Dr Kate Barnett

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Position	Deputy Executive Director
Email	kate.barnett@adelaide.edu.au
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Biography/ Background

Deputy Executive Director, Australian Institute for Social Research

Kate Barnett is a social policy researcher whose PhD focused on attitudes to ageing, in a cross-cultural context. Prior to joining the AISR she operated Kate Barnett and Associates, a national social research and evaluation firm, where she combines her social policy background with a range of social and workforce research topics. Since joining the AISR, Kate Barnett has worked with other AISR researchers on a number of major research projects, including a study of the role of the VET sector in assisting people to move from welfare to work, and an analysis of the factors that are supporting or blocking the SA government's attainment of a 2% target of Aboriginal employment in the public sector.

Research Interests

Social policy, particularly in relation to older people Workforce ageing
Workforce planning and development
Workforce health
Welfare to work
Social inclusion and exclusion
Achieving equity in the vocational education and training sector

Publications

Book chapters
Kate Barnett (2004) 'VET-ABILITY: The Capacity of the Australian VET System to be Inclusive for People with a Disability' IN Bowman, K (ed) (2004) Book of Readings on Equity in VET , National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Adelaide

Kate Barnett (1999) 'Case Studies' IN Smith, A (ed) Creating a future: training, learning and the older person, NCVER, Adelaide , (73-103) http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/370.html

Kate Barnett (1998) 'Public and private training provision', Chapter 8 in Robinson, C & Thomson, P (eds) Readings in vocational education and training research , NCVER, Adelaide under licence from ANTA.

Kate Barnett (1992) 'Access and Equity in Woodville' IN Jupp, J & McRobbie, A (eds) Access and Equity Evaluation Research (1992) AGPS, Canberra , 92-103.

Published Reports (Refereed)

Kate Barnett & Robin Ryan (2003) Lessons and challenges: vocational education in schools - research overview, (2005) A National Vocational Education and Training Research and Evaluation Program Report, Australian Government. http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/1653.html

Kate Barnett & Associates (1999) Participants not Observers: attitudes to ageing and the aspirations and expectations of South Australians born between 1925 and 1955 , Ageing Series No 2 , Office for the Ageing, Dept of Human Services

Kate Barnett & Associates (1997) Towards meeting the diversity of needs of frail older Australians: forming partnerships for ethnic aged care - the Linkages approach, a Resource for small ethnic communities and aged care service providers, Best Practice Demonstration Projects in Ethnic Aged Care Series, Dept of Health and Family Services, Canberra

Hugh Guthrie & Kate Barnett (1996) Training and enterprise bargaining: enterprise-based approaches to training, NCVER, Adelaide

Kate Barnett (1995) Australian industry and enterprise training providers, NCVER, Adelaide.

Kate Barnett & Sara Wilson (1995) Separate responsibilities: a comparative, equity-focused study of commercial and community training providers, Project of the Women's Research and Employment Training Initiatives Program, AGPS, Canberra

Kate Barnett (1994) Some can, some can't: the impact of fees and charges on disadvantaged groups in TAFE, NCVER, Adelaide.

Kate Barnett & Sara Wilson (1994) Challenges and Choices: a study of four providers of adult community education, NCVER, Adelaide Kate Barnett (1993) Swings and Roundabouts: the open training market and women's participation in TAFE, NCVER, Adelaide.

Kate Barnett (1991) The Pathfinders: women of non English speaking background in white collar occupations in the public sector, Paper No 6, Working Papers on Multiculturalism, Centre for Multicultural Studies, University of Wollongong, for the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra.

Refereed Publications
Kate Barnett & Robin Ryan (2003) 'Vocational education and training in Australian schools: issues for practitioners.' International Education Jl., 2003, 5 (5) pp 89-104.

Kate Barnett (1993) 'Innovative Service Delivery Models: lessons learned in providing care for older people and people with disabilities' Aust Jl on Ageing, August, 12 (3) pp 9 - 13.

Kate Barnett (1990) 'Caring for Caregivers: the Multicultural Respite Care Project', Aust Social Work September, 43, (3) pp 39 - 43.

Kate Barnett (1988) 'Aged Care Policy for a Multicultural Society' Aust Jl on Ageing , November, 7 (4) pp 3 - 22.

Professional Associations

Member, Australian Association of Gerontology

Member, Australasian Evaluation Society

Member, Australian VET Research Association

Files

• Barnett_CV.pdf [289.6K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Saturday, 16 Aug 2008