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Associate Professor JaneMaree Maher

JaneMaree Maher Tel: +61 3 990 52949
Fax: +61 3 990 52410
Email: JaneMaree.Maher@monash.edu
Room W11.17 11th Floor
Building 11 (Menzies) Clayton Campus

JaneMaree Maher is Director of and Associate Professor in The Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research in the School of Political and Social Inquiry.

Research

JaneMaree’s current funded projects include:  

Childhood obesity: mothers, children and liberal public health

ARC funded Project (2010 -- 2011)

Dr Suzanne Fraser, Dr JaneMaree Maher, Professor Jan Wright, Professor Alan Peterson

This project is investigating current public discussions of and approaches to childhood obesity as they impact on mothers and childcare workers caring for children.

Targeted Crime: Policing and Social Cohesion

ARC Linkage Project (2011 -- 2013)

Prof Sharon J Pickering, A/Prof Gail Mason, (USyd) Prof Jude McCulloch, Associate  Professor JaneMaree Maher, Prof Lorraine A Mazerolle (UQ) , Dr Rebecca L Wickes,(UQ) Mr Jeffrey S Pope (VicPol), Mr Ashley E Dickinson(VicPol), Ms Leanne T Sargent, (VicPol), Dr David L Ballek (VicPol).

This project will undertake a criminological study of the policing of targeted incidents and crime, that is, incidents and crimes motivated by bias, prejudice or hatred towards members of particular groups, communities and individuals. It will develop a best practice policing framework for targeted crimes and incidents

A full list of JaneMaree's publications can be found here.

Postgraduate Supervision

"This is a significant and enriching part of my work in the Centre for Women's Studies and in School as I head the Advanced Studies program for higher degree students. I supervise across a range of areas including popular culture and gender issues in law. Recently I have successfully supervised theses on the body and clinical practice (Dr Karolyne Quinn 2011)  the return to domesticity (Dr Jennifer Mitchell in 2007), posthuman bodies (Dr Kim Toffoletti, 2004) and women, work and family (Ann Brown, 2010).

Currently I am supervising students working on midwifery practice, women and employment in Egypt and representations of women’s bodies.

I am keenly interested in rethinking definitions of the body in pregnancy and birth; and investigating mothering and women’s employment. I would be happy to work with prospective applicants to develop research topics."

In 2001, JaneMaree won the Early Career Researcher Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision, awarded by the Faculty of Arts at Monash University .

A full list of JaneMaree's supervisions can be found here.

Teaching

JaneMaree teaches:

Recent teaching initiatives include an online link up with students studying gender and culture at the National University of Singapore and a project on student study/life balance.

Professional Profile

JaneMaree has degrees in Law and Arts (Hons) (University of Melbourne 1991) and gained her PhD in 1999 (La Trobe University). JaneMaree has worked at the Centre for Women's Studies since 2000 and was Chair of the Faculty of Arts Equity and Diversity Committee from 2005 -2008. She serves on the Advertising Standards Board of Australia; the Board makes decisions about community complaints about advertisements.