Catherine is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at Swinburne University of Technology. She is an educational sociologist with expertise in children and young people's citizenship, participation, rights, diversity, and wellbeing.
She is the author of two books: 'Conditional Citizens: Rethinking Children and Young People's Participation' (2017, Springer); and 'Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation: Combatting Civic Deficit?' with co-authors Mark Chou, Jean-Paul Gagnon and Lesley Pruitt (2017, Rowman and Littlefield International).