Rachel Finneran

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Rachel Finneran

Reseach fellow at Deakin University

26 Nov 2025

Dr Rachel Finneran (she/her) has expertise in the field of the sociology of education and student voice, living and working on unceded Wadawurrung Country. Her core research explores the relationship between the policy and practice of student voice in Victoria and highlights how class, schooling and affect mediate student voice enactment.

Rachel Finneran's contributions

Climate justice and curriculum justice: Young people’s accounts of schools’ uneven responses to their climate justice activism

While many agree with UNESCO that education is essential to prepare societies to address the climate crisis, there are widely differing opportunities for justice-driven climate change education...

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