Anne Campbell

Dr Anne Campbell is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Canberra. She has published several books and a large number of journal articles related to international education. Dr Campbell has been an educational consultant for the Ministry of Education in Hawaii; the Ministry of Education in Fiji, the Department of Education, Science and Training in Australia (DEST), the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the US agency Pacific Resources for Education and Learning. Her current research interests include the development of academic resilience, cross-cultural and intergenerational perceptions of leisure among older women and crisis management.

Robert Fitzgerald

Professor Rob Fitzgerald is currently Head of the UC Inspire Centre and a leader and innovator in the field of ICT and education internationally recognized for his work in Australia and Cambodia.  Robert has a particular interest in user-led technologies such as Web2.0 and mobile applications. The Australia Research Councils (ARC) College of Experts recognise him as an 'expert of international standing' and he is reviewer for the Australian Learning and Teaching Council's (ALTC) Competitive Grants Program. Robert has published widely and the last ten years and attracted over $1m in grant funding.

Iain C. Hay 

Iain has a teaching background in early childhood and primary school education. He has worked in Government schools, Catholic Education and the Independent School sectors around Australia over the past 20 years.  He is currently Assistant Professor in Education Studies at the University of Canberra. His areas of research include: teenage motherhood and schooling, teacher education, workplace integrated learning (WIL), quality teaching; education for sustainability (EfS), Indigenous education, poverty and social inclusion, pro-feminism, gender and sexuality, popular culture and media, science and technology studies, sociology of education, discourse analysis, complexity theory, social justice and student wellbeing. His research draws from theoretical fields of queer theory, ethics, biopolitics, citizenship, and social policy. He also engages with ideas of the social construction of gender and performativity. In his work he uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) methods to support social change, particularly with in education systems. Iain is currently completing his PhD, titled: A critical discourse of teenage motherhood in one Australian school setting, at the University of Canberra. Iain was the 2009 recipient of the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) Early Career Researcher Excellence Award.

Chris Kilham

Dr Chris Kilham has worked as a teacher, psychologist and lecturer in the field of disability. Chris currently convenes the graduate programs in inclusive education (autism). Her research interests include autism, inclusive education, online learning, signed communication, and the autism approach TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and Communication-handicapped CHildren). Chris is a National Councillor in the Australian Association of Special Education (AASE) and one of the UC members of the Australian Autism Education and Training Consortium (AAETC) that successfully tendered for a multi million dollar initiative to teach school staff, parents and carers to improve outcomes for students with autism.

Kaye Lowe

Associate Professor Kaye Lowe has extensive experience as a Senior Academic and Visiting Professor in universities in Australia and the United States.  While in Kentucky, she was the Principle Investigator for the state evaluation of Reading First an $89 million initiative to improve literacy K-3. She has completed major research projects including three DEET funded projects of National Significance.  She was the President of the Australian Literacy Federation and board member of leading professional associations. She has published numerous articles and written three books. Assoc Prof Lowes recent interests include the use of innovative and multiple technologies to meet the needs of low level literacy learners and the teaching of English.

Katja Mikhailovich

Over the last ten years Associate Professor Katja Mikhailovich has focused her research on significant social issues, maintaining an interest in working with marginalised and disadvantaged populations. This has lead to developing expertise in cross-disciplinary research in areas such as sexual and domestic violence, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing, mental health and suicide prevention. This work has resulted in successful research partnerships with government and community organisations and provides valuable experience when working across sectors such as health and education. She has published and presented her work internationally and her contributions have contributed to influencing policy and practice.

Kathryn Moyle

Kathryn Moyle is an Adjunct Associate Professor internationally recognised for her research at local and whole system levels concerning school leadership, education policy and learning with technologies. She is regularly invited to speak at conferences by Ministries and Departments of Education around Australia and internationally, and to provide policy and strategic advice about teaching and learning with technologies.  Kathryn's most recent research involves listening to Australian students' voices about their views and expectations of learning with technologies. Kathryn is also the Director of the Secretariat for the Australian Information and Communications Technology Education Committee (AICTEC) which is the peak policy committee in Australia for ICT issues that straddle the schools, vocational education and training and higher education sectors.

Thomas Nielsen

Dr Thomas William Nielsen is a researcher, lecturer and author on positive/values education and imaginative education. A member of the National Values Education Project Advisory Committee, he has served in several of the Australian Government values education projects. His book on imaginative education, Rudolf Steiner's Pedagogy of Imagination (2004), is one of only a handful of empirical studies on Steiner education and imaginative teaching, and he is currently program leader of the Imagination and Education Research Group, University of Canberra branch. Dr Nielsen has received numerous teaching awards, including the 2008 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Barbara Pamphilon

Professor Barbara Pamphilon PhD is the Director of the Australian Institute for Sustainable Communities, a Faculty research centre that undertakes partnership research in regional community development in rural and urban settings, both nationally and in the developing countries of Asia and the Pacific. Dr Pamphilon is a leading thinker in the development and application of participatory and narrative methodologies. Her recent book Making the Best of Life: aged womens storying of lifelong learning illustrates the use of her Zoom model of narrative analysis. Her current collaborative work with key agencies in Australia and overseas focuses on the development of culturally appropriate models for service planning and evaluation for use with communities where English is a second or third language.

Tiina Roppola

Dr Tiina Roppola weaves interdisciplinary research interests, and has lecturing and tutoring experience across Education, Cultural Heritage Management, and Industrial Design. Beginning as a practising industrial designer, Tiina gained a PhD in education. Her research deconstructs how museum visitors and exhibition environments are in relationship at multiple levels, reciprocally engaging material and discursive dimensions over space and time. A Young Australian of the Year nominee, Tiina has also won eight awards for outstanding performance, including two public speaking awards and a Design Institute of Australia Award. She serves on the Management Committee of the Australian National Museum of Education, and is Treasurer of the Evaluation and Visitor Research Committee, Museums Australia. Tiina is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education, currently authoring a book on semiosis and learning in educational leisure settings. 

Francesco Sofo

Francesco Sofo (PhD) is a Professor in the Faculty of Educaiton. His books include Human Resource Development: Paradigm, Role and Practice Choices (Business and Professional Publishers) and Open Your Mind: 7 Keys to Thinking Critically (Allen and Unwin) published also in China, Indonesia and Europe. His research interests include a focus on performance, individual, team and organizational learning. Assoc Prof Sofo has a passion for helping people and organisations to improve their professional approach and effectiveness. He has been visiting professor at: University of Milan (Italy), University of Calabria (Italy); Hangzhou Normal University (China), ESADE University (Spain), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), George Washington University (USA) and Warwick University (UK).He is Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute as well as the Director of the Centre for Transnational Empowerment, Leadership and Performance within the Faculty of Education.

Affrica Taylor

Associate Professor Affrica Taylor is a founding member of the Childhood Research Collective, and principal researcher of a number of partnership projects associated with the Collective. She is also an organising member of the International Reconceptualising Early Childhood movement.  Affrica is a sociologist/cultural geographer who researches and writes about the politics of diverse childhoods and about children’s relationships with the world around them.  Her research is both empirical and theoretical.  She explores the politics of childhood by undertaking ethnographic fieldwork and by drawing upon a wide range of cross-disciplinary perspectives, including: queer and feminist theory; postcolonial and critical whiteness theory; science and technology studies and posthumanist philosophy. Her most recent publications focus upon the cultural politics of children’s identity and belonging; rethinking children’s gender and sexuality; and retheorising the relationship between childhood and nature. She is currently co-editing a special edition of Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood on children’s relations with the more-than-human and writing a book for the Routledge ‘Contesting Early Childhood Series’ entitled: Revisiting ‘Nature’s Child’: Reassembling the Natures and Cultures of Childhood.

Jackie Walkington

Associate Professor Jackie Walkington is the Director, Professional Experience in the Faculty of Education and Director of NCR PET. Her research interests primarily revolve around teacher education and Work-integrated learning in higher education. Her specific research includes the theory and practice in developing the professional educator, mentoring and reflection for learning and leading; curriculum change in higher education, and university-profession partnerships. She regularly publishes and presents nationally and internationally and is a national leader in the area of professional experience and teaching. She is actively involved in national professional associations including HERDSA (of which she is a Fellow), the Australian College of Educators and the Australian Collaborative Education Network.

Ting Wang

Associate Professor Ting Wang is Course Convenor of Master of Educational Leadership (China). She has many years experience of teaching in transnational leadership development programs. She was one of two winners of the prestigious 2005 International Journal of Leadership in Education Graduate Student Manuscript Competition. This is an award for her PhD thesis concerning Chinese educational leaders conceptions of learning and leadership in an international context. She publishes in the areas of educational leadership, international education, transnational teaching and learning. Her research interests include leadership in cross-cultural settings, higher education in an international context, professional development of educators, and intercultural studies.

Louise Watson

Professor Louise Watson is an internationally recognised expert in education policy research and Director of The Education Institute. She publishes on early childhood education and care, the quality of schooling and education funding systems. She has participated in an invitational forum on private tutoring organised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in Paris and is a co-sponsor of a panel session on comparative international trends in private tutoring at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in 2009. She is regularly commissioned to undertake policy research, such as two major reports on Early Childhood Education for the Australian government.