Susan Goodwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Goodwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodwin |
| SIGNATURE | GOODWIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9376-2455 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Governing through ‘ Othering’: Problematising ‘culture’ in the NSW child protection system
In the Australian child protection system, there is a growing emphasis on ‘culturally safe’ practices to better understand the cultural needs of racialised children and families. This article explores how ‘culture’ is represented in the NSW child protection system, drawing on an analysis of key policy documents. Using Carol Bacchi's ‘What's the problem Represented to Be?’ (WPR) approach, this article draws attention to how ‘culture’ is institutio…
Working with and against the bureaucratic state: Histories of grassroots organising for public education reform, 1970s–1980s
The article introduces an international Special Issue that addresses the significant question of how and why people organise to engage with policy making in the public sphere of education, from a historical perspective. Focusing on the phenomenon of ‘grassroots' community organising during the key formation period of the 1970s and 1980s, the issue collects articles from Australia, Canada, Chile, South Korea, Spain (Catalonia) and the United State…
Making commissioning work: The relational gap between intent and implementation in the transition to ‘commissioning’ community services in New South Wales
The question of impact is at the heart of human service design, with governments searching perennially for the right approach to meeting citizen need while responsibly acquitting public funds. In this area, ‘commissioning’ has become a popularised approach, most recently in Australia. Although in theory commissioning is a strategic and relational practice offering to put communities at the heart of decision‐making, commissioning in practice has p…
Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice: Politics and Practice
Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice
This Appendix introduces a new poststructural approach to interview analysis. It outlines seven closely related processes that address the following questions:\n•\tprecisely what is said in the interview?\n•\thow was it or is it possible to say those things?\n•\twhich networks of relations (discursive practices) are relevant to the interview topic?\n•\twhat do the selected “things said” produce as “subjects”, “objects” and “places”?\n•\thow do th…
Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy
Third Sector Social Policy Research in Australia: New Actors, New Politics
Human service NGOs have become central actors in contemporary welfare states. The broadening of the role of NGOs in Australia as both providers of the human services that are an integral part of the welfare state and as lobbyists or advocates and agents of social change has been widely acknowledged; however, this paper focuses on a recent deepening of the role of human service NGOs in the Australian welfare state by exploring an additional dimens…
Ensuring Children and Young People Have a Voice in Neighbourhood Community Development
Encouraging participation and agency are fundamental elements of social work practice using a community development approach that emphasises community identification of needs and strengths, and community involvement in social change. Ensuring children have a voice is also a cornerstone of social work practice. This paper reports on a project being undertaken in two social housing neighbourhoods in Sydney that began with an exploration of communit…
Framing microfinance in Australia – gender neutral or gender blind
In Australia, microfinance is gaining visibility as a distinct poverty alleviation strategy. Within the Australian microfinance policy and program discourses, the microfinance sector is framed as targeting both men and women equally. Yet at the practice level, the majority of loan recipients are women. Such a gender neutral framing is in stark contrast to microfinance policy and practices developed elsewhere. This paper explores how gender is rep…
Masculinised jobs, feminised jobs and men's 'gender capital' experiences: Understanding occupational segregation in Australia
Australia features a highly segregated workforce where certain occupational spaces appear to privilege particular gendered dispositions. While research on gender and work highlights the association between occupational segregation and gender inequality, conventional explanations of why men and women continue to be concentrated in different occupations, and in different roles within occupations, can be considered problematic. This article argues t…
Engaging with Carol Bacchi: Strategic Interventions and Exchanges
This book illuminates, commemorates, and builds upon Bacchi s WPR approach. It outlines the trajectory of the development of the WPR approach from Bacchi s early engagements with feminist thinking, as an academic in scholarly environments which were often the preserve of men, towards the theoretical sophistication of an approach which requires an ongoing critical assessment of assumptions about the social world, social problems , policy agendas d…
The Good Mother: Contemporary Motherhoods in Australia
Gender Politics and Public Policy Making: Prospects for Advancing Gender Equality
The purpose of this paper is to stimulate a re-envisioning of gender politics in public policy making by applying a new approach to understanding them. Our approach is based on, and illustrated by, a study of gender dynamics in policy-making processes in the NSW public sector in Australia. The study draws on theoretical developments in the sociological study of gender arrangements in large organisations. Central to the analysis is the concept of …
Masculinised jobs, feminised jobs and men's 'gender capital' experiences: Understanding occupational segregation in Australia
Australia features a highly segregated workforce where certain occupational spaces appear to privilege particular gendered dispositions. While research on gender and work highlights the association between occupational segregation and gender inequality, conventional explanations of why men and women continue to be concentrated in different occupations, and in different roles within occupations, can be considered problematic. This article argues t…
Gender Politics and Public Policy Making: Prospects for Advancing Gender Equality
The purpose of this paper is to stimulate a re-envisioning of gender politics in public policy making by applying a new approach to understanding them. Our approach is based on, and illustrated by, a study of gender dynamics in policy-making processes in the NSW public sector in Australia. The study draws on theoretical developments in the sociological study of gender arrangements in large organisations. Central to the analysis is the concept of …
Ensuring Children and Young People Have a Voice in Neighbourhood Community Development
Encouraging participation and agency are fundamental elements of social work practice using a community development approach that emphasises community identification of needs and strengths, and community involvement in social change. Ensuring children have a voice is also a cornerstone of social work practice. This paper reports on a project being undertaken in two social housing neighbourhoods in Sydney that began with an exploration of communit…
Third Sector Social Policy Research in Australia: New Actors, New Politics
Human service NGOs have become central actors in contemporary welfare states. The broadening of the role of NGOs in Australia as both providers of the human services that are an integral part of the welfare state and as lobbyists or advocates and agents of social change has been widely acknowledged; however, this paper focuses on a recent deepening of the role of human service NGOs in the Australian welfare state by exploring an additional dimens…
Making commissioning work: The relational gap between intent and implementation in the transition to ‘commissioning’ community services in New South Wales
The question of impact is at the heart of human service design, with governments searching perennially for the right approach to meeting citizen need while responsibly acquitting public funds. In this area, ‘commissioning’ has become a popularised approach, most recently in Australia. Although in theory commissioning is a strategic and relational practice offering to put communities at the heart of decision‐making, commissioning in practice has p…
Gender Politics and Public Policy Making: Prospects for Advancing Gender Equality
The purpose of this paper is to stimulate a re-envisioning of gender politics in public policy making by applying a new approach to understanding them. Our approach is based on, and illustrated by, a study of gender dynamics in policy-making processes in the NSW public sector in Australia. The study draws on theoretical developments in the sociological study of gender arrangements in large organisations. Central to the analysis is the concept of …
The Good Mother: Contemporary Motherhoods in Australia
Engaging with Carol Bacchi: Strategic Interventions and Exchanges
This book illuminates, commemorates, and builds upon Bacchi s WPR approach. It outlines the trajectory of the development of the WPR approach from Bacchi s early engagements with feminist thinking, as an academic in scholarly environments which were often the preserve of men, towards the theoretical sophistication of an approach which requires an ongoing critical assessment of assumptions about the social world, social problems , policy agendas d…
Third Sector Social Policy Research in Australia: New Actors, New Politics
Human service NGOs have become central actors in contemporary welfare states. The broadening of the role of NGOs in Australia as both providers of the human services that are an integral part of the welfare state and as lobbyists or advocates and agents of social change has been widely acknowledged; however, this paper focuses on a recent deepening of the role of human service NGOs in the Australian welfare state by exploring an additional dimens…
Ensuring Children and Young People Have a Voice in Neighbourhood Community Development
Encouraging participation and agency are fundamental elements of social work practice using a community development approach that emphasises community identification of needs and strengths, and community involvement in social change. Ensuring children have a voice is also a cornerstone of social work practice. This paper reports on a project being undertaken in two social housing neighbourhoods in Sydney that began with an exploration of communit…
Framing microfinance in Australia – gender neutral or gender blind
In Australia, microfinance is gaining visibility as a distinct poverty alleviation strategy. Within the Australian microfinance policy and program discourses, the microfinance sector is framed as targeting both men and women equally. Yet at the practice level, the majority of loan recipients are women. Such a gender neutral framing is in stark contrast to microfinance policy and practices developed elsewhere. This paper explores how gender is rep…
Masculinised jobs, feminised jobs and men's 'gender capital' experiences: Understanding occupational segregation in Australia
Australia features a highly segregated workforce where certain occupational spaces appear to privilege particular gendered dispositions. While research on gender and work highlights the association between occupational segregation and gender inequality, conventional explanations of why men and women continue to be concentrated in different occupations, and in different roles within occupations, can be considered problematic. This article argues t…
Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy
Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice
This Appendix introduces a new poststructural approach to interview analysis. It outlines seven closely related processes that address the following questions:\n•\tprecisely what is said in the interview?\n•\thow was it or is it possible to say those things?\n•\twhich networks of relations (discursive practices) are relevant to the interview topic?\n•\twhat do the selected “things said” produce as “subjects”, “objects” and “places”?\n•\thow do th…
Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice: Politics and Practice
Making commissioning work: The relational gap between intent and implementation in the transition to ‘commissioning’ community services in New South Wales
The question of impact is at the heart of human service design, with governments searching perennially for the right approach to meeting citizen need while responsibly acquitting public funds. In this area, ‘commissioning’ has become a popularised approach, most recently in Australia. Although in theory commissioning is a strategic and relational practice offering to put communities at the heart of decision‐making, commissioning in practice has p…
Working with and against the bureaucratic state: Histories of grassroots organising for public education reform, 1970s–1980s
The article introduces an international Special Issue that addresses the significant question of how and why people organise to engage with policy making in the public sphere of education, from a historical perspective. Focusing on the phenomenon of ‘grassroots' community organising during the key formation period of the 1970s and 1980s, the issue collects articles from Australia, Canada, Chile, South Korea, Spain (Catalonia) and the United State…
Governing through ‘ Othering’: Problematising ‘culture’ in the NSW child protection system
In the Australian child protection system, there is a growing emphasis on ‘culturally safe’ practices to better understand the cultural needs of racialised children and families. This article explores how ‘culture’ is represented in the NSW child protection system, drawing on an analysis of key policy documents. Using Carol Bacchi's ‘What's the problem Represented to Be?’ (WPR) approach, this article draws attention to how ‘culture’ is institutio…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)