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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The Change Makers
Canberra Writers Festival - Museum of Australian Democracy
Participating Chair: Linda Jaivin • Emma Batchelor, Diana Reid and Jo Dyer Sometimes significant incidents in life can only be fully appreciated after they’ve passed. Four passionate women unpack pivotal...
Comrade — It’s Time Again!
Canberra Writers Festival - Kambri Cultural Centre
Australian National University
Moderator: Paul Bongiorno • Christine Sykes, Jenny Hocking, John Faulkner and Paul Kelly 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the Whitlam Government being elected to office. Our panel talks all...
The Toughest Assignment
Canberra Writers Festival - Kambri Cultural Centre
Australian National University
Moderator: Karen Middleton • Kylie Moore-Gilbert, John Lyons and Andrew Quilty From Kabul to Tehran via the conflict in the Middle East, how does one survive the harrowing risks that...
Dateline Jerusalem: John Lyons in conversation with Stan Grant
Gleebooks
49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, News South Wales
Rarely is the public taken deep into the inner sanctum of major news organisations. In this extraordinary book, award-winning journalist John Lyons goes to the heart of how the media...
Free – $12
WinterWild: Walking on Country
Apollo Bay Community Hall
4 Whelan St, Apollo Bay, VIC
Join a panel of Indigenous leaders including Associate Professor Dr. Michael-Shawn Fletcher, a Wiradjuri man, paleo-ecologist and biogeographer; Dr. Jack Pascoe, a Yuin man, ecologist and Research Manager at the...
$25
The Change Makers
Canberra Writers Festival - Museum of Australian DemocracyParticipating Chair: Linda Jaivin • Emma Batchelor, Diana Reid and Jo Dyer Sometimes significant incidents in life can only be fully appreciated after they’ve passed. Four passionate women unpack pivotal...
Comrade — It’s Time Again!
Canberra Writers Festival - Kambri Cultural Centre Australian National UniversityModerator: Paul Bongiorno • Christine Sykes, Jenny Hocking, John Faulkner and Paul Kelly 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the Whitlam Government being elected to office. Our panel talks all...
The Toughest Assignment
Canberra Writers Festival - Kambri Cultural Centre Australian National UniversityModerator: Karen Middleton • Kylie Moore-Gilbert, John Lyons and Andrew Quilty From Kabul to Tehran via the conflict in the Middle East, how does one survive the harrowing risks that...
Dateline Jerusalem: John Lyons in conversation with Stan Grant
Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, News South WalesRarely is the public taken deep into the inner sanctum of major news organisations. In this extraordinary book, award-winning journalist John Lyons goes to the heart of how the media...
WinterWild: Walking on Country
Apollo Bay Community Hall 4 Whelan St, Apollo Bay, VICJoin a panel of Indigenous leaders including Associate Professor Dr. Michael-Shawn Fletcher, a Wiradjuri man, paleo-ecologist and biogeographer; Dr. Jack Pascoe, a Yuin man, ecologist and Research Manager at the...
