The following postgraduate research theses use Legitimation Code Theory as a central framework for their research. Join the LCT email listserv to make contact with fellow researchers and postgraduate students elsewhere.
COMPLETED PhDs
Cathie Doherty (PhD, 2007) The Production of Cultural Difference and Cultural Sameness in Online Internationalised Education, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Lian Gao (EdD, 2007) The Changing Context of Tertiary English Teaching in China and Teachers' Responses to the Challenges, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia
Martin McNamara (EdD, 2008), The Discursive Construction of the Nursing Academic, The Open University, UK.
Rainbow Chen (PhD, 2010) Knowledge and Knowers in Online Learning: Investigating the effects of online flexible learning on student sojourners, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia
Lucila Carvalho (PhD, 2010) A Sociology of Informal Learning in/about Design, Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning, University of Sydney, Australia
L. Shuker (PhD, 2010) "It'll Look Good on Your Personal Statement": A multi-case study of self-marketing amongst 16-19 year olds applying to university, Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Jo-Anne Vorster (PhD, 2010) A Social-Realist Analysis of Collaborative Curriculum Development Processes in an Academic Department at a South African University, Rhodes University, South Africa.
Catherine Burnheim (PhD, 2010) Changing Autonomy in Australian Universities, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Christine Lindstrøm (PhD, 2010) Link Maps and Map Meetings: A theoretical and experimental case for stronger scaffolding in first year university physics education, School of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Ken Tann (PhD, 2011) Semogenesis of a Nation: An iconography of Japanese identity, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia
Celia Poulet (PhD 2011; mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury à l’unanimité), L’apprentissage d'une pratique democratique: L'exemple de la prise de parole en Franc-Maconnerie, Dept of Sociology, University of Provence, France
CURRENT PhDs
Amanda Hlengwa (PhD) An Exploration of Systemic Enabling and Constraining Factors on the Infusion of Service-learning into Curricula at a South African University, Rhodes University, South Africa.
Sophia Stavrou (PhD) Curricular Transformations in European Higher Education and the Recontextualisation of Sociological Knowledge, Department of Sociology, University of Provence, France.
Anna-Vera Meidell Sigsgaard (PhD) Danish as a Second Language: A socio-semiotic study of the school subject, its didactics and the construction of its students, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark
Elizabeth Sayigh-Kane (PhD) Academics' Intellectual Biographies: Making a case for the humanities and social sciences, Graduate School in Humanities, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Jo Lander (PhD) Online Discourse: Learning online in postgraduate public health education: Expectations, experiences and the enactment of pedagogy, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Sharon Aris (PhD) What Knowledge, Which Knowers: How parents choose high schools for their children, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney, Australia
Yiu Li (PhD) Reinstantiation of Meanings in Scaffolding ESL Academic Literacy: Reading to Learn Program Adapted in a Tertiary Setting, Zhongshan University, China
Victoria Millar (PhD) The Structuring of Knowledge for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
Erika Matruglio (PhD) Negotiating Interpersonal Stance: The development of literacy in the senior high school years, University of Technology, Sydney.
Tristan Enright (PhD) The Rise of an Ideology: The case of neoliberal economic rationality, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney, Australia
Rebecca O'Brien (PhD) Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing, Ways of Saying: The role of strategic legitimation within native title claims, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney, Australia
Cecilia Pun (PhD) Tertiary Students’ Second Language Writing Potential: A systemic evaluation with linguistic features, Dept of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia.
Jing Hao (PhD) The Trained Gaze in Undergraduate Biology, Dept of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia
Anna David (PhD) The Recontextualisation of Kurt Lewin by Organisational Development, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney, Australia
Andrew Shiotani (PhD) Comparative Education and Sociology, Teachers College, Columbia University
Ariane Richard-Bossez (PhD) Pedagogies in Kindergarten: dDscourses, practices and inequalities in ownership of school knowledge, Department of Sociology, University of Provence, France.
Pascal Espérance (PhD) Study of Economics Curricula, Paris VIII University, Paris, France.
Gina Roach (PhD) Critical Thinking in Knowledge Production: Realisations in Masters' students research essays, University of Nottingham China Campus, Ningbo, China.
Yaegan Doran (PhD) Knowledge in Physics and its Recontextualisation for Pedagogic Purposes, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.
Sherran Clarence (PhD) Theorising Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: A Legitimation Code Theory analysis of two academic disciplines, Rhodes University, South Africa
Ayumi Inako (PhD) Negotiating Knowledge: Physicists' and Free Journalists' Tweets on Fukushima, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Helen Georgiou (PhD), Investigating and Influencing University Students’ Understanding of Basic Thermodynamic Processes, Department of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Jonathan Lilliedahl (PhD) Music and the Pedagogic Discourse: Recontextualisations and codes, School of Music, Theatre and Art, Örebro University, Sweden
Michael Tan (PhD) Knowledge, Truth, and Schooling for social change: Social realism and environmental education in science classrooms, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada
Jennifer Blunden (PhD), Meaning, Text and Disciplinarity in Museum Exhibitions, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Margarita Vidal Lizama (PhD), What Kind of Education is 'Popular Education' in Chile?, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).
Jodie Martin (PhD) Musical Discourse: Language, notation and all that jazz, Discipline of Linguistics, University of Adelaide,
Eszter Szenes (PhD) Embedding Academic Literacy into Internationalized Business Curricula: The case of Australian Business Higher Education, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia
Marta Filipe Alexandre (PhD) Critical Discourse Analysis of Interviews with Portuguese Scientists - Representation and Legitimation of Scientific Knowledge and its Specialities, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.
Liz Lawrence (PhD) Thesis on Music = DETAILS TO FOLLOW = , Institute of Education, London, UK
Trish Weekes (PhD) Thesis on Music = DETAILS TO FOLLOW = , University of New England, Australia
HONOURS THESES
Fatima Paras (Hons, 2011; 1st class thesis) Disability and ability: An exploratory study of the perceptions of students with physical disabilities and their inclusion in university life, Dept of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney, Australia.
Yaegan Doran (Hons, 2010: awarded 1st class), Knowledge and Multisemiosis in Undergraduate Physics, Dept of Linguistics, University of Sydney
Rebecca O’Brien (Hons, 2009: awarded 1st class; winner of Dr Charles Perkins Memorial Prize 2010, University of Sydney) Special Education or Specialist Education? An exploratory study of pre-service teachers’ knowledge of special education, Dept of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney.
Tristan Enright (Hons, 2009: awarded 1st class) Economic Expertise in Australia: A case of specialisation or desocialisation?, Dept of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney
Jack Finegan (Hons, 2007: awarded 1st class), The Democratisation of Knowledge? An enquiry into forms of online knowledge and participation, Dept of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney
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