Ms Rachel Outhred

I am the Academic Course Developer within the School's Step 2010 Project. I have been awarded a Graduate Diploma in Education, a Masters in International Development and am currently finalising my PhD. My PhD research evaluates the policies and management procedures employed to run a community development program aimed at disengaged women and children in West Africa. The research assesses the extent to which the program increases the women’s access to health, education and political participation.

During 2008 and 2009 I worked as a consultant for GroundTruth UK, providing hostile environment and security training as part of the UK government's mandatory pre-deployment training for all Deployable Civilian Experts in the EU. The Stabilisation Unit (formally the Post-Conflict Unit) is a joint venture between the UK’s Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. This work involved designing, managing and conducting International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law training sessions, facilitating debates on the role of the Stabilisation Unit in war crime proceedings, presenting EU guidelines concerning recording and reporting procedures in post-conflict environments, designing and managing live simulations on the army base and conducting post-activity debriefing concerning team responses.

During 2007 to 2008 I worked as the Curriculum Development Officer at Crucible, Centre for Excellence in Human Rights Education at Roehampton University, London. Within this role I conducted a two year tracking survey into student learning outcomes within the centre, worked in conjunction with NGO’s to develop Problem Based Learning curriculum for BA and MA courses in Human Rights, conducted and managed on-screen interviews with genocide survivors, aid workers, government officials, practitioners and volunteers in the areas of human rights, social justice and citizenship and lectured and tutored within the centre.

I have also lectured at Flinders University and managed a Registered Training Organisation within South Australia.

I have recently joined the School of Psychology, within Step 2010's Project 2. This project provides community, industry and/or research placements via the development of a new course at third year level to give students workplace experiences.

PhD [Current]. Flinders Institute of Public Policy and Management, Flinders University

MA (International Development. School of Political and International Studies, Flinders University

Graduate Diploma in Education. University of Adelaide,

Bachelor of Arts. Wesley Institute, Sydney

Outhred R. (2009) Participation for Social Justice, Sustainability and Peace, Action Learning and Action Research Journal. Participation for Social Justice: A Case Study from the Upper Volta, Africa.

Outhred R. (2007) Crucible Centre for Human Rights Education: The Successes and Challenges of Introducing Problem Based Learning and Resourced Based Learning to the Curriculum. Presented at Oxford University’s Learning: What for? Conference. October 2007. Trinity College, Dublin.