Dr Wendy Sutherland-Smith (Faculty of Education, Monash)

Job title:	Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:	BA/LLB, Dip. Ed, M.Ed. Studies, PhD (Monash)

Location:	Gippsland, building 1S, room 224
Phone:	+61 3 990 26355

Email:	Wendy.Sutherland-Smith@education.monash.edu.au Wendy.Sutherland-Smith@education.monash.edu.au
Fax:	+61 3 990 26361

Teaching commitment

Biography

I began my post-study life working in the Law. After 5 years in which I was heavily involved in legal issues of equity and access, working with the Federal Government, I decided on a career change. I won a scholarship to study Swedish at Uppsala University and there decided to pursue my first love...teaching. I returned to Australia and undertook a Diploma in Education and taught English and Legal Studies in the secondary system. Always keen to learn more, I finished a Masters of Educational Studies in 1998, with a minor thesis examining the differences between online and face-to-face group discussion with groups of international students. I then completed a PhD, whilst working in the education sector. My PhD captured many of the issues of internationalisation of education I've been exploring in the past 15 years - marginalisation, power and social justice, but the particular focus was plagiarism in academic writing. My work examines issues of ESL students in the system, academic writing and literacy practices and the usefulness of new technologies, particularly the Internet. My post-PhD research has focussed on issues of ethical relationships: whether that be teachers and learners; institutional relationships with staff or learning and teaching in the broader in multiple modes, using a framework of critical pedagogy. I am also exploring online postgraduate supervision as dimension of ethical relationships.

Research Interests

Professional Associations

Supervision

M.Ed thesis (2008+) Regaining respect and responsibility through the Koori Court System

M.Ed thesis (2007) Local and international postgraduate students' perspectives on using sources.

Honours thesis (2008) Parental attitudes towards the learning of a language other than English (LOTE).

Publications

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2008) Plagiarism, the Internet and student learning: Improving academic integrity. New York: Routledge.

Snyder, I., Angus, L. and Sutherland-Smith, W. (2004). Home and School Technoliteracy: Practices and Disadvantage. In I. Snyder and C. Beavis (Eds.) Doing literacy. New Jersey: Hampton Press

Angus, L., Snyder, I. and Sutherland-Smith, W. (2004). ICT and education policy: Cultural lessons from families. In G. Walford (ed), Investigating educational policy through ethnography (pp. 63-91). London: JAI Press.

Angus, L., Sutherland-Smith, W. and Snyder, I. (2003) ICTs and educational (dis)advantage: Cultural resources and the digital divide. In G. Walford & R.A. Jeffrey(eds.), Educational inequality and ethnography. London: JAI Press.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (in press). Retribution,deterrence and reform:The dilemmas of plagiarism management in universities'. Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management.

Saltmarsh, S. & Sutherland-Smith, W. (in press) S(t)imulating learning: Pedagogy, subjectivity and teacher education in online environments. Special Issue of London Review of Education: Being online: A critical view of identity and subjectivity in new virtual learning spaces.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (accepted for publication in 2011). Justice unrobed: A semiotic analysis of Justitia. Semiotica.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (accepted for publication in 2010). Crime and punishment: An analysis of university plagiarism policies.Semiotica.

Saltmarsh, S.; Sutherland-Smith, W. & Kitto, S (Eds). (2008). Technographies in Teacher Education, special edition of the Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. Technographies in Teacher Education: Research and pedagogy in technologically mediated learning environments. 36 (3) 179-196.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2005). The Tangled Web: Plagiarism, the internet and students' academic writing. Journal of Asia-Pacific Communication. Special Issue, 15 (1)15-31.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2005). Pandora's box: academic perceptions of student plagiarism in writing. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 4 (1) 83-95.

Sutherland-Smith, W., Snyder, I. and Angus, L. (2003). The Digital Divide: Differences in computer use between home and school in low socio-economic households. L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature 3, 31-45.

Angus, L., Sutherland-Smith, W. and Snyder, I. (2003). ICT and educational (dis)advantage: families, computers and contemporary social and educational inequalities. British Journal of Sociology 23 (4) 5-18.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2002). Weaving the literacy web: Changes in reading from page to screen. (Special Issue: Owning Technology) Reading Teacher 57 (7) 662-669.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2002). Web-text: Perceptions of digital reading skills in the ESL classroom. Prospect 17 (1) 2-9.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2002). Integrating online discussion in an Australian Intensive English language course. TESOL Journal (Special Issue: Constructing Meaning with computers) 11 (3) 31-35.

Snyder, I., Angus, L. and Sutherland-Smith, W. (2002). Building Equitable Literate Futures: Home and school computer-mediated literacy practices and disadvantage. Cambridge Journal of Education 32 (3) 367-384

Angus, L, Snyder, I. and Sutherland-Smith, W. (2002). Families, cultural resources and the digital divide: ICTs and educational (dis)advantage in the e-society. Australian Journal of Education, 47 (1) 18-39.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2006). Writing as tribal practice: Revisiting online collaborative writing. AARE international conference: Educational pedagogies: the risks and dilemmas. 27 November- 1 December 2006, Adelaide, Australia.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2005). Language and Ownership: ESL Student Perceptions of Plagiarism Policy in an Australian University. International Society of Language Studies, 18-20 April, 2005, Montreal, Canada.

Sutherland-Smith, W. and Carr, R. (2005). Language, Technology and The Law: Anti-plagiarism Software and Students' Academic Writing. International Conference on Arts and Humanities. 13-16 January, 2005, Honolulu, USA.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2005). TESOL and legal perceptions of plagiarism and academic writing. Language, Education and Diversity conference, 22-29 November 2003, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2004). The Right to Own: Intellectual Property, Plagiarism and International Students' Academic Writing. American Association of Applied Linguistics. 1- 4 May, 2004, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2003). Hiding in the shadows: risks and dilemmas of plagiarism in student academic writing. Inaugural AARE, NZ international conference: Educational research: the risks and dilemmas. 26 November- 3 December 2003, Auckland, New Zealand.

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2003). Constructing meaning with computers for TESOL students and professionals. Conference paper for TESOL International Conference: Hearing Every Voice, 24-29 March 2003, Baltimore, USA.

Snyder, I., Angus, L. and Sutherland-Smith, W. (2002). Building Equitable Literate Futures: Home and school computer-mediated literacy practices and disadvantage. AARE National Conference, 28 November- 5 December 2002, Brisbane, Australia.