Our People
- are in Buildings 25, 18, 16a, 6, and 5 on the UC Bruce Campus
- are regularly available for face-to-face consultations at The Student Centre, Building 1
- and can be contacted regarding
- Student enquiries - Education.student@canberra.edu.au / 1300 301 727
- All other enquiries - Education-FacultyOffice@canberra.edu.au
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Jonathan AdamsLecturer E: Jonathan.Adams@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015047 L: Building 18 Room B14 |
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Dr Margie AppelLecturer |
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Emily AshcroftLecturer E: Emily.Ashcroft@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62068633 L: Building 18 Room B13 |
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Lucy BennettLecturer E: lucy.bennett@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 6201 2446 L: Building 18 Room B15 |
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Dr Will BrehmAssociate Professor - Education E: Will.Brehm@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015699 L: Building 6 Room D08 |
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Dr Bernard BrownSenior Lecturer - Teacher Education E: bernard.brown@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015910 L: Building 6 Room D17 |
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Matthew BrownClinical Associate Professor E: matthew.brown@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 6201 5915 L: Building 6 Room D41 |
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Dr Jo CafferyAssociate Professor - Teacher and Community Education E: jo.caffery@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015094 L: Building 6 Room D28 |
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Dr Beth ChapmanLecturer - Teacher Education |
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Mandy CrossmanLecturer - Teacher Education E: mandy.crossman@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62012505 L: Building 6 Room D11 |
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Dr Rachel CunneenSenior Lecturer - Teacher Education E: rachel.cunneen@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62012067 L: Building 6 Room D6 |
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Professor Barney DalgarnoExecutive Dean - Faculty of Education E: DeanofEducation@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015123 L: Building 6 Room D1 |
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Dr Michael DaviesLecturer - Health and Physical Education |
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Julia Davies-DuffLecturer E: Julia.Davies-Duff@canberra.edu.au T: tba L: Building 6, Level D |
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Dr Jenny DeanPost-Doctoral Researcher E: jenny.dean@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015912 L: Building 6 Room C69d |
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Dr Duncan DriverAssociate Dean Education E: duncan.driver@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015584 L: Building 6 Room D3 |
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Dr Maya GunawardenaAssociate Professor - Curriculum, Pedagogy & TESOL |
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Dr Kate HalcrowLecturer E: kate.halcrow@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 6201 2446 L: Building 6 Room D35 |
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Dr Sandra Heaney-MustafaSenior Lecturer – Community Education E: sandra.heaney-mustafa@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015387 L: Building 6 Room D25 |
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Dr Kate HighfieldAssociate Professor and Academic Lead - Early Childhood Education E: kate.highfield@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015892 L: Building 6, Room C86 |
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Dr Ann HillSenior Lecturer - Teacher and Community Education |
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Dr Deborah HillAssociate Professor - TESOL E: deborah.hill@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62012626 L: Building 6 Room C82 |
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Dr Emily HillsAssistant Professor - Teacher Education |
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Nicola KovacsLecturer E: nicola.kovacs@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 6201 2736 L: Building 18 Room B17b |
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Dr Tracy LoganAssistant Professor in Education |
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Centenary Professor Tom LowrieCentenary Professor & Director of SERC E: thomas.lowrie@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62012568 L: Building 18 Room B11 |
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Katy MeeuwissenDoctoral Lecturer - Early Childhood & Primary Education E: katy.meeuwissen@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 6206 3712 L: Building 6 Room D11 |
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Ben MudieLecturer - Education E: Benjamin.Mudie@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62063868 L: Building 6 Room D31 |
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Rowena MuirAcademic Lead and Director |
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Dr Thomas NielsenAssociate Professor - Teacher Education E: thomas.nielsen@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015699 L: Building 6 Room D8 |
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Dr Karen OakleySenior Lecturer - Educational Psychology E: karen.oakley@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 6201 2093 L: Building 6 Room D37 |
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Professor Barbara Pamphilon AMAssociate Director, Centre for Sustainable Communities (CSC) E: barbara.pamphilon@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62012323 L: Building 6 Level C |
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Dr Sitti Maesuri PatahuddinAssociate Professor - Teacher Education E: sitti.patahuddin@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015011 L: Building 18 Room B12b |
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Dr Eleni PetrakiAssociate Professor - TESOL and Applied Linguistics |
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Dr Deborah Pino-PasternakProfessor - Early Childhood Education and Community |
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Dr Ilyse ResnickAssociate Professor - Learning Sciences (Cognition) E: Ilyse.Resnick@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62068536 L: Building 1 Room C143a |
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Dr Philip RobertsProfessor - Curriculum Inquiry & Rural Education |
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Dr Andrew RossSenior Lecturer - Teacher Education |
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Sally RuleLecturer - Teacher Education |
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Dr Janet SmithAssociate Professor Education |
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Professor Elke StrackeProfessor E: Elke.Stracke@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62012492 L: Building 6 Room C61 |
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Dr Siew Imm TanSenior Lecturer |
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Dr Holly TootellSenior Lecturer - STEM Education E: Holly.Tootell@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015789 L: Building 18 Room B15b |
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Michaela VerganoLecturer |
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Professor Ting WangDeputy Dean - Faculty of Education E: Ting.Wang@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62012495 L: Building 6 Room D12 |
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Stephanie WattsLecturer - Teacher Education E: Stephanie.Watts@canberra.edu.au T: N/A L: Building 6 Room D39 |
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Dr John WilliamsAssociate Professor - Health & PE and Teacher Education E: john.williams@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015261 L: Building 6 Room D27 |
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Dr Naomi ZouwerLecturer - Creative Arts Teacher Education E: naomi.zouwer@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 6206 8906 L: Building 6 Room D38 |
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Mark AnthonyAcademic Programs Support Advisor E: Mark.Anthony@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62012024 L: Building 6 Room D18 |
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Matt BaconELSA Research Project Manager E: matt.bacon@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62012212 L: Building 18 Room B12a |
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Peter CarlingFaculty Manager E: Peter.Carling@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62068300 L: Building 6 Room D4 |
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Serena ChongAcademic Program Manager E: serena.chong@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015864 L: Building 6 Room D18d |
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Natalie DownesCSC Research Administrator E: Natalie.Downes@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62068355 L: Building 6 Level D |
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Annabel FagenceSenior Operations Coordinator - SERC |
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Danielle HarrisSenior Research Assistant E: danielle.harris@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015295 L: Building 18 Room B |
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Ross HopeELSA Digital Coordinator E: ross.hope@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62068544 L: Building 18 Room B |
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Candice KingstonSchool Partnerships Advisor E: candice.kingston@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62068958 L: Building 6 Room D18 |
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Yasmin LloydExecutive Assistant to Executive Dean and Faculty Manager E: yasmin.lloyd@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015117 L: Building 6 Room D3 |
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Kylie ReeceOperations and Research Manager E: Kylie.Reece@canberra.edu.au T: +61 408260069 L: Building 6 Room D18 |
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Jenny TruongFaculty Support Advisor E: Jenny.Truong@canberra.edu.au T: + 61 2 62012812 L: Building 6 Room D20 |
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Lee YuFacilities and Technical Support Coordinator E: Lee.Yu@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62068547 L: Building 25 Room C4 |
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Professor Barney DalgarnoExecutive Dean - Faculty of Education E: DeanofEducation@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015123 L: Building 6 Room D1 |
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Dr Eleni PetrakiAssociate Professor - TESOL and Applied Linguistics |
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Dr Duncan DriverAssociate Dean Education E: duncan.driver@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62015584 L: Building 6 Room D3 |
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Dr Tracy LoganAssistant Professor in Education |
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Centenary Professor Tom LowrieCentenary Professor & Director of SERC E: thomas.lowrie@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62012568 L: Building 18 Room B11 |
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Dr Deborah Pino-PasternakProfessor - Early Childhood Education and Community |
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Professor Ting WangDeputy Dean - Faculty of Education E: Ting.Wang@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62012495 L: Building 6 Room D12 |
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Peter CarlingFaculty Manager E: Peter.Carling@canberra.edu.au T: +61 2 62068300 L: Building 6 Room D4 |
Adjunct Staff
 | Dr Misty Adoniou |
 | Professor Barbara ChambersAdjunct Professor Chambers was the foundation director of the then Australian Institute for Sustainable Communities (now Centre for Sustainable Communities) at the University of Canberra. She has established an international reputation in the field of collaborative methodologies and gender, agriculture and food security. |
| Professor Mike GaffneyAdjunct Professor Mike Gaffney is Academic Director of NESLI, a company specialising in the design and delivery of high quality, online professional development programs focused on school leadership. He was previously Professor of Education and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Education, Science Technology and Mathematics at the University of Canberra. |
| Professor Caroline LemerleDr Lemerle joined University of Canberra as Adjunct Professor in the then Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics in 2015. |
| Associate Professor Katja MikhailovichDr Mikhailovich is an Adjunct Associate Professor who has undertaken a broad range of cross-disciplinary research in the area of community health and education and has developed expertise in program evaluation. |
 | Dr Karin OerlemansDr Oerlemans is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and the Principal consultant at Kairos Consultancy & Training, committed to helping educators change how they think and do education in their contexts. Karin is available for PhD supervision at UC, in areas of curriculum, policy, and technology. |
| Professor Shirley Randell AOAdjunct Professor Shirley Randell has had an eminent career as an educator and expert in public sector and institutional reform in developing countries across the globe. Dr Randell was recognised in the 2012 Inaugural Australian 100 Women of Influence Awards. She is committed to universal education, continuing to mentor and empower women and has been active in Rotary International, Zonta International, Virginia Gildersleeve International Foundation, indigo foundation and Graduate Women International and their worldwide initiatives. |
| Professor John SpriggsProfessor Spriggs is an Adjunct Professor in agri-business, specialising in trans-disciplinary ways to engage stakeholders to maximise agricultural supply chains and agri-business. |
 | Professor Daniela StehlikDaniela tweets as @RubaSkala and can be contacted on danielastehlik@icloud.com |
 | Dr Karen WilliamsKaren is currently leading the transitioning of a community-based conservation group from local to landscape-scale operations, adapting the group to the requirements of economic, social and environmental sustainability. Karen uses the interaction of environmental, cultural and social inclusiveness principles, to bridge between Western and Aboriginal knowledge. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to program design and management, in order to achieve environmental outcomes supported by long-term stewardship. Karen’s leadership, facilitation and program management roles have directed her research towards a practical integration of environment, natural resource management, cultural heritage, social inclusion and sustainability education. These are an on-ground application of the concept of spatial narrative. |
Current Students
| Student Name | Degree | Thesis Title | Research Centre/Discipline | ORCID-ID | |
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| Adi Husnawadi | PhD | Designing Flipped Classroom-based LBC for EFL Writing Instruction at an Indonesian Preservice EFL Teachers Program | |||
| Aerlie Vade | PhD | Embedding a pedagogy of play - Teacher challenges in the Primary setting | |||
| Amy Dennis | M Education (Research) | Exploring teachers understanding of the personal and social capability in the secondary school environment. | |||
| Andrew Maxwell | M Education (Research) | Developing international students’ dispositions towards critical thinking in English for Academic Purposes programs at Australian universities | andrew.maxwell@canberra.edu.au | TESOL; English for Academic Purposes | 0009-0007-2727-561X |
| Anne 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) | |
| Belinda Rodwell | M Education (Research) | Should rural and remote secondary schools' success be measured using the same parameters of their regional/ metropolitan counterparts | |||
| Benjamin Mudie | PhD | A Qualitative Study on The Impact of AI on Teaching Quality and Demands of Classroom Teachers in the ACT. Is AI an efficacious approach to addressing workload concerns for classroom teachers? Does it provide quality or improved lessons and learning outcomes? | |||
| 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 |
| Christopher DeBritt | 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 | |||
| Craig Johnson | M Education (Research) | Analysing relationships between spatial reasoning and computational thinking to enhance the teaching of coding in implementing the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies in high school (Years 7-10) | |||
| 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 | PhD | Utilising Appreciative Inquiry to Highlight Stakeholder Perspectives in Relationships and Sexuality Education | dylan.hunt@canberra.edu.au | Health and Physical Education | |
| Ellie Bowe | M Education (Research) | Evaluation of Graduate Certificate: Country as Teacher | ellie.bowe@canberra.edu.au | Centre for Sustainable Communities | 0009-0006-8942-867X |
| 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 DeSimone | 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 | ||
| Hannah Worsley | M Education (Research) | "I Want To Be..." A case study of place-based aspirations outreach in Snowy Monaro primary schools, NSW | |||
| 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 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 | |||
| Jonathan Adams | PhD | The effect of visuospatial training on students' mathematical achievement in an Australian high school | |||
| Jordan Harrison | M Education (Research) | Implementing a once a week Country as Teacher 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 |
| Katie Wilson | PhD | To explore the use and impact of technology tools in initial teacher education (ITE) degrees globally | Katie.Wilson@canberra.edu.au | 0009-0009-4115-6574 | |
| 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 Aviruppola | 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 | ||
| Larissa Mullen | PhD | To be feared or revered? A study of the impact of using Generative Artificial Intelligence on high school students' learning outcomes and engagement. | |||
| 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. | |||
| 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) | ||
| Onawe 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 Mills | PhD | Successes and failures in education policy reform, Australia, 1970 to 2025 | |||
| 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 |
| Thomas Stonestreet | PhD | Perspectives on school choice policies in regional, rural, and remote NSW communities |