BA (Syd)

Senior Research Fellow
Academic area: Vocational Education Training and Employment

Telephone: +61 2 9514 3462
Email: Geof.Hawke@uts.edu.au
Room: CB10.5.552
Campus: City - CB10 Building

Mr Hawke’s professional experience has involved a range of areas within vocational education for over 30 years. These have ranged across work as diverse as TAFE vocational counsellor, researcher, manager and policy adviser. For nearly twenty years, he worked with the NSW TAFE Commission where he headed, the Assessment Research and Development Unit, a central policy unit with responsibility for establishing assessment policy and practice in NSW TAFE colleges. Subsequently he ran the Industry Restructuring Taskforce that managed the introduction of competency-based training in NSW and acted as the key liaison point with industry. Later he was the founding Chief Executive of the National Community Services and Health Industry Training Advisory Board. This body was one of a number of industry-owned and operated bodies that provided a coordinated industry input into the vocational education systems in Australia.

In 1995, he joined the Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training (RCVET) at UTS as Senior Research Fellow and, during his period with that Centre (and now with OVALRESEARCH), he has managed over forty large and small research projects and acted as Centre Director on a number of occasions.

Teaching Areas:
Vocational education and training; Research concepts and methods; Course and program design; Program evaluation; Assessment; Work and its relationship to learning.

Research Areas:
The effective linkage between policy and practice; improving assessment practice; how work is changing and the implications of this for learning; the nature of learning in the workplace and its role within formal education and training systems; and the nature and role of institutions within education and training.

• VEETAC Working Party for the implementation of CBT
• Secretariat of the Mayer Committee
• National Metals & Engineering Training Board
• Management Committee of the National Centre for Competency-based Training
• Director of the National Centre for Vocational Education Research
• Member, NSW Coal Mining Qualifications Board
• Member, NSW Board of Studies Workplace Education Syllabus Committee

Publications:
Books
Buchanan, J, et al. 2001, Beyond flexibility: Skills and the future of work, Sydney, NSW Board of Vocational Education and Training.

Johnston, R and Hawke, G 2002, Case studies of organisations with established learning cultures, Leabrook, SA, National Centre for Vocational Education Research.

Malley, J, et al. 2001, The quest for a working blueprint: Vocational education and training in Australian secondary schools, Leabrook, SA, National Centre for Vocational Education Research.

Selby Smith, C, et al. 1998, The impact of research on VET decision-making, Adelaide, National Centre for Vocational Education Research.

Chapters in Books
Boud, D, et al. 1998, 'More strategic; more critical; more evaluative: Perspectives on research into workplace learning and assessment', in Current issues and new agendas in workplace learning, ed. Boud, D., National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Adelaide: 136-150.

Flowers, R and Hawke, G 2000, 'An ambivalent relationship to the academy, competency-based education and the market: RPL in Australia', in Experiential Learning around the world: Employability and the global market, ed. Evans, N., Jessica Kingsley, London, pp. 151-166.

Foley, G, et al. 2000, 'Policy formation in adult education and training', in Understanding adult education and training, ed. Foley, G., Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, pp. 117-126.

Hawke, G 2004, "'Generic skills' in a changing work environment", in Generic skills in vocational education and training: Research readings, ed J. Gibbs, NCVER, Adelaide, pp. 124-135. http://www.ncver.edu.au/research/proj/nr2200.pdf

Hawke, G and Griffin, P 1995, 'Self-assessment and peer-assessment', in Key aspects of competency-based assessment, ed. Hall, W. C., National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Adelaide.

Journal Articles
Hawke, G and Cornford, I R 1998, 'Australian vocational education policy change: But will the revolution improve the quality of training?' Australian and New Zealand Journal of Vocational Education Research, vol.6, no.2, pp.104-133.

Reports
Chappell, C and Hawke, G 2003a, An industry-led system: Issues for policy, practice and practitioners. Report 7 - Integrating report, OVAL Working Paper, OVAL Research, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney.

Chappell, C, Hawke, G, et al. 2003a, High Level Review of Training Packages: Phase 1 Report: An analysis of the current and future context in which Training Packages will need to operate, Australian National Training Authority, Brisbane. http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/training_skills/policy_issues_reviews/key_issues/nts/

Gonczi, A, Hawke, G, et al. 2003, The cutting edge: TAFE as a provider of quality workplace education, Commissioned research report, OVAL Research, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney.

Hawke, G 2001, The ABW Enterprise Education Program: A three-year review, Sydney, Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training.

Hawke, G 2003, An industry-led system: Issues for policy, practice and practitioners. Report 4 - The experience of teachers and learners, OVAL Working Paper, OVAL Research, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney.

Hawke, G 2004, Regional differences in the backgrounds of participants, operation of programs and outcomes for students: ABW Enterprise Education 2000-2003, OVAL Research, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney.

Hawke, G 2004c, Generic Skills and VET in Australia: From Mayer to Ö? OVAL Research Working paper 0407, OVAL Research, Sydney. http://www.oval.uts.edu.au/working_papers/2004WP/0407hawke.pdf

Hawke, G and McDonald, R J 1996, When rhetoric meets reality: Issues confronting the National Framework for the Recognition of Training, Commissioned Research Report, Sydney, Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training, University of Technology, Sydney.

Hawke, G and Quirk, R 1996, Moving into higher education: Issues arising from the use of ungraded assessment in VET, Sydney, Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training, University of Technology, Sydney.

Hawke, G, et al. 1998, Standards and qualifications for VET practitioners. Volume 1: Final Report, Commissioned Research Report, Sydney, Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training.

Conference Papers
Boud, D and Hawke, G 2003a "Rethinking assessment and pedagogy for vocational learning", paper presented at the invitational seminar "Vocational Learning for the 21st Century: International Perspectives", SKOPE, Oxford University, 22nd - 23rd July.

Hawke, G 1998, 'Workplaces as components of a formal VET system', in Vocational knowledge and institutions: Changing relationships. Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Post-compulsory Education and Training. Vol. 4, Centre for Learning and Work Research, Griffith University, Brisbane. vol. 4: 115-123.

Hawke, G 1999, 'A framework for learning: Small business or all business?' Paper presented to 7th Annual International Conference on Post-compulsory Education and Training 'Changing practice through research: Changing research through practice', Parkroyal Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, 6-8 December.

Hawke, G 2000, 'Implications for VocEd of changing work arrangements', Paper presented to Professional Development Series, National Dissemination Centre for Career and Technical Education, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 20 July.

Hawke, G 2000, 'The impact of educational research on policy and practice in the area of workplace learning', Paper presented to the Green College Seminar Series, Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 7 September.

Hawke, G 2001, 'Understanding the complexity of learners', in Knowledge demands for the new economy: Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Post-compulsory Education and Training, Vol 1, eds Bevan, F.et al, Centre for Learning and Work Research, Griffith University, Brisbane. vol. 1: 277-282.

Hawke, G 2002, 'Keeping curriculum relevant in a changing world', Paper presented to International Seminar on Labour Market and Occupational Dynamics, Belo Horizante, Minas Gerais, Brasil, 19-20 June 2002, (SENAI).

Hawke, G 2002, 'Learning communities: Enhancing our capabilities', Paper presented to Victorian TAFE Association State Conference, Charles Sturt University, Albury, 31 May.

Hawke, G 2003a, "Students in an enterprise education in schools program: Their experience of, and attitudes towards, the world of work", in The Changing face of VET. Proceedings of the 6th annual conference of the Australian VET Research Association, AVETRA, Sydney. http://www.avetra.org.au/abstracts_and_papers_2003/refereed/Hawke.pdf

Hawke, G 2005a "Emerging employer roles in the Australian Vocational Education & Training (VET) system", paper presented at Ponderosa Seminar Series, Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training (CHET), University of British Columbia, 12 January.

Hawke, G, Kimberley, H and Melville, B 2002, 'Can Learning Communities be a Part of Future VET?' Paper presented to "Making a world of difference: Innovation, internationalisation, new technologies and VET", 5th Annual Conference of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Melbourne, Vic, 20-22 March, Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association.

Johnson, R and Hawke, G 2001, 'Drivers of Learning Cultures within Organisations: Findings from Case Studies', Paper presented to 4th Annual Conference of the Australian VET Research Association, Adelaide, SA, Australian VET Research Association.