Dr Jean Parker
Research Officer
Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Ed
Career Summary
Biography
I am a Research Officer in the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education (CEEHE) at the University of Newcastle. My work centres on the political economy of higher education, neoliberalism and the Australian welfare state, and class and inequality. I have published on gender-based violence in higher education, neoliberalism and higher education, Australia’s policy response to the global financial crisis of 2008, and financialisation and housing. I completed my PhD in 2013 on ‘Saving Neoliberalism: Rudd Labor’s response to the 2008 global economic crisis’, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Technology Sydney
Keywords
- Gender-based violence
- Higher education equity
- class and social inequality
- neoliberalism and the Australian welfare state
- political economy of higher education
Fields of Research
| Code | Description | Percentage |
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| 441004 | Social change | 25 |
| 441012 | Sociology of inequalities | 50 |
| 441010 | Sociology of gender | 25 |
Professional Experience
Professional appointment
| Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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| 8/2/2021 - 14/2/2022 |
Postdoctoral Research Assistant Postdoctoral Research Assistant on ARC Linkage Project ‘Better Responses to Gender-based Violence in Cambodia's Construction Sector’, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney (0.2) |
Sydney Southeast Asia Centre Australia |
| 12/8/2019 - |
Postdoctoral Research Assistant Dr Jean Parker is a research assistant in the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education (CEEHE) at the University of Newcastle. Her work centres on the political economy of higher education, neoliberalism and the Australian welfare state, and class and inequality. Jean has published on Australia’s policy response to the global financial crisis of 2008, financialisation and housing, and inequity in Australian higher education. Dr Jean Parker has worked at the University of Newcastle, Sydney University and Macquarie University where she gained significant experience in research, teaching and the development of research grants (including successful ARC applications). She completed her PhD in 2013 on ‘Saving Neoliberalism: Rudd Labor’s response to the 2008 global economic crisis’, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney. |
University of Newcastle - Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education Australia |
| 2/2/2017 - 2/8/2018 |
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chief Investigator ‘Understanding finance culture in Australian households 1996-2017’ part of an ARC funded project ‘The Wealth Effect: A cultural analysis of prosperity, financialisation and everyday life in contemporary Australia’ with Dr Fiona Allon, Department of Cultural and Gender Studies, University of Sydney. |
The University of Sydney Gender and Cultural Studies Australia |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (1 outputs)
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| 2016 |
Housing and Home Unbound, Routledge
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Chapter (1 outputs)
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| 2016 |
Allon F, Parker J, 'Building on sand?: Liquid housing wealth in an era of financialisation', Housing and Home Unbound: Intersections in economics, environment and politics in Australia 56-71 (2016)
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Journal article (4 outputs)
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| 2023 |
Coffey J, Burke PJ, Hardacre S, Parker J, Coccuzoli F, Shaw J, 'Students as victim-survivors: the enduring impacts of gender-based violence for students in higher education', Gender and Education, 35 623-637 (2023) [C1]
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| 2023 |
Burke PJ, Coffey J, Parker J, Hardacre S, Cocuzzoli F, Shaw J, Haro A, ' It s a lot of shame : understanding the impact of gender-based violence on higher education access and participation', Teaching in Higher Education, (2023) [C1] This paper draws on new empirical research examining the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on students' experiences of higher education. While GBV across the life-course ... [more] This paper draws on new empirical research examining the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on students' experiences of higher education. While GBV across the life-course is an extremely prevalent and pressing social problem, it has been invisible within higher education. Indeed, experiences of GBV, which may profoundly shape access to and participation in higher education, are largely perceived as irrelevant to student equity, unless experienced on campus. Institutional silence around the impact of GBV on student equity is related to the gender injustice of misrecognition, whereby the social problem of GBV is located at the personal level. This manifests in the social emotion of shame, experienced at the personal level as disconnection, isolation and not belonging. This paper draws from our analysis of 47 in-depth interviews with student victim/survivors exploring their experiences of higher education to illuminate how deficit discourses and stigmatisation intersect to reproduce gender injustice in higher education.
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| 2017 |
Parker J, Cahill D, 'The retreat from neoliberalism that was not: Australia's Building the Education Revolution', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 52 257-271 (2017)
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Report (2 outputs)
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| 2022 |
Burke PJ, Coffey J, Cocuzzoli F, Hardacre S, Parker J, Ramsay G, Shaw J, 'Understanding the impact of gender-based violence on access to and participation in higher education', Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education (2022)
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| 2022 |
Bennett A, MacQueen S, 'Success from the perspective of the successful: equity, success and completion in higher education', DESE (2022)
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Grants and Funding
Summary
| Number of grants | 1 |
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| Total funding | $5,000 |
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20221 grants / $5,000
Inter-agency collaboration to develop post-crisis pathways to highereducation for victim-survivors of domestic violence$5,000
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
| Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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| Project Team | Prof Penny Jane Burke (lead), Mrs Felicity Cocuzzoli, Dr Julia Coffey, Dr Jean Parker, Dr Stephanie Hardacre |
| Scheme | CHSF - Matched Funding |
| Role | Investigator |
| Funding Start | 2022 |
| Funding Finish | 2022 |
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| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | N |
Dr Jean Parker
Position
Research Officer
Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Ed
College of Human and Social Futures
Contact Details
| jean.parker@newcastle.edu.au |
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