Research Interests
Pat’s main research areas are in education, vocational education and training, language and literacy, early childhood development, family capacity building and community development. These often have a rural health context: for example, early childhood development and family capacity building in the rural settings of the Communities for Children projects, or vocational education and training responses to rural health shortages, or education and professional capacity building in a rural palliative care context.
In 2007 Pat’s work is mainly in the area of early childhood development and family and community capacity building.
Teaching
Pat’s teaching career goes back to more than twenty years’ teaching in Queensland high schools. After coming to Tasmania, she first taught in the Faculty of Education.
Selected Publications:- Kilpatrick, S, Le, Q, Johns, S, Millar, P & Routley, G, 2007, '(forthcoming) Responding to health skills shortages: Innovative directions from vocational education and training.', NCVER, Adelaide
- Kilpatrick, S & Millar, P, 2006, ' Extension and the VET sector: Time for closer alignment?', International Journal of Training Research, Dec. 2006
- Millar, P & Kilpatrick, S, 2005, 'Management skill training for traditional primary industries: Is delivery in decline? (refereed paper). In J. Searle, F. Beven & D. Roebuck (Eds) ', Vocational Learning: Transitions, Interrelationships, Partnerships and Sustainable Futures,Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Post-Compulsory Education and Training, Australian Academic Press, Brisbane, pgs. 55-62
- Millar, P & Kilpatrick, S, 2005, 'How community development programs can foster re-engagement with learning in disadvantaged communities: Leadership as process', Studies in the Education of Adults, pgs. Apr. 2005
- Kilpatrick, S & Millar, P, 2004, 'People with poor language, literacy and numeracy skills: A hidden equity group?. In Bowman, K. (Ed.)', Equity in Vocational Education and Training: Research Readings, NCVER, Adelaide, pgs. 158 - 172
- Millar, P. & Guenther, J., 2007, 'Supporting and capacity building for our partners.', Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY)
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