Professor Robert Tierney
Rob Tierney is a Professor of Language and Literacy Education, the former Dean at the University of British Columbia (2000-2010), an Honorary Professor and Past Dean of the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney (2010-13), and a Visiting Scholar at Beijing Normal University.
His recent projects have ranged from research on matters of equity, global developments pertaining to ways of knowing, digital meaning making, the nature of educational scholarship across countries, teacher development projects in China and indigenous developments in Australia.