Personal details

• Name: Dr Jo Barraket
• Department: School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology
• Institution: The University of Melbourne
• Country: Australia
• Highest Qualification: PhD (1993, The University of New South Wales)
• Home Page: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/barraket.html

Network Related Grants (1999 - present)

• 2003 'Synthesizing approaches to social connectedness in Victorian communities', Jenny Lewis, Mark Considine and Jo Barraket, Vic Health, Small Grants ($23 000)
• 2002 'The Role of Community Organisations in Rural Community Sustainability', Jo Barraket, University of Technology, Sydney, Internal Research Grants ($13 000). A comparative case study analysis of inter-organisational network structures and community sustainability in two towns affected by dairy deregulation.

Network-related Publications (1999 - present)

Journal Articles

• Barraket, J. (2003) "Cooperative Solutions to Rural Renewal: Building Capacity for Coordinated Action" in Third Sector Review Vol 9 (1): 25 - 40

Book Chapters

• Barraket, J. (2003) "Enabling Structures for Co-ordinated Action: Community Organisations, Social Capital and Rural Community Sustainability" in Dale, A. & Onyx, J. (eds) Social Capital and Sustainable Development: The missing link? British Columbia. University of British Columbia Press [in press]

Published Reports

• Barraket, J. (2001) Building Sustainable Communities: Co-operative Solutions to Rural Renewal Australian Centre for Co-operative Research and Development, Sydney

Conference Papers

• Barraket, J. (2003) 'Facilitating rural community sustainability? Local organizational networks and the governance of place' presented at Australian Social Policy Conference, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, July 2003

Career Ten Best Publications

• Barraket, J. (2003) "Enabling Structures for Co-ordinated Action: Community Organisations, Social Capital and Rural Community Sustainability" in Dale, A. & Onyx, J. (eds) Social Capital and Sustainable Development: The missing link? British Columbia. University of British Columbia Press [in press]
• Barraket, J. (2001) "Marginal Voices: Third Sector Organisations as Vehicles for Social Movement" in Third Sector Review 7 (2): 111 - 121
• Barraket, J. & Scott, G. (2001) "Virtual Equality? Equity and the Use of Information Technology in Higher Education" in Australian Academic and Research Libraries Journal Vol 32 (2): 204 - 212
• Barraket, J., Payne, A. M., Scott, G. & Cameron, L. (2000) Equity and the Use of Communications and Information Technology: A UTS Case Study Evaluations and Investigations Report 00/7. Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra.

Biography

Jo Barraket holds a PhD in applied sociology from the University of New South Wales, and worked variously as a policy coordinator, research fellow and academic on postgraduate and undergraduate programs at the University of Technology, Sydney and UNSW, before joining the University of Melbourne in 2003. She specializes in social policy, with a particular focus on the nexus between state and civil society in social policy development. Jo is particularly interested in the effects of interpersonal and inter-oganisational networks on social policy development and implementation.

Jo's current research interests include:

• Networked governance and social policy
• Sustainable community development and local governance
• The socially transformative effects of information and communication technologies
• The socio-political orientation of third sector organizations

Other Network Related Activities

• 1994-1999 PhD research on the socio-political orientation of community based cooperatives, which focused in part on the nature of social movements and collective identity formation as networked social processes.