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Dr Sally Baker

Senior Lecturer

PhD

MRes (Education)

MA, Applied Linguistics

PGCE (Post-Compulsory)

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)

School of Education

Sally Baker is a Senior��Lecturer of Language and��Literacies in the School of Education. She is the Education focal point in��the Forced Migration Research Network (FMRN@��¼�) and is the Chair of the Refugee Education Special Interest Group (http://refugee-education.org).

Sally's��research��explores��issues of equity in higher education, with her research and advocacy��interests including refugee education higher education equity and language policy,��the educational experiences of students from culturally and linguistically diverse migrant and refugee (CALDMR)��backgrounds,��academic language and literacies (ALL), transitions, methodological + ethical��issues with research in 'fragile contexts',��and qualitative longitudinal research.

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E-mail

sally.baker@unsw.edu.au

Location

G30 Morven Brown

Books | 2023

Baker S; Burke R, 2023, Questioning Care in Higher Education: Resisting Definitions as Radical,

Books | 2018

Stevenson J; Baker S, 2018, Refugees in Higher Education Debate, Discourse and Practice, Emerald Group Publishing
Book Chapters | 2024

Burke R; Baker S; Molla T, 2024, 'Reexamining engagement in Australian higher education: insights from students with Culturally and Linguistically Marginalised Migrant and/or Refugee (CALMMR) backgrounds', in Research Handbook on Student Engagement in Higher Education, pp. 167 - 181,

Book Chapters | 2024

Mupenzi A; Baker S, 2024, 'Conflicting demands of settlement and tertiary education in Australia for refugee background students? A critical metaphor analysis', in Silencing Refugees' Voices in Educational Practices: Perspectives on School Textbooks, pp. 153 - 175,

Book Chapters | 2023

Baker S; Naidoo L; Azordegan JM, 2023, 'Education in Australia for forced migrants: Examining the differences in entitlements between permanent and temporary protection', in Research Handbook on Migration and Education, pp. 509 - 524

Book Chapters | 2023

Baker S; Shda S, 2023, 'Modifying an integration framework to enhance refugee student engagement in settlement higher education contexts: The case of Australia', in Research Handbook on the Student Experience in Higher Education, pp. 404 - 419,

Book Chapters | 2019

Lenette C; Baker S; Hirsch A, 2019, 'Systemic policy barriers to meaningful participation of students from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds in Australian higher education: Neoliberal settlement and language policies and (deliberate?) challenges for meaningful participation', in McBrien J (ed.), Educational Policies and Practices of English-Speaking Refugee Resettlement Countries, Brill / Sense, pp. 88 - 109,

Book Chapters | 2019

Ollerhead S; Baker S, 2019, 'Is there any appetite for "linguistic hospitality" in monolingual educational spaces?: the case for translanguaging in Australian higher education', in Anderson V; Johnson H (ed.), Migration, Education, and Translation Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Human Mobility and Cultural Encounters in Education Settings, Routledge, LondonA, pp. 145 - 160

Book Chapters | 2018

Baker S, 2018, 'Transition in Students’ Reading and Writing: The Case of A-Levels to University in the UK', in Spelman Miller K; Stevenson M (ed.), Transitions in Writing, Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, pp. 11 - 46,

Book Chapters | 2016

Baker S; Cremin T, 2016, 'Teachers' identities as writers: Teacher, support staff and pupil accounts of the role of emotion in the writing classroom', in Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing, pp. 98 - 114,
Journal articles | 2025

Arnup JL; Edwards B; Baker S, 2025, 'On Widening Participation in Higher Education: A National Examination of Equity Initiatives in Australian Secondary Schools', Australian Journal of Education,

Journal articles | 2025

Baker S; Baak M; Burke R; Hartley L; Kindon S; Naidoo L; Phipps A; Ziersch A, 2025, 'Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education', Higher Education Research and Development,

Journal articles | 2025

Baker S; Blunden H; Hoenig J; Ring K; Xavier A, 2025, '“If we can grow them here it just makes sense”: Disrupting higher education narratives through Country University Centres in regional and rural Australia', International Journal of Educational Research, 131,

Journal articles | 2025

Balloo K; Heron M; Baker S, 2025, 'Awareness, understandings, and teaching practices surrounding academic oracy in university preparation pathways', Higher Education Research and Development, 44, pp. 823 - 837,

Journal articles | 2025

Molla T; Baker S, 2025, 'Refugees and the Right to Education: Reflections on International Frameworks and the Australian Context', Current Issues in Comparative Education, 26,

Journal articles | 2024

Baker S; Burke R; Cabiles B; Fox A; Molla T, 2024, 'Navigating institutional ethics processes: Insights from higher degree by research students and supervisors doing research in fragile contexts', Qualitative Research,

Journal articles | 2024

Baker S; Due C; Karan P; Rose M, 2024, 'Teaching for diversity: university educators’ accounts of care work and emotional labour with CALD students', Teaching in Higher Education, 29, pp. 567 - 583,

Journal articles | 2024

Baker S; Gunn Watkinson M; Honeyman F; Mowll J; Tyulkina S, 2024, 'Rethinking student engagement for ‘hyflex’ teaching and learning in post-compulsory settings: acknowledging flexibility and agency needed for unplanned events', International Journal of Lifelong Education, 43, pp. 432 - 447,

Journal articles | 2024

Baker S; Naidoo L, 2024, 'Developing trauma-informed university supports for refugee background students in Australia: Refocusing through an ethics of care lens', Australian Educational Researcher, 51, pp. 799 - 814,

Journal articles | 2024

Burke R; Baker S; Molla T; Cabiles B; Fox A, 2024, 'How do higher degree research students and supervisors navigate ethics-in-practice for educational research in sensitive or ‘fragile’ contexts?', British Educational Research Journal, 50, pp. 837 - 854,

Journal articles | 2024

Kilmartin S; McCredie T; Baker S; Laffernis F; Due C, 2024, 'Supporting Those Who Provide Support: What Do University Student-Facing Staff Say About Training for Working with Diverse Cohorts?', Student Success, 15, pp. 73 - 85,

Journal articles | 2024

Marangell S; Venturin B; Baik C; Baker S; Croucher G; Arkoudis S, 2024, 'Students’ attitudes toward diversity in higher education: Findings from a scoping review', Issues in Educational Research, 34, pp. 97 - 122

Journal articles | 2024

Murray R; Baker S, 2024, 'Disrupting binary thinking about sanctuary initiatives in the UK and Australia: insights from a Derridean analysis of hostipitality', Critical Studies in Education, 65, pp. 531 - 549,

Journal articles | 2024

Stevenson A; Baker S, 2024, 'What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis', Learning, Media and Technology,

Journal articles | 2023

Alonzo D; Baker S; Knipe S; Bottrell C, 2023, 'A scoping study relating Australian secondary schooling, educational disadvantage and assessment for learning', Issues in Educational Research, 33, pp. 874 - 896

Journal articles | 2023

Baker S; Bellemore P; Morgan S, 2023, 'Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care', Women S Studies International Forum, 98,

Journal articles | 2023

Baker S; Rose M; Due C; Karan P, 2023, 'Avoiding stuck places: Univ oiding stuck places: University educat ersity educators’ views on suppor ors’ views on supporting migr ting migrant and refugee students with transitioning through and out of higher education', Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 20,

Journal articles | 2023

Baker S; Xavier A; Due C; Dunwoodie K; Newman A, 2023, 'Disrupting assumptions about graduate employability: exploring culturally and linguistically diverse university students’ graduate capitals in Australia', Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 45, pp. 174 - 191,

Journal articles | 2023

Berg J; Grüttner M; Baker S, 2023, 'Durable supports for refugees in higher education through resisting short-termism and organisational memory loss: illustrative cases from Australia and Germany', Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 45, pp. 36 - 52,

Journal articles | 2023

Burke R; Baker S; Hartley L; Field RS, 2023, 'What do we know about how women with forced migration experiences access tertiary education in resettlement contexts? A scoping study', Gender and Education, 35, pp. 215 - 233,

Journal articles | 2023

Heron M; Baker S; Gravett K; Irwin E, 2023, 'Scoping academic oracy in higher education: knotting together forgotten connections to equity and academic literacies', Higher Education Research and Development, 42, pp. 62 - 77,

Journal articles | 2023

Marey T; Baker S; Williams LA; Tzelios K, 2023, 'Equity and STEM in elite contexts: challenging institutional assumptions and critiquing student support', International Journal of Inclusive Education, 27, pp. 1576 - 1591,

Journal articles | 2023

Olliff L; Block K; Baker S; Edwards C; Tran J, 2023, 'The Australian Research on Refugee Integration Database (ARRID): a Platform and Conceptual Framework to Map, Connect and Share Knowledge', Journal of International Migration and Integration, 24, pp. 403 - 423,

Journal articles | 2023

Ramdani JM; Baker S; Gao X, 2023, 'Exploratory Practice as a Professional Development Strategy for English-Language Teachers in Indonesia', Relc Journal, 54, pp. 340 - 355,

Journal articles | 2023

Tani Bertuol M; Wang B; Baker S; Higgins C; Cousins S; Cheng Z; Jack VA, 2023, 'Refugees as skilled migrants: insights from Australia’s 2018 employer-sponsored refugee migration pilot', Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement, 170, pp. 323 - 338,

Journal articles | 2022

Baker S; Anderson J; Burke R; De Fazio T; Due C; Hartley L; Molla T; Morison C; Mude W; Naidoo L; Sidhu R, 2022, 'Equitable teaching for cultural and linguistic diversity: exploring the possibilities for engaged pedagogy in post-COVID-19 higher education', Educational Review, 74, pp. 444 - 459,

Journal articles | 2022

Baker S; Irwin E; Hamilton E; Birman H, 2022, 'What do we know about enabling education as an alternative pathway into Australian higher education, and what more do we need to know? A meta-scoping study', Research Papers in Education, 37, pp. 321 - 343,

Journal articles | 2022

Dunwoodie K; Due C; Baker S; Newman A; Tran C, 2022, 'Supporting (or not) the career development of culturally and linguistically diverse migrants and refugees in universities: insights from Australia', International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 22, pp. 467 - 490,

Journal articles | 2022

Evans R; Baker S; Wood T, 2022, 'Expanding durable solutions for refugees: possibilities for developing education pathways in Australia', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 28, pp. 308 - 328,

Journal articles | 2022

Tani Bertuol M; Baker S; Higgins C; Cousins S, 2022, 'Refugees are a valuable but overlooked economic resource, and it is time to update our approach to migration', The Australian Economic Review, 55, pp. 273 - 280,

Journal articles | 2021

Baker S; Due C; Rose M, 2021, 'Transitions from education to employment for culturally and linguistically diverse migrants and refugees in settlement contexts: what do we know?', Studies in Continuing Education, 43, pp. 1 - 15,

Journal articles | 2021

Baker S; Field C; Lee JS; Saintilan N; Saintilan N, 2021, 'Supporting students’ academic literacies in post-covid-19 times: Developing digital videos to develop students’ critical academic reading practices', Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 18, pp. 35 - 49,

Journal articles | 2021

Baker S; Field R; Burke R; Hartley L; Fleay C, 2021, 'Discursive constructions of equity in Australian higher education: Imagined worlds and the case of people seeking asylum', British Educational Research Journal, 47, pp. 836 - 854,

Journal articles | 2021

Baker S; Irwin E, 2021, 'Disrupting the dominance of ‘linear pathways’: how institutional assumptions create ‘stuck places’ for refugee students’ transitions into higher education', Research Papers in Education, 36, pp. 75 - 95,

Journal articles | 2021

Baker S; Ulpen T; Irwin EL, 2021, 'A viable equity mechanism for all? Exploring the diversity of entry requirements and supports in Australian enabling education', Higher Education Research and Development, 40, pp. 932 - 946,

Journal articles | 2020

Baker S; Irwin E; Freeman H, 2020, 'Wasted, manipulated and compressed time: adult refugee students’ experiences of transitioning into Australian higher education', Journal of Further and Higher Education, 44, pp. 528 - 541,

Journal articles | 2020

Burke R; Fleay C; Baker S; Hartley L; Field R, 2020, 'Facilitating access to higher education for people seeking asylum in Australia: Institutional and community responses', Refuge, 36, pp. 58 - 68,

Journal articles | 2020

Fox A; Baker S; Charitonos K; Jack V; Moser-Mercer B, 2020, 'Ethics-in-practice in fragile contexts: Research in education for displaced persons, refugees and asylum seekers', British Educational Research Journal, 46, pp. 829 - 847,

Journal articles | 2020

Mupenzi A; Mude W; Baker S, 2020, 'Reflections on COVID-19 and impacts on equitable participation: the case of culturally and linguistically diverse migrant and/or refugee (CALDM/R) students in Australian higher education', Higher Education Research and Development, 39, pp. 1337 - 1341,

Journal articles | 2019

Baker S; Ramsay G; Lenette C, 2019, 'Students from Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds and Meaningful Participation in Higher Education: From Peripheral to Fundamental Concern', Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 21, pp. 4 - 19,

Journal articles | 2019

Burke R; Shaw E; Baker S, 2019, 'Literacy autobiographies in pre-service teacher education: opportunities for therapeutic writing in widening participation contexts', Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 21, pp. 151 - 161,

Journal articles | 2019

Hartley L; Baker S; Fleay C; Burke R, 2019, ''My study is the purpose of continuing my life': The experience of accessing university for people seeking asylum in Australia', Australian Universities Review, 61, pp. 4 - 13,

Journal articles | 2019

Ramsay G; Baker S, 2019, 'Higher education and students from refugee backgrounds: A meta-scoping study', Refugee Survey Quarterly, 38, pp. 55 - 82,

Journal articles | 2019

2019, 'Ethics and consent in settlement service delivery', Forced Migration Review, 61, pp. 26 - 27,

Journal articles | 2018

Baker S; Bangeni B; Burke R; Hunma A, 2018, 'The invisibility of academic reading as social practice and its implications for equity in higher education: a scoping study', Higher Education Research and Development, 38, pp. 142 - 156,

Journal articles | 2018

Baker S; Irwin E; Dantas J; Taiwo M; Gower S; Singh S, 2018, 'Context and Implications Document for: Methodological diversity as an asset for transition-focused higher education research with students from refugee backgrounds', British E,

Journal articles | 2018

Baker S; Irwin E; Dantas J; Taiwo M; Gower S; Singh S, 2018, 'Methodological diversity as an asset for transition-focused higher education research with students from refugee backgrounds', British Educational Research Journal,

Journal articles | 2018

Baker S; Irwin E; Freeman H; Nance S; Coleman J, 2018, 'Building cultural and linguistic bridges: Reflections on a program designed to support adult students from refugee backgrounds’ transitions into university', Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 12, pp. A64 - A80,

Journal articles | 2018

Baker S; Ramsay G; Irwin E; Miles L, 2018, '’Hot’, ’Cold’ and ’Warm’ supports: Towards theorising where refugee students go for assistance at university', Teaching in Higher Education, 23, pp. 1 - 16,

Journal articles | 2018

Baker S, 2018, 'Shifts in the treatment of knowledge in academic reading and writing: adding complexity to students’ transitions between A-levels and university in the UK', Arts and Humanities in Higher Education,

Journal articles | 2018

Burke R; Thapliyal N; Baker S, 2018, 'The weaponisation of language: English proficiency, citizenship and the politics of belonging in Australia', Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 7, pp. 84 - 102,

Journal articles | 2018

Irwin E; Baker S; Carter B, 2018, 'What ‘counts’ as numeracy preparation in enabling education programs? Results of a national audit', Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 12, pp. A141 - A155,

Journal articles | 2018

Thapliyal N; Baker S, 2018, 'Research with former refugees Moving towards an ethics in practice', AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES REVIEW, 60, pp. 49 - 56

Journal articles | 2016

Baker S; Irwin E, 2016, 'Core or periphery? The positioning of language and literacies in enabling programs in Australia', Australian Educational Researcher, 43, pp. 487 - 503,

Journal articles | 2016

Baker S, 2016, 'Students’ writing ‘in transition’ from A-levels to university: how assessment drives students’ understandings, practices and discourses', Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 42, pp. 18 - 36,

Journal articles | 2014

Baker S; Brown BJ; Williams E, 2014, 'Illuminating a Resilient Rural Culture in Twentieth Century Y Fro Gymraeg Using Bourdieu's Bearn', Sociologia Ruralis, 54, pp. 40 - 56,

Journal articles | 2014

Cremin T; Baker S, 2014, 'Exploring the discursively constructed identities of a teacher-writer teaching writing', English Teaching, 13, pp. 30 - 55

Journal articles | 2013

Baker S, 2013, 'Conceptualising the use of Facebook in ethnographic research: As tool, as data and as context', Ethnography and Education, 8, pp. 131 - 145,

Journal articles | 2013

Baker S, 2013, 'Transitions and shifting understandings of writing: building rich pictures of how moving from school to university is experienced through exploration of students’ discourses of writing', Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 7, pp. A-35 - A-49,

Journal articles | 2011

Brown B; Baker S; Day G, 2011, 'Lives Beyond Suspicion: Gender and the Construction of Respectability in Mid‐twentieth Century Rural North Wales', Sociologia Ruralis, 51, pp. 370 - 386,

Journal articles | 2010

Cremin T; Baker S, 2010, 'Exploring teacher-writer identities in the classroom: Conceptualising the struggle', English Teaching, 9, pp. 8 - 25

Journal articles | 2009

Baker S; Brown B, 2009, 'Harbingers of feminism? Gender, cultural capital and education in mid‐twentieth‐century rural Wales', Gender and Education, 21, pp. 63 - 79,

Journal articles | 2008

Baker S; Brown BJ, 2008, 'Habitus and Homeland: Educational Aspirations, Family Life and Culture in Autobiographical Narratives of Educational Experience in Rural Wales', Sociologia Ruralis, 48, pp. 57 - 72,

Journal articles | 2007

Baker S; Brown B, 2007, 'Images of excellence: constructions of institutional prestige and reflections in the university choice process', British Journal of Sociology of Education, 28, pp. 377 - 391,

Journal articles | 2006

Baker S; Brown BJ; Fazey JA, 2006, 'Mental health and higher education: Mapping field, consciousness and legitimation', Critical Social Policy, 26, pp. 31 - 56,

Journal articles | 2001

Baker S; Williams B; Jones D; Fazey J, 2001, 'The Pendine pathways project in the independent sector.', Nurs Stand, 15, pp. 41 - 42,

Journal articles |

Baker S; Brown B; Fazey JA, 'Individualization in the widening participation debate', London Review of Education, 4,

Journal articles |

Baker S; Stirling E, 'Liminal spaces, resources and networks Facebook as a shaping force for students' transitions into higher education', LEARNING AND TEACHING-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, 9, pp. 42 - 65,
Reports | 2023

Blunden H; Giuntoli G; Skattebol J; Katz I; Baker S; Lee J, 2023, Educational Pathways Program Evaluation - baseline report Executive Summary, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, , /content/dam/pdfs/unsw-adobe-websites/arts-design-architecture/ada-faculty/sprc/2023-11-epp-evaluation-exec-summary/2023-11-EPP-Evaluation-Exec-Summary-FINAL.pdf

Reports | 2022

2022, COVID-19 online learning landscapes and CALDMR students: Opportunities and challenges, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, Perth,

Reports | 2022

2022, Career Guidance for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Migrants and/or Refugees, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education,

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