Rate My Professor Helen Proctor

Throughout her career at the University of Sydney, Proctor has advanced knowledge in her field through prolific scholarship and leadership. She received an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT140100415) worth $699,451 for her project on participatory politics, grassroots organising, and education policy reform from the 1970s to 1980s. Major publications encompass the co-authored A History of Australian Schooling (with Craig Campbell, Allen & Unwin, 2014), a landmark text tracing the evolution of Australian education; The Curriculum of the Body and the School as Clinic: Histories of Public Health and Schooling (edited with Kellie Burns, Routledge, 2023); and Parents, Schools and the State: Global Perspectives (with Anna Roch, Georg Breidenstein, and Martin Forsey, Routledge, 2023). Other significant works include Markets in education: 'School choice' and family capital (with Catherine Aitchison, Sydney University Press, 2015), 'Climbing the Opportunity Ladder' (Griffith Review, 2022), 'A Most Poisonous Debate: Legitimizing Support for Australian Private Schools' (2017), and articles on topics such as the NSW teachers' marriage bar (1930s), gender and merit in coeducation (1880-1912), private tutoring and educational advantage, and selective schooling's racial and class histories. With over 1,373 citations on Google Scholar and 37 publications documented on ResearchGate, her contributions have profoundly impacted debates on educational equity, neoliberal reforms, and policy legacies. Proctor also serves as co-editor of History of Education Review and acting lead for the Policy, Politics and Education Futures research group.