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Dr Anita Devos

Job title: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:  BA (Syd); MEd (Adult), PhD (both UTS)
 
Location:Clayton, building 6, room 342
Phone:+61 3 990 59143
 
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Fax:  +61 3 9905 2779

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Teaching commitment

  • 6851MENTORING&COACHING1
  • 6801LEARNINGATWORKINTHEKNOWLEDGEECONOMY
  • 6009SPECIALTOPICINRESEARCH

Biography

Anita teaches in mentoring and coaching units at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and in workplace learning and research related units in the Masters of Education. Anita coordinates the Faculty's postgraduate programs in mentoring and coaching, the Masters in Education (Research) program at Chisholm Institute of TAFE, and is course adviser for the Bachelor of Adult Learning & Development.

Anita is also Director of Researc Degrees for the Faculty.

Anita has researched and written in workplace learning, professional development and mentoring; community and trade union education; and higher education and research development. She brings a feminist analysis and an interest in gender to her work in each of these contexts. Some current projects address: the experiences of women working and learning in regional Australia; the role of work related learning in building sustainable communities; mentoring for change in contemporary organisations; and investigating how students from diverse backgrounds succeed in higher education.

Prior to entering academic work, Anita had a professional background in industrial research and advocacy, equal employment opportunity for women, and in leadership roles in workplace training and organisation development.

Research Interests

Workplace mentoring

Work-related education for economic & social sustainability

Gender and education

Research training and early career researcher development

Professional Associations

  • Higher Education Research and Development Association of Australasia
  • Staff Development Network for Women (Australasia)
  • Australian Association for Research in Education

Community Service

  • National Tertiary Education Union

Supervision

I am currently supervising or co-supervising students in the areas of...

Minding the gap between the classroom and workplace experience in aged care

Women leaving organisational employment mid life to enter self-employment

Shame as a motivation for adults returning to study

Young adults in further education

Adults returning to study maths

The experience of TCF outworkers of accredited training

Female Chinese international students in Australian schools

Becoming a university lecturer in Indonesia: gender and subjectivity

Managing working time in the Victorian police service.

If you are looking for a supervisor and are interested in working with me please send me an email introducing yourself, and explaining the area you would like to research.

Editorial

Editorial Board of Australian Universities Review

Review articles for...

Studies in Continuing Education

Studies in Higher Education

Southern Review

Higher Education Research and Development

Critical Studies in Education.

Publications

Edited book

Devos, A. (ed) (1999) Shifting the boundaries: feminist practices in adult education. Post Pressed. Flaxton.

Refereed Journal articles and papers, and book chapters

Devos, A., Farrell, L. & Seddon, T. (2009 forthcoming) Disturbing work, workspaces and working lives, in Henriksson, L. Seddon, T. (eds) Disturbing work: Occupational orders and transforming politics in lifelong learning and work, Peter Lang, New York.

Devos, A., de Carteret, P. & Somerville, M. (2008) Collective biography of place, Proceedings of the AARE International Conference, Brisbane, December.

Devos, A. (2008) Where enterprise and equity meet: The rise of mentoring for women in Australian universities, In Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2008, Pp. 195 205 .

Devos, A. (2008) Mentoring and the new curriculum of academic work, in Journal of Organizational Tranformation and Social Change, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.225-236.

Devos, A. (2007) Fashioning the academic subject. In L. Farrell & T. Fenwick (Eds.) Educating the Global Workforce: knowledge, knowledge work and knowledge workers. Routledge, London.

Devos, A. (2005) Old pedagogy, new curriculum. Refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Researching Work and learning, UTS Sydney December 2005.

Devos, A. (2004) Women, research and the politics of professional development, Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 29, No. 5, October. Pp. 591-604.

Devos, (A). (2004) The project of self, the project of other: Mentoring, women and the fashioning of the academic subject, Studies in Continuing Education, Vol. 26, No. 1 March. Pp. 67-80.

Devos, A. (2003) Academic standards, internationalization and the discursive construction of the international student, Higher Education Research and Development, Vol. 22, No. 2, September. Pp. 155-166.

Devos, A. (2002) Gender, work and workplace learning, in Harrison, R., Cartwright, M. & Edwards, R. (Eds.) Supporting Lifelong learning: Volume 2 Organising learning, Routledge Falmer, London. Pp. 51-63. (Invited chapter)

Devos, A. (2001) Governing performance through professional development: a case study of a womens research development program, Journeys in Leadership: Reflections, Redirections. Tenth International Women in Leadership Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia, 14-15 November. Pp. 20-27.

Devos, A. (1999) Preface. In Devos, A. (ed) Shifting the boundaries: feminist practices in adult education. Post Pressed. Flaxton.

Devos, A. (1998) Part of the Union: debates and discourses in union education, Studies in the Education of Adults. Vol. 30. No. 1. April. Pp. 80-89.

Devos, A. (1996) Gender, work and workplace learning, Studies in Continuing Education. Vol. 18. No. 2. March.

Devos, A. with Carstens, D., Chalmers, S. & Huang, Qi Fen (1999) Building Community through Asian Women at Work. In Devos, A. (ed) Shifting the boundaries: feminist practices in adult education.

Devos, A., Mclean, J. & OHara, P. (2003) The potential of womens programs to generate institutional change, Refereed Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, Christchurch, New Zealand, July.

McGregor, G., Phillips, A., Newman, J. Durie, J & Devos, A. (1999) Doing it for ourselves: Aboriginal women and education. In Devos, A. (ed) Shifting the boundaries: feminist practices in adult education.

Recent non-refereed conference papers

Devos, A. & Rasmussen, M. (2008) Carry that weight: overburdening 'gender' in education, AARE International conference, Brisbane, 30/11-4/12.

Devos, A. (2008) Learning to labour in regional Australia: gender, identity and place in work related education, paper presented at the Lifelong learning, power and social change conference, Birkbeck College, University of London, May.

Devos, A. (2007) Positioning the worker learner in discourses of mentoring: New teachers in the making. Presented at the 5th International Conference of the Centre for Research into Lifelong Learning, Stirling University, Scotland. 22-24 June.

Devos, A. (2007 Subjectivity, space and desire: Assembling the women academic in mentoring. Presented at the Gender Work and Organization International Conference, Keele University, England. 27-29 June.

Devos, A. (2003) Theorising mentoring for academic women. Paper presented at the Annual International Conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, Christchurch New Zealand, 6-9 July.

Devos, A. (2003) Mentoring, women and the constitution of academic identities. Paper presented at the Third European Conference on Gender Equity in Higher Education, Genoa, Italy, 14-16 April.

Devos, A. (2003) Mentoring in the School of Banking and Finance: Part 1: Report in relation to academic staff. Part 2: Report in relation to general staff. Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of NSW.

Devos, A. (2001) Our Olympic visitors: Internationalisation of the Curriculum and the construction of the other. Paper presented at the Globalisation and Higher Education: Views from the South Conference. SRHE & Association of Commonwealth Universities. Capetown, South Africa. March.

Devos, A. (2000) Productive learning or technologies of government: a Foucauldian reading of the politics of professional development. Working Knowledge International conference. UTS. December.

Devos, A. (2003) Enabling women in Research: WomenResearch 21 at the University of New South Wales. Invited keynote address, Women in Research forum, Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga. 3 July.

Devos, A., McLean, J. & O'Hara, P. (2003) Re-searching Research Agendas: Women, Research and Publication in Higher Education International Conference, Curtin University of Technology, Perth Western Australia, 25-27 June.

Devos, A. & McLean, J. (2000) A thousand flowers bloom: women, research and the (ongoing) struggle for systemic change. Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference. Sydney. December.