Seth Brown

Dr. Seth Brown

Lecturer

Details

  • College: School of Education
  • Department: School of Education
  • Campus: Bundoora West Australia
  • seth.brown@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dr Seth Brown is the Head of UNEVOC at RMIT University and is a lecturer in the School of Education.

He is an experienced academic with over 27 years of working in higher education. He has successfully maintained his profile through significant contributions through several grants and quality research outputs. 

He has been a chief investigator on projects funded by the New South Wales Department of Education, Hume Whittlesea Local Learning and Employment Network (LLEN), Inner Northern LLEN and through charitable organisations such as the Collier Charitable Fund and The Anthony Costa Foundation.

Research fields

  • 3904 Specialist studies in education
  • 3903 Education systems
  • 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy

UN sustainable development goals

  • 4 Quality Education
  • 5 Gender Equality
  • 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • 13 Climate Action
  • 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Supervisor projects

  • Pursuing Sustainable Futures in Vocational Textile Design Education
  • 29 Mar 2023
  • Leadership, Curriculum and Quality Education in Cambodian Higher Education: A Study of Sustainable Development in a Postcolonial Nation State
  • 29 Jun 2022
  • Educational Leadership and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Post-Colonial Pakistan
  • 29 Nov 2021
  • The Cultural Politics of Curriculum in Pakistan: The Challenges for Pluralism, Inclusion and the UN SDGs in a Post-colonial Context
  • 29 Nov 2021
  • Neoliberal Capitalism and the Government of Labour Market Skills: A Genealogy of Australia’s Foundation Skills Apparatus
  • 29 Nov 2021
  • Higher education and human capital in Vietnam: Modernity and Creativity
  • 20 Sep 2021
  • The Problem of Youth Unemployment in a De-Industrialising City: A Genealogy of Employability Skills, Innovation and Enterprise
  • 5 Mar 2019
  • Khawaja Sara and Hijra: Gender and Sexual Identity Formation in Postcolonial Islamic Pakistan
  • 2 Jan 2019

Research interests

Dr Brown's work is in the socio-cultural studies of education in the context of wider social and cultural change. His research examines the socio-cultural influences on identity construction with a focus on how the socio-ecologies of places shape (particularly young people’s) possibilities, options and choices around their health and wellbeing, resilience, and enterprise.

His research examines the socio-cultural influences on identity construction with a focus on how the socio-ecologies of places shape (particularly young people’s) possibilities, options and choices around their health and wellbeing, resilience, and enterprise.
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.