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BTeach(Hons), GradDip (Womens Studies) (UNE), PhD (QUT).

Lecturer, GIHE

Research expertise

• First year student experience
• Student experience
• Womens studies, identity formation
• Feminist research methods

Teaching responsibilities

• First year advising
• Student engagement
• Teaching large classes

Selected publications

• Jolly, L., & Burnett, L. (in preparation). Scaffolding and technology: Making theory real in first year social science.
• Burnett, L. (2007). Juggling first year student experience and institutional changes: An Australian experience. Refereed conference paper. 20th International Conference on First Year Experience, Hawaii, 9th -12th July 2007 (www.sc.edu/fye)
• Burnett, L. (2007). Purple poppies in/and fields of green: Young lesbians speak out. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland University of Technology.
• Burnett, L. (2006). The first year experience project report. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
• Burnett, L. (2006). FIRST: Finding the ???I???. Revealing Students Tensions and experiences during their first year at the University of Queensland. Refereed conference paper. 9th Pacific Rim Conference, First Year in Higher Education, Gold Coast, 12th ??? 14th July 2006. (www.fyhe.qut.edu.au)
• Burnett, L. (2003). ???We don???t have any of them at our school!??? Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender student, teacher and parent invisibility and issues. Australian Journal of Middle Schooling, 3(1), 39 ??? 45.
• Burnett, L., Eastwood, C., & Aspland, T. (2002). Q-Utopia. One in ten: Investigating the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Bachelor of Education students. Faculty of Education, Equity Research Grant Report. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland University of Technology.
• Burnett, L., & Aspland, T. (2000) Researchers??? experiences with LGBT content within a pre-service teacher training context. Redress, 9(2), 20 ??? 21.
• Burnett, L. (1998). Different youth, different voice. Children Australia Journal, 23(1), 33 - 37.
• Aspland, T., Macpherson, I., Brooker, R., Elliott, B., Waldon, L., & Burnett, L. (1997). Researching curriculum leadership in new times: Insights into theorising and researching teachers??? curriculum leadership in changing contexts. Paper presented as part of the Symposium on Curriculum Leadership. Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Brisbane November/December 1997.
• Atweh, B. & Burnett, L. (1997). The construction of personal theory on gender and mathematics. Nine case studies of women primary teacher trainees. In F. Bidulph & K. Karr (Eds.), People in Mathematics Education. New Zealand: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia.
• Burnett, L. (1997). Different youth, different voices, in Children???s Rights: The Next Step, Conference Papers. Volume 2. First Asia - Pacific Conference on Children???s Rights, Brisbane 2 - 5 April 1997.