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Professor Denise Meredyth is the Deputy Director of the ISR; she co-ordinates research planning and postgraduate strategy across the ISR. She has published widely on civic education, participation, digital literacy, wired communities, the history of assessment and examination, the social and vocational role of the humanities and post-compulsory education reform. A former secondary teacher, she taught in both humanities and education faculties before becoming primarily a researcher and leader of large research projects. She is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation and has conducted 15 ARC projects and several large contract research projects. The research partners involved include Commonwealth, State and local government partners in education, human services and justice, the State Library of Victoria, SYN-Media and the Salvation Army.
Research Interests
- Youth media, social enterprise and opportunity
- Digital literacy and social differences
- Social partnerships, community and network governance
- Civic formation and citizenship education
- Community policing, crime prevention and multi-ethnicity
- Consultation, representation and hard to reach groups
- Schooling, social networks and civic infrastructure
- Wired communities
- The new thrift, online and offline
- Humanities education and the measurability of cultural and ethical capacities
- Education, genealogy, governmentality and history of the present
Current Research Activities
- Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation
- Project leader, CCI Centre of Excellence Project Youthworx: Youth media and social enterprise
- Project leader, ARC Linkage (LP776899) Exploring the experience of security in the Australian Vietnamese community: practical implications for policing (with VicPolice)
- ARC Linkage (LP0775215) The Searchers: Australian Information Seekers and Citizens
- ARC Linkage (LP0776236) Engaging with Social Media in Museums
- ARC Linkage (LP0455219) Community consultation and the hard to reach: local government, social profiling and civic infrastructure
- Project leader (Victoria Police) Exploring the experience of security in multiethnic communities undergoing rapid change: A Flemington case study (with Melissa Bull)
Publications and Other Research Outputs
 Go to Swinburne Research Bank
Postgraduate Supervision
Current Students
Michaela Callaghan (The Dance of Memory and Resistance: Recalling Identity in the Peruvian Andes)
David Dawson (Digital Education - Comparison in Attitudes)
Dustin Halse (Who dares advocates: Australian social welfare organisations and the politics of power, control and influence)
Willie Kamara (Charter of rights in the Australian States)
Karen Kissane (Quality journalism, vulnerability and ethics: writing about the Black Saturday Bushfires 2009)
Maria Klona (Lenders to the poor: Cash Converters, payday loans and social exclusion)
Roslyn Le (Risky Business: Understanding Vietnamese-Australians' experiences of working in the international heroin trade as drug mules)
David Prater (Self-Publishing in the Field of Australian Literautre)
Kerry Ryan (The aims and effects of the Australian Citizenship test)
Jon Staley (Film as voice, creative media engagement across social boundaries)
Wendy Stone (Downshifting and housing: How changing consumption patterns relate to housing in contemporary Australia)
Chris Wilson (Frequently Modulating: Australian Radio's Relationship With Youth)
Completions
Dr Glen Jessop (2008) Motor Telephony: Social and policy dimensions of phoning and driving
Dr Ian McShane (2008) Community Facilities and Public Value
Dr Charmaine McKibbin (2004) Parent Participation, Action Research and Government through Community: Lessons from a 1990s Queensland Case Study
Dr David Adair (2003) 'Queer Theory': Intellectual and Ethical Milieux of 1990s Sexual Dissidence
Dr Kathy Corbiere (1999) Making Connections:Femocrats, Free Agents and Devolution
in Queensland Education
Dr Asa Masterman (1998) Limiting criticism : Nietzsche and D.H. Lawrence as case studies in critical standing
Dr Jeffrey Minson (1998) A genealogy of ethics
Dr Denis Arthy (1996) The vocational personality: Guidance and counselling practices in Queensland education
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