
Dr Matt Lumb
Associate Director
Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Ed
- Email:matt.lumb@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 7912
Career Summary
Biography
My commitment to the field of access to education developed through experiences as a community development professional working on projects in Australia and in parts of Asia and Africa, and as a classroom teacher in Australian high schools.
A formative time in my professional life was working for UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Fund) where I undertook a dual role in Australia as Education for Development Coordinator and as International Projects Officer (Monitoring and Evaluation). As Education for Development Coordinator, my role was to manage school and community-focused fundraising and advocacy initiatives; e.g. pioneering and managing relationships with NSW DET and NSW Teachers Federation around a new statewide initiative called UNICEF Day for Change.
As International Projects Officer (Monitoring and Evaluation) I worked in Australia and overseas to liaise between local stakeholders of development practice, representatives of UNICEF and other UN agencies in overseas development contexts, and the Australian Government - to monitor program processes, identify future funding needs, and produce nuanced reporting and evaluation products. This role involved numerous visits to development contexts including Zambia (HIV/AIDS orphans & prevention of transmission between mother and child), Laos (Child Protection against UXO or Unexploded Ordinance), Indonesia (Polio Vaccination), Vietnam (Iodine Deficiency) and Fiji (Health Technologies).
As a teacher in NSW public schools in the central west of the state, I gained renewed appreciation of the role education plays in relational processes underlying the possibility of community development. It was in this context I acquired a deeper understanding of the ways that pedagogy, curricular and assessment structures impact on subjectivity, identity and life trajectory.
Working for Australian Red Cross as firstly Refugee Support Coordinator and then as manager of a community service called Tenant Connect, I experienced the tensions and contradictions of community based and not-for-profit organisations in terms of the spectrum from service to development. I was privileged to work with a diversity of experienced practitioners across this spectrum and to learn about the ways processes of evaluation can themselves be programs of practice.
Since 2011, I have worked at the University of Newcastle as an outreach practitioner and am currently enrolled in a PhD with the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education, investigating the concealed impacts of outreach connections. I have an interest in the ways sophisticated participatory methodologies have the potential to make evaluative processes more productive, and to deliver nuanced and contextualised understandings of the underlying dynamics that produce program impact.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Newcastle
Keywords
- community development
- critical pedagogy
- educational access
- educational participation
- equity
- evaluation
- international development
- social inequalities
- social justice
- sociology of education
- widening participation
Fields of Research
Code | Description | Percentage |
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160801 | Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment | 25 |
160809 | Sociology of Education | 50 |
130103 | Higher Education | 25 |
Publications
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Chapter (2 outputs)
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2019 | Lumb M, 'Unintended imaginings: the difficult dimensions of possible selves', Possible Selves and Higher Education: New Interdisciplinary Insights, Routledge, London, UK 93-110 (2019) [B1] | ||||
2018 |
Burke PJ, Lumb M, 'Researching and evaluating equity and widening participation: praxis-based frameworks', Evaluating Equity and Widening Participation in Higher Education, Trentham, London (2018) [B1]
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Journal article (8 outputs)
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2020 |
Lumb M, Burke PJ, Bennett A, 'Obscenity and fabrication in equity and widening participation methodologies', British Educational Research Journal, (2020)
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Lumb M, Bunn M, Burke PJ, 'Resisting homogeneity in higher education: perspectives from praxis', International Studies in Widening Participation, 7 1-7 (2020)
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Bunn M, Lumb M, 'Patient praxis: A dialogue between equity practice and research', International Studies in Widening Participation, 6 1-9 (2019)
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2019 |
Lumb M, Burke PJ, 'Re/cognising the discursive fr/Ames of equity and widening participation in higher education', INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION, 28 215-236 (2019) [C1]
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Bennett A, Lumb M, 'Policy misrecognitions and paradoxes: developing more contextually attuned access and equity policies in Australian higher education', Policy Futures in Education, 17 966-982 (2019) [C1]
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Bunn M, Lumb M, 'Education as Agency: Challenging educational individualisation through alternative accounts of the agentic', The International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 18 7-19 (2019) [C1]
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English H, Lumb M, Page J, Wilton J, 'Spaces of solace and world-building: A praxis-based approach to Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) outreach for equity and widening participation in higher education', International Studies in Widening Participation, 5 10-25 (2018) [C1]
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Conference (11 outputs)
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2019 |
Bunn M, Lumb M, 'Negotiating the nexus of research and practice for equity in Australian Higher Education.', Wollongong (2019)
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Bunn M, Lumb M, 'Forced perspectives, ontological limits, and the means of realisation: Re/cognising the frame when reimagining the higher education student.', Newcastle, Australia (2019)
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Burke PJ, Lumb M, McCleod J, 'Panel: Theorising new questions on gender, subjectivity and emotions', Melbourne, Australia (2018)
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Creative Work (1 outputs)
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2013 | Lumb M, Hope, Newcastle (2013) |
Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 4 |
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Total funding | $228,766 |
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20191 grants / $114,627
International Review of equity in higher education$114,627
Funding body: Department of Education
Funding body | Department of Education |
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Project Team | Professor Penny Jane Burke, Professor Peter Howley, Professor Andrew Brown, Doctor Matthew Bunn, Doctor Matt Lumb, Ms Belinda Munn, Dr William Locke |
Scheme | Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Programme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | G1900518 |
Type Of Funding | C2110 - Aust Commonwealth - Own Purpose |
Category | 2110 |
UON | Y |
20173 grants / $114,139
Children's University Evaluation$101,320
Funding body: Anonymous
Funding body | Anonymous |
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Project Team | Professor Penny Jane Burke, Doctor Matt Lumb, Doctor Rhyall Gordon, Mrs Selina Darney, Mr David Pearson |
Scheme | Research and Scholarship Support |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2017 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | G1701461 |
Type Of Funding | C3120 - Aust Philanthropy |
Category | 3120 |
UON | Y |
P-Tech Think Tank$9,091
Funding body: IBM Australia and New Zealand
Funding body | IBM Australia and New Zealand |
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Project Team | Doctor Matthew Bunn, Doctor Matt Lumb, Professor Penny Jane Burke |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2017 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | G1701621 |
Type Of Funding | C3120 - Aust Philanthropy |
Category | 3120 |
UON | Y |
Educational futures: exploring emerging educational models in regional NSW and their impact upon student engagement and access to higher education$3,728
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Professor Penny Jane Burke, Professor John Fischetti, Doctor Matthew Bunn, Doctor Matt Lumb |
Scheme | Linkage Pilot Research Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2017 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | G1701351 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
News
Research team to develop an International Literature Review on Equity in Higher Education
April 15, 2019
European Access Network
May 16, 2014
Dr Matt Lumb
Position
Associate Director
Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education
Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Ed
Faculty of Education and Arts
Contact Details
matt.lumb@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4921 7912 |
Fax | (02) 4921 5613 |
Links |
Personal webpage |
Office
Room | IDC211 |
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Building | IDC |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |