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Dr Jan Sinclair-Jones

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    • Role:
    • Senior Lecturer
    • Department:
    • Department of Social Sciences
    • Location:
    • Humanities 306
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 7044
PhD - Curtin 1996 “The Idea of the University in Australia in the 1990s”

B.A Hons (Social and Political Theory) - Murdoch 1983

Senior Lecturer in  Sociology, Faculty of Media Society and Culture.
Sociology subject co-ordinator.
Deputy Director, South Asia Research Unit

Major teaching areas are in the first year foundation Sociology units, the Sociology of Technology and Human Futures and the Sociology of Health and Illness.

Current research interests are in the international relocation of work and e-services through BPO providers. My  particular focus has been upon the relocation of health services sector work from the US and Australia to South Asia and has been conducted through fieldwork to South India since 1999.

President, Curtin University Staff Association,/National Tertiary Education Union, Curtin Branch.

Elected Academic Staff Representative on University Council

1996- Present – Member, Curtin University Academic Board.

Publications

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Sinclair-jones, J. 2005. "E-Health Services: Is the future of Australia's Health Service in Offshore Outsourcing?". In Workplace Reform in the Healthcare Industry: The Australian Experience, eds Pauline Stanton, Eileen Willis, and Suzanne Young(eds), 279-298. Houndsmill: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Sinclair-jones, J. 2003. Work. In Sociology Australian Connections, 3rd Edition, eds Ray Jureidini and Marilyn Poole, 280-311. New South Wales: Allen & Unwin.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Sinclair-jones, J. 2001. e-Medicine and e-Work: The new international division of medical labour?. Annual Review of Health Social Sciences 10(1): 19-30.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

  • Sinclair-jones, J. 2004. The Commodification of Service Sector Work Case studies of Outsourcing and International Relocation. TASA The Australian Sociological Association Conference 2004, 08/12/2004. La Trobe University, Victoria: The Sociological Association of Australia.