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Overview

Dawn Bennett is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and contributes significantly to the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a particular focus on education and its intersections with employability and career development.

Their research spans several main fields of study:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these areas, Bennett's work extends into subfields that include:

  • Education
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Media Technology
  • Safety Research
  • Music

Key topics addressed in their publications cover:

  • Higher Education and Employability
  • Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
  • Career Development and Diversity
  • Diverse Music Education Insights
  • Human Resource and Talent Management
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies

Bennett has contributed to various academic journals, frequently publishing in:

  • Higher Education Research & Development
  • Higher Education
  • Musicae Scientiae
  • Education + Training
  • Perspectives Policy and Practice in Higher Education

Some recent publications by Bennett include:

  • The role of hybrid learning spaces in enhancing higher education students' employability, 2020, British Journal of Educational Technology
  • Development, validation and deployment of the EmployABILITY scale, 2021, Studies in Higher Education

Other relevant papers associated with this field include:

  • The relationship between higher education students' perceived employability, academic engagement and stress among students in China, 2021, Education + Training
  • Broadening student musicians' career horizons: The importance of being and becoming a learner in higher education, 2021, International Journal of Music Education
  • Perceived organisational support and university students' career exploration: the mediation role of career adaptability, 2022, Higher Education Research & Development

Throughout their research career, Bennett has collaborated frequently with various coauthors, including:

  • Subramaniam Ananthram
  • Elizabeth Knight
  • Sherry Bawa
  • Guadalupe López-Íñiguez
  • Karen Burland

Best Publications

  • Understanding the Classical Music Profession: The Past, the Present and Strategies for the Future

    Dawn Elizabeth Bennett

  • Academy and the Real World: Developing Realistic Notions of Career in the Performing Arts.

    Dawn Bennett

  • The urgent need for career preview: Student expectations and graduate realities in music and dance

    Dawn Bennett;Ruth S. Bridgstock

  • Utopia for music performance graduates. Is it achievable, and how should it be defined?

    Dawn Bennett

  • Integrating community gardens into public parks: an innovative approach for providing ecosystem services in urban areas.

    Isaac Middle;Peta Dzidic;Amma Buckley;Dawn Bennett

  • Sexual Harassment in the Creative Industries: Tolerance, Culture and the Need for Change

    Sophie Hennekam;Dawn Bennett

  • Graduate employability and higher education: Past, present and future

    Dawn Bennett

  • Creative industries work across multiple contexts: common themes and challenges

    Sophie Hennekam;Dawn Bennett

  • Enacting strategies for graduate employability: How universities can best support students to develop generic skills

    Dawn Bennett;S. Richardson;P. MacKinnon

  • Developing employability in higher education music

    Dawn Bennett

  • Creative migration: A Western Australian case study of creative artists

    Dawn Bennett

  • Developing musical and educational identities in university music students

    Patrick K. Freer;Dawn Bennett

  • Building Sustainable Portfolio Careers in Music: Insights and Implications for Higher Education.

    Brydie-Leigh Bartleet;Christina Ballico;Dawn Bennett;Ruth Bridgstock

  • An Australian study of graduate outcomes for disadvantaged students

    Tim Pitman;Lynne Roberts;Dawn Bennett;Sarah Richardson

  • The relationship between higher education students' perceived employability, academic engagement and stress among students in China

    Yin Ma;Dawn Bennett

  • The Use of Learner-Generated Drawings in the Development of Music Students' Teacher Identities.

    Dawn Bennett

  • Musicians as Teachers: Developing a Positive View through Collaborative Learning Partnerships.

    Dawn Bennett;Andrea Stanberg

  • The role of hybrid learning spaces in enhancing higher education students’ employability

    Dawn Bennett;Elizabeth Knight;Jennifer E. Rowley

  • A Lifespan Perspective on Multi-Professional Musicians: Does Music Education Prepare Classical Musicians for Their Careers?.

    Guadalupe López-Íñiguez;Dawn Bennett

  • Implementing and Sustaining Higher Education Service-Learning Initiatives: Revisiting Young et al.’s Organizational Tactics

    Dawn Bennett;Naomi Sunderland;Brydie Leigh Bartleet;Anne Power

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynne D. Roberts
Lynne D. Roberts Curtin University
Sue Bennett
Sue Bennett University of Wollongong
Hamish Coates
Hamish Coates Australian National University
Stephen Richard Billett
Stephen Richard Billett Griffith University

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