Dr Genine Hook

Biography

Dr Genine Hook studied Sociology and Education (Secondary) as an undergraduate at Monash University and her studies culminated in a PhD from the Faculty of Education at Monash University in May 2015. Her research explored the experiences of sole parents at universities in Australia and her thesis was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Thesis Excellence in 2015. Genine's first book was published by Palgrave Macmillan (UK) in July 2016 titled; Sole parent students and Higher Education: Gender, Policy and Widening Participation.

Dr Hook has taught Sociology at La Trobe University, The University of New England and the University of the Sunshine Coast, her teaching experience includes – Social theory, Introduction to Indigenous Australia, Social Justice, Welfare and the State, Family and Children in Society; Youth and Delinquency; Mixed Methods in Research; Social Inequalities. Her research focuses on gender, higher education, family-based violence, familial norms, feminist pedagogy and social policy.

In January 2020 Dr Hook joined the Gender Equality team at Women’s Health Loddon Mallee, working with community organisations and local government to improve Gender Equality and prevent Violence Against Women and Girls.

Qualifications

• 2011–2015 Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Education - Monash University (Clayton). Doctorate conferred 18th May 2015. Assoc. Prof. Mary Lou Rasmussen - principal supervisor. Thesis title: Gender, agency and the engagement of sole parent postgraduates in the Australian academy.
• 2010 Honours Degree in Education (First Class). Faculty of Education - Monash University (Clayton). Thesis title: Towards a decolonising pedagogy – Teaching Australian Indigenous studies through critical whiteness theory and film pedagogy.
• 2005–2009 Bachelor Degree in Education (Secondary) – (Majors in SOSE and Media). Monash University (Clayton/Gippsland).
• 2005 – 2009 Bachelor Degree in Arts (Majors in Sociology and Australian Indigenous Studies). Monash University (Clayton/Gippsland).

Awards

• 2019 - HERDSA Routledge article of the year runner-up: James Burford & Genine Hook (2019) Curating care-full spaces: doctoral students negotiating study from home, Higher Education Research & Development, 38:7, 1343-1355. This award is for the best article published in Higher Education Research & Development (HERD) each year, as assessed by a panel selected by the HERDSA Executive, from a short list of papers selected by the HERD editorial team.
• Nov 2016 -  Teaching commendation from Professor John Dewar at La Trobe University
• Apr 2016 - Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Thesis Excellence 2015 Faculty of Education, Monash University
• Nov/Dec 2015 - ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship Mentoring Scheme, University of Melbourne; Professor Joy Damousi

Publications

Hook, G, (forthcoming) It’s NOT luck: mature-aged female students negotiating misogyny and the ‘imposter syndrome’ in higher education, In, Addison, M., Breeze, M., and Taylor, Y. (editors) The Palgrave Handbook of ‘Imposter Syndrome’ in Higher Education, Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Hook, G., & Burford, J., (2019), Curating care-full spaces: Doctoral students negotiating study from home, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.

Hook, G., (2019), Feminist Pedagogy: Fractures of recognition in higher education, In (Y. Taylor, M. Breeze (eds), Time and Space in the Neoliberal University, London, Palgrave Macmillan.

Wolfe, Melissa Joy & Genine A. Hook (2019) Waving not drowning–The joyous feminist possibilities of single (un) becoming women, Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 76.

Hook, G., (2018), Starting with Mother: Contesting the Gendered Binaries of Care Operating in Higher Education, In E. Henderson & Z. Nicolazzo (eds) Starting with Gender in International Higher Education Research, Routledge, New York.

Hook, G., (2017) Contesting family-based violence: Sole parenting possibilities, efficacy and alternatives, The Journal of Family Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2017.1327881.

Hook, G., & Wolfe, M., (2017), Affective violence: re/negotiating gendered-feminism within new materialism, The Journal of Gender Studies, DOI - 10.1080/09589236.2017.13401

Hook, G., (2016), Sole parent students and Higher Education: Gender, Policy and Widening Participation, Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Hook, G., (2016), Affective geographies of university spaces: sole parent postgraduate subjects negotiating “child-free” educational boundaries, Emotional, Space and Society: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2016.01.004

Hook, G., (2015) Performatively Queer: Sole parent postgraduates in the Australian academy, Higher Education Research and Development (HERDSA), Vol. 34., No. 4., pp. 788-800; DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2015.1051006.

Hook, G., (2015). “Plugging In” epistemology: theoretical and contextual research, The Qualitative Report, Vol. 20., No. 7., pp. 982-995; http://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol20/iss7/3

Hook, G., (2014), Recognition and accountability: sole parent postgraduates in university conditions, Gender and Education, Vol. 27(2). pp.114-130 10.1080/09540253.2014.992301

Hook, G., (2012), Towards a decolonising pedagogy: Understanding Australian indigenous studies through critical whiteness theory and film pedagogy, Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Dec 2012, Vol.41(2), p.110-119.

Other Publications

Hook,  G., (2018) Academic conferences: overrated, exclusionary and compulsory for sole parent postgraduates, Conference Inference: Blogging the World of Conferences - https://conferenceinference.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/guest-post-by-genine-hook-academic-conferences-overrated-exclusionary-and-compulsory-for-sole-parent-postgraduates/

Rising Stars Research Project - https://risingstarstories.com/2019/03/08/story-of-dr-genine-hook/

Hook, G (2017) Queer families and exclusionary marriage activism, Bent Street: A Journal of Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas - https://bentstreet.net/the-childs-best-interests-by-genine-hook/

Hook, G., (2017), Book Review – Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses: Walking on the Grass, Journal of Sociology, 53(1), pp264-268.

Hook, G., (2015) How does being second-last in the OECD for public funding affect our unis? – The Conversation; https://theconversation.com/how-does-being-second-last-in-the-oecd-for-public-funding-affect-our-unis-46727

Conference Papers

22-24 Dec 2018 - Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association Conference: Queer Legacies, New Solidarities, Melbourne, Australia (2018) - Crimmins, G, Casey, Sarah, McIntyre, Joanna, Hook, Genine, & Gates, Trevor Gale. Conference Paper: Slaying the dragon: Feminist resistance and agitation from within a regional Australian University.

9-12 Dec 2018 - Gender and Education Conference (Symposium convenor) Conference Paper: Care-full Academics: shifting temporalities and recognisabilities of care-work in the academy.

24-26 June 2015 - Gender and Education Conference (GEA) University of Roehampton, London. Conference Paper – Gendered parental care-work: sole parents in the academy.

10-12 Dec 2014 - Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE) Wales UK Conference Paper - Queer belonging: sole parents in higher education (Ref: 0069).

10-12 Dec 2014 - Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE) Wales UK Conference Paper - Queer belonging: sole parents in higher education (Ref: 0069)

30 Nov-4 Dec 2014Australian Association of Research in Education (AARE) Conference Paper - Social Welfare policy as educational policy: sole parents explaining a PhD to Centrelink staff?   (Ref: 0162)

23-25 June 2014 - Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association Gender, Responsibility and Social Policy Panel Conference Paper: How do sole parents experience  postgraduate education in Australian universities?

13-14 Feb 2014 - Authority and Knowledges: People, Policy, Politics An Interdisciplinary Conference: The University of Melbourne
Conference Paper: Entitled to speak and entitled to respond: sole parents negotiating conflicting institutions.

1-5 Dec 2013 - Australian Association of Research in Education (AARE) Panel Convenor PANEL TITLE:  Relationality, agency and choice within Australian educational institutions. (SIG: Sociology of Education) Conference Paper - How does vulnerability shape the account that sole parents in postgraduate education give of themselves?

5-7 Dec 2011 - 1st International Australasian Conference on Enabling Access to Higher Education; UniSA, Adelaide, Australia
Conference Paper: Sole parents and Higher Education: Participation and experience.