Goriss-Hunter, Anitra Assoc Prof

Position: Director of Learning and Teaching
Study Area: Education  
Location: Mt Helen Campus, H Building, Room 234
Phone: +61 5327 9326
Email: a.goriss-hunter@federation.edu.au

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy – University of Tasmania
  • Bachelor of Arts (Hons) – University of Tasmania
  • Graduate Diploma of Education – University of New England
  • Bachelor of Arts – James Cook University

Teaching

Courses

Core units across Secondary, Primary, Early Childhood and Pathways programs

Units

  • Learning and Teaching (EDBED1016)
  • Designing for Learning (EDDDE2103, EDBED2103)

Biography

Anitra is the Director, Learning and Teaching in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community at Federation University. Her teaching and research fields are in the following areas: education and gender, inclusion, pedagogy, curriculum and pre-service teacher education. At the University of Tasmania, Anitra taught for six years in the Gender Studies program where she also was appointed as Coordinator. The courses she taught include a history of gender issues and feminism as well as a course taking a cultural studies perspective on representations of gender in mass media texts.

Anitra is currently leading projects with the Women in Engineering, Education, Science and Information Technology (WE2ST) Group at Federation University on projects aiming to improve female participation and retention in STEM courses and careers. In addition, Anitra is leading a project team of academics who work in Australian regional (RUN) universities to research and formulate measures to address common issues regarding student transition to university and academics’ career advancement in regional universities.

Areas of expertise

Anitra Goriss-Hunter is a recognised expert in three interconnected areas – gender and education, teaching for inclusion, and pre-service teacher (PST) education. Anitra’s expertise in gender studies was recognised when she was awarded the prestigious Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association award for most outstanding PhD thesis. The dissertation’s exploration of representations of maternal bodies in cyberspace used the category of gender as a lens through which a variety of issues could be examined. It is this focus on using gender as a lens for critical examination that Anitra brings to her research in the field of education.

Currently, Anitra is collaborating with colleagues across Institutes at Federation University on projects that examine gender relations and education. She is leading research projects across the university and cross-institutionally that seek to improve female access to and participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education.

The second field of Anitra’s research expertise is inclusive education and this overlaps the third research area, the development of teaching approaches that offer authentic learning experiences for PSTs. Anitra’s expertise is evident in her collaboration across Institutes at Federation University and cross-institutionally with colleagues from Western Sydney University on a project concerning diverse academic teaching practices. Another cross-institutional collaboration with colleagues from Deakin University investigates ways of improving recruitment and retention rates in STEM courses through examining teaching approaches that engage diverse learners.

Research interests

  • Education and gender
  • Inclusion with a focus on gender, class and race
  • Pedagogy
  • Curriculum design and implementation
  • Pre-service teacher education

Supervision

Nadia Faisal: Are ERP Sim Games Helping Students to be Job Ready: An Australian Universities Perspective

Sehrish Javed: Enhancing Emotional Resilience in Information System Students: Investigating the Impact of AI Chatbots in ERP Simulation Environments

Russell Mason: Organisational learning cultures: their development and influence on the success of workers who are learning, and their organisations.

Jotsana Roopram: Exploring the use of e-Learning and technology enhanced learning (TEL) pedagogy to examine student engagement with postgraduate students studying an MBA in an Australian business school.

Publications

Books

S. Weuffen, J. Burke, M. Plunkett, A. Goriss-Hunter & S. Emmett. (Eds.). (2023). Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education: A Critical Exploration of the Sustainable Development Goals Springer.

Book chapters

Burke, J., Goriss-Hunter, A., & Emmett, S. (2023). Policy, discourse and epistemology in inclusive education. In S. Weuffen, J. Burke, M. Plunkett, A. Goriss-Hunter & S. Emmett. (Eds.). Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education: A Critical Exploration of the Sustainable Development Goals Springer.

Goriss-Hunter, A., Archer, V., & Arvanitakis, J. (2023). Identity and intersectional responsive pedagogy in higher education: Insights from two locations in Regional and Urban Australia. In S. Weuffen, J. Burke, M. Plunkett, A. Goriss-Hunter & S. Emmett. (Eds.), Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education: A Critical Exploration of the Sustainable Development Goals. Springer.

Goriss-Hunter, A., Burke, J., Weuffen, S., Plunkett, M., & Emmett, S. (2023). Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education in the Twenty-First Century. In S. Weuffen, J. Burke, M. Plunkett, A. Goriss-Hunter & S. Emmett (Eds.), Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education: A Critical Exploration of the Sustainable Development Goals. Springer.

Weuffen, S., Burke, J., Goriss-Hunter, A., Plunkett, M. & Emmett, S. (2023). Working towards a sustainable, responsive, inclusive, and diverse global education future. In S. Weuffen, J. Burke, M. Plunkett, A. Goriss-Hunter & S. Emmett (Eds.), Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education: A Critical Exploration of the Sustainable Development Goals. Springer.

Goriss-Hunter, A., Burke, J. & Sellings, P. (2022). ‘We’re in it for the long haul’: Connection, generation and transformation through a school-university partnership. In O.J. Bradbury & D. Aquaro. (Eds.). School-University Partnerships—Innovation in Initial Teacher Education. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5057-5_7

Goriss-Hunter, A. (2021) Bad Mothers Club In A.L. Frey (ed) Who’s Laughing Now: Feminist Perspectives on Humour and Laughter. Demeter Press. ISBN: 978-1-77258-283-3

Goriss-Hunter, A. (2021) Patchwork Girl: fractured maternal monsters. In A. Palko & L. Baran (eds). Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes. Demeter Press.

Goriss-Hunter, A. (2016). Hip Mama: Mother Outlaws in Cyberspaces. In L.B. & B. Martin (eds). Taking the Village Online; Mothers, Motherhood and Social Media. Demeter Press.

Goriss-Hunter, A & Burke, J. (2015). First in the family - Girls like us in the Third Space of Regional Universities. In Archer, V., Michell, D, Wilson, J (eds), Bread and Roses: Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class. Sense Publishers.

Refereed journal articles

Goriss-Hunter, A. & White, K. (2023). Using email interviews to reflect on women’s careers at a regional university. Australian Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00617-9

Brandenburg, R., Fletcher, A., Goriss-Hunter, A., Van der Smee, C., Holcombe, W., Griffiths, K., & Schneider, K. (2023). ‘More than Marking and Moderation’: A Self-Study of Teacher Educator Learning through Engaging with Graduate Teaching Performance Assessment. Studying Teacher Education, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2022.2164761

Goriss-Hunter, A., Sellings, P., Walker, A. D., Claughton, A., Oxworth, C., Robertson, D. & Griffiths, K. (2023). Parent-educators' explorations of learning and role tensions during and 'after' Covid-19. Issues in Educational Research, 33(3), 974-991. http://www.iier.org.au/iier33/goriss-hunter.pdf

Goriss-Hunter, A., Sellings, P. & Echter, A. (2022). Information Communication Technology in schools: Students Exercise ‘Digital Agency’ to Engage with Learning. Technology, Knowledge, Learning, 27(2), pp. 785-800. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-021-09509-2

Goriss-Hunter, A., Sellings, P, Lenk, K., & Scash, M. (2021). A fine romance? Developing a Transformational School-University Partnership’. Educational Practice & Theory, 43(1), May 2021, pp. 57-76. https://doi.org/10.7459/ept/43.1.05

Goriss-Hunter, A., & White, K. (2021). Teamwork and regional universities: the benefits for women of a Third Space. Australian Universities’ Review, 63(2), pp. 11-21.

White, K., & Goriss-Hunter, A. (2021). Women and career progression in Higher Education. Frontiers in Sociology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.742287

Goriss-Hunter, A, Echter, A, Firmin, S, and Oseni, T. (2018). “Undoing” Gender: how the SEIT Women’s group works across university and community lines to promote inclusive STEM. Studies in Adult Education, 24(3), 3-9. The Ljubljana University Press.

Sellings, P., Felstead, K., & Goriss-Hunter, A. (2018). Developing Pre-Service Teachers: The Impact of an Embedded Framework in Literacy and Numeracy. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 43(4).

Goriss-Hunter, A. You can visit Hotel Mommy: Maternal Bodies as browsing/ consuming biotourists. Journal of Gender Studies. Volume 25, Issue 1, 2016.

Goriss-Hunter, A. (2004) Slippery mutants perform and wink at maternal insurrections: Patricia Piccinini’s monstrous cute. Continuum. 18 (4), 541-553

Refereed conference proceedings

Faisal, N., Chadhar, M., Goriss-Hunter, A. & Stranieri, A. (2021). Rethinking IS Graduates Work-readiness: Employers’ perspectives. Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship Virtual Conference, Twenty-Seventh Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Montreal, August 9-13, 2021. https://amcis2021.aisconferences.org/

Faisal, N., Chadhar, M., Goriss-Hunter, A. & Stranieri, A. (2021). An Exploratory Study on the Employers’ Perceptions of ICT Graduate work-readiness. Information Systems for the Future, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Dubai, July 12-14, 2021. https://www.pacis2021.org/

Faisal, N., Chadhar, M., Goriss-Hunter, A. & Stranieri, A. (2019). Are ERP Simulation Games Assisting Students to be Job-Ready? An Australian University’s Perspective. Australasian Conference on Information Systems, December, Fremantle, WA. Conference Proceedings: https://www.acis2019.org/Papers/ACIS2019_PaperFIN_173.pdf

Conference proceedings

Arantes, J., Goriss-Hunter, A., Buchanan, R., Sellings, P. & Claughton, A. (2023). Investigating digital poverty and the new forms of agency and advocacy needed in Higher Education. Re-imagining Teacher Education: From Words to Action, World Federation of Associations for Teacher Education (WFATE), July 12-14th 2023, University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Goriss-Hunter, A., Claughton, A., Sellings, P., Walker, A.D., Oxworth, C, Robertson, D. & Griffiths, K. What we’re taking through the portal: how our experiences of remote teaching as parent-educators during COVID-19 impacted our practice. Re-imagining Teacher Education: From Words to Action, World Federation of Associations for Teacher Education (WFATE), July 12-14th 2023, University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Goriss-Hunter, A. & Thomas, C. (2022). On the road again – travel challenges for women in regional universities. HERDSA 2022 Annual Conference, 27 to 30 June 2022, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Victoria, Australia.

Goriss-Hunter, A. & White, K. (2021). Exploring the challenges for women working at a regional Australian university. Reimagining Education Research, AARE Conference, 30th November, 2021.

Brandenburg, R., Fletcher, A., Goriss-Hunter, A., Holcombe, W., Van der Smee, C., Schneider, K., & Griffiths, K. More than marking and moderation: A Self-Study of Teacher Educator learning through engaging with Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment. Strong Foundations, Future Innovations, Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, July 7-9, 2021. https://atea.edu.au/2021-atea-conference/ https://atea.edu.au/2021-atea-conference/

Burke, J., Brandenburg, R., Plunkett, M., Goriss-Hunter, A., & Glowrey, C. Where do I see myself in 20 years? The career aspirations of beginning teachers from a regional university. Strong Foundations, Future Innovations, Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, July 7-9, 2021. https://atea.edu.au/2021-atea-conference/ https://atea.edu.au/2021-atea-conference/

Goriss-Hunter, A., & White, K. The effects of flexible work options on women’s career progression. Transforming Contexts, Transforming Selves: Gender in New Times, Gender, Work & Organization, 11th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, June 30th to July 2nd, 2021.

Goriss-Hunter, A., Claughton, A., Sellings, P., Walker, A., Robertson, D., Griffiths, K. & Oxworth, C. (2021). What we’re taking through the portal: how our experiences of remote teaching as parent-educators during COVID-19 impacted our practice. World Federation of Associations of Teacher Education (WFATE) Biennial Conference, 12-15 November, 2021.

Goriss-Hunter, A & Burke, J. (2018) Mobilising a lens of inclusivity within Initial Teacher Education. Teacher Education In and For Uncertain Times. Australian Teacher Education Association and Teacher Education Forum of Aotearoa New Zealand Conference, 4-6 July, Melbourne.

Sellings, P, Felstead, K and Goriss-Hunter, A. (2017) Developing Pre-Service Teachers: The Impact of an Embedded Framework in Literacy and Numeracy. Conference presentation. Australian Teacher Education Association Conference 2017, 5th July, 2017, Brisbane.

Burke, J. & Goriss-Hunter, A. (2013). Forging a School-University Learning Partnership From a Teacher Education Perspective. In Proceedings, The Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) 2013 Conference. Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Queensland. 30 June-3rd July 2013

Burke, J. & Goriss-Hunter, A. (2012). Re-imagining and Reworking School-University Links through Inclusive Community Building. In Proceedings of 5th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Madrid, Spain, 19-21 November, 2012. IATED, available at library.iated.org/view/BURKE2012REI

Goriss-Hunter, A. (2012). Connections through dis-identifications: The use of Cultural and Political Vignettes (CPVs) in teacher education. In Brown, N., Jones S. M. and Adam, A. (Eds.) Research and Development in Higher Education: Connections in Higher Education, 35 (pp 79 –86). Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Conference, Hobart, Australia, 2 – 5 July 2012.

Associations

  • Australian Association of Research in Education (AARE) (2018-current)
  • Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) (2018-current)
  • Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA) (2009-current)
  • Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)