Education policy particularly in relation to globalisation and socio-cultural change
Socio-cultural studies of diverse youthful identities and education
Education, media and consumer cultures
Elite Schools around the world and the formation of transnational elites

Jane Kenway is Emeritus Professor at Monash University, a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Australia and a Life Member of the Australian Association for Research in Education. While employed at Monash she was Professorial Fellow with the Australian Research Council, a Professor in the Education Faculty and Associate Dean: Research. Her research expertise is in socio-cultural studies of education in the context of wider social and cultural change with an emphasis on power and politics. Her most recent work focusses on school funding policies in Australia. She has won many prestigious grants for her research. Her jointly written books include Class Choreographies: Elite Schools and Globalisation (Palgrave MacMillan: 2018). Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis (Palgrave, 2006), Haunting the Knowledge Economy (Routledge, 2006) and Consuming Children: Education-Advertising-Entertainment, (Open University Press, 2001). Her jointly edited books include Elite Schools: Multiple Geographies of Privilege, (2016 Routledge), Elite schools in globalising circumstances: New Conceptual Directions and Connections (Routledge, 2016), Asia as Method in Education Studies: A Defiant Research Imagination, (Routledge 2015) and Globalising the Research Imagination (Routledge, 2009). She has published numerous book chapters and journal articles including in British Journal of the Sociology of Education, Gender and Education, Journal of Education Policy, Social and Cultural Geography, Globalisation, Education and Societies, Emotion, Space and Society, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.