Convenor of the Strategic Research Program: 'Education, Equity and Social Identities'
Member of Melbourne Educational Research Institute (MERI)
Member of MGSE Equal Opportunity in Education Advisory Committee

Australian Association for Research in Education
American Educational Research Association
Australian Curriculum Studies Association
Gender and Education Association

BA (hons) Dip.Ed (Melb), M.Ed, PhD (LaTrobe)

Social and Professional Contexts; M.Tch
Co-ordinator, Research Methods in Education (M.Ed)
4th Year Research Papers in Values Education

POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISIONS
CURRENT

‘Exploring public pedagogies in the new global classroom’, Glenn Savage, PhD,

'The teacher, the student, the collaboration and their stories, Nancy Sugarman, PhD,

'Values Education: Teaching empathy and compassion' Avril Gaastra, M.Ed,

‘Educating culturally diverse teachers for culturally diverse education’, Jennifer Merton, PhD

‘Gifted education: blessing or curse? Gender differences in gifted education’, Ingrid Galitis, PhD.

RECENT COMPLETIONS

'Becoming Green: The formation of environmental ethics in outdoor education', Lou Preston. PhD

‘New teachers, professional knowledge and educational reform’, Rachel Patrick, PhD.

‘Rethinking homework practices in contemporary Australia: A feminist socio-cultural analysis’, Kirsten Hutchinson, PhD.

‘Communities constructing knowledge: Narrative possibilities in qualitative research’, Neil Hooley, EdD

‘Reconstructing the mosaic of inclusion for children with intellectual disabilities’, Sue Snelgrove, PhD

'Gender and literacy practices among primary school students, Darryl Coulthard, PhD,

‘Issues and challenges facing childcare staff working in centre-based care’ Annette Russell, M.Ed

‘Evaluating a program designed to combat student alienation’ Helen Taylor, M.Ed.

My research interests lie in interdisciplinary and socio-cultural studies of education, identity, equity/inequality and social change. My research projects and publications encompass theoretical and empirical studies of gender and youth, history and sociology of schooling, curriculum and subjectivity, equity and difference, and feminism and educational reform. I have recently completed a major qualitative longitudinal study of secondary school students and a cross-generational study of culturally marginalised young women.

I am currently working on an international comparative study of disenfranchised urban youth and a book on methodologies for researching social, historical and biographical change.
I am also beginning a new study on the cultural history of adolescence in Australia, 1930s-1970s

Selected

BOOKS

McLeod, Julie, and Thomson, Rachel (in press March 2009) Researching Social Change: Qualitative Approaches, Sage, London.

Dillabough, Jo-Anne, McLeod, Julie and Mills, Martin (2008) Guest Editors, ‘Troubling gender and education’, Special Issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol 29, No.3. (Also to be published as an edited book by Routledge, 2008)

McLeod, J. & Allard, A. eds. (2007) Learning from the Margins: Young women, social exclusion and education, Routledge, London.

Yates, Lyn and McLeod, Julie (2007) 12 to 18: A qualitative longitudinal study of students, values and difference in Australian schools, Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Canberra.

McLeod, Julie & Yates, Lyn (2006) Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling and Social Change, State University of New York Press, Albany New York.

Collins, C., Kenway, J. and McLeod, J. (2000) Factors Influencing the Educational Performance of Males and Females at School and their Initial Destinations after Leaving School, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Canberra, AGPS.

McLeod, Julie & Malone Karen (eds) (2000) Researching Youth, Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies, Hobart.

ARTICLES

McLeod, Julie and Wright, Katie (in press 2009) ‘The Talking Cure in Everyday Life: Gender, Generation and Friendship, Sociology, vol. 43, no.1.

Dillabough, Jo-Anne, McLeod, Julie, and Mills, Martin, (2008) ‘In search of allies and others: Troubling gender and education’, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol 29, No.3, pp.301-310.

McLeod, Julie and Dillabough, Jo-Anne (2007) ‘Social-spatial exclusion, gender and schooling: perspectives from Canada and Australia, Redress: Journal of the Association of Women Educators, April, Vol. 16, No. 1.

McLeod, Julie (2005) ‘Reproduction theory and feminism in education: Looking back, thinking now’ Discourse studies in the cultural politics of education, vol 26 no. 2, pp.263-275.

McLeod, Julie (2005) ‘Feminists re-reading Bourdieu: Old debates and new questions about gender habitus and gender change’ Theory and Research in Education Vol 3, no.1, pp.11-30.

McLeod, Julie (2005) ‘Introduction to symposium ‘ In dialogue with Bourdieu: Questions for and from feminism and education’, Theory and Research in Education, vol 3, no.1, pp.1-4.

McLeod, Julie (2005) ‘Feminist Poststructuralism and Curriculum History, Curriculum Perspectives, vol. 25, no. 1, pp.60-63.

McLeod, Julie (2004) ‘Neo-liberal agendas and gender equity: from social justice to individual performance’ Redress: Journal of the Association of Women Educators, Dec, vol 13, no.3, pp.

Kenway, Jane and McLeod, Julie (2004) ‘Bourdieu's reflexive sociology and 'spaces of points of view': implications for the sociology of education and gender’. British Journal of the Sociology of Education, vol.25, no.4, pp.525-544.

McLeod, Julie (2003) ‘Why we interview now: Reflexivity and perspective in a longitudinal study, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, July-Sept. vol. 6 no.3, pp.201-211.

McLeod, Julie & Yates, Lyn (2003) ‘Who is “us”? Students negotiating discourses of racism and national identification in Australia’, Race, Ethnicity and Education, vol 6. No.1 March, pp.29-49.

McLeod, Julie (2002), ‘Working out intimacy: Young people and friendship in an age of reflexivity’, Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education vol.23, no.2. pp 211-226.

McLeod, Julie (2001) ‘Foucault forever’, Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, April, vol 22, no. 1, pp.95-104.

McLeod, Julie (2000) ‘Subjectivity and schooling in a longitudinal study of secondary students’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 21, no. 4, Dec., pp.501-521.

Yates, Lyn and McLeod, Julie, (2000) ‘Social justice and the middle’, Australian Educational Researcher, vol. 27, no.3. Dec., pp. 59-68.

Collins, Cherry, Kenway,

Current Funded Projects

2009-11 Educating the Adolescent: An historical study of curriculum, counselling and citizenship in Australia, 1930s-1970s,
Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant, Julie McLeod (Chief Investigator); Katie Wright (Postdoctoral Fellow)

2005-08 ‘Disenfranchised Youth, Class Conflict and Social Change: An International Comparison',
Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Standard Research Grants, in collaboration with PI Asooc Prof. Jo-Anne Dillabough, University British Columbia, Canada,