Dr Ruth Jeanes is an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Education and Director of Initial Teacher Education. Ruth is a social scientist whose research interests focus on the use of sport and active recreation as a community development resource, particularly to address social exclusion amongst acutely marginalised groups.

Ruth's research has attracted a range of external funding. She is lead investigator on a recently awarded ARC Linkage grant 'Informal sport as a health and social resources amongst diverse young people' ($250,000) with co-investigators Dr Justen O' Connor, Professor Dawn Penney and Professor Ramon Spaaij and in partnership with VicHealth, Centre for Multicultural Youth, Cricket Victoria and the Department of local governernment, sport and cultural industries. This study builds on a recently completed project also funded by the ARC Linkage scheme ($200,000) for a project 'Participation versus performance: Managing (dis) ability, gender and cultural diversity in Junior Sport'. The grant team was led by Professor Ramon Spaaij from Victoria University.

• Sport and international development
• Social policy and sport
• Coaching and community development
• Gender, sport and physical education
• Research methodologies and young people
• Young people with disabilities, family and leisure

I am interested in supervising students at Honours, PhD and masters level in the broad areas of

• Sport and international development
• Social policy and sport
• Coaching and community development
• Gender, sport and physical education
• Research methodologies and young people
• Young people with disabilities, family and leisure

• EDF2172 Applied movement contexts in health and physical education 1
• EDF3172 Inclusion and Diversity in Movement contexts
• EDF3071 Community development and partnerships