Jo Barraket Phone: 8344 3533 Email: barraket@unimelb.edu.au Office: John Medley Building Room 510
Background
Jo Barraket joined the Department in January 2003, and teaches primarily into the Public Policy and Management programs. Jo holds a PhD in applied sociology from the University of New South Wales, and has worked variously as a policy coordinator, research fellow and academic on postgraduate and undergraduate programs at the University of Technology, Sydney and UNSW. She specializes in social policy, with a particular focus on the nexus between state and civil society in social policy development. In recent years, Jo has worked on government commissioned projects in a range of policy areas including: community housing; higher education; equal opportunity in employment; and sustainable community development.
Research
Networked governance and social policy; Sustainable community development and local governance; The transformative effects of information and communication technologies on society; The socio-political orientation of third sector organizations. Virtual Connections? Exploring Intimacies in Cyberspace (with Millsom Henry-Waring) Social connectedness and policy development: modelling strategies and measures (with Jenny Lewis and Mark Considine)
Subjects Taught
4th year: 166-470 Governance and Civil Society 5th year: 166-518 Policy Research Methods 5th year: 166-542 Social Policy and Governance
Supervision
Social policy and networked governance; Community capacity building and policy; Third sector organisations and civic engagement; Contemporary social movements; Socio-political effects of information and communication technologies.
Recent Publications
Book Chapters "E-learning and access: getting behind the hype," in M. Osborne, J. Gallacher, B. Crossan (eds.), Researching widening access to lifelong learning: issues and approaches in international research (Routledge Falmer, 2004), pp. 91-102. "Enabling Structures for Co-ordinated Action: Community Organisations, Social Capital and Rural Community Sustainability" in A. Dale. & J. Onyx, J. (eds) Social Capital and Sustainable Development: The missing link? (University of British Columbia Press, 2003). Journal Articles "Cooperative Solutions to Rural Renewal: Building Capacity for Coordinated Action" in Third Sector Review Vol 9 (1) 2003: 25 - 40 "Marginal Voices: Third Sector Organisations as Vehicles for Social Movement" in Third Sector Review 7 (2) 2001: 111 - 121 (with G. Scott) "Virtual Equality? Equity and the Use of Information Technology in Higher Education" in Australian Academic and Research Libraries Journal Vol 32 (2) 2001: 204 - 212 (with D. Brown) "Where to from Here? A response to "Forged in Fire: Narratives of Trauma in PhD Research" in Southern Review 32 (2) 1999: 173 - 178 Conference Papers "Mobilising civic engagement? The use of online technologies by Australian third sector organisations," Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004. (with Millsom Henry-Waring) "'Everybody's doing it': examining the impacts of online dating," The Australian Sociological Association 2004 Conference. (with Millsom Henry-Waring) "Exploring virtual connections? Sociological perspectives of intimacy in cyberspace," The Australian Sociological Association 2004 Conference. 'Facilitating rural community sustainability? Local organizational networks and the governance of place' presented at Australian Social Policy Conference, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, July 2003 "Co-operative Solutions to Rural Renewal" presented at Co-operation and Rural Regeneration seminar, Australian Centre for Co-operative Research and development, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, 2002. "Partnerships for Sustainability in the NSW Co-operative Housing Sector" presented at the Co-ops at the Crossroad conference, Sydney, Dec. 2001 "Equity Online? Access to Communications and Information Technology in Higher Education" paper presented at the Researching Widening Access conference, Glasgow, June 2001 Proceedings published by Centre for Lifelong Learning, Scotland: 25 - 31. (with R. Thompson) 'Equity, Access and New Technologies: Implications for Policy Makers' paper presented at the 2000 European Access Network Conference, Spain, Sept. 2000 "Constructing Resistances: Exploring Collective Identity in a Community Co-operative" paper presented at Partnership and Activism Australian and New Zealand Third Sector Research Conference University of Western Sydney, Dec. 2000 Published Reports Building Sustainable Communities: Co-operative Solutions to Rural Renewal, Australian Centre for Co-operative Research and Development, Sydney, 2001. (with A.M. Payne, G. Scott, L. Cameron) Equity and the Use of Communications and Information Technology in Higher Education: A UTS Case Study, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs Evaluations and Investigations Programme 00/7, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 2000.