Jessica Gerrard is Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. She researches the changing formations and lived experiences of social inequalities in relation to education, activism, work and unemployment. Gerrard works across the disciplines of sociology, history and policy studies with an interest in critical methodologies and theories. Her books include Class in Australia, Radical Childhoods: Schooling and the Struggle for Social Change and Precarious Enterprise on the Margins: Work, Poverty and Homelessness in the City.
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Class in Australia
Steven Threadgold and Jessica Gerrard
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Class in Australia
Steven Threadgold and Jessica Gerrard
Events
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Mount Beauty Writers Festival
Mount Beauty Community Centre
Kiewa Cres, Mount Beauty, VIC, Australia
Mount Beauty Writers Festival ABOUT Everyone has a story ... Come and enjoy the stories of award winning authors in the picturesque Alpine setting of Mount Beauty, awarded Tourism Victoria's...
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Richard King at Totally Lit (WA)
Fremantle Prison
Enter via Main Gatehouse, 1 The Terrace, Fremantle, WA
How is technology shaping the crime and law enforcement landscape? Best-selling crime fiction author Alan Carter and Assistant Police Commissioner Arlene Mavratsou share the stage with writer and academic Richard...
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Elise Stephenson at Blue Door Books – YASS
Blue Door Books
135 Comur St, Yass, NSW
Join us for an unforgettable afternoon with Dr Elise Stephenson author of the brilliant 'Space XX'. After leading world first research Dr Elise Stephenson shares a story of the space...
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The Places that Made Social Work in Melbourne 1887-1940 – a historical walking tour
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC
This walk will be led by social worker historian Jane Miller drawing on the research in her book For Social Betterment – Social Work Education in Australia (2024). Commencing at...
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Author Talk: The Remarkable Greig Sisters by Iola Mathews
RHSV
239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The Greig sisters arrived in Melbourne in 1889 in search of a university education. Jane and Janet would be among the first women doctors in Australia, and Flos became the...
Events
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Mount Beauty Writers Festival
Mount Beauty Community Centre Kiewa Cres, Mount Beauty, VIC, AustraliaMount Beauty Writers Festival ABOUT Everyone has a story ... Come and enjoy the stories of award winning authors in the picturesque Alpine setting of Mount Beauty, awarded Tourism Victoria's...
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Richard King at Totally Lit (WA)
Fremantle Prison Enter via Main Gatehouse, 1 The Terrace, Fremantle, WAHow is technology shaping the crime and law enforcement landscape? Best-selling crime fiction author Alan Carter and Assistant Police Commissioner Arlene Mavratsou share the stage with writer and academic Richard...
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Elise Stephenson at Blue Door Books – YASS
Blue Door Books 135 Comur St, Yass, NSWJoin us for an unforgettable afternoon with Dr Elise Stephenson author of the brilliant 'Space XX'. After leading world first research Dr Elise Stephenson shares a story of the space...
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The Places that Made Social Work in Melbourne 1887-1940 – a historical walking tour
Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VICThis walk will be led by social worker historian Jane Miller drawing on the research in her book For Social Betterment – Social Work Education in Australia (2024). Commencing at...
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Author Talk: The Remarkable Greig Sisters by Iola Mathews
RHSV 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaThe Greig sisters arrived in Melbourne in 1889 in search of a university education. Jane and Janet would be among the first women doctors in Australia, and Flos became the...
