Dr. Judith Wilks, BTRP(Melb)GradDipEd(UNE) GradDipSocSci(Swinburne) PhD(Melb) Judith is a lecturer and course coordinator in the School of Education's Secondary Education Program. Coming from a Geography background she worked for many years as an Environmental Planner. She has also taught in a range of Geography, Sociology and Environmental Planning courses at the University of Melbourne, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the University of Otago, and the University of New England. Judith has also taught a wide range of HSIE subjects from Year 7 – 12 in NSW high schools in the state and catholic education systems. In 2007 she won the NSW Premier’s Energy Australia Environmental Education Teacher Scholarship to travel to Italy and the UK to study leading practice in UNICEF’s Creating Child Friendly Cities initiatives. In 2008 Judith was awarded a Learning and Teaching Fellowship in the SCU School of Education to undertake a project titled Curriculum renewal in the secondary curriculum specialisation units. In August 2008 she won the "Geoff Connolly Memorial Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Geography Bulletin of the NSW Geography Teachers Association" for an HSC Geography Case Study on Mangrove Ecosystems. In 2009 Judith won this award for a second time for an HSC Geography Case Study on Rome. In 2008/2009 Judith was successful in obtaining research funding from: the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth; the Higher Education Equity Support Program; and the Southern Cross University Teaching and Learning Small Grant Scheme. Judith’s current research interests include: access and participation in higher education for young people from backgrounds of disadvantage; active civics and citizenship education; child friendly cities; and participatory methodologies for young people.
Journal articles
Child-friendly cities: a place for active citizenship in geographical and environmental education, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (2010)
This research was designed to investigate innovative practices associated with child-friendly cities initiatives in the...
A review of “Child space: an anthropological exploration of young people's use of space”, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (2009)
Putting the ‘active’ back into civics and citizenship education in NSW, Geography Bulletin (2009)
Blinded by technology, Independent Education (2008)
Technology - how should teachers be using it? When should they be using it? Where...
Creating child friendly cities - innovations for secondary geography curriculum, PEEL Seeds (2008)
In May/June of this year I undertook a study tour to the UK and Italy....
Book chapters