Keynote speakers

Professor Raewyn Connell

University of Sydney

Raewyn Connell is University Professor at the University of Sydney. A leading Australian social scientist, her work is well known in sociology, education, gender studies and political science, and has been translated into thirteen languages. Her books include Masculinities, Schools and Social Justice, Gender and Power and Making the Difference. Her latest book is Southern Theory, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2007.

Professor Martin Lawn

University of Edinburgh

Professorial fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Martin Lawn is currently working on research projects concerning the role of knowledge in the construction and regulation of health and education policy in Europe. Recent research publications include: Materiality of schooling: Design, technology, objects, routines, Symposium Books, Oxford, 2005; Fabricating Europe: The formation of an education space, Kluwer, London, 2002; Silences and images: Social histories of classrooms, Peter Lang, New York, 1998 and Modern times: Work, professionalism and citizenship in teaching, Falmer Press, London, 1996.

Professor Barbara Pocock

University of South Australia

Barbara Pocock is the Director of the Centre for Work and Life at the Hawke Research Institute in the University of South Australia. She has a life-long interest in work and inequality. Recent books include The labour market ate my babies: Work, children and a sustainable future, The Federation Press, Sydney, 2006 and The Work/Life Collision by the same publisher in 2003.

Professor Kate Rousmaniere

Miami University (Ohio)

Professor and Chair in the Department of Educational Leadership of Miami University, Kate Rousmaniere has recently completed a successful term as President of the History of Education Society of the United States. Recent books include: Citizen teacher: The life and leadership of Margaret Haley, SUNY Press, Albany, 2005; Silences and images: The social history of the classroom, Peter Lang, New York, 1999; City teachers: Teaching and school reform in historical perspective, Teachers College Press, New York, 1997 and Discipline, moral regulation and schooling: A social history, Garland Press, New York, 1997.