Sue Webb is a Professor (Adjunct) of Education at Monash University. Now retired but still research active, her current research includes the following:

1. Continuing to publish research outputs from an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project DP170101885 entitled ‘Vocational institutions, undergraduate degrees: distinction or inequality?’ focusing on a comparative study of higher vocational education in colleges (non-university higher education providers) in Australia. This project aims to identify and understand the equity effects of broadening participation to undergraduate degrees through the recent expansion of higher education in vocational institutions. The outcomes provide relevant knowledge about the effects of this expansion on creating opportuntities for more equity groups to obtain degrees and for the higher education system to better drive national innovation and economic restructuring in ways that give a fairer chance to all equity groups to participate. Professor Webb leads this project with two CIs: Dr Shaun Rawolle (Deakin University) and Dr Steven Hodge (Griffiths University); Research Fellow: Dr Elizabeth Knight (Monash University); and Partner Investigators: Professor Trevor Gale (University of Glasgow, Scotland); and Professor Ann-Marie Bathmaker (University of Birmingham, England)

2.  A longitudinal study of people from a refugee background and their experiences of accessing higher education and employment in Australia. (A Monash University, Faculty of Education funded study with Professor Jane Wilkinson, Dr Karen Dunwoodie, Deakin University; Dr Kristin Reimer, Monash University; Dr Mervi Kaukko Tampere University, Finland).

Previous funded projects include:

1. 'Geographical and regional dimensions of social inclusion: the role of education and training'. This program of work included a project on skilled migration in regional Australia and the role of education and training in the social inclusion of skilled migrants, especially women, as well as, a strand of work on post school participation of young people from low socio-economic status groups in outer metropolitan and regional Victoria and South Australia. Category 1 competitive funding from the National Centre for Vocational Education and Training Research (NCVER) for a project on the ‘Geographical dimensions of social inclusion in education and training in Australia’ (NR11104-21043 2011 -2014). 

2. Vocational transitions in further and higher education: the role of vocational qualifications in widening participation in England. This project is examining the effect of a policy initiative in England to widen participation through the establishment of Lifelong Learning Networks comprising partnerships between further and higher education institutions.