Higher Degree by Research students
The Faculty of Education is proud of the impact of the work of our HDR students over many years. Our current Higher Degree by Research students are working across a range of innovative multidisciplinary research projects in areas such as educational policy, sustainable community development, teacher education, language teacher education and curriculum and pedagogy.
| Student Name | Degree | Thesis Title | Research Centre/Discipline | ORCID-ID | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Dennis | M Education (Research) | Exploring teachers understanding of the personal and social capability in the secondary school environment. | |||
| Anne Shangrila Fuentes | PhD | Mapping everyday risk in Mindanao: exploring how farmers in conflict-vulnerable areas navigate precarity | Anne.Fuentes@canberra.edu.au | Centre for Sustainable Communities | 0009-0002-1663-2275 |
| Arwa Alharbi | PhD | Investigating the potential for implementing family-centered practices for children with intellectual disability in primary schools in Saudi Arabia: listening to the experiences of families and cross-disciplinary professionals | |||
| Badrun Kurnia | PhD | Indonesian Year 9 and Year 12 Students' Statistical Literacy: Levels, Challenges and Understandings | Badrun.Kurnia@canberra.edu.au | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | |
| Bianka-Jayne Dyson | PhD | Wellbeing management of essential workers during a collective time of crisis. An exploration and comparison of Australian teacher and nurse wellbeing during the global Covid-19 pandemic 2020-2022 | |||
| Bill Bostle | PhD | Stones in the passway: can community-led refugee resettlement in regional Australia provide sustainable alternatives to institutional policy and practice? | |||
| Bruce Ferrington | PhD | Perspective taking and the
development of spatial thinking skills: an in-class intervention program with Year 3 students. | bruce.ferrington@canberra.edu.au | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | |
| Burhanudin Syaifulloh | PhD | Lecturers’ concerns regarding the implementation of the Indonesian Higher Education Curriculum (HEC) in undergraduate English major programs | burhanudin.syaifulloh@canberra.edu.au | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) | 0000-0002-6988-1470 |
| Chris De Britt | PhD | Data Literacy and Data Culture as Predicators for Sensemaking and Pedagogical Action | |||
| Christopher Morrissey | PhD | Decoding the Impact of School-Based Clinics on Preservice Teachers: Professional Experience in the Context of a School-University partnership | |||
| Cynthia Avoada | PhD | Bridging Curriculum with rural students’ lifeworld: Using Place-based pedagogy to improve educational relevance to meet rural needs, through a case of the implementation of Ghana's Basic School Curriculum. | cynthia.avoada@canberra.edu.au | Centre for Sustainable Communities | |
| Dylan Hunt | M Education (Research) | Utilising Appreciative Inquiry to Highlight Stakeholder Perspectives in Relationships and Sexuality Education | dylan.hunt@canberra.edu.au | Health and Physical Education | |
| Emily Ashcroft | PhD | Teachers' perceptions of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) within Early Years Contexts | |||
| Emily Regan | M Education (Research) | The adolescent perspective of positive risk taking. | emily.regan@canberra.edu.au | ||
| Finlay McCall | PhD | Developing a curriculum design model for human-AI teams: a case study in curriculum co-design for future human-AI swarm shepherding teams. | finlay.mccall@canberra.edu.au | Human-AI teaming; curriculum design | 0000-0003-1397-1212 |
| Francesco De Simone | Prof Doc Education | How do mainstream primary school teachers demonstrate their mathematical knowledge for teaching when instructing EAL/D students to decode mathematical word problems? | Mathematics teaching; EAL/D | ||
| Gauri Sharma | PhD | Intentionally teaching to support executive functioning skills: A framework for supporting student agency at preschool | |||
| Genevieve Tan | PhD | Evaluating Australian Speech Pathologists: perception and knowledge of self-regulation and its role in therapeutic interventions | |||
| Gere Altangerel | PhD | I would like to study "relations between culture and students` self-regulated learning (SRL) in the Mongolian public secondary school context." SRL is defined as one`s self-generated thoughts, feelings, cognitive, metacognitive, and behavioral actions for attaining educational goals (Zimmerman, 2000, 2004). | Centre for Sustainable Communities | ||
| Helen Nolan | PhD | Data-driven learning - using corpus linguistics in the classroom to aid student language learning with a focus on grammar and vocabulary teaching and learning. | helen.nolan@canberra.edu.au | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages - TESOL/EALD | 0009-0007-7848-6249 |
| Ida Nurmila Isandespha | PhD | Online Spatial Reasoning Teacher Professional Development in North Maluku Indonesia | Ida.Isandespha@canberra.edu.au | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | |
| Imad Alsmadi | PhD | English on Social Networking Sites in Jordan among EFL Learners: A mixed method study of usage and attitudes | imad.alsmadi@canberra.edu.au | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL); English language learning; social media | |
| Jessica Halupka | PhD | Investigating the implementation of Belonging, Being, Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia from a multi-stakeholder perspective | |||
| Jocelyn Perry | PhD | Understanding Capacity Development Theory in Practice: Perspectives of Thai Practitioners Addressing Violence Against Women in Thailand. | |||
| Jonathan Adams | PhD | The effect of visuospatial training on students' mathematical achievment in an Australian high school | |||
| Jordan Harrison | M Education (Research) | Implimenting a once a week Country as Teacer Pedagogy in an ACT primary school | jordan.harrison@canberra.edu.au | Centre for Sustainable Communities | |
| Julia Davies-Duff | PhD | Exploring the perceptions of education, allied health and health professionals on cognitive lingustic factors as part of universal screening on entry to secondary school. | julia.davies-duff@canberra.edu.au | Education and health, prevention, intervention, equitable and sustainable educational development, and evidence-aligned processes | 0009-0009-6823-7067 |
| Kamirsyah Wahyu | PhD | Spatial processing of fractions to develop students' fractional knowledge | kamirsyah.wahyu@canberra.edu.au | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | 0000-0002-5523-6999 |
| Katy Meeuwissen | M Education (Research) | Teacher conceptualisations of Play and Play-based Learning in Australian primary schools | katy.meeuwissen@canberra.edu.au | 0009-0002-8539-3730 | |
| Kerry Woodward | PhD | Growing vegetables with care | kerry.woodward@canberra.edu.au | Centre for Sustainable Communities | 0000-0001-8187-7151 |
| Kira Dowling | PhD | Using self-transcription to
visualise spoken language: perspectives of non-tertiary adult ESL teachers and learners | Kira.Dowling@canberra.edu.au | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)/Applied Linguistics. Centre for Sustainable Communities | |
| Kithmini Kanishka | PhD | Blurred lines of the right to education: Investigating strategies to remove barriers and enhance equity in university education: A case study | Kithmini.Aviruppola@canberra.edu.au | Educational equity; higher education | |
| Kristofer Feodoroff | PhD | A Study on BSSS curriculum and equity of educational opportunity. | Centre for Sustainable Communities | ||
| Liljana Petkovska | PhD | Quantum culture: Australian identity and belonging through an expatriate community, New Delhi 2010 | |||
| Lucy Bennett | PhD | The research aims to closely explore women in STEM, with a particular focus on girls' education, identifying the enablers and barriers to girls with reference to STEM engagement, participation, and achievement. The need to develop a greater capacity to teach STEM in diverse contexts will be explored. | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | ||
| Lynne Pilbrow | PhD | My research topic is Music Education, and investigating whether there is a link between the success of award-winning Australian song-writers and their formative music education, both formal and informal. The information gathered would inform future best practice in music education in Australian early childhood and primary school settings. | |||
| Mali Wijesundara | PhD | The impact of special education programs and resources on the achievement levels of gifted/ potential high achievers within minority groups in NSW & ACT senior secondary education | |||
| Matt Bacon | PhD | Exploring the relationship between drawing, problem-solving and spatial reasoning in primary-aged children. | matt.bacon@canberra.edu.au | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | 0000-0002-5398-9735 |
| Matthew Brown | PhD | How do contextual factors influence the relationship between principals’ emotions and decision making? | matthew.brown@canberra.edu.au | Education Leadership | 0009-0009-5304-6022 |
| Meagan Pearse | PhD | The Impact of Teacher Sex and Gender stereotypes on Music Education for Adolescent Males | |||
| Meredith Box | PhD | Developing language and values in Australian community language schools | Meredith.Box@canberra.edu.au | Applied Linguistics | 0000-0002-7713-4467 |
| Michaela Vergano | Prof Doc Education | How do teachers plan? A case study in how ACT secondary teachers in Catholic systemic schools use the Personalised Plan as a tool to make planning decisions in an inclusive classroom. | michaela.vergano@canberra.edu.au | Inclusion; inclusive Education | 0000-0002-8629-6337 |
| Monty Nixon | PhD | Country as Teacher: Reinvigorating place-based pedagogies in Outdoor and Environmental education | Centre for Sustainable Communities | ||
| Natalie Downes | PhD | Mapping Rural (Education) Fields | natalie.downes@canberra.edu.au | Centre for Sustainable Communities | 0000-0002-7127-7512 |
| Nicola Kovacs | PhD | Exploring the connection between spatial reasoning and maths anxiety - does improving spatial reasoning skills help alleviate maths anxiety in school students? | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | ||
| Ona Siakimotu | PhD | Enhancing teacher capacity (in using IT as a tool) to personalise the learning within an integrated STEM approach. | ona.siakimotu@canberra.act.edu.au | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | |
| Paul Lyons | PhD | Interactional Competence: teaching discursive strategies to migrant ESL learners for building rapport in Australian workplace domains | |||
| Puji Rahayu | PhD | Exploring the use of PICRAT model for developing EFL preservice teachers’ skills in integrating technology in the EFL context | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL); English as a second/foreign language | ||
| Sally Rule | PhD | The PLC Imperative: navigating the dynamics of system-wide, system-led PLC implementation. | sally.rule@canberra.edu.au | Professional Learning communities | |
| Susilahudin Putrawangsa | PhD | Exploring the Role of Spatial Analogy and Embodiment in Promoting Mathematical Abstraction: A Focus on Teaching on Multiplication | putra.putrawangsa@canberra.edu.au putrawangsa@uinmataram.ac.id | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | 0000-0002-5225-4104 |
| Ugyen Tshering | PhD | Teaching Critical Reading in Bhutanese Middle Secondary Schools: An Integrated Approach | ugyen.tshering@canberra.edu.au | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) | 0009-0003-8791-5798 |