Dr Wendy Bastalich

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My role within Learning Connection is to support PhD, Masters and Professional doctorate by research students and their supervisors at the University. I provide a range of workshop programs and web resources for students doing research in the social sciences and humanities. I also work with students on a one-to-one basis to provide research support and advice.

For more information about resources and services provided by Research Education Learning Advisers please go to: http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/learningconnection/student/researchdegree/default.asp

• Current research education workshops: Commencing program (supports the development of the research proposal), Thesis Writing program - (writing introductions, literature review, research design, mid thesis chapters, conclusions and abstracts, writing exegeses, and editing strategies for different thesis genres within the social sciences and humanities), Methodology series for the social sciences and humanities (introduces classical social theory, positivism, empiricism, constructionism, interpretivism, hermeneutics, Critical theory, French structuralism, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, feminisms, and post colonial thought).
• In the past I have taught courses in the philosophy of knowledge and ethics, women and labour, feminist theory, sociology of health and illness, introductory sociology, introduction to gender studies, and interpersonal communication.

Research Centre for Gender Studies

PhD Politics/Women's Studies University of Adelaide

Masters of Arts (Women's Studies) University of Adelaide

Graduate Diploma of Arts (Women's Studies) South Australian College of Advanced Education

Bachelor of Arts Politics/Psychology University of Tasmania

• My research background is in the area of political philosophy, feminist theory, feminst labour and economic thought and studies of women's work. I am currently developing research in the area of higher education, with a focus on the emerging policy climate and direction of research education.

Bastalich, W. 2009, 'Knowledge economy and research innovation', Studies in Higher Education, in press.

Bastalich, W. 2009, 'Reading Foucault: Genealogy and social science research methodology and ethics', Sociological Research Online, Volume 14, Issue 2/3.

Bastalich, W., S. Franzway, J. Gill, J. Mills, R. Sharp, 2006. 'Disrupting Masculinities? Women engineers and engineering workplace culture'. Australian Feminist Studies, vol.22, no. 54, pp. 385-400.

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, pp. 135-154.

Bastalich, W. Mills, J. Franzway, S. Gill, J. and Sharp, R. 2003, 'I had this real feeling it was a boys club', Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Engineering Education and Women in Engineering Forum, 29 September – 1 October, Melbourne, RMIT, Australasian Association for Engineering Education.

Castleman, T., Allen M., Bastalich, W. and Wright, P. 1995, Limited Access: Women's Disadvantage in Higher Education Employment, National Tertiary Education Union, Melbourne.

Bastalich, W. and Broomhill, Ray. 1993, 'Industry policy and women in South Australia' in Roy Green and Rodin Genoff (eds.), Perspectives on the South Australian Economy and Industry Policy, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.