Dr Aidan Cornelius-Bell is an Academic Developer with the University of South Australia. He is an active researcher in higher education, including active student participation and students as partners, programmatic approaches to Aboriginal content and pedagogies, multi- and trans-disciplinary education, and structural transformation of education systems. He is involved in several local and national research projects, including research about academics needs for professional development. His academic background is in cultural studies, sociology, higher education and political philosophy.
He completed his PhD with Flinders University, in which he focussed on students’ identity and reactions to higher education.... Read more
About me
Dr Aidan Cornelius-Bell is an Academic Developer with the University of South Australia. He is an active researcher in higher education, including active student participation and students as partners, programmatic approaches to Aboriginal content and pedagogies, multi- and trans-disciplinary education, and structural transformation of education systems. He is involved in several local and national research projects, including research about academics needs for professional development. His academic background is in cultural studies, sociology, higher education and political philosophy.
He completed his PhD with Flinders University, in which he focussed on students’ identity and reactions to higher education. Aidan’s PhD is titled ‘Student Activism in Higher Education: the possibility and politics of students’ role in hegemonic university change’. This political work focussed on, through empirical ethnographic study, student activism, student identity, Gramsci's conception of hegemony, power, protest and partnership. It drew on historical and contemporary contexts to provide a rich analysis of power and politics.
Aidan is passionate about supporting high-quality teaching that 'performs' in robust ways while enabling academic agency and creativity. Through working alongside staff he considers teaching innovation through a pragmatic radical lens, creating, in concert with expert staff, navigable and useful curriculum, supports for teaching and learning through co-design, and development of sound assessment which empowers students and staff in their learning/teaching experience.
Aidan is experienced in researching primary, secondary and tertiary education. He has worked in roles that include: use of research data for policy development, application and visualisation; applying qualitative research methods to emergent education practices; application of sociological research methods and diverse qualitative methodological frameworks and tools. He has also worked in the evaluation of school and university teaching practice as a data analyst.
He has worked in a range of research projects that: investigate the role of active student participation, student partnership and students as partners; involve teacher education students in STEM industry placements; support school-based teaching and learning in the context of industry; investigate students’ self-regulation of learning in STEM classrooms; and study the sociology of higher education in contemporary change. These projects have spanned externally funded research from a range of bodies, including the Department of Innovation and Skills and the Australian Research Council (both Discovery and Linkage).
Aidan is accepting associate supervision of PhD students in areas that relate to the above.
About me
Member HERDSA
Member Student Voice Australia Practitioner Network
About me
Doctor of Philosophy Flinders University
Current:
Academic Developer University of South Australia (2021-)
Historic:
Casual Academic Flinders University (2018-2021)
Learning Designer Flinders University (2020-2021)
Research Assistant Flinders University (2015 - 2020)
Research Assistant Department for Education and Child Development (2012 - 2014)
Recently published
Cornelius, K., & Cornelius-Bell, A. (2022). Systemic racism, a prime minister, and the remote Australian school system. Radical Teacher, 122, 64–73. https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2022.935
Cornelius-Bell, A., & Bell, P. (2021). The academic precariat post-COVID-19. Fast Capitalism, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.32855/fcapital.202101.001
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Educational & academic support: perceptions of and from the field, UniSA, 2022 -
Understanding Students’ Roles in University Governance, UniSA, Deakin University, University of Adelaide, Recipient of Deakin University's REDI Seed Funding Award, 2022 -
Academic experiences of delivering fully online courses, UniSA, University of Adelaide, 2022 -
Active Student Participation in Practice, Uppsala University, UniSA 2021 -
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
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| 2020 |
Open access
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Tools and resources
Conference presentations and papers
Reports and other output
Research
Recently published
Cornelius, K., & Cornelius-Bell, A. (2022). Systemic racism, a prime minister, and the remote Australian school system. Radical Teacher, 122, 64–73. https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2022.935
Cornelius-Bell, A., & Bell, P. (2021). The academic precariat post-COVID-19. Fast Capitalism, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.32855/fcapital.202101.001
I am actively engaged in the development of an "Active Student Participation course" (with colleagues at Uppsala University, Sweeden). With students and staff we are developing a course (and associated workshops) for students & staff seeking resources, development and support to engage in student partnership pedagogy contact me for information or to collaborate!
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
| James Cook University | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
