Rachael Fox
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PositionLecturer, School of Psychology
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Campus
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LocationBuilding 26
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Phone/Fax(02) 6933 2840
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Profile
Rachael completed her honours degree in psychology at the University of Stirling in the UK, before going on to complete a PhD in Community Psychology, also at the University of Stirling. The title of the PhD was 'Scottish secondary education from a critical community psychological perspective: power, control and exclusion'. The research was very practice led and centred on young people, in various educational settings learning about their experiences and beliefs of being excluded. Time was spent immersed in each educational setting participating and observing, and conducting focus groups and individual interviews with various staff. Rachael then went on to work as a Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, UK, on a project entitled "At Home Abroad: The Life Experiences of Children of Eastern European Migrant Workers in Scotland". The research project aimed to explore the experiences of children from Eastern European migrant families newly arrived in Scotland. On completing this project Rachael joined the School of Psychology at Charles Sturt University as a Lecturer on the Wagga Campus
Teaching
- Foundations of Psychology
- Foundations of Psychology for Health and Human Services
- Social Psychology
- Psychology of Language
Research
Research interests include:
- The rights of children and young people
- School exclusion and relationships between adults and young people in education
- Discourse and social practices
- Critical, Community and Social Psychology
- Methodologies involving praxis, collaborative and transformative approaches, qualitative methods and critical approaches to discourse
- Theories of dialogical learning and teaching, governmentality, standpoint theory, and liberation psychology
Projects Involved in:
- PhD work carried out at the University of Stirling, UL: 'Scottish secondary education from a critical community psychological perspective: power, control and exclusion' (http://hdl.handle.net/1893/411)
- ESRC funded research carried out at the University of Strathclyde, UL: 'At Home Abroad: The Life Experiences of Children of Eastern European Migrant Workers in Scotland'. (http://www.migrantchildren.net/index.html)