Dr Cynthia Joseph - Researcher Profile

Cynthia Joseph

Address

Faculty of Education
Building 6, Clayton

Biography

Cynthia is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University.    She draws on Postcolonial Theories,  Comparative Education and Asian Studies to research identity, cultural differences and inequality issues in education and work contexts. She also examines the ways in which ethnicity, race and gender are (re)configured in these globalising and transnational times. Her recent work explores culture and innovation in the Asian bioeconomy.  Cynthia has had experience within the education sectors in Malaysia.

Cynthia was awarded the 2004 Mollie Holman Medal for Excellence for her doctoral thesis "Theorisations of identity and difference: ways of being Malay, Chinese and Indian schoolgirls in a Malaysian secondary school". In 2006, she was awarded an Australia-Malaysia Fellowship for a research project on Malaysian Youth Identities. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London (Sept-Dec 2006) and a Visiting Scholar at CIDEC, University of Toronto (Sept-Dec 2011). Her recent publication projects include "Equity, Opportunity and Education in Postcolonial Southeast Asia" (2013, Routledge) and "Gender, Culture and Work in Global Cities" (Women's Studies International Forum, 2013, Vol 36, Issue 1).  Cynthia also sits on the  Executive Board of the Research Committee on Women in Society, International Sociological Association.

Listed below are some of Cynthia's research projects:

  • Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant, Prof TL Seddon; Dr C Joseph; Dr A Devos; Dr LL Henriksson; Dr B Niemeyer "The Teaching Occupation in Learning Societies: A global ethnography of occupational boundary work" 2009-2011
  • Monash Small Grants. Faculty of Education, Dr C Joseph & Dr L Tudball "Internationalisation of Education in Victorian Schools: Policies, Practices and Identities", 2009.
  • Australia Malaysia Fellowship, Australia-Malaysia Institute, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, "Youths in Malaysian Universities: Ethnicity, Education and Globalisation", August-September 2006
  • Faculty of Education, Monash University, Individual Research Project, "Transnationalism, ethnicities and education: Southeast Asian female students in Australian higher education institutions" , March 2006-March 2007
  • Strategic Initiative Funding by the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Monash University, Academic Planning Investigation project "Internationalisation of the curriculum: An investigation of pedagogical practices at Monash University" March 2004-July 2005 (with Assoc. Prof. Valerie Clifford, Higher Education Development Unit, Monash University)
  • Collaborative University of Melbourne and Monash University Grants in Educational Technologies, "RE-search Possibilities! Researching Education: strategies, ethics, actions, resources, critiques, hypotheticals" a CD-ROM to support post-graduate thesis students", February 2004-August 2005, ((with Dr Gaell Hildebrand as Team leader and colleagues from Monash and Melbourne University as team members)
  • United Nations Development Programme and Economic Planning Unit of the Prime Ministers Department, Malaysia, Research Consultant for the Schooling sector, Education and Training module, in the development of a Human Resource Masterplan for Malaysia, November 2002-January 2005
  • Monash University Small Research Grants Scheme, "Sex-role stereotypes and student teacher motivation" February 2003-Februa

Research & Supervision Interests

    SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION: Identities, cultural diversity and equality issues (specifically in relation to ethnicity/race and gender); Migration, education and work in the global economy
    POSTCOLONIAL THEORY: Identity and Difference; Transnational identities, education and work
    COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: Globalisation and education; Internationalising the curriculum
    ASIAN STUDIES: Southeast Asian Studies, Malaysian Studies
    QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: Ethnography; Postcolonial Research Approaches; Qualitative Research

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2003

Publications

Books

Joseph, C., Lundstrom, C. (eds), 2013, Special Issue - Gender, Culture and Work in Global Cities, Elsevier Ltd, The Netherlands.

Mirza, H.S., Joseph, C. (eds), 2010, Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times, Routledge, UK.

Joseph, C., Marginson, S.W., Yang, R. (eds), 2005, A Special Issue: International Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Joseph, C., 2008, Ethnicities and education in Malaysia: difference, inclusions and exclusions, in The Education of Diverse Student Populations, eds Guofang Wan, Springer, USA, pp. 183-208.

Joseph, C., 2007, 'You cannot just sit there and accept what they say'. Ethnic minority Indian teenage schoolgirls in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia, in Learning from the Margins. Young Women, Social Exclusion and Education, eds Julie McLeod and Andrea C. Allard, Routledge, London, pp. 67-81.

Joseph, C., Winzer, M.A., Pollard, V.A., 2006, Schooling in Australia: The interplay of education, politics, and culture, in Schooling Around the World. Debates, Challenges, and Practices, eds Kas Mazurek and Margret A. Winzer, Pearson Education, Boston USA, pp. 104-119.

Joseph, C., 2006, The politics of educational research in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia: discourses of globalisation, nationalism and education, in Education Research and Policy. Steering the Knowledge-based Economy, eds Jenny Ozga, Terri Seddon and Thomas S. Popkewitz, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 147-163.

Journal Articles

Joseph, C., Lundstrom, C., 2013, Gender, culture and work in global cities: Researching 'transnational' women, Women's Studies International Forum [P], vol 36, Pergamon, UK, pp. 1-4.

Joseph, C., 2012, (Re)negotiating cultural and work identities pre- and post-migration: Malaysian migrant women in Australia, Women's Studies International Forum [P], vol E, issue E, Pergamon, Oxford United Kingdom, p. E.

Brannen, J., Joseph, C., 2012, Book review of Education, asylum and the 'non-citizen' child: the politics of compassion and belonging, Race Ethnicity and Education [E], vol 2012, Routledge, UK, pp. 1-4.

Joseph, C., 2012, Internationalizing the curriculum: Pedagogy for social justice, Current Sociology [E], vol 60, issue 2, Sage Publications Ltd., UK, pp. 239-257.

Joseph, C., 2009, Postcoloniality and ethnography: Negotiating gender, ethnicity and power, Race Ethnicity and Education [P], vol 12, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 11-25.

Joseph, C., 2008, Difference, subjectivities and power: (de)colonizing practices in internationalizing the curriculum, Intercultural Education, vol 19, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 29-39.

Joseph, C., 2006, 'It is so unfair here...it is so biased': negotiating the politics of ethnic identification in ways of being Malaysian schoolgirls, Asian Ethnicity, vol 7, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 53-73.

Joseph, C., 2006, Negotiating discourses of gender, ethnicity and schooling: ways of being Malay, Chinese and Indian schoolgirls in Malaysia, Pedagogy, Culture and Society, vol 14, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 35-53.

Joseph, C., 2005, Discourses of schooling in contemporary Malaysia: pedagogical practices and ethnic politics, Australian Journal of Education, vol 49, issue 1, Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia, pp. 28-45.

Joseph, C., 2000, Researching teenage girls and schooling in Malaysia: bridging theoretical issues of gender identity, culture, ethnicity and education, Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol 21 issue 2, Carfax, UK, pp. 177-192.

Conference Proceedings

Joseph, C., 2004, Ways of being Malay, Chinese and Indian girls in a Malaysian secondary school: negotiating discourses of gender, ethnicity and schooling, American Educational Research Association: 2004 annual meeting program, 12/04/04 - 16/04/04, AERA, http://convention.allacademic.com/aera2004/schedule.html, p. 1.

Other

Joseph, C., Coram, S., 2008, Education and National Diversity, Nations and Nationalism. A Global Historical Overview, ABC-CLIO, Inc., USA, pp. 1379-1391.

Clifford, V.A., Joseph, C., 2005, Report of the Internationalisation of the Curriculum Project, Monash University, Published, pp. 1-137.

Joseph, C., 2004, Difference, power and subjectivities: negotiating the discourse of "International Education", ANZCIES conference, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, 3 December 2004.

Joseph, C., 2004, Difference, power and subjectivities: negotiating the discourse of "internationalisation of the curriculum", Presented to the Internationalisation of the Curriculum Symposium, November 2004.

Joseph, C., 2004, Resistance and ways of being Malaysian girls, Presented to the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, National University of Malaysia.

Joseph, C., 2004, Ways of knowing and being "traditional-western" Malaysian schoolgirls, Paper presented to the learning from the margins: inclusion/exclusion, and the educational and social experiences of at 'risk' young women conference, July 2004, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.

Grants

Title:
Identities of Malay-Muslim, Chinese and Indian Youths in Malaysian Universities: ethnicity, education and globalisation.
Investigators:
Joseph, C
Funding:
(2006 - 2010). Australia Malaysia Institute.
Title:
The Teaching Occupation in Learning Societies: A global ethnography of occupational boundary work.
Investigators:
Seddon, T, Joseph, C, Devos, A, Henriksson, L, Niemeyer, B
Funding:
(2009 - 2013). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main), Bulfin, S (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main), Clemans, A (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Identities of female Indonesian international students: Gender, Islam and transnationalism.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main), Faine, M (Associate).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Issues and challenges of private higher education in Malaysia.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main), Anderson, D (Associate).
Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Men, Migrants and Masculinities: Japanese migrant men in Australia.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main), O''Toole, P (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Muslim women teachers in Melbourne and indentity construction in a climate of islamaphobia.
Supervisors:
Windle, J (Main), Joseph, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Representations of culture and identity in teachers pedagogies: A case study of art education in secondary state schools in Aceh.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main), Bleazby, J (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Virtual worlds and internationalisation in higher education.
Supervisors:
Henderson, M (Main), Joseph, C (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Ways of being African female students in Australian universities : gender, race and education.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main), Brown, J (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Aga Mohd Jaladin, R.
Program of Study:
Professional counsellors' understanding and practice of multicultural counselling in Malaysia. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Simmonds, J (Main), Joseph, C (Associate).
Student:
Bradford, J.
Program of Study:
A Critical Analysis of The White Paper, National Minorities Policy and its Practice in China, 1999 in relation to the Government's Ethnic Identification Processes and Education . 2004.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main).
Student:
Church, W.
Program of Study:
Boys' attitudes towards learning a language other than English.. (Masters) 2006.
Supervisors:
Harrington, J (Joint), Joseph, C (Joint-Co).
Student:
Pakoa, F.
Program of Study:
Utilisation of formal student support services by academically at risk international students at the University of Queensland. 2006.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main).
Student:
Pulbrook, A.
Program of Study:
Research to be conducted- Solomon Islands. 2006.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main).
Student:
Selzer, A.
Program of Study:
The dis/location of women in secondary school Australian history. (PHD) 2007.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main).
Student:
Tant, K.
Program of Study:
Learning outcomes of international business graduates and university policy; a case study of Vietnamese business graduates. (PHD) 2010.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main).
Student:
Theodorakopoulos-Tassios, K.
Program of Study:
Second Generation Greek-Australian Women's Participation in Higher Education: Gender, Ethnicity and Education. (Masters) 2010.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Joint-Co), Tsolidis, G (Joint).
Student:
Westhorpe, M.
Program of Study:
Chinese international schoolgirls in an Australian independent school: gender, ethnicity and international education. (PHD) 2009.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main), Devos, A (Associate).
Student:
Zulfikar, T.
Program of Study:
Young Indonesian-Muslims in Australia: identity, family and the ummah. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Joseph, C (Main), Sanjakdar, F (Associate).