Click on any of the names below to learn more about a researcher:
Professor Simone White – Teacher Education, Teacher professional learning, Professional experience, Teacher educators, School-university-community partnerships, Rural education
Professor Amanda Berry – Science & STEM Education, teacher professional knowledge, teacher professional learning, teachers as researchers.
Professor Daniel X. Harris – Creativity, Creative Practice, Diversity and Social Inclusion, Digital Ethnography, Video, Performance, Gender and Sexuality, New Materialisms, Affect Theory
Associate Professor Linda Knight – Early Childhood Education, Deleuze, Guattari, Drawings, Postfeminism, Speculative Theory
Associate Professor Tricia McLaughlin – STEM, Special Education, Pathways to Higher Education, Pathways to Industry
Associate Professor Melanie Nash – Science/STEM education, Learning in alternative settings, Educational partnerships, Professional experience, Scholarship of teaching.
Associate Professor Kathy Smith – Primary Science Education, Partnerships to enhance learning, Teacher Professional Learning, STEM Education, Scientific Literacy
Associate Professor Mark O'Rourke – Specialist studies in education
Senior Lecturer Tasos Barkatsas – Mathematics Education, Students’ and Teachers’ Beliefs, Attitudes, Motivations Values and Cognitive Issues, STEM Education
Senior Lecturer Toni Hilland – Health and Physical Education, Physical Activity Promotion, Correlates of Physical Activity, Equity, Sports Coaching
Senior Lecturer David Rousell – Climate change education, creativity studies, speculative methods, creative methods, co-research with children and young people, posthumanism, new materialism, affect studies, process philosophy, immersive cartography, post-qualitative inquiry
Senior Lecturer Serene Lin-Stephens – Career and vocational rehabilitation interventions, career education design, graduate employability, STEM employability, career information literacy, positive career outcomes, gender and career development, interview anxiety and performance
Senior Lecturer Naomi Wilks-Smith – Languages and English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D) education, Language and literacy, Linguistic and cultural diversity, Intercultural and international education.
Senior Lecturer Bin Wu – Early childhood education, parenting, cultural capital, cultural diversity, gender, teacher education, educational philosophy
Senior Lecturer Seth Brown – Young People, Vocational Education, Foucault, Work, Health and Physical Education, Social Justice, Well-being
Senior Lecturer Dan Jazby – Mathematics Education, Teacher Noticing and Decision Making, Teacher Education, Engineering Education in Primary Schools, Video-based Research Methods
Senior Lecturer Thembi Mason – Learning and Teaching Leadership, Online Learning, Blended Learning, Learning and Teaching, Digital Learning, Active Learning, Next Generation Learning Spaces
Lecturer Aleksandra Acker – Young Children and Music, Arts-based Research, Cultural Diversity, Child rights, Early Childhood Languages, Pedagogies
Lecturer Gideon Boadu – Curriculum and pedagogy, History education, Initial teacher education, Teacher classroom practice, Teacher and student pedagogical reasoning/beliefs, Contemporary education issues in Africa
Lecturer Rucelle Hughes – Critical Theory Perspectives to Consider Intersections of Equity and Quality, Theory and Practice, Systems and Individuals in Contemporary Education Settings
Lecturer Kathy Littlewood – Mentoring, Professional Learning, Teacher Education, Health and Wellbeing, School Practicum.
Lecturer Rebecca Seah – Numeracy, Students with Special Needs in the Middle Years, Teacher Knowledge and Professional Learning, Diagnosis and Intervention of Mathematics Disabilities/Difficulties, Design-based Research Method, Geometric and Spatial Reasoning
Lecturer Angela Rogers – Mathematics Education, Place value teaching and Learning, Assessment, Rasch analysis, Numeracy, Professional Learning
Lecturer Susan Rook – Children’s literature (particularly postmodern picture books), reader response theory, reading comprehension, process drama and education ideologies.
Lecturer Elise Waghorn – Early Childhood Education, Children’s lifeworlds, Play Based Pedagogies, Inclusive Education, Socio-Emotional Development and Behaviour Guidance.
Lecturer Samantha Vlcek – Inclusive education, collaboration, families and stakeholders in the educative process, education systems, educational policy and funding, evidence-based adjustments for students with disability, overcoming student disadvantage, autism spectrum disorder
Lecturer Sweta Vijaykumar Patel – Early childhood education, Narrative methodologies, Linguistic and cultural diversity, Teacher education, and creative methods.
Lecturer Phillip Poulton – Curriculum and pedagogy, teacher professionalism, school-based curriculum development, case study methodology, research ethics
Lecturer David Gow – Professional Experience and Pedagogy (Secondary) Physical Education, assessment, feedback, rubric design, games and sports, and initial teacher education.
Lecturer Mariko Francis – Inclusive Education, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Social-emotional learning and behaviour support, Family-school partnerships, Supplementary education, Research methods, Survey and scale development and validation.
Lecturer Julia Hill – Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy, Teacher and student wellbeing, Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy.
Lecturer Bonita Cabiles – Primary Curriculum and Pedagogy/Professional Experience, sociology of education, culturally and linguistically diverse educational contexts, and teacher migration and diversity.
Lecturer Alexandra Ciaffaglione – Young People, Education and Society, Inclusive Education, Intersections of gender, sexuality, religion, and professional teacher identities and youth identities within Australian educative spaces.
Lecturer Kellie Picker – Literacy in Early Childhood and Primary Education. Language, literacy and reading development stemming from classroom practice.
Associate Lecturer Peter Murphy – Exploration of new technologies, connectivism, design-based learning, creative thinking and sustainability in design and education.
Emerita Professor Andrea Chester – Learning and Teaching Scholarship, Peer Observation of Teaching, Student Peer Mentoring and Tutoring
Emerita Professor Heather Fehring – Assessment, Graduate Outcomes, Skill Trajectories, Literacy
Emerita Professor Annette Gough – Science and Sustainability Education, Environmental Education, Science Education, Education for Sustainable Development, Research Methodologies, Feminist and Postcolonial Research, Curriculum Development, Curriculum History and Education Policy Studies
Honorary University Fellow Kathy Jordan - Teacher Education, Professional Experience, School-University Partnerships, Mentoring, ICT in Education, Literacy Education
Emerita Professor Dianne Siemon – Mathematics Education, Numeracy, Professional Learning, Indigenous Education
Adjunct Fellow Yoshi Budd – Literacy Pedagogy and Practices
Adjunct Associate Professor Susana Gavidia-Payne - Children with disabilities: socio-emotional and behavioural development, inclusive practices, family-professional partnerships, professional development for ECEC practitioners, service and program evaluation, organisational and practice change in disability services.
Adjunct Professor Berenice Nyland - The Arts in Early Childhood Education, Music, Maths and Curriculum, Comparative studies in Early Childhood, Early Language Growth
