Prof Jessica Gerrard
Professor
Faculty of Education
92 Scholarly works
6 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2026
Journal article
Before ‘gender whisperers’: morality, teacher employment and LGBTIQ futures
DOI: 10.1080/14681811.2024.24254122026
Journal article
Scalecraft, scalecreep and scalecrunch: school autonomy as scalar politics
DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2026.26267152026
Journal article
Educational authority on the outskirts of schooling: knowledge and expertise in home education
DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2026.26654292025
Journal article
Quantifying, measuring, and enacting equity: Assembling ‘who gets what’ in a federal system of education
DOI: 10.1007/s13384-024-00797-y2024
Research Contracts
Map of Stolen Generations Institutions
2020
Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)
Community Organising in Australian Education Policy, 1970s-1980s
2019
Research Grant
School Autonomy and Parent Engagement in Disadvantaged Communities
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2025
Journal article
Parental rights and state concerns: the policy problematisation of home education
DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2025.24988842025
Journal article
The engaged parent: schooling and motherhood in the contemporary economy
DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2025.24506652025
Journal article
‘The barriers between work and play have broken down’: industrious ‘alternative’ education 1970s–1980s
DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2025.24612602024
Book Chapter
The politics of critical policy sociology: mobilities, moorings and elite networks
DOI: 10.4324/9781003581628-32024
Journal article
Love across Class
DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2024.24111462024
Journal article
Participatory politics and education policy reform: publics and histories
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2024.2330344
RECENT PROJECTS
2026
Research grants (international)
Teacher Educators for Justice: Exploring Their Understandings, Identities and Praxis
2018
Internal Research Grant
How Do Public Schools Create and Engage Communities?: A Trans-National Investigation Into Contemporary Policy and Practice