Professor Margaret Somerville (Faculty of Education, Monash)

Job title:	Professor
Qualifications:	PhD (UNE), MEd Hons, 1st Class (UNE), Dip Cont Ed (UNE), BA (USyd)

Location:	Gippsland, building 2S, room 201B
Phone:	+61 3 990 26160

Email:	Margaret.Somerville@education.monash.edu.au Margaret.Somerville@education.monash.edu.au
Fax:	+61 3 990 26361

Teaching commitment

Biography

Margaret Somerville is Professor of Education (Learning and Development) and Research Leader at the Monash University Gippsland Campus. In this role she is responsible for mentoring early career researchers through the development of strategic research teams. She has extensive experience in partnership research with Indigenous communities producing five collaborative books and other high quality educational resources, CDs and art exhibitions. Professor Somerville has conducted strategic research with industry partners in the steel industry, coal mining and aged care including BHP, Powercoal, and Catholic Care of the Aged. She is experienced in a range of research methodologies and has taught research at doctoral and masters level for ten years, having supervised over 40 higher degree research students within the educational sector and other industries such as building construction and emergency services. She has conducted five major research projects funded by the ARC and is currently investigating alternative stories of water in the Murray Darling Basin, and pedagogies for sustainable communities and environments. This includes a focus on the role of teachers and schools in building sustainable rural and regional communities.

Research Interests

Alternative methodologies and creative writing in research; Vocational preparation and workplace learning for new workers; Workplace safety; Place pedagogies - Learning for sustainable communities and environments; Role of teachers and schools in building sustainable rural and regional communities; retention of teachers in hard to staff schools.

Professional Associations

Publications

Somerville, M. and Plunkett, M. 2006, Mapping new teachers learning place and forming community, Monash University Small Grant, $12,000.

Somerville, M. Petersen, E. de Carteret, P. and Fletcher, M. Gender, Work, Body, Place: the constitution of the feminine in Gippsland, Monash University Arts/Education Small Grant, $12,000.

Somerville, M. Davies, B. Power, K. and Gannon, S. 2006-2008, Enabling Place pedagogies in rural and urban Australia, ARC Discovery, $160,000.

Somerville, M. 2006-2008, Bubbles on the surface: A water pedagogy of the Narran Lakes, ARC Discovery, $144,000.

Somerville, M and Beck, W. 2002-2004, Connecting the dots: local and regional place knowledge in Gumbaingirr nation, Large ARC Grant, $300,000.

Somerville, M. 2002, ARC Small Grant, An ethnography of workplace learning in aged care, $9000.

Murphy, D., Beck, W. and Somerville, M. 2002, Developing educational worksheets for cultural heritage tourism, ATSIC, $24,000.

Somerville, M and Kulai Aboriginal Preschool Inc., 2001, Journeying with cultural knowledge at Kulai, AIATSIS Grant, $20,000.

Billett, S. Fenwick, T. & Somerville, M. Somerville, M. 2006, Work, Subjectivity and Learning: Understanding learning through working life, Springer, The Netherlands.

Somerville, M. 2004, Wildflowering: the life and places of Kathleen McArthur, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, pp 240.

Somerville, M. et al, 2000-2002, Yarrawarra Place Stories Series, UNE, 2000-2002: 5 books, team produced: Somerville, M., Beck, W., Brown, C., Murphy, D., Perkins, T., Smith, A., 2000, Arrawarra: Meeting Place, Book 1 in Yarrawarra Place Stories Series. ISSN 1442-9691, ISBN 1 86389 604 X, UNE, Armidale.

Somerville, M. 1999, Body/Landscape Journals, Spinifex Press, Melbourne, pp 230.

Somerville, M. with Dundas, M., Mead, M., Oliver, J., and Sulter, M.(Aboriginal collaborators), 1994, The Sun Dancin': people and place in Coonabarabran, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp 180.

Somerville, M. and Cohen, P. 1990, Ingelba and the Five Black Matriarchs, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, pp 164.

Somerville, M. 2006, Gender perspectives in workplace learning, in Castleton, G., Gerber, R., and Pillay, H. (Eds), Workplace Learning: emerging international perspectives, Nova Science Publishers, New York.

Somerville, M. 2006, Subjected bodies or embodied subjects? Pp 37-51 in Billett, S. Fenwick, T. & Somerville, M. Somerville, M. (Eds) Work, Subjectivity and Learning: Understanding learning through working life, Springer, The Netherlands.

Somerville, M. 2006, Work, subjectivity and learning: prospects and issues, pp247-265 Billett, S. Fenwick, T. & Somerville, M. Somerville, M. (Eds) Work, Subjectivity and Learning: Understanding learning through working life, Springer, The Netherlands.

Somerville, M. 2006, Becoming worker: vocational training for aged care workers, in Journal of Vocational Education and Training, Special Issue, Gender Matters: Perspectives on women, work and training, 58, 4, 471-481.

Somerville, M. and Lloyd, A. 2006, Codified knowledge and embodied learning: the problem of safety training, Studies in Continuing Education, 28, 3, 279-289.

Lloyd, A, & Somerville, M. 2006, Working Information, Journal of Workplace Learning, 18, 3, 186-198.

Somerville, M. 2005, Working culture: expanding notions of workplace cultures and learning at work, Pedagogy, Culture and Society 13, 1, 5-27.

Somerville, M. and McConnell-Imbriotis, A. 2004, Applying the learning organization concept in a resource squeezed service organization, Journal of Workplace Learning, 16, 7, 237-248.

Billett, S. and Somerville, M. 2004, Transformations at work: identity and learning, Studies in Continuing Education, 26, 2, 309-326.

Somerville, M. and Abrahamsson, L. 2003, Trainers and Workers Constructing a Community of Practice: masculine work cultures and learning safety in the mining industry, Studies in the Education of Adults, 35, 1, 19-35.

Somerville, M. 2002, Learning potentials and limitations under globalisation in aged care workplaces, Journal of Workplace Learning, 14, 2, 68-76.

Somerville, M. 2006, An enabling place pedagogy for new teachers, Proceedings of the Annual AARE Conference, University of South Australia, Adelaide.

Somerville, M. & Perkins, T. 2005, Indigenous/non-Indigenous social partnerships. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Researching Work and Learning.

Somerville, M. & Lloyd, A. 2005, Codified knowledge and embodied learning: the problem of safety training. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Researching Work and Learning.

Somerville, M. 2005, Place learning for sustainable futures. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Post Compulsory Education and Training.

Somerville, M. 2005, Subject formation: transitions for new workers. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Post Compulsory Education and Training.

Somerville, M. 2004, Co-emergent bodies and place in workplace learning in Searle, J. Cavanagh, C. and Roebuck, D. (Eds) Doing, Thinking, Activity, Learning, Vol 2, Proceedings of 12th International Post-Compulsory Education and Training Conference, Centre for Learning and Work Research, Griffith University, 175-183.

Somerville, M. 2004, Transformation stories: re-generating research in adult education in Hunt, C. (Ed), Whose story now? (Re)generating research in adult learning and teaching, Proceedings of 34th Annual Conference, SCUTREA, University of Sheffield, 239-246.

Somerville, M. 2003, Contested communities of practice: Who learns in aged care? In Communities of Learning, Communities of Practice, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of Adult Learning Australia, University of Technology, Sydney, 360-372.

Somerville, M. 2003, Who Learns? Enriching Learning Cultures in Aged Care Workplaces, in Searle, J, Yashin-Shaw, I., and Roebuck, D. (Eds) Enriching Learning Cultures, Vol 3, Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Post-Compulsory Education and Training, Centre for Learning Research, Griffith University, 124-132.

Somerville, M. and Abrahamsson, L. 2003, Contradictions in communities of practice, Refereed Conference Publication, 3rd International Conference on Researching Work and Learning, University of Tampere, Finland.

Somerville, M. 2002, Changing Masculine Work Cultures, pp 149-156 Searle, J. and Roebuck, D. (Eds) Envisioning Practice Implementing Change, Vol 3, Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Post-Compulsory Education and Training, Centre for Learning and Work Research, Faculty of Education, Griffith University.

Somerville, M. and Bernoth, M. 2001, Safe Bodies: Solving a workplace learning dilemma, in Bevan, F. Kanes, C. and Roebuck, D. (Eds) Knowledge Demands of the New Economy, Vol 2, Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Post-Compulsory Education and Training, Centre for Learning and Work Research, Faculty of Education, Griffith University.

Somerville, M. 2001, New times, gender and workplace learning: new research in the aged care industry, in Refereed Conference Publication, 2nd International Conference on Researching Work and Learning, Calgary.