Griffith University

Top ten publications

1. Billett, S. (2009). Conceptualizing learning experiences: Contributions and mediations of the social, personal and brute, Mind, Culture and Activity, 16 (1) 32-47.
   
2. Billett, S. (2008). Learning throughout working life: A relational interdependence between social and individual agency. British Journal of Education Studies, 55 (1) 39-58.
   
3. Billett, S. (2006). Constituting the workplace curriculum. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 38 (1) 31-48.
   
4. Billett, S. (2006). Relational interdependence between social and individual agency in working life. Mind, Culture and Activity, 13 (1) 53-69.
   
5. Billett, S. (2003). Sociogeneses, activity and ontogeny. Culture and Psychology, 9 (2), 133-169.
   
6. Billett, S. (2002). Workplace pedagogic practices: Co-participation and learning. British Journal of Educational Studies, 50 (4) 457-481.
   
7. Billett, S. (2001). Reconceptualising vocational expertise. Learning and Instruction 11 (6) 431-452.
   
8. Billett, S. (2001). Learning in the workplace. Sydney: Allen and Unwin
   
9. Billett, S. (1998). Ontogeny and participation in communities of practice: A socio-cognitive view of adult development. Studies in the Education of Adults, 30 (1) 21-34.
   
10. Billett, S. (1996). Situated learning: Bridging sociocultural and cognitive theorising. Learning and Instruction, 6 (3) 263-280.

Publications

To access all publications by Professor Stephen Billett visit: http://www.griffith.edu.au/researchonline/

Books

Billett, S. (2011) Vocational Education: Purposes, traditions and prospects, Springer; Dordrecht, The Netherlands IBN 978-94-007-1953-8.

• Billett, S., & Henderson, A (2011) (eds). Promoting Professional Learning: Springer; Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
• Billett, S. (ed) (2010). Learning through practice: Springer; Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
• Billett, S. (2009) (ed) Section 11 – The TVET Professional in International Handbook on Education for the World of Work (Editors R. McLean and D Wilson), UNEVOC-UNESCO and Springer International; Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
• Billett, S., Harties, C & Eteläpelto, A (eds)(2008) Emerging Perspectives of Learning through work. Sense Publishing, BV, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ISBN 978-90-8790-643-6
  
• Billett, S., Fenwick, T., & Somerville. (eds) (2006). Work, Subjectivity and Learning, Springer; Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
  
• Billett, S. (2006). Work, change and workers. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
  
• Billett, S. (2001), Learning in the workplace: Strategies for effective practice. Allen & Unwin, Sydney.

Book chapters

• Billett, S. (2012 in press) Authenticity in learning activities and settings, in Seel, N M (ed) Encyclopaedia of the Sciences of Learning. Chapter 33 Springer (accepted 19th May)
• Billett, S. (2012 in press) Workplace learning, in Seel, N M (ed) Encyclopaedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer (accepted 19th May)
• Billett, S. (2012 in press) Guided learning, in Seel, N M (ed) Encyclopaedia of the Sciences of Learning. Chapter 34 Springer (accepted June)
• Billett, S. (2011 in press) Vocational education and training, culture and self: Dominant interests, diverse traditions and globalised time, in P.Gonon (ed) Inclusion and Exclusion in a Globalized World. Peter Laing, Berne.
• Billett, S. (2011 in press) Workplace curriculum: practice and propositions, in F. Dorchy, D Gijbels Theories of Learning, Routledge, London (pp.17-36)
• Billett, S. (2011 in press) Innovation at work: A socio-personal account, in Pederson, S. H et al Palgrave
• Billett, S. (2011 in press) Learning at the site of work, in P Jarvis (ed), The Routledge International Handbook on Learning, Routledge, London
• Billett, S. (2011 in press) Errors and learning from errors at work in Bauer, J & Harteis, C (eds) Human Fallibility: The Ambiguity of Errors for Work and Learning, Springer, Dodrecht (accepted 2 May 2010)
• Newton, J., Billett, S., Jolly, B., & Ockerby, C. (2011) Preparing nurses and engaging preceptors, in Billett, S and Henderson, A (eds) Promoting professional learning. (pp. 43-58) Springer, Dordrecht ISBN 978-90-481-3736-1
• Billett, S. & Henderson, A. (2011) Promoting professional learning: Integrating experiences in university and practice settings, in Billett, S and Henderson, A (eds) Promoting professional learning. (pp. 1-20) Springer, Dordrecht ISBN 978-90-481-3736-1
• Billett, S. (2011) Integrating experiences in workplace and university settings: A conceptual perspective, in Billett, S and Henderson, A (eds) Promoting professional learning. (pp.21-40) Springer, Dordrecht ISBN 978-90-481-3736-1
• Billett, S. (2011) Learning vocational practice in relative social isolation: The epistemological and pedagogic practices of small business operators. In R Poell & M Van Woerkom (eds) Supporting Workplace Learning, Springer Academic Publication, Dordecht, The Netherlands (pp.147-164), ISBN 978-90-481-9108-6
• Billett, S. (2011) Subjectivity, self and personal agency in learning through and for work, in Malloch, M Cairns, L. Evans, K & O’Connor, B (eds) The International Handbook of Workplace Learning. Sage, London (pp. 60-72) ISBN 978-1-84787-589-1
  
• Billett, S. (2010) Emerging Perspectives of Work: Implications for university teaching and learning in Education for Future Practice (Ed Joy Higgs, ) Sense Publishers, Sense Publishing, BV, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (pp.97-112) ISBN 978-94-6091-318-1.
  
• Billett, S. (2010) Learning through practice, in S.Billett (ed) Learning through practice: Models, traditions, orientations and approaches (pp. 1-20), Springer, Dodrecht ISBN 978-90-481-3938-5.
  
• Billett, S. (2010) The Practices of Learning through Occupations, in S.Billett (ed) Learning through practice: Models, traditions, orientations and approaches (pp. 59-81), Springer, Dodrecht ISBN 978-90-481-3938-5.
  
• Billett, S. (2010) ‘Not just another survey’: Reflections on researchers’ working and learning through investigating work and lifelong learning (pp 222-333). In D. Livingstone (ed) Lifelong and Lifewide Learning. Routledge, London ISBN 978–0–415–56564–6.
  
• Billett S. (2010), Workplace Learning Frameworks. In: Penelope Peterson, Eva Baker, Barry McGaw, (Editors), International Encyclopaedia of Education. volume 1, pp. 58-63. Oxford: Elsevier. ISBN 9780080448930.
  
• Billett, S. (2010) Learning in and for working life: A relational interdependence between personal and social agency In M Van Woerkom & R Poell (eds) Understanding learning in the workplace: Concepts, measurement and application (pp. 11-25) Routledge, London ISBN 13:978-0-415 48262. 
• Billett, S. & Newton, J. (2010) Learning practice: Conceptualising professional lifelong learning for the healthcare sector, in N Frost, M Zukas, H Bradbury & S Kilminster (eds) Beyond reflective practice: New Approaches to Professional Lifelong Learning (pp. 52-65). Routledge, London
  
• Billett, S. (2009). Workplace participatory practices: The dualities constituting learning through work, In Filliettaz, L & Duran, M - Presses Universitaires de France.
• Billett, S. (2009). Workplace Competence, in Velde, C (ed). Competence in the Workplace: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice (pp. 33-54) Springer Academic Publication, Dordecht, The Netherlands ISBN: 978-1-4020-8753-0.
• Billett, S., & Newton, J. (2009). Learning practice: Conceptualising professional lifelong learning for the healthcare sector, in N Frost, M Zukas, H Bradbury & S Kilminster (eds) Beyond reflective practice: New Approaches to Professional Lifelong Learning. Routledge, London.
• Billett, S. (2009). Changing conceptions of work and work practice. In R. McClean & D N Wilson & C Chinien (eds.) International Handbook on Education for the World of Work, (pp. 175-187) Springer Academic Publication, Dordecht, The Netherlands ISBN: 978-1-4020-5280-4.
• Billett, S. (2009). Integrating contributions of workplace and college experiences in developing vocational knowledge. In R McClean, D N Wilson & C Chinien (eds) International Handbook on Education for the World of Work, (pp.1711-1723)- Springer Academic Publication, Dordecht, The Netherlands ISBN: 978-1-4020-5280-4.
• Billett, S. (2009). Transforming Teachers’ Practice Through Action Learning. In R McClean & D N Wilson & C Chinien (eds) International Handbook on Education for the World of Work, (pp.1333-1349) Springer Academic Publication, Dordecht, The Netherlands. ISBN: 978-1-4020-5280-4.
• Billett, S. (2009). The Technical, Vocational Education and Training Profession. In R McClean, D N Wilson & C Chinien (eds) International Handbook on Education for the World of Work, (pp. 1174-1184) Springer Academic Publication, Dordecht, The Netherlands ISBN: 978-1-4020-5280-4.
  
• Vähäsantanen, K & Billett, S. (2008). Negotiating professional identity: vocational teachers’ personal strategies in a reform context. In S Billett, C Harteis & A Eteläpelto, (eds) Emerging perspectives of learning through work. (pp 35-49) Sense Publishing, BV, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ISBN 978-90-8790-643-6.
• Billett, S. (2008). Emerging perspectives on workplace learning. In S. Billett, C. Harteis & A. Eteläpelto, (eds) Emerging perspectives of learning through work. (pp.1-16) Sense Publishing, BV, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ISBN 978-90-8790-643-6.
• Billett, S., Barker M., & Smith, R. (2008). Relational interdependence as means to examine work, learning and the remaking of cultural practices. In Wim J. Nijhof & Loek F.M. Nieuwenhuis (eds). The learning potential of the workplace, Sense Publishers (pp 99 -116): Dordecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 978-90-8790-370-1.
• Billett, S. (2008). Rich vocational learning: Effectively utilising workplace settings and integrating them with intentional educational experiences, in Athanasou, J (ed) Adult Education and Training (pp.175-186)., David Barlow Publishing, Sydney NSW.
• Billett, S. (2008). Constituting the Workplace Curriculum. In P.C. Murphy & R. McCormack (eds) Knowledge and Practice: Presentations and Identities. (pp. 61-73) Sage Publications Ltd-Open University, London, ISBN 978-1-8478-7369.
• Billett, S. (2008). Participation and learning in turbulent times: Negotiations between the community and the personal. In K Church, N Bascia & E Shragge (eds) Out of Bounds: Participatory Practices for Learning through Community (pp 21-36). Springer Academic Publication, Dordecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 978-1-4020-6653-5.
  
• Billett, S. (2007). Including the missing subject: Placing the personal within the community. In Hughes, J Jewson, N & Unwin, L (Eds) Communities of practice: Critical perspectives, (55-67), Routledge: London 10:0-415-3674-4.
  
• Billett, S. (2007). Negotiating self through changing work. In T. Fenwick & L. Farrell, Educating the Global Workforce: knowledge, knowledge work and knowledge workers, (pp. 189-199), Routledge: London. ISBN 10 0-415 41603 -5.
  
• Billett, S. (2007). Exercising self through working life: Learning, work and identity. In A Brown, S Kirpal & F. Raumer (Eds), Identities at work, (pp.183-210). Springer, Dordecht, The Netherlands, ISBN 140204988-9.
  
• Billett, S., Barker, M., & Smith, R. (2006). Relational interdependence as means to examine work, learning and the remaking of cultural practices. In Wim J. Nijhofandand Loek F.M. Nieuwenhuis (Eds), The learning potential of the workplace, Sense Publishers: Dordecht, The Netherlands.
• Billett, S. (2006). Learning at work: Organisational readiness and individual engagement. In G Castleton, R. Gerber, & H Pillay (Eds.) Improving Workplace Learning: Emerging International Perspectives, (pp. 3-20). Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge NY ISBN 1-59454 566 9.
  
• Billett, S., & van Woerkom, M. (2006). Older workers and learning through work. In T Tikkanen (Ed) Older workers and lifelong learning, (pp. 177-189). CEDEFOP, Thessalonica.
  
• Billett, S. (2005). Being competent: the relational interdependence between individual and social agency in working life. In Gruber, H., Harteis, C., Mulder, R., & Rehrl, M. (Eds.). Bridging individual, organisational, and cultural perspectives on professional learning, (pp.113-132). Regensburg: Germany Roderer. ISBN 3-89783-487-1.
  
• Billett, S., & Smith, A.(2005). Getting employers to spend more on training: and lessons from overseas. In K. Ball (Ed) Funding and Financing Vocational Education and Training: Research Readings, (pp. 98-118) NCVER, Adelaide.
  
• Billett, S. (2004). Learning in the workplace: Reappraisals and reconceptions. In G Hayward & S James (Eds) Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, (pp.149-170) Policy Press, Bristol.
  
• Billett, S. (2004). Learning through work: Workplace participatory practices. In H. Rainbow, A Fuller & A Munroe, Workplace learning in context, (pp.109-125), Routledge, London (ISBN 415-31630-8).
  
• Billett, S. (2003). Guiding vocational learning. In J. Stevenson (Ed.) Developing vocational expertise, (pp. 226-246) Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
  
• Billett, S. (2002). Workplaces, communities and pedagogies: An activity theory view. In M R Lea & K Nicholl (Eds.) Distributed Learning: Social and cultural approaches to practice. (pp.83-97) Routledge-Falmer, London.

Keynote presentations

• Billett, S (2011) Practice-oriented education: Need for scholarly teaching practice, Practice-oriented education, University of Technology, Sydney 22nd June
  
• Billett, S (2011) Learning for the professions: An interdependent process between academic and practice based settings, Transforming University education:  Developing a Culture of Collaboration, Integration and sustainability, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW 15-17 November
• Billett, S (2011) Seeking effective clinical education experiences for physiotherapy students: Affordances and engagements, APA Physiotherapy Conference 2011, 28 October.
  
• Billett, S (2011) Learning and social settings:  AConceptions, factors and prospects,The Recognition of non-formal and informal learning in higher education, international seminar in Turku, Finland 19-20 May.
  
• Billett, S (2011) Making space to lift performance: Decision-making about and engagement in vocational education, Research conference, Industry Training Federation of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand (April  27-28)
• Billett, S (2011) Work Integrated Learning for contemporary Australian higher education: Curriculum and pedagogic practices, The curriculum refresh conference, James Cook University, (11-12th April 2011)
  
• Billett, S (2011) Practice-based learning and professional education: pursuing quality and sustainability in the Australian context, The 2011 practice-based education summit. The Institute for Educational Practice, Charles Sturt University, Sydney, (7 April 2011)
  
• Billett, S. (2010) Engendering effective learning for work and working life: Integrating experiences across educational and work settings, Industry Training Federation of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand (July 28-29)
  
• Billett, S. (2009). Challenging the theory-practice divide. Experience Based Learning Conference. December 7-9, Sydney 2009.
  
• Billett, S. (2009). Learning throughout Working Life in a Globalised World. Inclusion and Exclusion in a Globalised World – VET and Culture Conference, University of Zurich Switzerland, 27 August.
• Billett, S. (2009). Workplace as a learning environment – Challenge for Theory and Methodology. Keynote: Researching Work and Learning 6 (RWL6), Roskilde University, Denmark, 1st July.
• Billett, S. (2009). Developing agentic professionals: realising the educational worth of integrating work experiences and practices in higher education. (Keynote presentation) Learning for a Complex World: Learning to be Professional through a Life-wide Curriculum, University of Surrey 31 March 2009.
• Billett, S. (2009). Exploring dualities across learning, work and welfare (keynote presentation) Work, Learning and Welfare: Changing identities and practices, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 1-2 April.
• Billett, S. (2008). Learning through and for work: Conceptions, evidence and potential for workforce development in Singapore. Understanding Adult Learning: Insights for practice Institute of Adult Learning, Singapore, December 4.
• Billett, S. (2008). Integrating work experiences in higher education programs: Its educational worth Work Integrated Learning symposium, Griffith University, 16 April.
• Billett, S. (2008). Realising the educational worth of integrating work experiences in higher education, keynote to Work Integrated Learning (WIL): Transforming Futures: Practice, Pedagogy and partnerships,- World Association of Co-operative Education conference, Manly, Sydney 2 October.
• Billett, S. (2008). Integrating work experiences in higher education programs: Its educational worth Work Integrated Learning symposium, Griffith University, 16 April.
• Billett, S. (2008). Realising the educational worth of integrating work experiences in higher education (keynote presentation), Learning matters conference, Victoria University 11th December.
• Billett, S. (2006). Work, lifelong learning and Cooperative Education: supporting and guiding ontogenetic development, (Keynote address) New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education, Queenstown, April 27-28.
• Billett, S. (2006). Work, Subjectivity and Learning (Key note address) Professional growth and guidance of life-wide and life-long learning. University of Jyvalaska, Finland 23-24 May.
• Billett, S. (2004). Being competent: the relational interdependence between individual and social agency in working life. Keynote presentation. Bridging individual, organisational and cultural aspects of professional learning, European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction – Professional Development SIG conference, Regensburg, Germany 11-15 October.
• Billett, S. (2003). Individualising the social - socialising the individual: Interdependence between social and individual agency in vocational learning. Keynote presentation. 11th Annual International conference on post-compulsory education and training: Enriching learning cultures, (vol 1 – pp.55-71), 1-3 Dec, Gold Coast.
• Billett, S. (2001). Participation and continuity at work: A critique of current workplace learning discourses. Context, Power and perspective. Joint Network/SKOPE/TLRP International workshop 8-10th Nov 2001, University College of Northampton.
  

Refereed journals

• Newton, J., Cross, W., White, K., Ockerby, C & Billett, S (2011) Outcomes of a clinical partnership model for undergraduate nursing students, Contemporary Nurse 39 (1) 129-13
  
• Billett, S., Dymock, D, Johnson, G & Martin, G. (2011) Last resort employees: Older workers’ perceptions of workplace discrimination, Human Resource Development International, 14 (4)375-389
  
• Billett, S. (2011) Promoting lifelong employability for workforce aged over 45: Singaporean workers’ perspectives. International Journal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, 3 (2) 57-73.
  
• Billett, S., Dymock, D, Johnson, G & Martin, G (2011) Overcoming the paradox of employers’ views about older workers. International Journal of Human Resource Development, 22 (6) 1248-1261
• Billett, S., Thomas, S., Sim, C., Johnson, G., Hay, S., & Ryan, J. (2010) Constructing productive post-school transitions: An analysis of Australian schooling policies, Journal of Education and Work, 23 (5) 471-489
• Dymock, D., & Billett, S., (2010) Skilling Australians: Lessons from World War II national workforce development programs, Australian Journal of Adult Learning (accepted June 2010)
• Myers, R., Billett, S., & Kelly, A (2010) Mature-aged workers’ learning needs and motivations for participation in training programs. International Journal of Training Research.
• Billett, S., Newton, J & Ockerby, C (2010) Socio-personal premises for selecting and securing an occupation as vocation. Studies in the Education of Adults, 42 (1) 47-62
• Billett, S. (2010) Lifelong learning and self: Work, subjectivity and learning. Studies in Continuing Education, 32 (1) 1-16
• Billett, S. (2010) The perils of confusing lifelong learning with lifelong education. International Journal of Lifelong Education 29 (4) 401-413
  
• Newton, J., Billett, S., Jolly, B & Ockerby, C. (2009). Lost in translation: Barriers to learning in health professional clinical education’ to Learning in Health and Social Care, 8, 4, 315–327.
• Billett, S. (2009). Personal epistemologies, work and learning. Educational Research Review, 4 210-219.
• Onsando, G & Billett, S. (2009). African students from refugee backgrounds in Australian TAFE institutions: a case for transformative learning goals and processes. International Journal of Training and Research. 7 (2) 80-94.
• Billett, S. (2009). Realising the educational worth of integrating work experiences in higher education, Studies in Higher Education, 34 (7) 827-843.
• Billett, S. (2009). Conceptualizing learning experiences: Contributions and mediations of the social, personal and brute, Mind, Culture and Activity, 16 (1) 32-47.
• Newton, J. Kelly, C., Kremser, K., Jolly, B. & Billett, S. (2009). The motivations to nurse: an exploration of factors amongst undergraduate students, registered nurses and nurse managers, Journal of Nursing Management, 17 (3) 392-400.
• Newton, J. Billett, S., & Ockerby, C. (2009). Journeying through clinical placements - an examination of six student cases. Nursing Education Today, 29 (6) 630-634.
• McAllister, M., Billett, S., Moyle, W., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. (2009). Use of a think-aloud procedure to explore the relationship between clinical reasoning and solution-focused training in self-harm for emergency nurses. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 16 (2) 121-128.
• McAllister, M., Moyle, W., Billett, S., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. (2009). “I can actually talk to them now”: Qualitative results of an educational intervention for emergency nurses caring for clients who self-harm. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 18 (20) 2838-2845.
  
• Billett, S. (2008). Learning through work: Exploring instances of relational interdependencies International Journal of Education Research, 47 (4)232-240.
• Harties, C & Billett, S. (2008). The workplace as learning environment: Introduction. International Journal of Education Research, 47 (4)209-212.
• Billett, S. (2008). "Les pratiques participatives sur le lieu de travail: Apprentissage et remaniement des pratiques culturelles" Pratiques de Formation: Analyse, n° 54, Mai 2008 149-164.
• Billett, S. (2008). Learning throughout working life: A relational interdependence between social and individual agency. British Journal of Education Studies, 55 (1) 39-58.
• Billett, S & van Woerkom, M. (2008). Personal epistemologies and older workers. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 27 (3) 333-348.
• Billett, S. (2008). Subjectivity, learning and work: Sources and legacies, Vocations and Learning: Studies in vocational and professional education, 1(2) 149-171.
• McAllister, M., Zimer-Gembeek, M, Moyle, W & Billett, S. (2008). "Working effectively with clients who self-injure using a solution focused approach. International Emergency Nursing, 16(4) 272-279.
  
• Billett, S., Ovens, C., Clemans, A., & Seddon, T. (2007). Collaborative working and contested practices: Forming, developing and sustaining social partnerships in education. Journal of Education Policy, 22 (6) 637-656.
  
• Billett, S. (2007). Cooperative Education: Supporting and guiding ongoing development. Journal of Co-operative Education and Internship, 41 (2) 37-44.
  
• Billett, S., & Ovens, C. (2007). Learning about work, working life and post school options: Guiding students' reflecting on paid part-time work. Journal of Education and Work, 20 (2) 75-90.
  
• Billett, S. (2007). "Les pratiques participatives sur le lieu de travail: Apprentissage et remaniement des pratiques culturelles". In Pratiques de Formation: Analyse, No 54, December 2007.
  
• Billett, S. (2006). Relational interdependence between social and individual agency in work and working life. Mind, Culture and Activity, 13 (1) 53-69.
  
• Fennessy, K., Billett, S., & Ovens, C. (2006). Learning in and through social partnerships. Australian Journal of Adult Education, 46 (1) 9-27.
• Ehrich, L., & Billett, S. (2006). How Australian Small Business Operators Learned about the Goods and Services Tax. Small Enterprise Research, 14 (2).
  
• Smith, R., & Billett, S. (2006). Interdependencies at work: Constituting reflection, performance, dialogue and reward. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 12 (2) 156-169.
  
• Smith, A., & Billett, S. (2006). Mechanisms for enhancing employer investment in training: a comparative perspective. Journal of Research in Post-compulsory Education, 11(1) 1-118.
  
• Billett, S. (2006). Constituting the workplace curriculum. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 38 (1) 31-48.
  
• Smith, A., & Billett, S. (2005). Myth and reality: employer sponsored training in Australia. International Journal of Training Research, 3 (2)16-29.
  
• Billett, S. (2005). Learning about the world of work: Co-opting school students' paid work experiences. Australian Educational Researcher, 32 (1) 49-66.
  
• Billett, S., Smith, R., & Barker, M. (2005). Understanding work, learning and the remaking of cultural practices. Studies in Continuing Education, 27 (3) 219-237.
  
• Seddon, T., Clemans, A., & Billett, S. (2005). Social partnerships: Practices, paradoxes and prospects of LLEN. Australian Education Researcher, 32 (1) 25-48.
  
• Seddon, T. Billett, S. & Clemans, A. (2005). Navigating social partnerships in VET: Central agencies - local networks. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26 (5) 567-584.
  
• Billett, S., & Smith, A. (2005). Enhancing enterprise expenditure on VET: Policy goals and mechanisms. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 57 (1) 5-23.
  
• Billett, S., & Pavolva, M. (2005). Learning through working life: self and individuals' agentic action. International Journal of Lifelong Education, (24) 3 195-211.
  
• Sheehan, D., Wilkinson, T., & Billett, S. (2005). "Junior doctors participation and learning in clinical environments." Academic Medicine 80, 302-308.
  
• Billett, S. (2004). Co-participation at work: Learning through work and throughout working lives. Studies in the Education of Adults, 36 (2) 190-205.
  
• Ehrich, L., & Billett, S. (2004). Learning new practices in small business: Engagement and localised support. Education and Training, 46 (8-9) 501-509.
  
• Billett, S., & Somerville, M. (2004), Transformation at work: Identity and learning. Studies in Continuing Education, 26 (2) 309-326.
  
• Billett, S. (2004). Workplace participatory practices: Conceptualising workplaces as learning environments. Journal of Workplace Learning, 16 (6) 312-324.
  
• Seddon, T., Billett, S., & Clemans, A. (2004). Politics of social partnerships: A framework for theorising. Journal of Education Policy, 19 (2) 123-142.
  
• Billett, S., & Seddon, T. (2004). Building community through social partnerships around vocational education and training. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 56 (1) 51- 67.
  
• Bloomer, M., Hodkinson, P., & Billett, S. (2004). The Significance of Ontogeny and Habitus in Constructing Theories of Learning Studies. Continuing Education, 26 (1) 19-43.
  
• Billett, S. (2004). From your business to our business: Industry and vocational education in Australia. Oxford Review of Education, 30 (1) 12-33.
  
• Billett, S., Barker M., & Hernon-Tinning, B. (2004). Participatory practices at work. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 12 (2) 233-257.
  
• Billett, S., & Smith, A. (2003). Compliance, engagement and commitment: Increasing employer expenditure in training. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 55 (3) 251-269.
  
• Billett, S. (2003). Vocational curriculum and pedagogy: An activity theory perspective. European Journal of Educational Research, 2 (1) 6-21. http://www98.griffith.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/10072/5875/2/eerj2.pdf
  
• Billett, S. (2003). Sociogeneses, activity and ontogeny. Culture and Psychology, 9 (2) 133-169.
  
• Billett, S. (2003). Workplace mentors: Demands and benefits. Journal of Workplace Learning, 15 (3) 105-113.
  
• Billett, S. Ehrich, L, & Hernon-Tinning, B (2003). Small business pedagogic practices. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 55 (2) 149-167.
  
• Billett, S. (2002). Workplace pedagogic practices: Co-participation and learning. British Journal of Educational Studies, 50 (4) 457-481.
  
• Billett, S. (2002). Towards a workplace pedagogy: Guidance, participation and engagement. Adult Education Quarterly, 53 (1) 27-43.
  
• Billett, S. (2002). Workplace pedagogic practices: A workplace study. Lifelong Learning in Europe, VII (2) 94-103.
  
• Billett, S. (2002). Critiquing workplace learning discourses: Participation and continuity at work studies. Education of Adults, 34 (1) 56-67.
  
• Billett, S. (2002). Workplace pedagogic practices: Participation and learning. Australian Vocational Education Review, 9 (1) 28-38.

Refereed proceedings

• Billett, S. (2006). Work, Subjectivity and Learning. (key note presentations) Professional growth and guidance of life-wide and life-long learning, University of Jyvalaska, Finland 23rd-24th May.
  
• Billett, S. (2006). 'Positioning learning within WALL'. Work and Lifelong Learning Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 3-5 2006.
  
• Billett, S. (2006). Work, lifelong learning and Cooperative Education: supporting and guiding ontogenetic development. (keynote address) New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education, Queenstown, April 27-28, 2006.
  
• Billett, S., Barker, M. & Smith, R. (2005). Interdependencies at work: Constituting reflection, performance, dialogicity, and reward. Researching Work and Learning 4, Sydney (11-14th December).
  
• Billett, S., & Ovens, C. (2005). Co-opting school students' experience of paid part-time work. 13th Annual International conference on post-compulsory education and training. Volume One (pp.80-88), Gold Coast, Queensland (4-7th December).
  
• Billett, S., Barker, M., & Smith, R. (2005). Examining work, learning and the remaking of cultural practices through the duality of affordances and engagement. 13th Annual International conference on post-compulsory education and training. Volume One (pp 89-96), Gold Coast, Queensland (4-7th December).
  
• Searle, J., Billett, S., & Behrens, K. (2005). Affordances and engagement: The shaping of adults' initial experiences of higher education. 13th Annual International conference on post-compulsory education and training. Gold Coast, Queensland Volume Two (pp 163-170), (4-7th December).
  
• Clemans, A., Billett, S., & Seddon, T. (2005). Initiating, developing and sustaining social partnerships through partnership work. 13th Annual International conference on post-compulsory education and training. Gold Coast, Queensland Volume One (pp 148-155) (4-7 December).
  
• Billett, S., Clemans, A., C Seddon, T., & Kelly, M. (2005). Initiating, developing and sustaining social partnerships. 14th National VET Research Conference, Wodonga, Victoria (5th-8th July).
  
• Clemans, A., Billett, S., & Seddon, T. (2005). Initiating, developing and sustaining social partnerships through partnership work. AVETRA Conference, Sofitel Hotel, Brisbane (14-15 April 2005).
  
• Billett, S., Barker & Smith, R. (2005). Relational interdependence as means to examine work, learning and the remaking of cultural practices. Nijhof, W., Jandand Nieuwenhuis, L.F.M. (Eds), The learning potential of the workplace, (pp.59-76). 2nd Invited International Conference Twente University, The Netherlands (3-5 March 2005).
  
• Billett, S. (2004). Individual and social agency in working life. University of Jyvskyl.
  
• Billett, S. (2004). Transformations and continuities: Agency and intentionality at work. Workplace Learning - from the Learners Perspective', Learning Lab Denmark, Copenhagen 25-27 November.
  
• Billett, S. (2004). Learning through work: Relational interdependence between individual and social agency. Workplace Learning from the Learners Perspective', Learning Lab Denmark, Copenhagen 25-27 November.
  
• Billett, S. (2004). Individuals, agency and intentionality: Older workers and learning through work. VET and development of mature competence in enterprises (VADMACE), November, 22-23 Stavenger, Norway.
  
• Billett, S. (2004). Being competent: the relational interdependence between individual and social agency in working life. Keynote presentation. European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction, Professional Development SIG conference, Regensburg, Germany 11-15 October.
  
• Billett, S. (2003). Individualising the social - socialising the individual: and Interdependence between social and individual agency in vocational learning. Keynote presentation. 11th Annual International conference on post-compulsory education and training: Enriching learning cultures, (Vol 1 pp.55-71), 1-3 December, Gold Coast.
  
• Smith, A., & Billett, S. (2003). Enhancing employer expenditure in training. 11th Annual International conference on post-compulsory education and training: Enriching learning cultures, (vol 3 pp. 99-107), 1-3 Dec, Gold Coast
• Billett, S., & Pavlova, M. (2003). Learning through working life: individuals' agentic action, subjectivity and participation in work. 11th Annual International conference on post-compulsory education and training: Enriching learning cultures, (vol 1 pp. 72-80),and 1-3 December, Gold Coast.
  
• Ehrich, L., Billett, S., & Hernon-Tinning, B. (2003). Understanding learning in Small Business: Engagement and Support. 17th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management conference, Freemantle, December 2-5
  
• Billett, S. (2003). Localised learning, new learning spaces and small business learning. European Education Research Association conference, Hamburg, Germany September 17-20.
  
• Billett, S. (2003). Workplace pedagogic practices: Participatory practices and individual engagement. European Education Research Association conference, Hamburg, Germany September 17-20.
  
• Smith, A., & Billett, S. (2003). Making employers pay: how do they do it overseas? The sixth Australian VET Research Association Conference "The Changing Face of VET, 9-11 April 2003 Australian Technology Park, Sydney, Australia.
  
• Billett, S. (2003). Affordances, engagement, intentionality and continuity: Conceptualsiing workplaces as learning environments. Building an Inclusive Model for integrating Learning and Work. 2nd International Conference on Practice-Orientated Education, Boston, 10-12 April.
  
• Billett, S. (2002). Vocational curriculum and pedagogy: An activity theory perspective. European Conference on Educational Research, Lisbon, Portugal 11-14 September.
  
• Billett, S. (2002). Workplace learning as co-participation. International perspectives on learning in the workplace symposium. American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1-5 2002.
  
• Billett, S., Ehrich, L., & Hernon-Tinning. (2002). Small business pedagogic practices 10th Annual International conference on post-compulsory education and training. Envisioning practice implementing change. Vol 1 pp131-138. Surfers Paradise Park Royal, Gold Coast, Australia, 2-4 December.
  
• Billett, S., Barker, M., & Hernon-Tinning, B. (2002). Co-participatory practices at work. 10th Annual International conference on post-compulsory education and training. Envisioning practice implementing change. Vol 1 pp 139-148. Surfers Paradise Park Royal, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 2-4 December 2002.
  
• Seddon, T., Billett, S., & Vongalis, A. (2002). Building community through social partnerships around vocational education and training. 10th Annual International conference on post-compulsory education and training. Envisioning practice implementing change. Vol 3, pp. 73-81. Surfers Paradise Park Royal, Gold Coast, Australia, 2-4 December 2002.

Government reports

• Billett, S. (2007). Making the most of Workplace Learning: A report on the 2006 VET symposium on Workplace Learning. Department of Education, Training and Arts, Brisbane.
  
• Billett, S. (2003). Concepts and developments in knowledge and skills. Victorian Department of Education. Melbourne.
  
• Seddon, T., Fischer, J., Clemans, A., & Billett, S. (2002). An evaluation of the Local Learning Employment Networks. Victorian Learning and Employment Skills Commission DET.