Jane Wilkinson

Jane Wilkinson is currently completing a doctoral thesis in education off campus at Deakin University, Victoria. Her thesis is a critical examination of the way in which gender, class and ethnicity intersect in the lives of women educators.

She spent twelve years in the Victorian Education Department in the 1980s and 1990s as a secondary teacher, consultant in the areas of English/Language education and Equal Opportunity for Girls and Women, Deputy Manager of the Horsham School Support Centre and finally Assistant Principal of Horsham College.

Her main research areas of interest include women and leadership (particularly in rural areas and the education sector), issues of ethnicity and class and the sustainability of rural communities. She is part of a team at the Centre for Rural Social Research at Charles Sturt University which has just completed a case study of a small rural community in New South Wales as part of an Australian Research Council large grant, examining the sustainability of small rural communities.