DrPiper Rodd

'ATAR results not the only path to success in VCE', ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/ballarat-breakfast/deakin-atar/11793132

'Unpacking Australia's HSC gender gap', Education Review: https://www.educationreview.com.au/2022/06/unpacking-australias-hsc-gender-gap-podcast/

'Does NAPLAN do more harm than good?': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh2p69RMYYk

'How outdated is the ATAR score?': https://disruptr.deakin.edu.au/society/how-outdated-is-the-atar-score/

Deakin University Postgraduate Research Scholarship 2008 2012

Humanitarian Idealism versus Populist Point-Scoring, Social Change In The Twenty-first Century Conference Proceedings www.socialchange.qut.edu.au/conference/docs/2004proceedings.html (October 2004)

'The regeneration of School X a critical ethnographic exploration of neoliberal education reform in contemporary Australia', The Australian Sociology Association (TASA) Conference, November 2017 at UWA, Perth, WA

'Parity of esteem in a market economy: A critical examination of brand vet/tafe in 2017 Australia', NCVER 'No Frills' Conference, June 2017 Hobart, Tas.

'Documenting the Demise of TAFE', Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA) OctoberVET Conference, October 2016, LaTrobe University, Bundoora, Vic.

An Alternative National Mythology: War Resistance in Canada and Australia during the First World War, Remembrance and Representation: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in World War I Workshop, Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ), Australian National University and the Canadian High Commission, Canberra (December 2014)

War on Terror as Fought through the Popular Media in Canada and Australia, New Zealand Political Science Association Conference, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (December 2009)

Hancock, L. & P. Rodd, Measuring 'What works': Designing an Australian mixed-method longitudinal evaluation to enhance low SES, rural & post secondary education participation, Forum for Access and Continuing Education, University of Ulster, Ulster, UK (July, 2012)

Christianity, Communism and Pacifism: An Unholy Trinity of Cold War Activism, Socialist Studies; Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario, Canada (June 2012)

Nationalism and the Collective Memory, Cultures of Violence and Conflict, annual conference of the International Society for Cultural History, University of Queensland (July 2009)

Was Jesus a Pacifist? War-time dilemmas of secular societies: Canada and Australia compared, Canada in the Asia-Pacific, Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand Biennial Conference, University of Queensland (July 2008)

Australian Tolerance: A study of devolution of civil society in 25 years, Researchers for Asylum Seekers Conference and Book Launch, University of Melbourne (November 2007)

Preserving the Whiteness of the Interior: Refugee Detention and the Racial Imperative Whiteness and the Horizons of Race, University of Queensland (November 2005)

Piper's professional and community memberships include:

Chair of the Board of Management of the Brimbank-Melton Local Learning and Employment Network, Future Connect.

Editorial board member of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning (AJAL)

Member of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa and New Zealand Sociology (SAANZ)