Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Foundation Professor of Curriculum.

AARE, AERA, BERA, ACSA

BA(H) (Melb), Dip Ed (Melb), MA (Melb), M Ed (Bristol), PhD (La Trobe)

Curriculum, gender, inequalities, research methodology

My interests are in theoretical and empirical projects related to knowledge, identities, inequalities and education policy and practice in Australia.

NEW BOOK (publication date - July 2007)
Yates, Lyn and McLeod, Julie, '12 to 18' (ACSA)

McLeod, Julie and Yates, Lyn, 'Making Modern Lives: subjectivity, schooling and social change' (State University of New York Press 2006)
Yates, Lyn 'What does good education research look like? Situating a field and its practices' (Open University Press, 2004)
Chappell, C., Rhodes, C., Solomon, N., Tennant, M. and Yates, L. 'Reconstructing the Lifelong Learner: pedagogy and identity in individual, organisational and social change' (Routledge, 2003)
Yates, Lyn (ed) 'Citizenship and Education' (Melbourne Studies in Education, La Trobe University Press, 1995)
Yates, Lyn (ed) 'Feminism and Education' (Melbourne Studies in Education, La Trobe University Press 1993)
Yates, Lyn 'The Education of Girls: policy, research and the question of gender' (ACER 1993)
Yates, Lyn, 'Theory/Practice Dilemmas: gender, knowledge and education' (Deakin University 1991)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Yates, Lyn (2006)
‘Does Curriculum Matter? Revisiting women’s access and rights to education in the context of the UN Millennium Development Targets’, Theory and Research in Education 4 (1) 85-99.
Yates, Lyn (2005)
‘Is impact a measure of quality? Some reflections on the research quality and impact assessment agendas’, European Educational Research Journal, Vol.4 (4), 391-403.
Tennant, Mark and Yates, Lyn (2005)
‘Issues of identity and knowledge in the schooling of VET: a case study of lifelong learning’, International Journal of Lifelong Learning 24 (3), 213-225.
Malfroy, Janne and Yates, Lyn (2003)
‘Knowledge in Action: doctoral programmes forging new identities’, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, Vol.25 (2), 119-129.
Yates, Lyn (2003)
‘Interpretive claims and methodological warrant in small-number qualitative, longitudinal research’, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Vol.6 (3), 223-232.
McLeod, Julie and Yates, Lyn (2003)
‘Who is “us”? Students negotiating discourses of racism and national identification in Australia’, Race, Ethnicity and Education Vol.6 (1), 29-49.
Yates, Lyn (2002)
‘Effectiveness, difference and sociological research’, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 23 (3) 329-338.
Yates, Lyn (2001)
‘Negotiating methodological dilemmas in a range of chilly climates – a story of pressures, principles and problems’, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, Vol 29 (2) , 187-196.
Yates, Lyn, (2001)
‘Selves, social factors, school sites and the tricky issue of ‘school effects’’, Change: Transformations in Education, Vol 4 (2), 16-29.
Yates, Lyn (2001)
‘Subjectivity, social change and the reform problematic, International Journal of Inclusive Education, 5 (2) 209-223.
Allard, Andrea and Yates, Lyn (2001)
‘Exploring positive cross-gender peer relations: year 10 students’ perspectives on cross-gender friendships’, International Journal of Inclusive Education, 5 (1) 33-46.
Yates, Lyn and McLeod, Julie (2000)
‘Social justice and the middle’, Australian Education Researcher, 27 (3), 59-78.

In progress:

'Keeping Connected: young people, identity and schooling'
(Linkage Project with Royal Children's Hospital Education Institute and Centre for Adolescent Health, 2006-2009)

'School knowledge, working knowledge and the knowing subject: Australian state curriculums 1975-2005'
(Discovery Project, 2007-2008)

ARC Projects:
'Changing work, changing workers, changing selves: a study of pedagogies of the new vocationalism' (2002-2004)
'The e.ffects project: effective learning using new technologies in school'(2001-2003)
'The 12 to 18 Project: a qualitative, longitudinal study of young people and secondary schooling'(1993-2006)