Doctor Jenni Wolgemuth

Research Fellow, Education Systems Reform - Abracadabra Project

Details

BA (Hons) Graduate Certificate PhD	Psychology – University of Colorado, USA Women’s Studies – Colorado State University Educational Research – Colorado State University
Research Fellow	School for Social and Policy Research Institute of Advanced Studies
Phone	+61 8 8946 7641
Fax	+61 8 8946 7175
Email	jenni.wolgemuth@cdu.edu.au
Web	http://www.cdu.edu.au/sspr/
Links	Conference papers, reports, and recent works Curriculum Vitae

Biography

After completing my Honours degree in Psychology I worked for a brief time as a health policy researcher. This work cemented my interest in social science research and my desire for further training. I returned to higher education to pursue a PhD in Educational Research. During this time, I worked as the Assistant Director of the Research and Development Centre for the Advancement of Student Learning, designing and leading educational research and evaluation projects.

My work spans both sides of the “methodological divide,” from quantitative meta-analyses of What Works for Youth with Disabilities in Transition to my dissertation, a post-structural narrative study of the production and performance of masculinity in higher education.

The methods I use are varied, but my research interests focus on questions of social justice, power and politics in schooling. My current work at SSPR examines ethnic and economic segregation in systems of school choice, interventions and causes of the gender gap in academic achievement, post primary outcomes for indigenous Australians in the Central Desert and how the practices and politics of academia are productive of gendered subjects.

I began working at SSPR in January 2008 and am honoured to work in the Northern Territory, as part of a methodologically rigorous research centre focused on improving the education and welfare of Indigenous Australians.

Applied research and projects

BioMath connection project, DIMACS at Rutgers University, COMAP in Boston, MA – Evaluation of efforts to integrate mathematics and biology in high school classrooms, funded by the National Science Foundation.

ABRACADABRA in Australia – a trial of interactive literacy software to improve outcomes for disadvantaged learners in early childhood classroom settings, a collaborative research and interventionary project with Concordia University, Canada, funded by the Telstra Foundation http://www.cdu.edu.au/sspr/Abracadabra.htm.

School Choice and Spatial Segregation, a series of research projects investigating the impact of school choice policies on ethnic and SES segregation. Unfunded.

A Review of Post-Primary Outcomes in the APY Lands. Project examines the school, training and work outcomes for Anangu. Funded by the South Australia Department of Education and Children’s Services.

Publications

Wolgemuth, JR, & Harbour, C. (2008). A man's academy? The dissertation process as feminist resistance. Journal about Women in Higher Education, 118-128.

Wolgemuth, JR, Cobb, RB (2008). The effects of mnemonic interventions on academic outcomes for youth with disabilities. Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 23, 1-10.

Barone, R; Wolgemuth, JR; Linder, C. (2007). Preventing sexual assault through engaging college men. Journal of College Student Development, 48, 585-594.

Wolgemuth, JR; Donohue, R. (2006). Toward an inquiry of discomfort: Guiding transformation in emancipatory narrative research, Qualitative Inquiry, 12, 1012-1021.

Wolgemuth, JR; Cobb, RB; Winokur, M; Leech, N; Ellerby, D. (2006). Comparing longitudinal academic achievment of full-day and half-day kindergarten students. Journal of Educational Research, 99, 260-269.

Wolgemuth, JR; Kees, NL;Safarik, L (2003). A critique of research on women published in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice: 1990-2000. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 27, 757-768.

Safarik, L; Wolgemuth, JR; Kees, NL (2003). A feminist critique of articles about women published in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice: 1990-2000. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 27, 769-786.

Conference papers, reports, and recent works (unpublished)

Wolgemuth, JR (March, 2008). Subjectivity Portrait Analysis: A Strategy for Analyzing the Construction of Selves. Refereed paper presented at the 2008 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Wolgemuth, JR, Cobb, RB, Dugan, J (March, 2008). The Effects of Self-Management Interventions on Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities. Refereed paper presented at the 2008 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Harbour, C, Wolgemuth, JR, Jacquette, O (March, 2008). A Philosophical Framework for Interpreting New State Policies Limiting Delivery and Subsidization of Developmental Instruction in Public Higher Education. Refereed paper presented at the 2008 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Harbour, C, Jaquette, O., Wolgemuth, JR (March, 2008). Philosophical Frameworks for the Community College’s Diversionary Function: From Burton Clark’s (1960) “Cooling Out” Thesis to Giorgio Agamben’s (2005) “State of Exception.” Refereed paper presented at the 2008 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Tootell, N, Wolgemuth, JR, Eikelkamp, U, & Lea, T (February 2008). Analysis of APY Land Self-Review Documents. Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT.

Wolgemuth, JR (December, 2007). Identity, Inter(dis)course and Identity: The Production and Resistance of Masculinity in Higher Education. Unpublished doctoral dissertation.

Lamb, DS, & Wolgemuth, JR (April, 2007). People, Places, and Public School Choices: A GIS Analysis of Spatial Segregation and Intra-district School Choice. Refereed paper presented at the 2007 American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Wolgemuth, JR, Newman-Gonchar, R, & Talmor, U (April, 2006). Active interviewing and researcher responsibility: Strategies for fostering participant self-reflection. Refereed paper presented at the 2006 Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Wolgemuth, JR, & Lamb, DS (April, 2006). School choice and social stratification: Using spatial analysis to inform district policy. Refereed paper presented at the 2006 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.