Dr Jenna Gillett-Swan
Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Email: jenna.gillettswan@qut.edu.au
Profile
Jenna Gillett-Swan is a Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her work aims to understand and address rights, inequity, and threats to wellbeing in students’ and teachers’ educational experiences through participatory rights-based approaches to educational transformation and school improvement. She works with students, teachers, leaders, and other stakeholders across primary, secondary and tertiary education contexts.
Research
Publications
Selected recent publications
Gillett-Swan, J. K., & Lundy, L. (2021). Children, classrooms and challenging behaviour: do the rights of the many outweigh the rights of the few? Oxford Review of Education, 48(1), 95–111. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2021.1924653
Gillett-Swan, J.K., Willis, J. & Miles, P. (2025). Student wellbeing in vertical schools: a multilayered student voice approach for inclusion and influence. Aust. Educ. Res. 52, 1345–1366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00765-6
Gillett-Swan, J., Kerr, J., Winter, A., & Callard, N. (2024). Co-designing place-based co-located health and wellbeing infrastructure and services with high school students, educators, and health service providers, Children and Youth Services Review,166,107971, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107971.
Gillett-Swan, J., Willis, J., Kelly, N., & Miles, P. (2025). Decision-making conditions for participatory student voice research at scale: examples from studying vertical school spaces. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2025.2452989