Jane Chen
PhD
Jane Chen (she/her) is the daughter of Hokkien-Chinese immigrants, born and raised as a settler on unceded Wurundjeri lands. As a sociologist and social policy scholar-practitioner-activist, her work broadly focuses on understanding and dismantling structural drivers of complex social inequalities. Her research builds on her experience working in the Victorian public service, and in various advisory and advocacy roles across the multicultural and youth sectors.
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Thesis
Exploring the institutionalisation of intersectionality across the Victorian public service
Originating as a metaphor by Black feminist legal academic Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989), ‘intersectionality’ is a term now widely deployed to critique single-axis analyses of discrimination. This research explores whether and how the concept of 'intersectionality' is being understood, applied and embedded into public policymaking process. It draws upon an ethnography of a Victorian public service department to interrogate, strengthen and encourage new ways of moving theory into practice.
Research interests
- Intersectionality studies
- Women, gender and feminist studies
- Ethnography
- Public administration and management
- Institutional theory in organisational studies