Julie McLeod is Professor of Curriculum, Equity and Social Change in the Faculty of Education and from 2017 to 2023 was Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research Capability) at the University of Melbourne. She has previously been an Associate Dean Graduate Research and is a former deputy and interim director of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute. She held an ARC Future Fellowship (2012-2016) on Youth identity and educational change in Australia since 1950':and in 2022-23 she was a Leader-in-Residence (Pedagogy) for the international foundation, The Atlantic Institute, based at the University of Oxford. She is currently President of the Australian Association for Research in Education, co-editor of the journal History of Education Review, and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia.

Her research is in the history and sociology of education, focussing on youth, gender, inequalities, curriculum and educational reform. She has a longstanding interest in genealogies of educational ideas and qualitative methodologies, including digital methods and data archiving. She has taught widely across programs in gender studies, sociology of education and qualitative research methods. Current research projects include Progressive Education and Race: A transnational Australian history, 1920s-50s' (ARC DP 2020-23); Schooling Memories: oral histories of schooling in the mid decades of the 20th century; and Making Futures a longitudinal study of youth identities, generational change and education. Books include include: Temporality, Space and Place in Education and Youth Research (2023); Uneven Space-Times of Education: Historical Sociologies of Concepts, Methods and Practices, (2018); Rethinking Youth Wellbeing, (2015); The Promise of the New and Genealogies of Educational Reform (2015); Researching Social Change: Qualitative Approaches (2009); and Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling and Social Change (2006).

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