Adjunct Professor
Catherine Doherty

This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
Catherine Doherty came to teacher education with teaching experience in adult literacy, migrant English, tertiary preparation and community education settings, and policy and curriculum experience in the TAFE sector. Her doctorate examined how cultural identities were produced and performed in online internationalised higher education. She has since conducted research into: the moral order of extended compulsory schooling; the International Baccalaureate as a curriculum of choice in Australian schools; the educational strategies of mobile families; public debates around curricular citizenships; oracy demands in university pedagogy and assessment; and curriculum and pedagogy for international students in Australian universities. Her current project with Associate Professor Karen Dooley investigates the shadow market in private tutoring for literacy achievement in primary school.
Personal details
Keywords
Classroom Discourse, Cultural Identity, Curriculum, Globalisation, Pedagogy, Sociolinguistics, family, markets, mobility, social class
Discipline
Curriculum and Pedagogy, Sociology, Linguistics
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- GDipEd (Darwin Institute of Technology)
- Graduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics (ESL Strand) (Northern Territory University)
Professional memberships and associations
- Member - Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) (Sociology of Education SIG)
- Member - Australian Curriculum Studies Association (ACSA)
- Member - The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
Keywords: curriculum, pedagogy, globalisation, marketisation, classroom discourse, mobility, social class.
Teaching
Selected publications
- Doherty C, Patton W, Shield P, (2015) Family mobility: Reconciling career opportunities and educational strategy, Routledge.
- Doherty C, McLaughlin J, (2015) Internationalizing school curriculum in Australasia: as niche, by test, or at heart?. In J Levy, M Hayden & J Thompson, The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education, Second edition, SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 555-568.
- Doherty C, (2015) Agentive motility meets structural viscosity: Australian families relocating in educational markets, Mobilities, 10 (2), pp. 249-266.
- Doherty C, (2015) Making trouble: ethnographic designs on ruling relations for students and teachers in non-academic pathways, Australian Educational Researcher, 42 (3), pp. 353-370.
- Doherty C, (2015) The constraints of relevance on prevocational curriculum, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 47 (5), pp. 705-722.
- Doherty C, Shield P, Patton W, Mu M, (2015) The limits to public service: rural communities, professional families and work mobility, Community, Work and Family, 18 (1), pp. 100-116.
- Doherty C, (2015) Understanding classroom trouble through regulative gravity and instructional elasticity, Linguistics and Education, 30, pp. 56-65.
- Doherty C, (2015) Working the iceberg: a staffroom morality play . [Play].
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Discovery Early Career Research Award: DE120100569 (2012-2014)"Classroom Relations and Moral Order in Compulsory Non-Academic Pathways in High School and TAFE Settings"
Research projects
- Title
- Private Literacy Tutoring: A Sociology of Shadow Education
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP160100848
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
- Title
- Classroom Relations and Moral Order in Compulsory Non-Academic Pathways in High School and TAFE Settings
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE120100569
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- School Retention; Regulative Discourse; Moral Order
- Title
- Career Mobility in Educational Markets: A Sociological Study of How Families Reconcile Priorities
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP110100530
- Start year
- 2011
- Keywords
- Educational Markets; Career; Family; Mobility; Social Class
- Title
- The International Baccalaureate in Australian Schools: A Sociological Case Study
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0878685
- Start year
- 2008
- Keywords
- Curriculum; Citizenship; Globalisation; Policy
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- EFL Teachers' Professional Dilemmas with Moral Curriculum Reform in Indonesia (2015)
- From Music Student to Industry Professional: An Entrepreneurial Learning Design (2015)
- Transnational preservice teachers in local education programs: A critical realist approach to narratives (2014)
- Heritage Language for Chinese Australians: Negotiating 'Chineseness' and Capitalising on Resources in the Lived World (2013)