Griffith University

Dean Griffith Graduate Research School

Dip Teaching, B Education Studies, PhD

Contact details

Phone: (07) 373 57290

Location: Room 2.03D, Level 2, Macrossan building (N16), Nathan campus

Email: ggrs-dean@griffith.edu.au

Research expertise

Parlo's research is in the field of sociology of education, with a particular focus on issues of cultural identity and global cultural flows. Empirically she is interested in educational policy - the politics of policy formation, implementation and traction. She is also interested in educational practices - the politics of knowledge construction and dissemination in schools, training centres, online environments.

Grants

• 2009-2012: Australian Research Council Linkage: Glasswell, K; Singh, P., McNaughton, S. and Davis, KL. Smart Education Partnerships: Testing a Research Collaboration Model to Build Literacy Innovations in Low Socio Economic Schools.  LP0990585 Funds Awarded from ARC: $877, 631 + Industry Contribution.
• 2009-2012: Australian Research Council Linkage: Both Smart and Healthy: Learning Communities as a Settings-based Approaches to Health Promotion. LP0990569. Kendall, E. Muenchberger, H., Sunderland, NL, Singh, P., Henniker, GH. Funds Awarded from ARC: $321,251 + Industry Contribution.
  
• ARC Discovery - Mallan, K. and Singh, P. (2006-2008). Growing up in networked spaces: Tech-savvy youth constructing identities and forming social relations in online and offline worlds. Host Institution: QUT. $70,000 (2006), $60,000 (2007), $60,000 (2008).
• ARC Discovery - Matthews, J., Hattam, R., Christie, P., Singh, P., taylor, S. and Sidhu, R. (2005-2007). Schooling, Globalisation and Refugees in Queensland, Australia. Host Institution: University of Sunshine Coast. $50,000 (2005), $50,000 (2006), $50,000 (2007).
• Queensland Studies Authority - Atweh, B., Singh, P. and Taylor, S. (2005-2006). Broadening Post School Options Through Curriculum Engagement. Host Institution: QUT. $49,300, (2005-2006).
• ARC Discovery - McWilliam, E., Singh, P. & Sachs, J. (2002-2004). Managing Risk in Primary Schools: Teachers' Professional Identity and Work Practices. Host Institution: QUT. $25,000 (2002), $35,000 (2003), $35,000 (2004).
  

Current teaching

• Research and Honours students

Teaching awards

• (2009) Australian College of Educators, National Fellow Award
  
• (2006) Carrick Australian Awards for University Teaching Citation: Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (Research Higher Degree supervision/training)
• (2005) QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award – Postgraduate Supervision Category
• (2005) QUT Online  Learning and Teaching Innovators Award

Publications

Books and monographs

• Singh, P., Sadovnik, Allan, Semel, Susan (Eds.) (2010). Toolkits, Translation Devices, Conceptual Tyrannies. Essays on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Peter Lang.
  
• Singh, P. and McWilliam, E. (Eds.). (2001). "Designing Educational Research. Theories, Methods and Practices". Flaxton: PostPressed.

Book chapters

• Exley, B. and Singh, P. (2010/accepted, published 2011). Social Studies Disciplinary Knowledge: An Australian Case Study of Tensions between State Curriculum and National Assessment in Disadvantaged School Communities. In Frances Christie and Karl Maton (Eds). Disciplinarity: Functional Linguistic and Sociological Perspectives. London: Continuum.
  
• Singh, P. and Harris, J. (2010). Pedagogic Translations: Dominant Pedagogic Modes and Teacher Professional Identity. In Singh, P. Sadovnik, A. and Semel, S. (Eds.). Toolkits, Translation Devices, Conceptual Tyrannies. Essays on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Peter Lang.
  
• Singh, P., Sadovnik, A. and Semel, S. (2010). Introduction. In P. Singh, A. Sadovnik and S. Semel (Eds.), Toolkits, Translation Devices and Conceptual Accounts: Essays on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Peter Lang.
  
• Doherty, C. and Singh, P. (2008). Internationally mobile students in Australian universities: Questions of place, identity, and resources. In Mike Byram and Fred Dirven. Students, staff and academic mobility in higher education, (pp99-113). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  
• Singh, P. and Doherty, C. (2008). Mobile Students in Liquid Modernity:  Negotiating the Politics of  Transcultural Identities. (Chapter 7, pages 115-130), in Dolby, N. and Rizvi, F. (eds). Youth Moves. New York: Routledge.
• Doherty, C. and Singh, P. (2007). Mobile Students, Flexible Identities and Liquid Modernity: Disrupting Western Teachers Assumptions of The Asian Learner. (Part 1, Chapter 6, pp114-132). In D. Palfreyman and D. McBride (Eds.). Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education. London, New York, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Singh, P. (2006). Urban Education, Cultural Diversity and Poverty. A Case Study of Globalization: Brisbane, Australia. In Joe. Kincheloe and Kecia Hayes (Eds.) Metropedagogy: Power, Justice, and the Urban Classroom, (Chapter 8, pp133-146), Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
• Doherty, C. and Singh, P. (2005). How the West is done: simulating Western pedagogy in a curriculum for Asian international students. In P. Ninnes and M. Hellsten (Eds.), Internationalizing Higher Education: Critical Explorations of Pedagogy and Policy, (Chapter 3, pp53), Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
• Singh, P. (2004). Offshore Australian Higher Education: A Case Study of Pedagogic Work in Jakarta, Indonesia, in A. Hickling-Hudson, J. Matthews, and A. Woods (Eds.) Disrupting Preconceptions. Postcolonialism and Education (Chapter 13, pp211-233), ISBN 1 876682 56 6. Flaxton: PostPressed.
• Singh, P., McWilliam, E., and Taylor, P.G. (2001). Knowledge Economy, Risk Society and Higher Degree Research Training Curriculum. In P. Singh and E. McWilliam (Eds.) Designing Educational Research: Theories, Methods and Practices. Flaxton: PostPressed.
• Singh, P. (2001). Designing Educational Researchers: Principles Generating Research Training Curriculum. In P. Singh and E. McWilliam (Eds.) Designing Educational Research: Theories, Methods and Practices. Flaxton: PostPressed.
• Singh, P. (2001). Pedagogic Discourses and Student Resistance in Australian Secondary Schools. In A. Morais, I. Neves, B. Davies, and H. Daniels (Eds.), Towards a sociology of pedagogy. The contribution of Basil Bernstein to research (Chapter 10, pp251-276), New York: Peter Lang (ISBN: 0-8204-5585-7).
• Singh, P. and Dooley, K. (2001). The Regulating Discourses of Race and Ethnicity in Culturally Inclusive Literacy Education. In P. Freebody, S. Muspratt and Bronwyn Dwyer (Eds.), Difference, Silence and Textual Practice. Studies in Critical Literacy (pp91-118), Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press.

 Refereed journal articles

• Mallan, K., Ashford, B. and Singh, P. (accepted for publication, March, 2010). Navigating iScapes: Australian Youth constructing identities and social relations in a network society. Anthropology and Education Quarterly.
  
• Mallan, K., Singh, P. and Giardina, N. (2010). The challenges of participatory research with ‘tech-savvy’ youth. Journal of Youth Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2. 255-272.
• Matthews, J. and Singh, P. (2009). Visual Methodology in the Social Sciences. Refugee Background Young People. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 10, pp59-70
  
• Doherty, C. and Singh, P. (2008). Native-speaker TESOL Teachers’ Talk: Examining the Unexamined. English Teaching and Learning. Vol. 32, No. 2, Summer, pp39-76.
  
• Singh, P. and Taylor, S. (2007). A New Equity Deal for Schools: A Case Study of Policy Making in Queensland, Australia. British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 28(3), pp301-315.
  
• Taylor, S. and Singh, P. (2005). The Logic of Equity Practice in Education Queensland 2010. Special Edition of Journal of Educational Policy, Vol. 20, 6, November, pp725-740.
• Singh, P. and McWilliam, E. (2005). Pedagogic Imaginings: Negotiating Pedagogies of Care/Protection in a Risk Society. Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, Vol. 33 (2), July, pp5-24.
• McWilliam, E. and Singh, P. (2004). Safety in Numbers: Teacher Collegiality in the Risk-conscious School. Journal of Educational Enquiry, Vol. 5(1), pp22-33.
• Singh, P. and Doherty, C. (2004). Global Cultural Flows and Pedagogic Dilemmas: Teaching in the Global University Contact Zone", TESOL Quarterly, 38 (1), 9-42(34), (IS: 0039-8322).
• Singh, P. (2004). Globalization and Education. Educational Theory, 54(1), pp103-115.
• McWilliam, E. and Singh, P. (2002). Towards a Research Training Curriculum: What, why, how, Who? Australian Educational Researcher, 29(3), pp3-18.
• Singh, P. (2002). Pedagogising Knowledge: Bernstein's Theory of the Pedagogic Device. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 23, 4, 571-582.
• McWilliam, E., Singh, P. and Taylor, P. (2002). Doctoral Education, Danger and Risk Management. Higher Education Research & Development, 21(2),119-130.
• Singh, P. (2001). Speaking About Cultural Difference. An Interview Study of Samoan Paraprofessionals in Designated Disadvantaged Secondary Schools in Australia. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 22(3), 317-337.
• Singh, P. and Sinclair, M. (2001). Diversity, Disadvantage and Differential Outcomes: An Analysis of Samoan Students Narratives of Schooling. Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 29(1), 73-92.
• Singh, P., Dooley, K. and Freebody, P. (2001), "Literacy pedagogies that may make a difference", Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, (29(1), 49-71.
• Singh, P. and Dooley, K. (2001). Accounting for Educational Equality. The cultural politics of Samoan paraprofessionals' representations of pedagogy in state designated disadvantaged schools and communities. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 33(3), 335-362.

Refereed conference proceedings

• Singh, P. and Matthews, J. (2008-accepted, 15th August, 2008 ). Visual Methodology and Ethnographic Un/Knowing. Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Brisbane, QUT Campus, November 30th to December 4th.
• Singh, P., Mallan, K. and Giardina, N. (2008 – accepted, 25th August). Just Google It! Students constructing knowledge through internet travel.   Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Brisbane, QUT Campus, November 30th to December 4th.
  
• Singh, P., Atweh, B. and Shield, P. (2005). Designing Postgraduate Pedagogies Connecting Internal and External Learners. Fully refereed paper accepted for presentation at the AARE Conference, Parramatta, 27th November - 1 December.
• Shield, P., Atweh, B. and Singh, P. (2005). Utilising synchronous web mediated communications as a booster to sense of community in a hybrid on-campus/off-campus teaching and learning environment. Fully refereed paper for inclusion in the Australasian Association for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Conference, December 4-7; Balance, Fidelity, Mobility. Maintaining the Momentum Conference Proceedings, Brisbane, pp607-613.
• Singh, P. and Taylor, S. (2005). The Inclusive Mantra of Educational Reform. A Critical Analysis of Queensland State Education 2010. Refereed Conference Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Melbourne, December, 2004.
• McWilliam, E. and Singh, P. (2003/November). Safety in Numbers?: Teacher collegiality in the risk-conscious school. (MCW0329). Refereed conference paper, NZARE - AARE Conference 2003, Hyatt Regency Hotel and University of Auckland, New Zealand, 29 November - 3 December, 2003.
• Doherty, C. and Singh, P. (2002, December). Simulating Western Pedagogy: A Case Study of Educational Programs for International Students". Manuscript for ANZCIES Conference, University of New England, Armidale, December 2002.
• Singh, P. and Knight, J. (2002, December). Knowledge Economy and Higher Degree Research Training. Manuscript for fully refereed paper at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, December 2002. SIN0218.
• Singh, P. and Doherty, C. (2002, December). Navigating Cultural Sensibilities: Respect and Provocation as Pedagogical Partners. Manuscript for fully refereed paper at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Brisbane, Queensland. SIN02180.
• Singh, P., Nicolson, H. and Exley, B. (EXLO1288). (2001, December). Teacher Talk and Classroom Practice: An Analysis of the Constitution of Pedagogic Identities. Manuscript accepted as fully refereed paper at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Freemantle, WA, December 2001.

Keynote conference papers

• Invited Keynote Speaker: 4th International Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning (CRLL) conference, 22-24 June 2007, Sterling, Scotland. Conference Theme: The times they are a-changin: researching transitions in lifelong learning.
• Invited Keynote Speaker: 3rd International Forum on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Promoting ESD: Strategies and Best Practices. In CPPCC Auditorium, Beijing, China from 13 -16 November, 2007, organised by the Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences and Chinese National Commission for UNESCO.
• Invited Keynote Speaker: Fifth International Basil Bernstein Symposium on Sociology of Education, (9-12th July) at the University of Cardiff, Wales, UK on the evening of Wednesday 9th July, 2008.
  Invited Plenary Speaker: Pedagogic Communication in Global Contact Zones. Conference Theme: Language Learning and the New Technologies. October 10-12 2008, Peking University, Beijing, China.
• Invited Plenary Speaker: ‘Disciplinarity, Knowledge and Language’. Organised by the Department of Linguistics and the School of Social and Political Sciences and the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association, University of Sydney, from 8th to 10th  December 2008.
  

Consultancy and research/technical reports for industry/community

• Singh, P., Tom, C, and Wyatt-Smith, C. (2007, April). Academic Review of  the Draft Standards for the Essential Learnings. Consultancy for the Queensland Studies Authority.
• Atweh, B., Singh, P., Taylor, S. and Knight, J. (2006, September). Broadening Post School Options through Curriculum Engagement. Report to the Queensland Studies Authority. Brisbane, Australia (pages 1-33).