Deirdre Tedmanson

Prof Deirdre Tedmanson

Dean: Work Integrated Learning

School of Management

College of Business and Law

Available For Media Comment.

Hi there!
It is a great honour to be Dean of WIL for UniSA Business, STEM, Justice & Society; Education Futures; and Creative. My position is  located in UniSA Business and is a role I enjoy and feel a great passion for. 
Before working in this position I have held the positions of Dean of Programs, UniSA JUS, prior to which I had the great privilege to undertake the roles of Academic Director with UniSA College; Associate Head of School (Academic) for the School of Psychology, Social Work + Social Policy, where I was also a Senior Lecturer and later Associate Professor (Social Policy). It was also my privilege to have undertaken earlier work as a lecturer in the the David Uniapon College of Indigenous Education and Research. My experience prior to academe has included work in community development, research, policy, and management positions in  both the community sector and State Government, as well as working in Australia's Commonwealth Parliament as a senior political advisor.
As well as my focus on all matters related to student employability; teaching and learning; and industry engagement, I am also an active researcher with a strong focus on social policy, Aboriginal community development, governance and wellbeing and enterprise development. My collaborative research has included ARC Discovery and Linkage projects; extensive CRC experience (Desert Knowledge CRC; Young and Well CRC and Remote and Economic CRC); AHURI projects and a range of community and industry partnership research projects.
I'd like to share with you a little of the values that animate my teaching and research activities; I passionately believe, as Freire (1985) tells us, that "besides being an act of knowing, education is a political act". As academics we have a unique privilege, a special opportunity and a gentle but constant duty to ourselves and each other to pursue excellence, fun and social justice in all areas of our scholarship :)
- Deirdre (she/her/hers) 

My research interests include: social policy and practice; Indigenous enterprise development, governance and rights; Indigenous community development, social and mental health well-being (including substance misuse and alternative epistemologies); Indigenous alternative care and organisational development; socio-cultural aspects of entrepreneurship and social enterprise; human service systems and project management; volunteering and social capital; postcolonial theory; critical management studies; the political economy of violence and power; environmental and social justice and participatory action research methodologies.

Year Citation
2024 George, R., D'Alessandro, S., Mehmet, M. I., Nikidehaghani, M., Evans, M. M., Laud, G., & Tedmanson, D. (2024). On the path to decolonizing health care services: the role of marketing. Journal Of Marketing, 88(1), 138-159.
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2018 Bryant, L., Garnham, B., Tedmanson, D., & Diamandi, S. (2018). Tele-social work and mental health in rural and remote communities in Australia. International social work, 61(1), 143-155.
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2017 Verduyn, K., Dey, P., & Tedmanson, D. (2017). A critical understanding of entrepreneurship. Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat, 16(1), 37-45.
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2015 Tedmanson, D., Essers, C., Dey, P., & Verduyn, K. (2015). An uncommon wealth . . .transforming the commons with purpose, for people and not for profit!. Journal of management inquiry, 24(4), 439-444.
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2014 Parkes, A., McRae Williams, E., & Tedmanson, D. (2014). Dreams and aspirations of mobile young Aboriginal Australian people. Journal of youth studies, 18(6), 763-776.
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2014 Verduijn, K., Dey, P., Tedmanson, D. J., & Essers, C. (2014). Emancipation and/or oppression? Conceptualizing dimensions of criticality in entrepreneurship studies. International journal of entrepreneurial behaviour and research, 20(2), 98-107.
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2014 Essers, C., & Tedmanson, D. J. (2014). Upsetting 'Others' in the Netherlands: Narratives of Muslim Turkish migrant businesswomen at the crossroads of ethnicity, gender and religion. Gender, work and organization, 21(4), 353-367.
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2012 Tedmanson, D. J., Verduyn, K., Essers, C., & Gartner, W. B. (2012). Critical perspectives in entrepreneurship research. Organization, 19(5), 531-641.
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2011 Tedmanson, D. J., & Guerin, P. (2011). Enterprising social wellbeing: social entrepreneurial and strengths based approaches to mental health and wellbeing in 'remote' Indigenous community contexts. Australasian psychiatry, 19(Supplement 1), 30-33.
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2011 Guerin, P., Guerin, B., Tedmanson, D., & Clark, Y. (2011). How can country, spirituality, music and arts contribute to Indigenous mental health and wellbeing?. Australasian Psychiatry, 19(Suppl 1), S38-S41.
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2010 Tedmanson, D., & Wadiwel, D. (2010). Neoptolemus : the governmentality of new race/pleasure wars?. Culture and Organization, 16(1), 7-22.
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2010 Banerjee, S., & Tedmanson, D. J. (2010). Grass burning under our feet : Indigenous enterprise development in a political economy of whiteness. Management Learning, 41(2), 147-165.
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2009 Tedmanson, D. J. (2009). Analysing qualitative data in psychology. Australian journal of adult learning, 49(1), 224-228.
2009 Tedmanson, D. J. (2009). M. C. Dillon and N. D. Westbury : Beyond humbug : transforming government engagement with Indigenous Australia. Geojournal, 74(5), 491-494.
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2009 Tedmanson, D. J. (2009). Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh and Saleem Ali Earth matters : Indigenous peoples, the extractive industries and corporate social responsibility. Organization studies, 30(9), 1009-1012.
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2009 Guerin, P., Guerin, B., Tedmanson, D. J., & Clark, Y. (2009). How Do We Think about Indigenous Mental Health in Rural and Remote Communities. STATEing Women's Health, 8-13.
2008 Tedmanson, D. J. (2008). Isle of exception : sovereign power and Palm Island. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 4(2-3), 142-165.
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2008 Goodwin Smith, I., & Tedmanson, D. (2008). Big Foot, first term Labor and questions of national identity. On line opinion, 1-2.
2006 Bryant, L., & Tedmanson, D. J. (2006). Drilling down : diversity in the mining industry : exploring the barriers to gender and indigenous diversity in the Australian mining industry. International journal of knowledge, culture and change management.
2006 Jouve, D., Bryant, L., Gill, J., & Tedmanson, D. J. (2006). If I don't speak to my child in my own language then who will? Kanak woman writing culture for children. Kunapipi Journal of postcolonial writing.
2004 Kerr, L., & Tedmanson, D. J. (2004). Volunteering and cultural diversity: experiences and perceptions of volunteering in indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse communties. International journal of diversity in organisations, communities and nations..
2003 Kerr, L., & Tedmanson, D. J. (2003). 'Active citizenship', social capital and diversity : when volunteering falls 'outside the square'. Australian journal on volunteering.
2001 Kerr, L., Savelsberg, H. J., Sparrow, S. R., & Tedmanson, D. J. (2001). Celebrating diversity : experiences and perceptions of volunteering in Indigenous and non-English speaking background communities. Australian journal on volunteering.

Year Citation
2022 Zufferey, C., & Tedmanson, D. (2022). Belonging, home and young people. In Source details - Title: The Complexities of Home in Social Work (pp. 122-135). UK: Routledge.
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2020 Masocha, S., Hetz, H., & Tedmanson, D. (2020). (Re)imagining new spaces for anti-racist social work: policy deliberation as practice. In G. Singh, & S. Masocha (Eds.), Source details - Title: Anti-Racist Social Work: International Perspectives (pp. 35-56). UK: Red Globe Press.
2020 Bryant, L., Garnham, B., Tedmanson, D., & Diamandi, S. (2020). Social work and tele-mental health services for rural and remote communities. In T. A. Rashid, C. Chakraborty, & K. Fraser (Eds.), Source details - Title: Advances in Telemedicine for Health Monitoring: Technologies, Design and Applications (pp. 133-147). UK: Institution of Engineering & Technology.
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2019 Baak, M., Summers, R., Masocha, S., Tedmanson, D., Gale, P., Pieters, J., & Kuac, A. (2019). Surveillance, belonging and community spaces for young people from refugee backgrounds in Australia. In S. Habib, & M. R. M. Ward (Eds.), Source details - Title: Youth, place and theories of belonging (pp. 25-38). UK: Routledge.
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2017 Tedmanson, D., & Evans, M. (2017). Challenging leadership in discourses of Indigenous entrepreneurship in Australia. In C. Essers, P. Dey, D. Tedmanson, & K. Verduyn (Eds.), Source details - Title: Critical perspectives on entrepreneurship: challenging dominant discourses (pp. 91-107). UK: Routledge.
2017 Essers, C., Dey, P., Tedmanson, D., & Verduyn, K. (2017). Critical entrepreneurship studies: a manifesto. In C. Essers, P. Dey, D. Tedmanson, & K. Verduyn (Eds.), Source details - Title: Critical perspectives on entrepreneurship: challenging dominant discourses (pp. 1-14). UK: Routledge.
2016 Tedmanson, D., & Fejo King, C. (2016). Talking up and listening well: dismantling whiteness and building reflexivity. In N. Wendt (Ed.), Source details - Title: Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work (pp. 149-165). UK: Routledge.
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2016 King, S., & Tedmanson, D. (2016). Feminism and the delivery of human services. In N. Wendt (Ed.), Source details - Title: Contemporary Feminisms in Social Work Practice (pp. 70-81). UK: Routledge.
2016 Tedmanson, D., & Essers, C. (2016). Challenging constructions of entrepreneurial identities. In H. Landstrom (Ed.), Source details - Title: Challenging Entrepreneurship Research (pp. 210-233). UK: Routledge.
2015 Tedmanson, D. (2015). Ngapartji Ngapartji - Narratives of reciprocity in 'Yarning Up' participatory research. In L. Bryant (Ed.), Source details - Title: Critical and creative research methodologies in social work (pp. 75-92). UK: Ashgate.
2015 Tedmanson, D., & Essers, C. (2015). Entrepreneurship and diversity. In R. Bendl (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organisations (pp. 388-407). US: Oxford University Press.
2014 Wood, D., Tedmanson, D., Underwood, B., Minutjukur, M., & Tjitayi, K. (2014). The Aṉangu Tertiary Education Program in remote northwest South Australia : a CHAT perspective. In V. Bozalek (Ed.), Source details - Title: Activity theory, authentic learning and emerging technologies: towards a transformative higher education pedagogy (pp. 32-45). US: Routledge.
2014 Tedmanson, D. (2014). Enterprising social work : social enterprise action research with remote indigenous communities in Australia. In S. Hessle (Ed.), Source details - Title: Environmental change and sustainable social development: social work-social development Volume 11 (Vol. II, pp. 119-124). England: Ashgate.
2014 Tedmanson, D. (2014). Indigenous social entrepreneurship : resilience and renewal. In S. Douglas, & H. Grant (Eds.), Source details - Title: Social entrepreneurship and enterprise: concepts in context (pp. 173-193). Prahran, Victoria: Tilde University Press.
2013 Higgins Desbiolles, F., Whyte, K. P., & Tedmanson, D. (2013). Tourism and environmental justice. In D. Dustin, & K. Schwab (Eds.), Source details - Title: Just leisure: things that we believe in (pp. 91-100). Illinois, United States: Sagamore.
2013 Wadiwel, D. J., & Tedmanson, D. (2013). Food in Australia's Northern Territory emergency response: a Goucauldian perspective on the biopolitics of new race/pleasure wars. In R. Slocum, & A. Saldanha (Eds.), Source details - Title: Geographies of race and food: fields, bodies, markets (pp. 227-243). England: Ashgate.
2011 Tedmanson, D. (2011). Empowering women empowering cultures. In P. Werhane, & M. Painter-Morland (Eds.), Source details - Title: Issues in Business Ethics: Leadership, Gender, and Organization (Vol. 27, pp. 209-229). United States: Springer.
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2011 Tedmanson, D. J. (2011). Whose capacity needs building?. In A. Prasad (Ed.), Source details - Title: Against the grain: advances in postcolonial organization studies (pp. 249-275). Copenhagen: Copenhagen School of Business Press.

  • Culturally and linguistically Inclusive Placement Learning: Mentored Business Placements for International Students in Post-Covid Era, National Association of Field Experience Administrators Inc., 17/01/2024 - 31/12/2024

  • Redesign of a homelessness services system for young people, Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute, 02/04/2018 - 31/08/2019

  • Community of Schools and Youth Services Early Intervention Program, SA Dept of Human Services, 01/02/2017 - 31/12/2018

  • Position: Dean: Work Integrated Learning
  • Email: deirdre.tedmanson@adelaide.edu.au
  • Alternative Contact: Jayne French: Executive Officer    Email: Jayne.French@unisa.edu.au

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