Julie McLeod

Professor Julie McLeod is Professor of Curriculum, Equity and Social Change in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education within the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. From 2017 to 2023, she served as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Capability), and previously as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Education and Deputy Director of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute. Her career encompasses significant leadership in research strategy and educational equity initiatives at the university.

McLeod's research specializations lie in the history and sociology of education, with a focus on youth, gender, inequality, educational reform, social change, and histories of educational ideas. She employs qualitative and longitudinal methodologies in her studies. Her scholarly output includes influential books such as Researching Social Change: Qualitative Approaches (Sage, 2009, cited 638 times), Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling, and Social Change (State University of New York Press, 2012, cited 495 times), and articles like Feminists re-reading Bourdieu: Old debates and new questions about gender habitus and gender change (Theory and Research in Education, 2005, cited 346 times), Bourdieu's reflexive sociology and ‘spaces of points of view’: Whose reflexivity, which perspective? (British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2004, cited 317 times), and Student voice and the politics of listening in higher education (Critical Studies in Education, 2011, cited 273 times). With over 5,800 citations on Google Scholar, her work has shaped understandings of vulnerability, neoliberalism, and equity in education. McLeod received an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2012-2016) and a Dyason Fellowship (2013). She is immediate past President of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and President of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES), and has delivered public lectures including the Dean's Lecture on progressive education histories.

Professional Email: j.mcleod@unimelb.edu.au