Wendy Bastalich

Dr Wendy Bastalich

Lecturer, Research Education

Graduate Research Training

Research and Innovation

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Welcome to my home page. I am a Research Education Lecturer with expertise in the areas of sociology, academic literacies, and higher education, particularly in the area of doctoral education. My role at the University is to design and provide research education support for international and domestic HDR students and supervisors. My work involves the delivery of EDGE writing, communication and methodology workshops and online resources.
I have published on different aspects of doctoral education including university-wide curriculum for research degrees, conceptualisations of quality supervision, and the impact of institutional, policy and regulatory atmospheres on doctoral education. I have also been interested in the impact of emerging education policy climates upon social science and humanities disciplines. 

Higher education research policy

Research training and curriculum

Research writing

Doctoral pedagogy

Research methodology in the social sciences and humanities

Gender, labour, economy

Year Citation
2025 Bastalich, W., & McCulloch, A. (2025). Doctoral induction: sociocultural context and the transition to the research degree. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 62(3), 1047-1059.
DOI Scopus3 WoS1
2024 Bastalich, W., & McCulloch, A. (2024). The ideal research degree supervisor 'can play any role': rethinking institutional orientation and induction for commencing doctoral students. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 61(3), 583-596.
DOI Scopus12 WoS9
2023 Bastalich, W. (2023). The devaluation of philosophical reflexivity in social research. Higher Education Research and Development, 42(7), 1565-1577.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2023 McCulloch, A., & Bastalich, W. (2023). Commencing research students' expectations and the design of doctoral induction: introducing inflections of collaboration and pleasure. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 47(5), 687-1698.
DOI Scopus8 WoS5
2017 Bastalich, W. (2017). Content and context in knowledge production: a critical review of doctoral supervision literature. Studies in higher education, 42(7), 1145-1157.
DOI Scopus135 WoS113
2016 Bastalich, W. (2016). Social philosophy curriculum in social science and humanities structured doctoral programmes. International journal for researcher development, 7(1), 15-29.
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2014 Bastalich, W., Behrend, M., & Bloomfield, R. (2014). Is non-subject based research training a 'waste of time', good only for the development of professional skills? An academic literacies perspective. Teaching in higher education, 19(4), 373-384.
DOI Scopus13 WoS5
2011 Bastalich, W. (2011). Beyond the local/general divide: English for academic purposes and process approaches to cross disciplinary, doctoral writing support. Higher education research and development, 30(4), 449-462.
DOI Scopus8 WoS7
2010 Bastalich, W. L. (2010). Knowledge economy and research innovation. Studies in higher education, 35(7), 845-857.
DOI Scopus42 WoS41
2009 Bastalich, W. L. (2009). Reading Foucault: genealogy and social science research methodology and ethics. Sociological Research Online: an electronic journal, 14(2), 1-11.
DOI Scopus25
2007 Bastalich, W. L., Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., Mills, J. E., & Sharp, R. D. (2007). Disrupting Masculinities: Women Engineers and Engineering Workplace Culture. Australian Feminist Studies, 22(54), 385-400.
DOI Scopus57 WoS37
2006 Mills, J. E., Bastalich, W. L., Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., & Sharp, R. D. (2006). Engineering in Australia : an uncomfortable experience for women. Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, 12(2-3), 135-154.
DOI Scopus22

Year Citation
2016 Bastalich, W. (2016). Does constant technological innovation drive growth and social well-being? Some responses from economics, business, higher education and economic sociology. In M. Picard, & A. McCulloch (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th biennial Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) conference (pp. 94-98). Adelaide, South Australia: QPR Organising Committee.
2016 Bastalich, W. (2016). Academic subjectivity and research writing. In M. Picard, & A. McCulloch (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th biennial Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) conference (pp. 91-94). Adelaide, South Australia: QPR Organising Committee.
2014 Bastalich, W. L. (2014). Research policy and the social sciences: De-theorising social research?. In ATINER'S Conference Paper Series, No: SOS2014-1247 (pp. 1-3). Greece: Athens Institute for Education and Research.
2010 Bastalich, W. L., Behrend, M. B., Bloomfield, R. J., Ford, J. H., Loeser, C. J., & McCulloch, A. J. A. (2010). Communicating research: audiences, academics and research students. In Proceedings of the 2010 9th Quality in Postgraduate research Conference: Educating Researchers in the 21st Century (pp. 207-215). Adelaide, South Australia: Centre for Educational Development & Academic Methods.
2004 Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., Mills, J. E., Sharp, R. D., & Bastalich, W. L. (2004). Towards a feminist politics of work: revisioning a research project on women engineers. In TASA (The Australian Sociological Association) 2004 Conference Proceedings. Australia: The Australian Sociological Association (TASA).
2003 Bastalich, W. L., Mills, J. E., Franzway, S. M., Gill, J., & Sharp, R. D. (2003). I had this real feeling that it was a boys club. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference Australiasian Association for Engineering Education and 9th Australiasian Women in Engineering Forum. Australia: Australasian Association for Engineering Education.

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