Tiffany Jones
Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Education
Qualifications
BCA Macquarie University, BEd (Hons 1) Griffith University,
PhD La Trobe University
Contact
| Email: | tiffany.jones@une.edu.au |
| Room: | FEHPS (E7) 208 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3847 (or +61 2 6773 3847 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2445 |
Tiffany Jones has worked as a teacher, education lecturer and researcher at various Australian institutions. She has also worked on a variety of research projects and published in areas including education policy, homophobia and GLBTIQ issues in education, sexuality education, constructions of student subjectivities, values education, health and social policy. She has liaised with government and non-government, international and local/ state, education and health bodies. She has most recently worked with such bodies as UNESCO and the WA EOC around homophobic bullying and education policies. Tiffany has received a range of awards including various postgraduate scholarships, the Griffith University Medal for her thesis research and the Association for Women Educators Award for Girls’ Education. She joined the Education Contexts team in 2012.
Areas of Teaching
EDCX246 - Society and Education
EDUC403 - Teaching for Cultural Diversity
EDCX509 - Race Relations in the Classroom
Research interests
Sociology of education
Education and social movements
Comparative Education
Publications
Conferences
Awards
2012 - ATLAS International Institute for Qualitative Methodology "Highly Commended" Dissertation Award.
2011 - Australasian Sexual Health Conference (ASHM) Scholarship.
2011 - La Trobe Postgrad Award for Conference Presentation.
2009 - La Trobe Postgrad Award for Online Textual Analysis.
2009 (10/11) - Awarded APA PHD Research Scholarship.
2008 - Association for Women Educators Award for Girls’ Education.
2006 - The Griffith University Medal Recipient.
Editorial Boards and Peer Review
Dr Jones sits on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal LGBT Health, from Mary Ann Liebert Inc., and is an active peer-reviewer for various education, health and sociology journals.
Grants and Projects
From 2013 Dr Jones will be working on several projects including 'From Blues to Rainbows', a youth mental health study funded by the beyondblue National Priority Driven Research Program. She has previously worked on a range of projects including 'Writing Themselves in 3' with Dr Hillier, funded by the Buckland Foundation.