MA (Syd), DipEd (Syd Teach Coll), GradDipTESOL (SCAE), PhD (UQ)

Associate Professor
Academic area: Workplace and Organisational Learning

Telephone: +61 2 9514 3894
Email: Hermine.Scheeres@uts.edu.au
Room: CB10.5.298
Campus: City - CB10 Building

Hermine Scheeres has worked in higher education; technical and further education and secondary education in Australia, England, Mexico and Argentina. Her current positions include: Co-ordinator of the BA Organisational Learning and the Grad Dip Literacy and Numeracy. She is a member of UTS Academic Board, Deputy Chair of the Board of the Faculty of Education, a member of the UTS Equity Reference Committee and Co-editor of the Journal Literacy and Numeracy Studies: an international journal in the education and training of adults. Hermine has developed curriculum and professional development courses and materials for organisations and institutions including: NSW State Rail; Kelloggs Australia; TAFE (equivalent) teachers in Mexico; English Language teachers in Argentina; Adult Literacy teachers across Australia; and the NSW Board of Secondary School Education (HSC). She has also worked as a consultant, adviser and trainer for government departments and industry.

Teaching Areas:
Hermine supervises research students and teaches in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Her main teaching areas are: Language, Culture and Communication; Discourse and Power; Socio-Political Contexts of Adult Education; Workplace Communication and Literacy.

Research Areas:
Workplaces as cultures and the changing and multiple identities of workers across contexts from industry to the academy.

The relationship between socio-political contexts, and theories and practices relevant to adult education and training, with particular reference to culture, communication and discourse.

Editor, Literacy and Numeracy Studies: An international journal for the education and training of adults (co-editor 1997-2005).

Editorial Boards, Studies in Continuing Education; TESOL in Context.

International Conference Organising and Planning Committees: Researching Work and Learning (2005), Discourses on Discourse (2001), Working Knowledge (2000), Text and Talk at Work (2000 - Symposium Organiser) Women, Culture and Universities - Winds of Change (1998).

EEO and Affirmative Action Committee UTS (since 1992).

Member, VETAB Accreditation Panels for courses from Australian Centre for Languages (ACL) Adult Migrant English Service (AMES), University of Western Sydney.

Invited professional development presenter for industry, Australian and UK universities, professional associations, NSW TAFE, AMES.

Publications:
Publications:
Scheeres, H & Solomon, N (in preparation, publication 2006) 'The Moving Subject: Changing workers, changing identities' in Billett, S, Fenwick, T & Somerville, M (Eds) Identity (self), Work and Learning: Relational Interdependencies at work Springer: London

Rhodes, C Iedema, R & Scheeres, H (in preparation, publication 2006) 'Control, Resistance and Surveillance' in Beech, N, Linstead, A & Sims, D (Eds) Researching Identity: Concepts and Methods Routledge: London

Iedema, R, Rhodes, C & Scheeres, H (forthcoming March 2006 Accepted unconditionally) 'Surveillance, Resistance, Observance: Exploring the teleo-affective volatility of workplace interaction' Organisation Studies

Scheeres, H & Rhodes, C (forthcoming 2006 Accepted unconditionally) 'Between Cultures: An ethnography of core values training and worker identity in a manufacturing firm' Journal of Organisational Change Management

Iedema, R, Rhodes, C & Scheeres, H (in press 2005 Accepted unconditionally) 'Triple Trouble: Undecidability, Identity and Organizational Change' in Caldas-Coulthard, C & Iedema, R (Eds) Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contestations of Identification Palgrave: London

Iedema, R Rhodes, C & Scheeres, H (2005) 'Presencing Identity: Organisational change and immaterial labour' Journal of Organisational Change Management Vol 18, No 4, pp 327-338

Rhodes, C & Scheeres, H (2004) 'Developing People in Organizations: Working (On) Identity', Studies in the Education of Adults. Vol. 26, No. 2, pp 175-193 (invited article)

Iedema, R, Rhodes, C & Scheeres, H (2004) 'Observance and Surveillance: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Identity at Work' Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Organizational Discourse, Amsterdam, July CD

Scheeres, H (2004) 'Learning to be a Team, Learning to be a Team Member' OVAL Research Working Papers 04

Scheeres, H (2003) 'Learning to Talk: From manual work to discourse work as self-regulating practice' Journal of Workplace Learning Vol 15, No7/8, pp 332-338

Iedema, R & Scheeres, H (2003) 'From Doing Work to Talking Work: Renegotiating knowing, doing and identity' Applied Linguistics Vol 24 No3 pp 316-337 (Invited article for special edition)

Rhodes, C & Scheeres, H (2003) 'Changing Pedagogy: Culture and identity in organisations' OVAL Research Working Papers 03-19

Scheeres, H & Iedema, R (2002) 'Organising and Businessing Identity: (Re)thinking/(Re)framing Pedagogies' Teaching English for International Busines vol 1/2 pp36-50

Scheeres, H (2002) 'What is a competent Adult Basic Education teacher?: The moving mosaic of identities and practices from 1993 to 2003…' Proceedings of the Australian Council For Adult Literacy, (ACAL) Conference, Sydney, November pp135-140

Scheeres, H (2002) 'Producing core values in an Australian Workplace: Altering identities of adult learners in the workplace', Proceedings of the Standing Committee for University Teaching and Research Association, (SCUTREA) Stirling, Scotland pp 341-349 July

Scheeres, H (2002) 'Producing Core Values in the Workplace: Learning new identities', Proceedings of the Australian Vocational and Training Research Association (AVETRA) Melbourne March pp 86-96

Scheeres, H & Solomon, N (2000) 'Research Partnerships at Work: New identities for new times' in Eds Garrick, J & Rhodes, C Research and Knowledge at Work Routeledge: London pp 178-199

Scheeres, H & Solomon, N (2000) 'Whose Text: Methodological dilemmas in collaborative research practice' in Eds Lee, A & Poynton, C Culture and Text Allen & Unwin: Sydney pp 114-131

Chappell, C, Farrell, L Scheeres, H & Solomon, N (2000) 'The Organisiation of Identity: Four cases' in Eds Symes, C & McIntyre, J Working Knowledge Open University Press: Milton Keynes, pp 135-152

Brosnon, D Scheeres, H & Slade, D (2000) 'Cross-Cultural Training in the Workplace' in Foley, G Ed 2nd Ed Understanding Adult Education and Training Allen & Unwin: Sydney pp 206-218

McIntyre, J Chappell. C Scheeres, H Solomon, N Symes,C & Tennant, M (2000) 'New questions about work and learning' Proceedings of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association Conference May, 2000 Canberra

Scheeres, H (1999) 'Restructured Work, Restructured Worker' Literacy and Numeracy Studies: an international journal in the education and training of adults vol 9.1 pp27-39

Scheeres, H (1999) 'Language as Learning,' Learning has many Faces: A discussion starter Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training, UTS, Sydney

Cohen, D Lee, A Payne, A Scheeres, H Shoemark, L and Tiffin, S (1999) eds Winds of Change: Women and the culture of universities Vols 1 & 2 Conference Proceedings, Equity and Diversity Unit, University of Technology, Sydney

Recent Conference presentations:

2005 July Texts and Talk at Work: Team meetings as identity work Symposium Presentation Discourse and Construction of Identities International Applied Linguistics Conference Madison, Wisconsin, USA July 24-29

2005 July Recontextualising between Practice and Theory in Health Management Education Colloquium Presentation International Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference Sydney July 17-22 (with Dr Rick Iedema)

2005 May Being at Work: Immaterial labor, affectualization and the presencing of identity Paper European Academy of Management Conference EURAM Munich, May 5-7 (with Assoc Prof Carl Rhodes & Dr Rick Iedema)

2004 Sep The Intensification of Communication in Modern Health Care: Where narrative meets accountability Poster presentation Narrative Research in Health and Illness London, Sept 9-10 (with Dr Rick Iedema & research team)

2004 July Surveillance, Resistance, Observance: The ethics and aesthetics of identity (at) work, Paper at 6th International Conference on Organizational Discourse Amsterdam (with Assoc Prof Carl Rhodes & Dr Rick Iedema) July 25-30

2004 March Texts and Talk at Work: Beyond basic skills to identity-work Keynote speaker at Second International Conference of the UK National Research and Development Consortium for Language, Literacy and Numeracy, Loughborough, England

2003 July Learning to Talk: From manual work to discourse work as self-regulating practice Paper at Third International Conference on Researching Work and Learning, Tampere, Finland

2003 June Developing People in Organisations: Working on identity Paper at the joint OVAL / SKOPE meeting Oxford University, Oxford