Professor Lyn Yates

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia Phone: +61 3 8344 4561 Fax: +61 3 9347 2468 Email: l.yates@ unimelb.edu.au

Lyn Yates was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Melbourne in April 2007. She is also Foundation Professor of Curriculum in the Faculty of Education. In her Pro Vice-Chancellor role she supports the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) across the research portfolio, and has specific responsibilities for Ethics and Associate Deans (Research). She has a particular interest in the needs of humanities, social sciences and professional fields in the current research environment; and in supporting women and early career researchers in the university.

Professor Yates has an MA in History and a Dip Ed (Melb), an M Ed (Bristol), and a PhD on curriculum theory, gender and Australian education policy and practice (La Trobe). She is a past president of the Australian Association for Research in Education and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Umea (Sweden) for her research on education and on women.

Professor Yates has worked extensively in postgraduate education and has held a number of senior roles in universities, including Associate Dean Research and Development at the University of Technology Sydney, Director of Women’s Studies at La Trobe University, and Associate Dean Research and Research Training in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne.

Lyn Yates’ research interests are in education, knowledge, inequalities and the changing world. Her research projects include the 12 to 18 Project: a qualitative longitudinal study of young people making their way through different Australian high schools; the E.ffects Project: a study of school practices in the context of new technologies; Changing Work, Changing Workers, Changing Selves: a study of ‘pedagogies of the new vocationalism’ in school, university, TAFE and private providers. Her two current research projects are a study of curriculum policies and differences across Australian states and territories; and a study of young people, identity and social connectedness in partnership with the Education Institute of the Royal Children’s Hospital.

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Executive Assistant
Ms Anne Kelly
Ph: +61 3 8344 4561
Fax: +61 3 9347 2468
Email: akelly@ unimelb.edu.au