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RCGS postgraduate completions

PhD

2010

• Yuk Ching Lai (supervisor: Judith Gill), 'An investigation of the perceptions of teaching staff and parents of the integration program for young children with disabilities in mainstream preschools in Hong Kong'
• Kiara Rahman (supervisor: Tangi Steen), 'Indigenous student success in secondary schooling: factors impacting on student attendance, retention, learning and attainment in South Australia'
• Deborah Tranter (supervisor: Judith Gill), 'Why not university? School culture and higher education aspirations in disadvantaged schools'
• Jennifer Werner (supervisor: Judith Gill), 'So few, so slow : a contemporary investigation of the immutability of women's under-representation at senior levels in Australian organisations'

2009

• Bev Majda (supervisor: Rhonda Sharp), 'Did we get what we wanted? The power of political ideas in Australian health policy reform 1998 to 2004'
• Jeannie Daniels (supervisor: Elaine Butler), 'Negotiating learning: women, the everyday and VET'
• Anne Glover (supervisor: Judith Gill), 'Making meaning: the education reform agenda and the education of young children in Papua New Guinea 1994–2004'
• Valerie Adams (co-supervisors: Rhonda Sharp and Suzanne Franzway), 'Nurses' caring labour in residential aged care: a feminist economics analysis'

2008

• Mary Green (supervisor: Suzanne Franzway), 'Caring relations at work: a case study of one Canadian school district'
• Sally Harris (supervisor: Jean Duruz), 'Going organic, staying organic : how organic producers in the mid north of South Australia survive in the marketplace, a multiple case study'
• Elizabeth Hoon (supervisors: Lia Bryant principal and Suzanne Franzway associate), 'Beyond the differential worker: gendered, classed and rural meanings of work for production workers in a large wine-producing organisation'
• Virginia Mapedzahama (supervisors: Suzanne Franzway principal and Elaine Butler associate), 'Worlds apart? A cross-national comparative study of employed mothers'
• Helen McLaren (supervisors: Dale Bagshaw and Lana Zannettino), 'Duped by love and responsibility: women who have been partners of men who sexually abuse children'
• John Spoehr (co-supervisors: Rhonda Sharp and Martin Shanahan), 'Losing power: the struggle for control of South Australia's electricity industry'

2007

• Judith Elton (supervisor: Suzanne Franzway), 'Comrades or competition? Union relations with Aboriginal workers in the South Australian and Northern Territory pastoral industries, 1878–1957'
• Iolanda Principe (supervisors: Lia Bryant principal and Ed Carson associate), 'Social capital and the digital divide'
• Nancy Taber (supervisor: Elaine Butler), 'Ruling relations, warring, and mothering: writing the social from the everyday life of a military mother'
• Carole Zufferey (supervisors: Donna Chung principal, and Adrian Vicary and Patrick O'Leary associates), 'Homelessness, social work, social policy and the print media in Australian cities'

2006

• Patricia Carroll (supervisors: Judith Gill principal and Elaine Butler associate), 'Time of our lives! A longitudinal study of women and "retirement"'
• Reina Ichii (supervisors: Rhonda Sharp principal and Tracey Bretag associate), 'Performance indicators for gender-responsive budgeting: a case study of Australian childcare programs'
• Julie Tolley (supervisor: Suzanne Franzway), 'Stewed cockatoo and a glass of grenache: an historical investigation of women in the South Australian wine industry 1836–2005'
• Valerie Paltridge (supervisor: Judith Gill), 'More than just meeting places? Neighbourhood houses, women's wellbeing and social capital'

2005

• Betty Leask (supervisor: Alison Mackinnon) 'Discursive constructions of internationalisation at an Australian university: implications for professional practice'
• Helen Martin (supervisor: Margaret Peters) 'Do we get the picture? A study of preschool visual media, their narrative commonalities and children's responses to them'
• Judith Szekeres (supervisor: Elaine Butler), 'Administrative staff experiences in the corporate university'
• Irmina Van Niele (supervisors: Kay Lawrence principal and John Barbour associate), 'Ambivalent belonging'

2004

• Deborah Churchman (supervisor: Margaret Peters), 'Constructing academia in a post-Dawkins institution'

2003

• Mary Heath (supervisor: Suzanne Franzway), 'The feral state: a feminist critique of the gendered and colonialist theoretical premises of "the state"' (Flinders University)
• Sue Rimmer (supervisor: Judith Gill), 'The everyday as problematic in the lives of women TAFE teachers'

2002

• Jane Hiscock (supervisor: Margaret Peters), 'Capturing a process: a cultural analysis of units in a changing university 1993–1995'
• Lana Zannettino (supervisor: Judith Gill), 'The metaphorical mirror: the role of cultural texts in adolescent girls' envisioning of womanhood'

2000

• Susan Gelade (supervisor: Judith Gill), 'The spaces between: Australian teachers in Papua New Guinea schools'

1999

• Lorraine Kerr (supervisor: Suzanne Franzway associate), 'Women, work and retirement in the 1990s and beyond: an Australian perspective'
• Karen Starr (supervisor: Suzanne Franzway), 'That roar which lies on the other side of silence: an analysis of women principals' responses to structural reform in South Australian education'

1997

• Julie Mariko Matthews (supervisor: Judith Gill), 'Making spaces: "Asian" girls in school'
   

Masters

2007

• Helen Nieuwendijk (supervisors: Kay Lawrence principal and Mark Kimber associate), 'Kidstuff: a creative investigation of the "child-made" artefact'

2006

• Leslie Matthews (supervisors: Kay Lawrence principal and Steven Carson associate), 'Embodied sensory perceptions explored through memory, materiality and tacit knowledge'

2004

• Barbara Jane Cowie (supervisors: Kay Lawrence principal and Deb King associate), 'A study through text and artefacts of the major factors that have influenced the development of studio glassmaking in South Australia from a glassmaker's perspective: history and practice of studio glass blowing in South Australia'

2002

• Andrew Welch (supervisors: Kay Lawrence principal and Steven Carson associate), 'Low-tech high-tech touch: an investigation of hand-making and production processes in the jewellery studio'

2001

• Agnieszka Golda (supervisors: Kay Lawrence principal and Pam Zeplin associate), 'Bewitched between borders, boundaries and building bridges'
• India Flint (supervisor: Kay Lawrence), 'Arcadian alchemy: ecologically sustainable dyes for textiles from the Eucalypt forest'
• Carole Zufferey (supervisor: Donna Chung), 'Identity and everyday experiences of homelessness: personal stories from Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal men and women'

1998

• Christine Sanderson (supervisors: Suzanne Franzway and Neville Hicks, co-supervisors), 'Feeding the baby: new mothers' experiences of breastfeeding' (University of Adelaide)

1992

• Donna Chung (supervisors: Suzanne Franzway principal), 'Australia: a working man's welfare state. A socialist feminist analysis of the Australian welfare state' (University of New England)
   

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