Velma Pollard

Biographic Data

ID246356
NAMEVelma Pollard
GIVEN NAMESVelma
FAMILY NAMEPollard
SIGNATUREPOLLARD V
AFFILIATIONSMonash University
ORCID0000-0002-2209-1199
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS25
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Academic experience of temporal governance in an in-house online program manager

    Open AccessVelma Pollard, Christine ArmatasARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology of…2026References: 36

    Increasingly, public universities are partnering with online program managers (OPMs) to develop and deliver online courses. These partnerships are characteristic of academic capitalism (Connell) and, as such, provide case studies for investigating ways of working for academic staff in the corporate university (Ludwig). This research focus aims to contribute to the limited work undertaken on the experiences of academic staff, especially their expe…

  • Remembering

    Velma PollardARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2023

  • The Gloom of Greets: (Remembering Ras Dizzy)

    Velma PollardARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2023

  • Spoiler: (For Gordon)

    Velma PollardARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2023

  • Maureen Warner-Lewis, Friend and Colleague

    Velma PollardARTICLESmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of…2023

    This essay is a brief personal tribute to Maureen Warner-Lewis, a committed scholar, a passionate researcher, and the author's longtime friend

  • Micro-credentials: A Postdigital Counternarrative

    Open AccessVelma Pollard, Andrew VincentARTICLEPostdigital Science and Education2022

    Alternative credentials, such as micro credentials and digital badges, are increasingly being developed in universities. Primarily aimed at employability, these credentials are being scrutinised as it is argued that they are surrounded by ‘great uncertainty’. We contribute to this scrutiny by examining the forms of subjectivity that result from micro-credentials. We argue that, in their current form, they tend to result in a neoliberal subject. P…

  • STEM academic teachers' experiences of undertaking authentic assessment-led reform: A Mixed Method Approach

    Rachael Hains-Wesson, Velma Pollard et al.ARTICLEStudies in Higher Education2020References: 28

    A large-scale investigation was conducted at an Australian University to document and analyze authentic work-related assessment types for a university-wide major course review (Kaider, F., and R. Hains-Wesson. 2016. Enhancing Courses for Employability. Melbourne: Australian Collaborative Education Network. Report.). This study provides further insights into Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics (STEM) teachers’ experiences in undertaki…

  • Flight reflections

    Velma PollardARTICLEShort Fiction in Theory and…2016

    The short snippets under this title take a light-hearted look at changes in airline flight meal policy over a decade

  • Learning-to-be in two vocationally-oriented higher education degrees

    Open AccessVelma Pollard, Andrew Vincent et al.ARTICLEOn the Horizon The International…2015

    Purpose – This paper aims to explore the pedagogical approach of two higher education programmes aiming to develop both discipline-specific and key employability skills in graduates. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents two case studies of degree programs in the broad field of the creative industries and focusses on the innovative pedagogy adopted based on a “learning to be” approach (McWilliam, 2008). Findings – The two case studies…

  • Black Carib to Garinagu: Yurumein to Roatan

    Velma PollardARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2014Cited by: 1

    In 2013, the University Archives, Mona, took over the collection of the Libraryof the Spoken Word, originally housed by the university's Radio Education Unit. The collection dates back to the 1950s. Our Archive Gems feature seeks to showcase some of the gems in this collection.In this issue we present the edited transcript of a keynote address delivered by Velma Pollard on p July 2005, during the seminar “The Socio-Economic and Cultural Impact of…

  • The World of Spirits in the Work of Some Caribbean Writers in the Diaspora

    Velma PollardARTICLEChanging English2010

    Writers of Caribbean ancestry who live outside of the region are usually described as having dual allegiance (Caribbean/American for example). This is eminently justifiable, since there is usually a recognizable Caribbean flavour to the writing. This paper focuses on one feature of Caribbean culture incorporated in three texts: Praisesong for the Widow, by Paule Marshall, who grew up in a Barbadian environment in Brooklyn, New York; Flickering Sh…

  • Home Space: Youth Identification in the Greek Diaspora

    G Tsolidis, Velma PollardARTICLEDiaspora Indigenous and Minority…2010Cited by: 5References: 6

    This article draws on a larger study on schooling and diaspora using the case of the Greek community of Melbourne, Australia to examine processes of identification of young people with access to minority cultures. The Melbourne Greek community is long-standing, diverse, and well-established. Because of this, the young people involved in this study provide insights into cultural processes not related in any direct sense to migration. In most cases…

  • Writing Bridges of Sound: Praise Song for the Widow and Louisiana

    Velma PollardARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2009Cited by: 1References: 1

    Whenever Caribbean artists have written they have, in some way or other, written the Black Diaspora. It is an inescapable part of their historical/cultural mindscape. Africa, The Americas, Europe are bound together by bands initiated by Columbus with his three ships and extended and held firm by various historical formulations (the British Empire for example). The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade is the backdrop against which Caribbean and indeed all o…

  • Being a 'wog' in Melbourne - young people's self-fashioning through discourses of racism

    Open AccessG Tsolidis, Velma Pollard et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Studies in the Cultural…2009Cited by: 7References: 10

    The Greek community in Melbourne, Australia, is large and has a long history in the city. It is diverse and associated with a range of cultural, social and political structures. It has strong transnational links and in many ways exemplifies ‘diasporic’ in contradistinction to ‘migrant’. This paper focuses on young people from this community, particularly those who attend schools established to promote Greek language and cultural maintenance. In t…

  • Identity, diversity and teaching for social justice, by Juliet Perumal, Bern

    Velma Pollard, Vikki PollardARTICLEGender and Education2008

    "Identity, diversity and teaching for social justice, by Juliet Perumal, Bern." , 20(5), pp. 552–553

  • The Americas in Anglophone Caribbean Women Writers: Bridges of Sound

    Velma PollardARTICLEChanging English2008

    Whenever Caribbean artists have written they have, in some way or other, written the black diaspora. It is an inescapable part of their historical/cultural mindscape. Africa, the Americas, Europe a

  • Poems

    H A Vaughan, Velma Pollard et al.ARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2008

  • BM Revisited

    Velma PollardARTICLECallaloo2007

    BM Revisited Velma Pollard ". . . the head of the Lapith is in the Louvre and that of the Centaur in Athens . . ." —British Museum inscription* these fragments . . . how many spaces how many holes how headless must a greek his culture sell how threadless must he string from Athens and the Louvre to hulks of shapely beasts their erstwhile heads displaced where the imperial master minds insist on London as the centre . . . at home this woman sir, h…

  • Imported Topics, Foreign Vocabularies: Dread Talk, the Cuban Connection

    Velma Pollard, Samuel Furé DavisARTICLESmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of…2006

    Research Article| February 01 2006 Imported Topics, Foreign Vocabularies: Dread Talk, the Cuban Connection Velma Pollard; Velma Pollard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Samuel Furé Davis Samuel Furé Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 59–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-59 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Velma Pollard, Samuel …

  • Imported Topics, Foreign Vocabularies

    Velma Pollard, Samuel Furé DavisARTICLESmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of…2006Cited by: 1

  • Woman and family in the African diaspora—mother and the sewing machine in Caribbean literature

    Velma PollardARTICLEChanging English2005

    ‘... Miss Caroline tell me how you spend your time I spend all my time around the Singer machine...’ These lines from a popular song of the nineteen forties sum up what was for many women a new reality. This paper identifies the space at the sewing machine as mother's space and the sewing machine as an important element in the psychological and financial liberation of the woman, here the Caribbean woman of the twentieth century. Evidence in suppo…

  • Two Poems

    Velma PollardARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2003

  • Dread Talk: The Language of the Rastafari

    Velma PollardBOOKDread Talk2000

    In Dread Talk Velma Pollard describes the language of Rastafari, tracing its development as an expansion of Jamaican Creole while showing how it is distinct both from Creole and Standard English. She demonstrates that dread talk must be understood in ter

  • Mixing Codes and Mixing Voices ‐‐ language in Earl Lovelace's Salt

    Velma PollardARTICLEChanging English1999

  • Poems

    Basil McFarlane, Alma Mock Yen et al.ARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1998