BA (Hons), MEd (Tas), PhD (Murd)

Professor
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Telephone: +61 2 9514 3830
Email: Alison.Lee@uts.edu.au
Room: CB10.5.545
Campus: City - CB10 Building

Professor Lee is Director of the Centre for Research in Learning and Change (CRLC) at UTS. She researches and teaches in higher education with a particular focus on doctoral education. She has been coordinator of doctoral programs in Education for the past 10 years and has published widely on doctoral supervision, research writing, practice-based research and the changing nature of the doctorate. She has been awarded a national citation by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)(opens an external site)
in 2008 for her contribution to development of a rich learning environment for doctoral research at UTS.


Her broader research exertise is in literacy, curriculum and pedagogy, particularly in post-school and higher education. She draws on poststructuralist, postmodern and feminist theorising, and critical discourse analysis. Most recently she is leading a research program investigating the changing relationship between the university and the worlds of professional practice, with a focus on health and higher education. She is a member of the Executive of the Australian Association for Research in Education, and a member of the editorial Board of Teaching in Higher Education(opens an external site). She is a co-editor of
Literacy and Numeracy Studies: an International Journal in the Education and Training of Adults.

Recent funded research and development projects

2009 Sustaining Practice Innovation in Child and Family Health, collaborative partnership with CRLC (Lee, Dunston, McKenzie), Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health (Fowler), local Partner Organisations Kaleidoscope Hunter Children's Health Network & Tresillian Family Care Centres and international partners the Centre for Parent and Child Support, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, UK


2008-9 Building a collaborative sustainable and learning-focused evaluation strategy in Cancer Australia, collaborative research partnership with CRLC, the Centre for Health Communication, UTS, and the Centre for Health Services Development, University of Wollongong


2008 Learning and Development for Sustainable Health Futures, collaborative partnership with CRLC (Lee, Dunston, Boud, McKenzie, Flowers, Brown), Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health (Fowler, Chiarella and Brodie) and external partners (Anderson, Vimpani)


2007-8 Learning and Teaching for Inter-professional Practice (Australia) L-TIPP (Aus), collaborative partnership with the CRLC (Lee, Dunston) and the University of Sydney (Thistlethwaite, Nisbett, Matthews, Pockett, White), funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (formerly Carrick Institute)

Teaching Areas:
Development and co-ordination of the Doctor of Education programs in Sydney and Hong Hong; coursework teaching on the EdD including Introduction to the Doctor of Education, Research Literacies, Analysing Professional Practice and Dissertation Development and Appraisal; Research Perspectivess and Research Design in the MEd. Supervision of research students in adult, higher and professional education with a focus on the use of poststructuralist, postmodern and feminist theorising.

Research Areas:

Doctoral education, including completion of ARC funded Large grant titled Rethinking Postgradaute Pedagogy: on the history and praxis of the Phd in Australia; professional doctorates; research degree supervision and research education pedagogy, including research writing pedagogy

Discourse analysis, postlinguistic and poststructuralist approaches

Publications:

Scholarly Books and Monographs

Boud, D & Lee, A (eds, 2009)Changing Practices of Doctoral Education, Abingdon, UK, Routledge

Lee, A, Manathunga, C & Kandlbinder, P (eds, 2008) An Oral history of Academic Development in Australia, Canberra, HERDSA

Lee, A (2005) Knowing Our Business: the role of Education in the university, monograph commissioned by the Australian Council of Deans of Education(opens an external site)

Lee, A & Poynton, C (eds, 2000) Culture and Text: Discourse and Methodology in Social Research and Cultural Studies. Sydney, Allen & Unwin and New York, Rowman and Littlefield.

Lee, A & Green, B (eds, 1998) PostgraduateStudy/Postgraduate Pedagogy. UTS, Centre for Language and Literacy and the University Graduate School (reprinted and supplemented from the Australian Universities Review vol 38 no 2.

Lee, A, Chapman, A & Roe, P (1996) Pedagogical Relationships between Adult Literacy and Numeracy. UTS, Centre for Language and Literacy Research Monograph No 2.

Lee, A (1996). Gender, Literacy, Curriculum: Re-writing School Geography. London, Taylor and Francis.

Refereed Journal Articles

Lee, A, Brennan, M & Green, B (2008/forthcoming) Re-imagining Doctoral Education: Professional doctorates and beyond, Higher Education Research and Development

Maher, D, Seaton, L, McMullen, C, Fitzgerald, T, Otsuji, E & Lee, A (2008/forthcoming) Becoming and Being Writers: the experiences of doctoral students in writing groups, Studies in Continuing Education

Lee, A & Kamler, B (2008) Bringing Pedagogy to Doctoral Publishing, Teaching in Higher Education, 13 (5), pp 511-523

Lee, A & McWilliam, E (2008) What Game are We In? Living with Academic Development, International Journal for Academic Development, Vol 12, No 2, pp 66-77

Fowler, C & Lee, A (2007) Knowing How to Know: questioning ‘knowledge transfer’ as a metaphor for knowing and learning in health, Studies in Continuing Education, Vol 29, No 2. pp 181-193

Aitchison, C & Lee, A (2006) Research Writing: problems and pedagogies, Teaching in Higher Education, Vol 11, No 3, pp 265-278

McWilliam, E & Lee, A (2006) The Problem of ‘the Problem with Educational Research’, Australian Educational Researcher, Vol 33, No 2, pp 43-60

Boud, D & Lee, A (2005)Peer Learning as Pedagogic Discourse for Research Education, forthcoming in Studies in Higher Education, Vol 30, no 5, pp 501-515

Fowler, C & Lee, A (2004) Rewriting Motherhood: researching women's experiences of learning to mother for the first time, Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol 22, No 2, pp 39-44

Lee, A & Boud, D (2003) Writing Groups, Change and Academic Identity: Research Development as Local Practice. Studies in Higher Education, vol. 28, no 2, pp. 187-200.

Johnson, L, Lee, A & Green, B (2000) The PhD and the Autonomous Self: Gender, Rationality and Postgraduate Pedagogy, Studies in Higher Education, vol 25. no. 2, pp. 135-147

Lee, A & Williams, C (1999) Forged in Fire: Narratives of Trauma in Postgraduate Research Education, Southern Review, vol 32, no. 1, pp 6-26.

Gordon, K & Lee, A (1998) Investigating Co-production in Academic Literacy Research. ,Literacy and Numeracy Studies: an International Journal in the Education and Training of Adults. vol 8, no. 2, pp.

Lee, A (1997). Working together? Academic Literacies, Co-production and Professional Partnerships. Literacy and Numeracy Studies: an international journal in the education and training of adults vol 7 no 2: pp. 65-82.

Lee, A & Green, B (1997)Pedagogy and Disciplinarity in the ‘New’ University. UTS Review vol 3 no 1: pp. 1-25.

Fuller, G & Lee, A (1997) Textual Collusions. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education vol 18, no 2 pp. 409-423

Lee, A & Taylor, E (1996). The Dilemma of Obedience: a Feminist Perspective on the Making of Engineers. Educational Philosophy and Theory vol. 28 no 1: pp. 57-75.

Johnston, S, Lee, A & McGregor, H (1996) Engineering as Captive Discourse. The Society for Philosophy and Technology Electronic Journal.

Lee, A, Baynham, M, Beck, D, Gordon, K & San Miguel, C (1995) Researching Discipline-Specific Academic Literacy Practices: methodological issues. Research and Development in Higher Education vol 18: pp 464-482

Green, B & Lee, A (1995) Theorising Postgraduate Pedagogy. The Australian Universities Review vol 38, no 2, pp. 40-45 (republished 1998)

Lee, A & Green, B (1995). Introduction: Postgraduate Studies/Postgraduate Pedagogy? The Australian Universities Review vol 38, no 2, pp.2-5 (republished 1998)

Lee, A and Wickert, R (1994). Deconstructing Adult Literacy Teaching. Open Letter vol 5 no 1 pp. 55-68.

Lee, A (1994) Gender and Text in Educational Research. The Australian Educational Researcher vol 21 no 3, pp. 35-46

Scholarly Book Chapters

Lee, A & Boud, D (2008) Framing Doctoral Education as Practice, in D Boud and A Lee (eds) Changing Practices of Doctoral Education, Abingdon, Routledge, pp, 6-19

Lee, A & Aitchison, C (2008) Writing for the Doctorate and Beyond, in Changing Practices of Doctoral Education, pp 147-164

Johnson, L, Lee, A & Green, B (2004) The PhD and the Autonomous Self: Gender, Rationality and Postgraduate Pedagogy, Ch 8 in M Tight (ed)The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Higher Education, London, Routledge Falmer, pp 125-139

Fuller, G & Lee, A (2002) Assembling the Generic Subject. In R Coe, L Lingard & T Teslenko (eds) The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre, Cresskill, NJ, Hampton Press, pp. 207-224.

Edwards, R, Nicoll, K & Lee, A (2002) Flexible Literacies: Distributed Learning and Changing Educational Spaces. In M R Lea and K Nicoll (eds) Distributed Learning: Social and Cultural Approaches to Practice, London and New York, Routledge, pp. 196-209.

Lee, A (2000). Discourse Analysis and Cultural (Re)writing. In Culture and Text: Discourse and Methodology in Social Research and Cultural Studies. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, New York, Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 188-202.

Poynton, C & Lee, A (2000) Culture and Text: an Introduction. In Culture and Text, pp. 1-18.

Lee, A, Green, B & Brennan, M (2000) Organisational Knowledge, Professional Practice and the Professional Doctorate at Work. In J Garrick and C Rhodes (eds) Research and Knowledge at Work: Perspectives, Case Studies and Innovative Strategies, New York and London, Routledge pp. 117-136.

Lee, A & Wickert, R (2000). Reading the Discourses of Adult Basic Education Teaching. In G Foley (ed). Understanding Adult Education and Training, second edition. Sydney, Allen & Unwin: pp. 134-146

Green, B & Lee, A (1999) Educational Research, Disciplinarity, and Postgraduate Pedagogy: On the Subject of Supervision. In A Holbrook & S Johnston (eds) Postgraduate Education in Education, published by the Australian Association of Research in Education, pp 88-104.

Jones, G, Lee, A & Poynton, C (1998). Discourse Analysis and Policy Activism: readings and re-writings of Australian university research policy. In A Yeatman (ed). Policy Activism and the State. Sydney, Allen & Unwin pp. 124-142.

Lee, A (1998) Doctoral Research as Writing. In J Higgs (ed). Writing Qualitative Research. Sydney, Hampden Press: pp 124-142.

Lee, A (1997) Questioning the Critical: Linguistics, Literacy, Pedagogy. In P Freebody, S Muspratt and A Luke (eds).Constructing Critical Literacies: Teaching and Learning Textual Practices. New York, Hampton Press: pp 409-432.

Lee, A (1994) Unfixing Meaning: Post-structuralist Challenges for Classroom Literary Study. In B Corcoran, M Hayhoe and G Pradl (eds). Knowledge in the Making: Challenging Texts in the Classroom. New Hampshire, Heinemann Boynton/Cook: pp 91-105.

Chapman, A & Lee, A (1994). Literacy and Numeracy in Adult Education. In S McConnell and A Treloar (eds). Reframing Mathematics. Canberra, DEET: pp. 16-22.

Green, B & Lee, A (1994). Writing Geography: Literacy, Identity and Schooling. In Aviva Freedman and Peter Medway (eds). Learning and Teaching Genre. New Hampshire, Heinemann/Boynton Cook: pp. 46-59.

Recent Conference and Symposium Proceedings

Clerke, T & Lee, A (2008) Mainstreaming the doctoral Research Portfolio? In M Kiley & G Mullins (eds) Research Education in the New Global Environment, Proceedings of 6th Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference, Adelaide 17-18, pp 17-30

Lee, A & Mckenzie, J (2008) Evaluating individual doctoral supervision: qualitative steps and emerging issues, in M Kiley & G Mullins (eds) Research Education in the New Global Environment, Proceedings of 6th Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference, Adelaide, April 17-18, pp 63-75

Lee, A (2006)When is a Text? Keynote paper in Proceedings of the International Critical Discourse Analysis Conference: theory into research, ed T Le, University of Tasmania, November 15-18

Lee, A (2005) Thinking Curriculum: framing research/education, in Professional Doctorates: working towards impact: Proceedings of the 5th Biennial International conference on professional doctorates, eds, T W Maxwell, C Hickey and T Evans, Deakin University, Geelong

West, L & Lee, A (2005) New Workers, Depressed Workers? In Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Researching Work and Learning, eds Paul Hager & Geof Hawke, Sydney UTS