Rate My Professor Genine Hook

Genine Hook is an Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology at the University of New England. She earned her undergraduate qualifications in Sociology and Secondary Education from Monash University, followed by a PhD from the Faculty of Education at Monash University, completed in May 2015. Her doctoral thesis investigated the experiences of sole parent students in Australian higher education institutions and was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Thesis Excellence.

Dr. Hook has taught Sociology at La Trobe University, the University of New England, and the University of the Sunshine Coast. Her teaching has covered subjects such as Social Theory, Introduction to Indigenous Australia, Social Justice, Welfare and the State, Family and Children in Society, Youth and Delinquency, Mixed Methods in Research, and Social Inequalities. Her research interests center on gender, higher education, social policy, family-based violence, familial norms, and feminist pedagogy.

Key publications include her monograph Sole Parent Students and Higher Education: Gender, Policy and Widening Participation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), which has received 276 citations. She co-edited Student Carers in Higher Education: Navigating, Resisting, and Re-inventing Academic Cultures (Taylor & Francis, 2022). Other significant works are 'Curating care-full spaces: Doctoral students negotiating study from home' (Higher Education Research & Development, 2019; 55 citations), 'Towards a decolonising pedagogy: Understanding Australian Indigenous studies through critical whiteness theory and film pedagogy' (The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2012; 50 citations), 'Affective violence: Re/negotiating gendered-feminism within new materialism' (Journal of Gender Studies, 2018; 29 citations), 'Performatively queer: Sole parent postgraduates in the Australian academy' (Higher Education Research & Development, 2015; 26 citations), and 'Geographies of emotion in university spaces: Sole parent postgraduate subjects negotiating “child-free” educational boundaries' (Emotion, Space and Society, 2016; 20 citations). Her scholarship has accumulated over 622 citations on Google Scholar.

In May 2017, she presented the seminar 'Feminist Pedagogy for Sociology: Negotiating belonging in Australian higher education' at the University of New England.