Professor Stephen Billett
PHD, M Education, B Arts, Dip Teaching (TAFE)
Professor of Adult and Vocational Education, School of Education and Professional Studies
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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). He is currently preparing a sole-authored manuscript entitled Vocational Education for Springer.
His work is widely cited and he has secured over A$ 2.5 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.
Currently, (2008) Professor Billett holds 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 has 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.
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.
He is an OZ Reader for Australian Research Council and granting schemes for the UK (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) and Finland (2006).
Publications
To access publications by Stephen Billet please go to http://www.griffith.edu.au/researchonline/