Study, Division of Business and Enterprise, QIPTL Program Discussion Papers, no. 1.

(1999) Using Item Response Theory to Improve Item Specification in Multiple Choice Exams: A Case Study from First Year Economics, Division of Business and Enterprise, QIPTL Program Discussion Papers, no. 2.

(1999) (with V.D. Feast, B. Kokkinn and M. Head) The Janus Approach: Gateways, Beacons and Learning Loops in Economics Division of Business and Enterprise, QIPTL Program Discussion Papers, no. 3.

(1999) (with V. Feast, B. Kokkinn and M. Head) Transforming the Teaching of Economics: Embedding Tertiary Literacy, Division of Business and Enterprise, QIPTL Program Discussion Papers, no. 4.

(1999) (with V.D. Feast) Mainstreaming Graduate Qualities in a Business and Management Faculty Core: An Exercise in Educational Contracting, Division of Business and Enterprise, QIPTL Program Discussion Papers, no. 5.

(1999) HECS Lotto: Item Choice and Marker Variability, Division of Business and Enterprise, QIPTL Program Discussion Papers, no. 6.

(1999) Question Choice and Marker Variability: Insights from Item Response Theory, Division of Business and Enterprise, QIPTL Program Discussion Papers, no. 7.

(1999) Question Choice: Does Marker Variability Make Examinations a Lottery? , Division of Business and Enterprise, QIPTL Program Discussion Papers, no. 9.

(1999) Allocate+: More than State-of-the-Art Class Allocations in Cyberspace, Division of Business and Enterprise, QIPTL Program Discussion Papers, no. 10.

(2001) (with Spoehr, J.D). Call Centres: High Technology Utopias or Post Industrial Sweatshops, Centre for Labour Research, Research Paper Series, no 14, Adelaide University.

REPORTS

(1987) (with J. Kirby) Identifying Target Households for a Home Energy Advisory Service in South Australia, Report Book Number 87/55, Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia.

(1996) (with E. Ramsay, D. Tranter, and R. Sumner) Outcomes of a University's Flexible Admissions Policies, Evaluations and Investigations Program, Department of Employment, Education and Youth Affairs, AGPS, Canberra.

(1998) (with J. Quiggin and J. Spoehr) Risky Business: An Economic and Social Analysis of Privatisation of Public Enterprise in South Australia, prepared for the Public service Association of South Australia, Centre for Labour Research, Adelaide University.

(1999) Call Centres: Issues in an Emerging Industry, report prepared for the United Trades and Labour Council of South Australia, Centre for Labour Research, Adelaide University.

(2000) (with J. Spoehr) South Australian Government Assistance to Industry: High road, Low Road or No Road? A submission to The South Australian parliament Economic and Finance Committee Inquiry into South Australian Government, Assistance to Industry, commissioned by the United Trades and Labour Council of South Australia, Centre for Labour Research, Adelaide University.

(2002) (with Spoehr, J., Quiggin, J. and Wilson, L.) Towards an Inclusive Society: The Public Sector and Social Inclusion in the 21st Century, Public Service Association of South Australia, June.

(2003) (with J. Spoehr) Working Together for 21st Century Policing, Submission to the South Australian Parliamentary Select Committee on the Staffing, Resourcing and Efficiency of SAPOL, September.

(2003) (with J. Spoehr) Foundations for 21st Century Policing, Submission to the South Australian Parliamentary Select Committee on the Staffing, Resourcing and Efficiency of SAPOL, September.

(2003) (with J. Spoehr) Foundations for the Future, State Budget Submission to the South Australian Government, Public Service Association of South Australia.

(2003) A Review of Labour Force Indicators, A report prepared for the South Australian Review of Employment Programs, Department of Premier and Cabinet.

(2003) (with L. Wilson, and P. Wright) The Significance and Implications of the Growth of Precarious and Non-Standard Employment in South Australia, A report prepared for the South Australian Review of Employment Programs, Department of Premier and Cabinet.