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I am Professor of Social Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland.
My teaching and research interests focus on housing policy and urban regeneration, particularly on:
- the management and financing of social housing
- the regeneration of social housing estates and inner urban areas
- comparative analysis of housing provision in Europe
- the history and socio-economic implications of Irish housing policy and its relationship with the welfare state.
I am interested in recruiting PhD students who would like to research any of these topics.
I have led over 20 research project on these issues since 2000 and produced over 170 publications on the results. My latest book entitled Property, Family and the Irish Welfare State was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. I am also co-conveynor of the European Network for Housing Research Working Group on Comparative Housing Policy.
I also have very strong links with policy makers in Ireland. In 2011 I was appointed by an Taoiseach as an independent member of the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) which advises the Irish government on economic, environmental and social policy and I was appointed for a second term in 2016. In 2012 and again in 2017 I was appointed by the Minister for Housing as chair of the Housing Finance Agency (hfa.ie). The Agency raises finance on international markets which it lends on to local authorities and housing associations for the provision of housing to low income households.
In 2021 I was of one of three lead authors of a major report on affordable housing which was commissioned by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), UN Habitat and Housing Europe (which represents social housing providers in Europe). The report is titled Housing2030: Effective policies for affordable housing in the UNECE region aims to show how policymakers can improve affordable housing outcomes and support climate neutral housing provision
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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.
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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).
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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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Professor of Education, Monash University, Australia. Has researched policy and practices related to access and participation of people from under-represented groups in the field of further and higher education in the UK and Australia, including the experiences of migrants and people from refugee backgrounds. Also currently researching higher education in the non-university college sector and the implications of this activity for distinction and equity.