Academic Staff

Qualifications:
PhD,BEd,DipTeach

Research Interests:
Learning disabilities/difficulties; Inclusive education; Teacher beliefs and attitudes.

Qualifications:
Masters of Education

Research Interests:
Assessment

Qualifications:
PhD,Graduate Diploma (Sec-Science Teaching)

Research Interests:
Middle years of schooling, pedagogy, school reform, teacher induction and phenomenography.

Qualifications:
PhD

Research Interests:
Young people as researchers - participatory action research, students at risk, role of imagination in engagement with education

Qualifications:
Doctor

Research Interests:
optimism, resilience, anger, counselling, classroom management.

Qualifications:
PhD,MEd,Postgrad Dip in Psychology

Research Interests:
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents; Behaviour disorders; Bullying; Counselling in educational settings; Peer coaching; Promotion of mental health in schools.

Qualifications:
PhD,BA Ed

Research Interests:
Adult education, Vocational education and training (VET), Workplace learning and workforce development, Leadership for change, Diversity, Policy.

Qualifications:
Doctor of Education,Master of Education

Qualifications:
PhD,MBA,BBus

Research Interests:
Adult learning, self directed learning, knowledge management, human resource development, management development, management of change, older learners, youth learners, communities of practice.

Qualifications:
Masters

Research Interests:
Learning disabilities/difficulties, in the development of literacy skills; mentoring and assessment.

Qualifications:
PhD,MEdAdmin,BEd,DipT

Research Interests:
Leadership ,principalship,professional development,mentoring,phenomenology.

Qualifications:
PhD,BEd(Special),DipTeaching

Research Interests:
Beginning and family literacy; Dyslexia; Education for gifted and talented children; Children with learning difficulties.

Qualifications:
PhD,MEd,GradDipEd,BSocSci

Research Interests:
Adult Learning

Qualifications:
PhD,Master of Educational Psychology,Bachelor of Educational Studies,Bachelor of Arts

Research Interests:
Down syndrome; Rare chromosome disorders; Community attitudes toward disability; Motivation; Self-regulation; Developmental approaches to crime prevention.

Qualifications:
Master of Education

Research Interests:
Middle Schooling; Community Engagement, Teacher Induction.

Qualifications:
PhD

Research Interests:
Chief research interests include: curriculum development and implementation; curriculum, pedagogy and assessment; evaluation and assessment; classroom assessment practice; portfolios for learning and assessment; assessment practice in Higher Education; teacher education and professional development.

Qualifications:
PhD,MA(Ed)

Research Interests:
Learning disabilities/difficulties especially with regard to the development of literacy skills; Impact of social-emotional factors especially anxiety and depression; Self-regulation and self-efficacy; Assessment and intervention

Qualifications:
PhD

Research Interests:
Personal responsibility in adolescents and young adults, moral and emotional development, qualitative research, values-based education, the development of pre-service teachers morals and values.

Qualifications:
PhD,BEd,DipT,CertT

Research Interests:
Practicum

Qualifications:
MEd (School Guidance and Counselling)

Qualifications:
PhD,MSc,MA,BEd,DipEd

Research Interests:
Adult Education; Industry based training: Learning and cognition; Spatial problem solving; Technology based learning environments; Education reform in developing countries.

Qualifications:
Master of Educational Psychology

Research Interests:
Biological and psychological factors associated with trauma. Developmental processes in trauma. PTSD. Coping and Cognitive processes. Temperament. Literacy. Early Intervention.

Qualifications:
Ph.D,Master of Education

Research Interests:
Curriculum; curriculum change; strategic planning and Analysis and use of educational data

Qualifications:
PhD

Research Interests:
professional development among preservice and beginning teachers and early career academics, mentoring, and burnout.

Qualifications:
PhD,Graduate Cert in Education (TESOL)

Research Interests:
Diversity of learning/teaching, teacher efficacy, behaviour management, environmental education (particularly in relation to engaging diverse learners)