Sarah is a lecturer in Education Futures at the University of South Australia and a member of the Centre for Research in Education & Social Inclusion. Sarah’s research interests are gendered subjectivities, girlhood, social mobility, social barriers, and educational inequalities. She also conducts research in the area of literacies, focusing on gender, literacies and reading. Sarah’s first co-authored book, 'Gendering the First-in-Family Experience: Transitions, Liminality, Performativity' was published by Routledge in 2022.
Sarah's work has been published in The Conversation and news outlets such as The Advertiser, The Courier-Mail and radio. In the UniSA 2021 Media Highlights report, Sarah was named one... Read more
About me
Sarah is a lecturer in Education Futures at the University of South Australia and a member of the Centre for Research in Education & Social Inclusion. Sarah’s research interests are gendered subjectivities, girlhood, social mobility, social barriers, and educational inequalities. She also conducts research in the area of literacies, focusing on gender, literacies and reading. Sarah’s first co-authored book, 'Gendering the First-in-Family Experience: Transitions, Liminality, Performativity' was published by Routledge in 2022.
Sarah's work has been published in The Conversation and news outlets such as The Advertiser, The Courier-Mail and radio. In the UniSA 2021 Media Highlights report, Sarah was named one of the top spokespersons per the academic unit list for Education Futures. Sarah was awarded first prize in the Research Excellence Category, HDR Candidate, at the UniSA 2021 Research Awards and a Centre for Research in Education and Social Inclusion Emerging Researcher Excellence Award in 2020. She served as both HDR and ECR representative on the Education Futures Research Leadership Group. Sarah is currently the president of the South Australian English Teachers Association, where she previously served as vice president and council member and a State Delegate to the Australian Association for the Teaching of English.
About me
The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE)
South Australian English Teachers Association (SAETA)
Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA)
About me
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 15/09/2023 |
Students have difficulty evaluating online content: new research, https://educationhq.com/news/students-have-difficulty-evaluating-online-content-new-research-155706/ |
| 06/02/2023 |
What happens now to students who are first-in-family to go to university?, https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=15882 |
| 29/06/2022 |
Year 3 student career choices: Exploring societal changes in constructions of masculinity and femininity in career choice justifications, https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/year-3-student-career-choices-exploring-societal-changes-in-constructions-of-masculinity-and-femininity-in-career-choice-justifications |
| 06/04/2022 |
‘Mum wanted to go to uni, but she didn’t have the opportunity’: what students who are first in their family to go to university say, https://theconversation.com/mum-wanted-to-go-to-uni-but-she-didnt-have-the-opportunity-what-students-who-are-first-in-their-family-to-go-to-university-say-177553 |
| 12/02/2022 |
Sexism in schools: Commissioner finds classroom gender stereotypes reminiscent of the 1970s., https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/education-south-australia/sexism-in-schools-commissioner-finds-classroom-gender-stereotypes-reminiscent-of-the-1970s/news-story/20bde22e2a8329850b95595cb0e6bb84 |
| 01/02/2022 |
Putting the focus on first-in-family experiences, https://unisa.edu.au/unisanews/2022/february/story10/ |
| 16/12/2021 |
The real struggles for “first-in-family” university students, https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2021/12/real-struggles-%E2%80%9Cfirst-family%E2%80%9D-university-students |
| 21/10/2021 |
Toy shops urged to go gender neutral to help kids broaden career choices, https://www.kidsnews.com.au/humanities/toy-shops-urged-to-go-gender-neutral-to-help-kids-broaden-career-choices/news-story/884dbe80b74ca1b2f68005758e56bb14 |
| 19/10/2021 |
More gender-neutral toys need to stop ‘girl gap’, https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/more-genderneutral-toys-need-to-stop-girl-gap/news-story/29a85cd7c6c764a06f4da735cc71f31c |
| 18/10/2021 |
Should Australian toy stores ditch the blue and pink and go ‘gender neutral’?, https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/kids/should-australian-toy-stores-ditch-the-blue-and-pink-and-go-gender-neutral/news-story/eda4d22d164d8ed89e6a5b609c700b85 |
| 15/10/2021 |
Caring or killing: harmful gender stereotypes kick in early – and may be keeping girls away from STEM, https://theconversation.com/caring-or-killing-harmful-gender-stereotypes-kick-in-early-and-may-be-keeping-girls-away-from-stem-169742 |
| 30/09/2020 |
Feminine subjectivities and aspirational learner identities, https://faculti.net/feminine-subjectivities-and-aspirational-learner-identities/ |
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Master of Education (Educational Research, Evaluation and Assessment) Flinders University
Bachelor of Education (Secondary) Flinders University
Bachelor of Arts University of Adelaide
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Exploring Homework Policies and Practices, and their Impact on Family Life: An Institutional Ethnography in Three Countries, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 15/07/2024 - 30/11/2026
Kain Foundation Northern Opportunities Evaluation Proposal, Kain Foundation, 01/05/2024 - 01/10/2024
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2024 |
Open access
1
1
|
| 2024 |
Open access
2
|
| 2023 |
Open access
|
| 2022 |
Open access
13
11
60
|
| 2022 |
40
|
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2022 |
40
|
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2024 |
Open access
|
| 2023 |
Open access
2
|
| 2023 |
5
2
|
| 2021 |
Open access
7
|
| 2021 |
Open access
4
7
|
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2024 |
Open access
1
1
|
| 2024 |
Open access
1
1
|
| 2024 |
Open access
2
|
| 2024 |
1
1
1
|
| 2024 |
Open access
1
1
79
|
| 2024 |
1
1
1
|
| 2024 |
Open access
1
1
1
|
| 2024 |
Open access
1
|
| 2024 |
Open access
2
2
|
| 2023 |
Open access
1
1
10
|
| 2023 |
Open access
|
| 2023 |
Open access
3
2
97
|
| 2023 |
Open access
2
2
8
|
| 2023 |
Open access
4
3
2
|
| 2023 |
Open access
2
3
3
|
| 2023 |
Open access
6
7
1
|
| 2022 |
Open access
13
11
60
|
| 2022 |
Open access
15
10
6
|
| 2021 |
Open access
7
5
|
| 2021 |
Open access
7
4
2
|
| 2021 |
Open access
4
3
1
|
| 2021 |
Open access
9
8
1
|
| 2021 |
Open access
11
15
10
|
| 2021 |
Open access
14
12
|
| 2020 |
Open access
5
|
| 2020 |
Open access
18
17
6
|
| 2016 |
2
|
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Australian Catholic University | AUSTRALIA |
| Kristiania University College | NORWAY |
| Queensland University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
| St Francis Xavier University | CANADA |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Cambridge | UNITED KINGDOM |
| University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
MemberThe Australian Sociological Association |
2022 |
MemberAmerican Educational Research Association |
2022 |
MemberAustralian Association for Research in Education |
2022 |
MemberPrimary English Teaching Association Australia |
2022 |
PresidentSouth Australian English Teachers Association |
2022 |
State DelegateAustralian Association for the Teaching of English |
2022 |
MemberThe Australian Sociological Association |
2021 |
MemberAustralian Association for Research in Education |
2021 |
MemberAmerican Educational Research Association |
2021 |
PresidentSouth Australian English Teachers Association |
2021 |
State DelegateAustralian Association for the Teaching of English |
2021 |
MemberThe Australian Sociological Association |
2020 |
MemberAustralian Association for Research in Education |
2020 |
PresidentSouth Australian English Teachers Association |
2020 |
MemberAustralian Association for Research in Education |
2019 |
MemberThe Australian Sociological Association |
2019 |
PresidentSouth Australian English Teachers Association |
2019 |
MemberThe Australian Sociological Association |
2018 |
MemberAustralian Association for Research in Education |
2018 |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| A 'drowning trench' of ongoing joblessness and a career-nurturing 'mooring'? A Bourdieusian sociological study of `slow employment¿ in China | Current |
| Graduates from elite universities as schoolteachers: A sociological exploratory study | Current |
| Working 'like a teacher': a postqualitative inquiry into how early childhood workers resist maternalism and reductive discourses | Current |
