About Janine Arantes

Janine Arantes is an Associate Professor of Education at Victoria University, Australia, specialising in AI governance, education policy and the social and institutional consequences of emerging technologies. With almost three decades of experience spanning K-12 education, TAFE and higher education, her work brings an unusual cross-sector perspective to questions of technological change, professional practice and educational governance.

She is the founder of AI Governance for Education (AIGE), a research program focused on how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping educational policy, institutional governance, teaching and learning, workplace conditions and professional responsibility. Her broader research examines AI governance, psychosocial risk, digital inequality, data and privacy, human and consumer rights, teacher agency and the commercialisation of educational technology.

Arantes has produced more than 45 published scholarly works, and has delivered numerous invited keynotes, plenaries, workshops and expert contributions nationally and internationally. Her work has been recognised through the Victoria University Vice-Chancellor’s Research with Impact Award, a Teacher with Influence Award, numerous international scholarships and fellowships, an Emerald Literati Outstanding Reviewer Award, and recognition among the Top 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics.

Drawing on feminist and critical social theory, Arantes challenges technology-centred accounts of educational innovation by asking harder questions about power, responsibility, rights and accountability. Her work argues that the governance of AI in education cannot be separated from the conditions under which educators and students work and learn, and advances rights-based approaches that place safety, agency, privacy and institutional responsibility alongside educational innovation.