Kate Seymour
Lecturer
Bachelor of Social Science (Human Services) – University of South Australia
Bachelor of Social Administration – Flinders University of South Australia
Masters of Social Science (Criminology) – Charles Sturt University
Kate Seymour
Bio
Extensive experience working in the areas of:
- child protection (investigation and assessment);
- public housing (assessment and assistance);
- vocational rehabilitation (assessment and planning); &
- correctional services (adult offenders).
Between 1996 – 2004 I worked for the South Australian Department for Correctional Services, initially as a Social Worker in the Adelaide Women's Prison, before moving into the area of community correctional programs. Community correctional centres in S.A. provide supervision for adult offenders on community based orders including parole, probation, bail, and other court sanctions. This includes the provision of pre-sentence assessment and advice to the Courts; pre-release assessment and advice to the Parole Board; offence-focussed assessment and planning as well as intervention services including individual and group programs targeting drug & alcohol use/abuse and violent behaviour.
From 2000 until July 2004, when I left the Department to take up my current position with the university, I managed a community correctional centre in a large regional (rural) location of S.A.
Teaching
- Politics of Identity
- Punishment & the State
- Prison: Institution and Experience
- Communication Processes
- Community Corrections
- Practicum - Correctional Administration
Research
- Gender & Crime, in particular the relationship between masculinities, crime & punishment
- Gender & Violence (masculinities, power, sexuality & violence)
- Gender, organisations and the workplace
Recent publications
Seymour, K. 2009 Problematisations: Violence intervention and the construction of expertise. In Goodwin-Smith, I. (Ed). Foucault 25 Years On: Conference Proceedings. Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia: Underdale, S.A. http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/publications/foucault-25-years/default.asp
Seymour, K. 2009 Problematisations: Violence intervention and the construction of expertise. Paper presented at Foucault 25 Years On Conference, 25 June 2009. Centre for Post-colonial and Globalisation Studies, University of S.A. Magill, S.A.
Seymour, K. 2009 ‘Women, gendered work and gendered violence: So much more than a job.’ Gender, Work and Organisation. 16(2): 238-265.
Seymour, K. 2009 ‘Real’ violence?: Gender and (male) violence - An Australian perspective. Probation Journal. 56(1): 29-44.
Seymour, K. 2007. Teaching and learning: Maps as metaphor. Proceedings of the Annual Higher Education Research and Development (HERDSA) Conference 2007: Enhancing Higher Education, Theory and Scholarship. Adelaide, Australia, 8-11 July 2007.
Seymour, K. 2006 ‘From Doing to Knowing: Becoming academic’, Qualitative Social Work, 5(4), pp. 459-469
Seymour, K. 2006 ‘The ‘other’ violence: Gender & understandings of (male) violence’, paper presented at Australia and New Zealand Society for Criminology (ANZSOC) 19th Annual Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 8/2/06
Seymour, K. 2003 ‘Imprisoning Masculinity’, Sexuality & Culture, Special Issue: Sexuality and the Corrections System, Vol 7, No. 4, Fall 2003, pp. 27-55
