Jane Wilkinson is Associate Dean for Graduate Research, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia and Associate Professor Educational Leadership. Jane's main research and teaching interests are in the areas of educational leadership for social justice and practice theory (feminist, Bourdieuian and practical philosophy). Jane has conducted extensive research with refugee students, schools and universities in regional and urban Australia. Her most recent study examines the role played by school and community leaders in building social cohesion. Jane’s new books include: Educational leadership as a culturally-constructed practice: New directions and possibilities (with Laurette Bristol, Routledge, 2018); and Navigating complex spaces: Refugee background students transitioning into higher education (with Loshini Naidoo, Misty Adoniou and Kip Langat, Singapore: Springer, 2018). Jane is lead editor (with Jeffrey S. Brooks) of the Journal of Educational Administration and History and a member of the editorial boards, Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice; Journal of Gender Studies and International Journal of Leadership in Education.

I am a teacher educator in the Faculty of Education at Monash University in Melbourne Australia. My research examines the historical formation of education concepts. In 2012 I organised an international conference on early childhood education as a collaboration between Monash University and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana; in 2014 I organised a second of these international conferences in collaboration with Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. I am currently investigating the formation of the concept of "Belonging" as used by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

I have 15 years of interdisciplinary qualitative research experience with hard to reach groups (i.e. tribal women, LGBTQI+ persons seeking asylum), including 30 months of fieldwork in India and Germany and my high-impact publications include a prize-nominated monograph published with Cambridge University Press and two recent publications on queer asylum in Germany in Ethnic and Racial Studies (2019) and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2020). I am the co-founder and convener of the Queer European Asylum Network, an umbrella organization that centers the voices of LGBTQI+ asylum claimants, refugees and activists in policy discussions on queer migration and asylum in Europe. I hold a Ph.D. in law and society and an M.A. in sociocultural anthropology, international law, and East Asian art history from University of Zurich. I have taught courses on law and society, transnational feminisms, and intersectionality at Columbia University and City University of New York and was a Visiting Scholar and a Research Fellow at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School. My research received support from the Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Zurich, City University of New York, and the European Commission.

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