Mr Hernán Cuervo is a Research Fellow at the Youth Research Centre, the University of Melbourne. His research interests focus on rural education, education policy, youth studies and the theory of justice. Hernán lectures in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne and is a seminar leader in the Master of Teaching in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education.

BA (Political Science) Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires
PhD candidate, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne (Thesis submitted)

Regular guest lectures in the following courses:
460 692 Citizenship, wellbeing and participation (Faculty of Education)
166 083 The sociology of Youth and Youth Policy (Faculty of Arts)
Youth, Culture and Social Change (Faculty of Arts - Monash University)

Seminar leader in Master of Teaching (Melbourne Graduate School of Education) in the following course:
Social and Professional Contexts

Hernán research interests focus on rural education, education policy, youth studies and the theory of justice. He is a research fellow at the Youth Research Centre where he manages the research project ‘Life Patterns’ (1991- ). The project studies young people’s transitions into further study, training and employment, including their health and wellbeing, with a strong focus on the role played by gender, socio-economic status and location in the transition outcomes. The project is funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC).

Hernán is the author of key policy reports which include recommendations for reform in the area of regional and rural youth population; youth post-school transition to further study, training and employment; the role of formal and informal education and training in youth knowledge of occupational health and safety in the workplace; and the relationship between wellbeing and new communication technologies for young people.

Hernán is also the author of a book (2006) about rural education in Argentina.

Books
Cuervo, H. (2006) ‘Misiones Rurales Argentinas: más de medio siglo de historias’, editorial Armerías, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Refereed articles
Stokes, H. & Cuervo, H. (2009) ‘Challenging Occupational Health and Safety Education in Schools’, The International Journal of Learning, 16 (27), 215-226.

Cuervo, H. (2007) ‘Rural school principals’ perceptions of social justice in neo-liberal times: Towards a pluralist notion of social justice’, 23rd National Conference Proceedings: “Collaboration for Success in Rural and Remote Education and Training”, Society for the provision of Education in Rural Australia, Perth.

Non-refereed articles
Cuervo, H. (2005) ‘A comparison of two one-teacher rural schools in Australia and Argentina: two different stories’, 21st National Conference Proceedings: “Our Stories: Innovation and Excellence in Rural Education”, Society for the provision of Education in Rural Australia, Darwin.

Policy Reports
Cuervo, H. & Wyn, J. (2009) ‘Opportunities for effective investment to increase youth population in regional Victoria’, commissioned by the Office for Youth and the Department of Planning and Community Development, Victorian government, Melbourne.

Stokes, H. & Cuervo, H. (2008) ‘Occupational health and safety knowledge, skills and behaviours of young people in compulsory and post-compulsory education’, commissioned by WorkSafe Victoria, Melbourne.

Wyn, J. & Cuervo, H. (2005) ‘Young People, Wellbeing and Communication Technologies’, commissioned by Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth), Melbourne.

Submission to Government Inquiries
Cuervo, H. (2009) ‘Structural and non-structural barriers to rural youth access to secondary and tertiary education’, Inquiry into Rural and Regional Access to Secondary and Tertiary Education Opportunities, Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee, Parliament of Australia, Canberra.

'Life Patterns', Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne.
The Life Patterns project studies young people’s transitions into further study, training and employment, including their health and wellbeing, with a strong focus on the role played by gender, socio-economic status and location in the transition outcomes.