Jayne French: Executive Officer
Email: Jayne.French@unisa.edu.au
Hi there!
It is a great honour to be Dean of WIL for UniSA Business, STEM, Justice & Society; Education Futures; and Creative. My position is located in UniSA Business and is a role I enjoy and feel a great passion for.
Before working in this position I have held the positions of Dean of Programs, UniSA JUS, prior to which I had the great privilege to undertake the roles of Academic Director with UniSA College; Associate Head of School (Academic) for the School of Psychology, Social Work + Social Policy, where I was also a Senior Lecturer and later Associate Professor (Social Policy). It was also my privilege to have undertaken earlier work as a lecturer in the the David Uniapon College of Indigenous Education and... Read more
About me
Hi there!
It is a great honour to be Dean of WIL for UniSA Business, STEM, Justice & Society; Education Futures; and Creative. My position is located in UniSA Business and is a role I enjoy and feel a great passion for.
Before working in this position I have held the positions of Dean of Programs, UniSA JUS, prior to which I had the great privilege to undertake the roles of Academic Director with UniSA College; Associate Head of School (Academic) for the School of Psychology, Social Work + Social Policy, where I was also a Senior Lecturer and later Associate Professor (Social Policy). It was also my privilege to have undertaken earlier work as a lecturer in the the David Uniapon College of Indigenous Education and Research. My experience prior to academe has included work in community development, research, policy, and management positions in both the community sector and State Government, as well as working in Australia's Commonwealth Parliament as a senior political advisor.
As well as my focus on all matters related to student employability; teaching and learning; and industry engagement, I am also an active researcher with a strong focus on social policy, Aboriginal community development, governance and wellbeing and enterprise development. My collaborative research has included ARC Discovery and Linkage projects; extensive CRC experience (Desert Knowledge CRC; Young and Well CRC and Remote and Economic CRC); AHURI projects and a range of community and industry partnership research projects.
I'd like to share with you a little of the values that animate my teaching and research activities; I passionately believe, as Freire (1985) tells us, that "besides being an act of knowing, education is a political act". As academics we have a unique privilege, a special opportunity and a gentle but constant duty to ourselves and each other to pursue excellence, fun and social justice in all areas of our scholarship :)
- Deirdre (she/her/hers)
About me
About me
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University
Master of Policy and Administration Flinders University
Bachelor of Arts Flinders University
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Culturally and linguistically Inclusive Placement Learning: Mentored Business Placements for International Students in Post-Covid Era, National Association of Field Experience Administrators Inc., 17/01/2024 - 31/12/2024
Redesign of a homelessness services system for young people, Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute, 02/04/2018 - 31/08/2019
Community of Schools and Youth Services Early Intervention Program, SA Dept of Human Services, 01/02/2017 - 31/12/2018
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, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2022 |
1
|
| 2017 |
37
3
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2020 |
Open access
3
|
| 2020 |
Open access
|
| 2019 |
8
|
| 2017 |
2
|
| 2016 |
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| 2016 |
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| 2016 |
1
3
|
| 2015 |
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| 2015 |
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| 2014 |
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| 2014 |
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| 2014 |
2
1
|
| 2013 |
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| 2013 |
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| 2011 |
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| 2011 |
|
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2024 |
Open access
5
4
46
|
| 2018 |
Open access
40
39
2
|
| 2017 |
Open access
|
| 2015 |
26
21
|
| 2014 |
79
62
|
| 2014 |
6
14
|
| 2014 |
112
65
|
| 2011 |
25
20
|
| 2011 |
33
22
|
| 2010 |
59
44
|
| 2010 |
18
19
|
| 2009 |
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| 2009 |
Open access
|
| 2009 |
2
|
| 2009 |
1
1
|
| 2008 |
32
21
|
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2009 |
Open access
|
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2022 |
Open access
5
|
| 2020 |
Open access
6
|
| 2011 |
Open access
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| 2011 |
Open access
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Research
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Anangu Ministry Council (APY Lands) | AUSTRALIA |
| Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Islander Studies | AUSTRALIA |
| Australian National University | AUSTRALIA |
| Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education | AUSTRALIA |
| Central Queensland University | AUSTRALIA |
| Centre for Appropriate Technology | AUSTRALIA |
| Charles Darwin University | AUSTRALIA |
| Charles Sturt University | AUSTRALIA |
| Clemson University | UNITED STATES |
| Community Works | AUSTRALIA |
| CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research organisation) | AUSTRALIA |
| Desert Knowledge CRC | AUSTRALIA |
| Edith Cowan University | AUSTRALIA |
| Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
| Free University of Amsterdam | NETHERLANDS |
| Grenoble School of Management | FRANCE |
| Media Access Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Michigan State University | UNITED STATES |
| Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Education Committee | AUSTRALIA |
| Private Individual | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Queensland University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
| Radboud University Nijmegen | NETHERLANDS |
| Swinburne University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Nijmegen | NETHERLANDS |
| University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of St Gallen | SWITZERLAND |
| University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Tasmania | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Wollongong | AUSTRALIA |
| Western Sydney University | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
MemberAustralian Association for Social Work and Welfare Education |
2017 |
MemberEuropean Group for Organizational Studies |
2017 |
MemberAustralian Political Science Association |
2017 |
MemberInternational Political Science Association |
2017 |
MemberStanding Committee on Organizational Symbolism |
2017 |
MemberAcademy of Management (AOM) |
2017 |
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| A genealogical tracing of income management and the manifestation of ideological continuities of Settler-Colonialism and Neoliberalism - an examination of the impact on Aboriginal communities in twent | Current |
| Exploring Welfare Dependency among Adolescents: the Role of the `Unreasonable to Live at Hom (ULH) Youth Allowance in Intergenerational Disadvantage | Current |
| Methamphetamine use and offending: a Critical analysis, the tip of the iceberg? | Current |
| Valuing the social return on investment of Aboriginal-led economic development in remote areas of Australia | Current |
| Contextualising social policy: Australia¿s cashless debit card in the lives of recipients and their communities in Ceduna, South Australia | Completed |
| Diverse Aboriginal motherhoods: challenging constructions of the 'unfit' m(other) | Completed |
| Indigenous enterprises and entrepreneurship in remote Anangu communities | Completed |
| News media frame building: the case of the Country Fire Authority industrial dispute | Completed |
| The movements of business, the business of movements: private sector and Aboriginal organisation relations in remote and Aboriginal Australia | Completed |
| We don't need bells and whistles: an analysis of website use by third sector organisations | Completed |
