Dr Anita Devos (Faculty of Education, Monash)

Job title:	Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:	BA (Syd); MEd (Adult), PhD (both UTS); UTS Chancellor's List Award for 'exceptional scholarly achievement in doctoral research'

Location:	Clayton, building 6, room 342
Phone:	+61 3 990 59143

Email:	Anita.Devos@Education.monash.edu.au Anita.Devos@Education.monash.edu.au
Fax:	+61 3 9905 2779

Teaching commitment

Biography

Anita is Director of Research Degrees for the Faculty of Education in which capacity she works with the Associate Dean Research Degrees and Induction and the Research Degrees Office to enhance the experience of postgraduate research students and supervisors in the Faculty.

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 also coordinates the Faculty's postgraduate program 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 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; mapping the pedagogies of postgraduate supervision; mentoring for change in contemporary organisations; and investigating how students from diverse backgrounds succeed in higher education.

She has held numerous grants including an ARC Discovery grant (250,000, 2009-1011) with Professor Terri Seddon and Dr Cynthia Joseph on 'Teachers work in learning societies' which analyses the work of teachers in a range of workplace and non formal settings in contemporary organisations.

Anita's interest in mentoring & coaching grew out her work in teaching and research development at the University of New South Wales. Anita and her colleague, Jan McLean, were recipients of a Commonwealth Government Grant to design and run a research development program for women academics (60,000, 2000-2004).

With colleagues from the Faculties of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, and Business & Economics, together with the University's Equity & Diversity Centre, Anita is recipient of two DEST Higher Education Equity Support Grants (totaling 50,000) for the longitudinal project 'Diversity & Achievement: how students from diverse backgrounds succeed in higher education'.

Prior to working as an academic, Anita worked in industrial research and advocacy, equal employment opportunity for women, and in leadership roles in workplace training and organisation development.

Research Interests

Professional Associations

Community Service

Supervision

Anita is a fully Accredited Monash supervisor currently supervising student projects in the following areas...

The experience of Textile clothing and footwear outworkers of accredited training

If you are looking for a supervisor and are interested in developing a research project that fits within Anita's broad research program, please contact her by email, introducing yourself, and explaining the topic area you would like to research.

Editorial

Publications

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

Devos, A. (invited chapter, under review) Negotiating new places: migrant women, 'the global workforce' and belonging in regional Australia, in Walters, S & Manicom, L. (Eds) Feminism and popular education, second edition, Routledge.

Devos, A. (accepted subject to minor amendments) New teachers, mentoring and the formation of professional identities, Teaching and Teacher Education.

Devos, A., Farrell, L. & Seddon, T. (2009 forthcoming) Disturbing work, workspaces and working lives, in Seddon, T. Henriksson, L. & Niemeyer, B. Learning and Work and the POlitics of Working Life: Global transformations and collective identities in teaching, nursing and social work, London, Routledge.

Benson, R., Hewitt, L., Devos, A., Crosling, G., Heagney, M. (2010 forthcoming) Diverse pathways into higher education: Using students stories to identify transformative experiences, Australian Journal of Adult Learning.

Benson, R., Hewitt, L., Devos, A., Crosling, G., Heagney, M. (2009) Experiences of students from diverse backgrounds: the role of academic support, In H. Wozniak & S. Bartoluzzi (Eds.) Proceedings of the 32nd HERDSA Annual Conference: The Student Experience (pp. xx-xx). Darwin, 6-9 July.

Devos, A., de Carteret, P. & Somerville, M. (2009) 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.

Devos, A. (2009) Rethinking the subject of higher education: subjectivity, normativity and desire in student equity research, Invited paper at the Inaugural conference of the National Centre for the Study of Equity in Higher Education, Adelaide, February.

Devos, A. & Rasmussen, M. (2008) Carry that weight: overburdening 'gender' in education, presented as part of the Gender and Education symposium, 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.