Elizabeth Knight

About

Elizabeth Knight is a researcher and professional career development practitioner interested in how tertiary education engages in the labour market, taking a sociological perspective. Her work concerns equity of access to, in and from post-school education, employability and the implications in for career education in schooling. Now only engaged in academia on an honorary basis, much of her research is connected with work in tertiary institutions for the last twenty years as a career counsellor, disability support worker and academic registry professional staff member. As an active researacher she had a particular focus on the provision of institutional information and support for transition into post-compulsory education. She has written extensively on employability, access to career information (including digital engagement), support for non-traditional students in VET and higher education and the importance of place in educational transitions.

Work

Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

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Director

Australia

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Victoria University

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Senior Research Fellow (Honorary)

Australia

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James Cook University

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Senior Lecturer, Career Education

Australia

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Victoria University

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Senior Research Fellow

Australia

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Monash University

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Research Fellow

Australia

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Education

Monash University

Australia
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PhD

Publications

Differentiation through innovation in the contemporary higher education environment: The case of the ‘Victoria University Block Model®’

Innovations in Education and Teaching International

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University student engagement and disability

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Forty Years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, Volume II

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Introduction— Lifelong education research over 40 years: insights from the International Journal of Lifelong Education

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Shaping the field of lifelong education through three critical debates in the International Journal of Lifelong Education

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Sustainability: implications for career development

International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance

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Care-experienced students and equity support provision: an investigation of Australian university websites

Journal of Marketing for Higher Education

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Do organisation career support programs draw on career guidance practices? A reading of career support programs for students and families of refugee and new migrant backgrounds

Australian Journal of Career Development

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The future of tertiary education: Australia and beyond

International Journal of Training Research

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Career Activities and the Wellbeing of Young People in Australia

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Policy Reflections on Young People’s Career Development and Wellbeing: An Enquiry Across National Education Systems Based on Longitudinal Data

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Setting the Context on Young People’s Career Development and Wellbeing

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What’s in a name – lifelong education or development?

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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The impact of pre-entry work experience on university students’ perceived employability

Journal of Further and Higher Education

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Books, book reviews and oppression

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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Civic lifelong education: fostering informed citizenship amidst global challenges and democratic transformations

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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The European year of skills 2023: skills for now and in the future?

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students

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Imagining the futures for lifelong education under the “promissory legitimacy” of international organisations

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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Lifelong, lifewide learning for the new abnormal and how digital fits

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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Lifelong education research over 40 years: insights from the International Journal of Lifelong Education

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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Shaping the field of lifelong education through three critical debates in the International Journal of Lifelong Education

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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Rationalities that underpin employability provision in higher education across eight countries

Higher Education

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School choice to religiously discriminate: religiopolitical activism and secularism in public schooling

Journal of Educational Administration and History

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Theorising adults, theorising learning

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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About University Career Services’ Interaction with EdTech

Digital Transformation and Disruption of Higher Education

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Inherent requirements in higher education: locating You in Us

Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education

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Higher Education in Vocational Institutions in Australia: What’s Going On?

Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

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Introduction

Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

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The homogenisation of prospectuses over the period of massification in the UK

Journal of Marketing for Higher Education

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Equity and Access to High Skills through Higher Vocational Education

Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

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Does Regionality Influence Students' Perceived Employability and Career Orientation?

Australian and International Journal of Rural Education

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Exploring students’ feelings of place

Australian and International Journal of Rural Education

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Exploring students' feelings of place

Australian and International Journal of Rural Education

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Understanding the career decision making of university students enrolled in STEM disciplines

Australian Journal of Career Development

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University and society: interdependencies and exchange

International Journal of Lifelong Education

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Graduate employability and the career thinking of university STEMM students

Teaching in Higher Education

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Business students’ thinking about their studies and future careers

Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education

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The role of hybrid learning spaces in enhancing higher education students’ employability

British Journal of Educational Technology

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Bachelor degree participation in vocational institutions: examining the determinants of participation

International Journal of Training Research

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‘A degree is a degree’: understanding vocational institution’s bachelor degrees in Australia’s high participation system

International Journal of Training Research

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Tracing the changing value of higher education through English prospectuses 1976–2013

Higher Education Research & Development

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Pedagogies for employability: understanding the needs of STEM students through a new approach to employability development

Higher Education Pedagogies

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Massification, Marketisation and Loss of Differentiation in Pre-Entry Marketing Materials in UK Higher Education

Social Sciences

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Marketing graduate employability: understanding the tensions between institutional practice and external messaging

Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management

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When rubrics aren’t enough: Exploring exemplars and student rubric co-construction

Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy

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How do research-intensive universities portray employability strategies? A review of their websites

Australian Journal of Career Development

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