DipTeaching (TAFE), BA, MEd, PhD
Professor of AVE, School of Education and Professional Studies
ARC Future Fellows 2011-2015
Editor-in-Chief: Vocations and Learning: Studies in vocational and professional education
Editor: Professional and practice based learning book series
National Teaching Fellow of the Australian Teaching and Learning Committee (2009-2010)
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Biography
Professor Stephen Billett has worked as a vocational educator, educational administrator, teacher educator, professional development practitioner and policy developer within the Australian vocational education system and as a teacher and researcher at Griffith University. In particular, since 1992, he has researched learning through and for work, and has published widely in the fields of vocational learning, workplace learning and conceptual accounts of learning for vocational purposes. These include publications in journals such as Culture and Psychology, Learning and Instruction and Mind, Culture and Activity, British Journal of Educational Studies, Studies in Continuing Education. He has also published his research in sole authored books (Learning through work: Strategies for effective practice (Allen and Unwin 2001); Work, change and workers (Springer 2006) and edited books (Work, Subjectivity and Learning (Springer, 2006) Emerging Perspectives of Work and Learning (Sense 2008), Practice-based learning (Springer 2010), and Promoting professional learning (Springer 2011). He is currently preparing a sole-authored manuscript entitled Vocational Education for Springer. His work is widely cited and he has secured over A$ 4 million in competitively funded grants from Australian Research Council, National Vocational Educational and Training Research funds, Fulbright Foundation, and projects from state and private sector. Professor Billett is currently on the editorial boards of 7 refereed journals, including the American Education Research Journal, the second most cited journal in the field of education, and he reviews articles for many other journals. He is also the Founding and Editor in Chief of Vocations and Learning: Studies in professional and vocational education (Springer). This journal has an editorial board of 30 members from 13 countries, and has recently been accepted with the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). He is also the lead editor on the book series Professional and practice-based learning for SpringerIn recent times, Professor Billett has held 4 Australian Research Council grants (Discovery, Linkage (2), International Linkage), with 2 as Chief Investigator. These grants focus on: (i) learning practices in healthcare workplaces, (ii) the personal and agentic learning of those working alone (Sports coaches), (iii) enhancing participation and learning through schools for at risk learners, and (iv) sustaining older workers' competence. In addition, he had an Australian Teaching and Learning (formerly) Carrick Associate Fellowship during 2008 that focuses on the generating agentic learners in higher education through their integration of experiences in university and practice settings in the fields of nursing, physiotherapy, social work and midwifery, which was followed across 2009-2010 with an Australian National Teaching Fellowship on work-integrated learning in which he engaged with 20 projects from across 6 Australian Universities. From 2011 to 2015 he will be an Australian Research Council Future Fellow completing a project on learning through practice.
Whilst based in a Faculty of Education, Professor Billett works across a range of university faculties. These include Health, Human Services (Griffith), Human Movement (Queensland), Physiotherapy, Nursing (Monash) and Midwifery (Flinders), in current research activities, and has ongoing collaborations with universities overseas. He is an OZ Reader for Australian Research Council and granting schemes for the United Kingdom (ESRC), Canada (SSHRC), European Union (ESO), and The Netherlands. He has been invited to make keynote presentations in Australia (2003, 2006, 2008), Germany (EARLI) (2004), United Kingdom (2003), Singapore (2008) New Zealand (2006, 2010) and Finland (2006), Denmark (2009), and Switzerland (2009).
Publications
- Full list of publications including the Top Ten
- Access publications by Stephen Billett through Griffith Research online, visit: http://www.griffith.edu.au/researchonline/