Dr Ros Black

My most recent career highlights include the following.

Within Deakin University:

• Being awarded a Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) Fellowship to lead a new research project, Imagined academic futures: the temporalities of the move to online teaching, with Professor Margaret Bearman, Associate Professor Rola Ajjawi and Dr Rachel Finneran
• Leading a new research project, Critical times: producing the global graduate in a pandemic, with Dr Kerri Garrard, Dr Matthew Thomas, Dr Bronwyn E. Wood (Victoria University of Wellington), Professor Lucas Walsh (Monash University), Dr Juliana Ryan (La Trobe University) and Professor Margaret Bearman 
• Winning an Arts and Education Faculty Teaching and Learning Award as part of a team with Dr Lihua Xu, A/Prof Bonnie Yim, Dr Matthew Thomas, Dr Shirley Spiteri, Dr Gary Levy, Dr Tao Bak and Library Liaison team members Amy Sellers, Dominique Coorey, Chrissy Freestone and Lisa Grbin
• Co-leading REDI's Engagement and Impact committee 

Within the wider scholarly community, nationally and internationally:

• Serving as Co-Editor of a new two-volume collection published by Rowman and Littlefield: Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene and Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene
• Winning the 2021 British Educational Research Journal Editors’ Choice Award for my paper with Eve Mayes: see https://www.bera.ac.uk/news/berj-announces-winners-of-its-2021-editors-choice-award and https://www.deakin.edu.au/redi/our-impact/redi-researchers-win-award-for-best-berj-article
• Serving as Section Editor with Lucas Walsh of the Handbook of Children and Youth Studies to be published by Springer
• Joining the international editorial board for the Journal of Youth Studies
• Serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Applied Youth Studies
• As part of my editorial role with the Journal of Applied Youth Studies, serving as managing editor for a special issue of the journal: Making Sense of Intersecting Crises: Promises, Challenges & Possibilities of Intersectional Perspectives in Youth Research
• With Amanda Keddie and Claire Charles, having our paper shortlisted for the Springer/Australian Educational Researcher Award for Best Paper of 2020: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13384-019-00322-6
• Serving as a Visiting Scholar at the Sorbonne University (France) and Canterbury Christ Church University (UK)

My research and supervision interests meet at the intersection of the sociologies of education and youth. They include the production of the global citizen and graduate within schools and universities; and the geographies and temporalities of young people’s present lives and imagined futures in critical and precarious times and places. My research draws on poststructuralist perspectives to critically analyse these issues and to deepen understanding and inform policy and practice within education and other sectors.

I have held Visiting Scholar roles at a number of international universities. I have been funded to present keynote addresses at national conferences and invited to review for Australian and international journals and grant applications. I have also appeared in the media in relation to my research.

My most recent books with colleagues are Rethinking Youth Citizenship after the Age of Entitlement, Imagining Youth Futures: University Students in Post-Truth Times and Young People in Digital Society: Control Shift. My many other publications have appeared in numerous edited books, high-ranking journals and monographs.

I am available to supervise Higher Degree Research students as well as students undertaking Research Pathways units.

Centre for Research for Educational Impact (REDI)

Journal of Youth Studies, Editorial Board 

I chair and teach EPO701: Primary Humanities (https://www.deakin.edu.au/courses/unit?unit=EPO701). I also chair or co-chair these units within the School of Education's Research Pathways program:

• EDX701: Research Design Development and Method
• EDX703: Research Paper A
• EDX704: Research Paper B
• EDX705: Minor Thesis A
• EDX706: Minor Thesis B.

My recent or upcoming conference presentations include the following:

Black, R., Wood, B.E. & Walsh, L. (2022). ‘Resisting neoliberalism: teacher education academics navigating the pandemic’. The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Melbourne

Walsh, L. & Black, R. (2019). ‘Reacting to uncertainty: The university student as homo promptus’. Young People’s Well-being, Resilience and Enterprise: Critical Perspectives for the Anthropocene, September, Bilbao

Black, R. (2018). ‘Enacting rights: educating for a socially just citizenship’. Human Rights and Political Feeling in Education, November, Melbourne

Black, R., Charles, C. & Keddie, A. (2018). ‘Inciting youth mobilities: insights from an elite university excellence program’. REDI conference, August, Melbourne

Black, R. & Walsh, L. (2017). ‘Democracy in austerity: researching young people’s citizenship in economically risky places’. Reforming Education and the Imperative of Constant Change: Ambivalent roles of policy and the role of educational research, European Educational Research Conference, 21-25 August, Copenhagen

Walsh, L. & Black, R. (2017). ‘Off the radar democracy: Insights from abroad of young people’s alternate acts of citizenship’. Young People as Active EU Citizens? Challenges and Visions on a Renewed Project for Europe, First CATCH-EyoU Conference, 2-4 March 2017, Athens, Greece

Halse, C., Black, R., Charles, C. & Hartung, C. (2016). ‘Young people on asylum seekers: The ‘dirty work’ of boundary making in the politics of belonging’. Interrogating Belonging in Education, 30-31 May 2016, Melbourne

Kelly, P., Black, R., Walsh, L. & Howie, L. (2016). ‘How could resilient cities promote marginalized young people’s resilience?’ Cities and Successful Societies, The Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, 28 November-1 December, Melbourne

Wood, B.E. & Black, R. (2016). ‘Belonging and place: the geographies of young people’s citizenship’. Interrogating Belonging in Education, 30-31 May 2016, Melbourne

Reviewer, Faculty of Arts and Education HEAG (Human Ethics Advisory Group)

Academic Mentor, Deakin Alliance (Mooroolbark Alliance)

I am regularly approached by the media and other agencies in relation to my expertise. I am also regularly invited to contribute to education blogs and industry publications. Recent examples include:

• New curriculum teaches cultural diversity, dumps ‘Christian heritage’. The Age 2021: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/new-curriculum-teaches-cultural-diversity-dumps-christian-heritage-20210429-p57nh9.html

• Generation lost: Young people’s futures are suspended in limbo, dark optimism prevails. Education HQ 2020: https://educationhq.com/news/generation-lost-young-peoples-futures-are-suspended-in-limbo-dark-optimism-prevails-85573/#

• Year 12s look towards university after disrupted year. The Age 2020: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/year-12s-look-towards-university-after-disrupted-year-20201009-p563j5.html

• Creating a climate of viable hope. UNEVOC RMIT 2020: https://unevocrmit.org/2020/10/11/creating-a-climate-of-viable-hope/

• The ‘student voice’ in practice: who gets to speak? Education Review 2019: https://www.educationreview.com.au/2019/08/the-student-voice-in-practice-who-gets-to-speak/

• What will my students like? Ask them! Primary Learning 2019: https://primarylearning.com.au/2019/01/21/what-will-my-students-like/

• Generation Z taking over the world’s population. Daily Telegraph 2019: https://thewest.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/generation-z-taking-over-the-worlds-population-ng-b4cb1fb2fc5de92eeb0c4685554218fc

• Experts defend youth civic engagement’. JMISSC 2018: https://www.jmissc.com/single-post/2018/01/10/Experts-defend-youth-civic-engagement

I am a member of the Children, Young People and their Communities strand of the Research for Educational Impact (REDI) strategic research centre at Deakin University and the international Young People and the Anthropocene research group: see https://youngpeopleanthropocene.org/.

• Belonging, joy and imagined academic futures in the move to online teaching. Supported by a Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) Fellowship (2022-2024)
• Critical Times: Producing the Global Graduate in a Pandemic. Australia-New Zealand research project with Kerri Garrard, Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas, Bronwyn E. Wood, Lucas Walsh and Margaret Bearman and in collaboration with Juliana Ryan and Nadia Infantes. Supported by REDI Small Grants Program (2020-2022)
• Teach the Teacher: Ignite and Primary School Engagement Evaluations. Consultancy for VicSRC with Eve Mayes and in collaboration with Rachel Finneran (2017-2020)
• Citizenship, Hope and the Future of Youth: Young People Navigating a Post-Truth World. Supported by REDI Small Grants Program (2017-2019)
• Educating   the   Global   Citizen   or   Fostering   Assured Optimism?  Elite  Higher Education Programs in Australia. With Claire Charles and Amanda Keddie. Supported by REDI Small Grants Program (2017-2018)
• Young  People,  Technology  and  Wellbeing  Research  Facility.
  Australian  Research  Council Linkage Grant (LP100100837) with Amanda Third, Lucas Walsh and Philippa Collin (2010-2016)