About Janine Arantes

Janine Arantes is an Associate Professor of Education at Victoria University, Australia, where she contributes to research, teaching, and leadership across the Institute for Sustainable and Liveable Cities and the College of Arts, Business, Law, Education and IT. Her work sits at the intersection of education, technology, and social justice, with a particular focus on the governance and societal impacts of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence in education.

Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches informed by feminist and critical social theory, Janine’s research examines how technological systems reshape teaching, learning, labour, and institutional life. Her work focuses particularly on psychosocial risk, digital inequality, teacher wellbeing, and the ethical governance of AI and data infrastructures in educational systems.

Janine is a passionate advocate for the rights, safety, and wellbeing of educators and students in increasingly technologised learning environments, and is particularly interested in creating inclusive, equitable, and socially just educational futures.