Barbara Comber is a Research Professor in the School of Education.
Barbara has collaborated on and conducted a number of competitively funded research projects concerned with literacy development, teaching and socioeconomic disadvantage.
She has developed or contributed to language and literacy teacher education materials in a number of Australian states, the US and Canada.
She has authored a book, edited 10 books and published numerous articles and chapters for teachers and teacher educators on critical literacy, teachers' work and social justice.
Her current research focusses on how young children are learning to write now and also how early career teachers understand and attempt to enact quality teaching in schools located... Read more
About me
Barbara Comber is a Research Professor in the School of Education.
Barbara has collaborated on and conducted a number of competitively funded research projects concerned with literacy development, teaching and socioeconomic disadvantage.
She has developed or contributed to language and literacy teacher education materials in a number of Australian states, the US and Canada.
She has authored a book, edited 10 books and published numerous articles and chapters for teachers and teacher educators on critical literacy, teachers' work and social justice.
Her current research focusses on how young children are learning to write now and also how early career teachers understand and attempt to enact quality teaching in schools located in low socio-economic status areas.
About me
http://www.aare.edu.au/ Australian Association for Research in Education
http://www.aate.org.au/ Australian Association for the Teaching of English
http://www.alea.edu.au/ Australian Literacy Educators Association
http://www.petaa.edu.au/imis_prod/w/ Primary English Teaching Association Australia
http://www.aera.net/ American Educational Research Association
http://www.ncte.org/ National Council of Teachers of English (USA)
http://www.literacyworldwide.org/ International Literacy Association
https://ukla.org/ United Kingdom Literacy Association
About me
Doctor of Philosophy James Cook University
Master of Education University of Wollongong
Graduate Diploma of Teaching South Australian College of Advanced Education
Graduate Diploma of Reading Education South Australian College of Advanced Education
Bachelor of Arts University of Adelaide
Current and Recent Projects
Co-Chief Investigator with Annette Woods & Lisa Kervin (University of Wollongong), Learning to write: A socio-material analysis of text production, ARC Discovery DP150101240 2015-2017
Co-Investigator with Dr Margaret Kettle, Dr Susan Creagh (UQ) and Dr Jennifer Alford, How long does it take to achieve academically in a second language? Investigating variables that impact academic outcomes for ESL learners in Queensland primary and secondary schools, Office of Educational Research Seed Funding Grant, Faculty of Education, 2015-2016
Co-Chief Investigator with Bruce Burnett, Jo Lampert & Lutz Hoff & Angela Ferguson, Exceptional teachers for disadvantaged schools: A longitudinal study of graduates at... Read more
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Network Inquiry: Trialling Evaluation Tools and Protocols for Producing Evidence of Impact with a focus on literacy, Catholic Education South Australia, 17/12/2019 - 28/02/2022
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2016 |
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2014 |
Open access
17
10
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2012 |
Open access
125
105
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2011 |
Open access
43
36
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2008 |
29
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Year | Output |
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2017 |
36
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2016 |
Comber, B 2016, Literacy, place, and pedagogies of possibility, Routledge, US.
58
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2014 |
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2013 |
13
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2012 |
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2009 |
Bloustien, G, Comber, B & Mackinnon, A 2009, The Hawke legacy, Wakefield Press, Australia. |
Year | Output |
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2023 |
1
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2023 |
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2022 |
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2022 |
Open access
1
|
2021 |
Open access
2
|
2020 |
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2020 |
Open access
|
2019 |
4
|
2019 |
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2019 |
6
|
2019 |
Open access
1
|
2018 |
Open access
8
|
2018 |
Open access
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2018 |
Open access
8
|
2017 |
Open access
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2016 |
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2016 |
2
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2016 |
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2016 |
2
|
2016 |
8
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2015 |
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2015 |
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2015 |
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2015 |
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2015 |
4
|
2014 |
2
|
2014 |
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2014 |
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2013 |
30
|
2013 |
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2013 |
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2013 |
3
|
2013 |
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2013 |
|
2013 |
33
|
2012 |
10
|
2012 |
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2011 |
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2010 |
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2010 |
13
|
2009 |
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2009 |
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2009 |
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Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
1
79
|
2024 |
Open access
2
2
|
2023 |
5
5
|
2023 |
Open access
2
1
|
2023 |
Open access
3
97
|
2023 |
Open access
6
7
1
|
2022 |
1
1
|
2022 |
Open access
2
3
1
|
2021 |
|
2021 |
Open access
9
7
|
2021 |
Open access
|
2021 |
Open access
4
3
|
2021 |
Open access
7
5
|
2021 |
Open access
6
4
2
|
2021 |
Open access
17
13
|
2021 |
Open access
4
3
1
|
2020 |
5
4
|
2020 |
Open access
3
2
|
2020 |
Open access
4
2
|
2019 |
Open access
22
15
|
2019 |
|
2019 |
2
1
|
2019 |
|
2019 |
11
9
|
2018 |
13
8
|
2018 |
Open access
26
21
|
2018 |
Open access
10
9
|
2018 |
Open access
|
2017 |
Open access
|
2017 |
Open access
11
6
|
2017 |
Open access
|
2017 |
Open access
36
24
|
2017 |
Open access
|
2016 |
Open access
31
20
|
2015 |
Open access
92
66
|
2014 |
Open access
17
10
|
2013 |
Open access
5
|
2013 |
|
2013 |
11
8
|
2013 |
47
|
2013 |
41
26
|
2012 |
Open access
125
105
|
2011 |
|
2011 |
25
22
|
2011 |
Open access
43
36
|
2011 |
23
22
|
2011 |
39
23
|
2009 |
Open access
1
|
2009 |
Open access
128
100
|
2009 |
54
48
|
2008 |
29
|
2008 |
27
11
|
2008 |
9
4
|
2008 |
3
2
|
2008 |
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Year | Output |
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2018 |
Open access
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2010 |
Open access
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2010 |
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2010 |
Open access
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2010 |
Open access
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2010 |
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2010 |
Open access
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2010 |
Open access
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2009 |
Open access
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Research
Current and Recent Projects
Co-Chief Investigator with Annette Woods & Lisa Kervin (University of Wollongong), Learning to write: A socio-material analysis of text production, ARC Discovery DP150101240 2015-2017
Co-Investigator with Dr Margaret Kettle, Dr Susan Creagh (UQ) and Dr Jennifer Alford, How long does it take to achieve academically in a second language? Investigating variables that impact academic outcomes for ESL learners in Queensland primary and secondary schools, Office of Educational Research Seed Funding Grant, Faculty of Education, 2015-2016
Co-Chief Investigator with Bruce Burnett, Jo Lampert & Lutz Hoff & Angela Ferguson, Exceptional teachers for disadvantaged schools: A longitudinal study of graduates at work in low socio- economic status schools, ARC Linkage LP140100613 with DETE, 2014-2017
Co-Chief Investigator with Lisa Erich, Val Klenowski, Suzanne Carrington, Judy Smeed & Mel Ainscow (Manchester), Ethical leadership: How educators address learning, equity and accountability. ARC Linkage LP0200647 with QELI and 6 Queensland Schools, 2012-2015
Co-Chief Investigator with Robert Hattam (UNISA) and Deb Hayes (U Sydney), Educational leadership and turnaround literacy pedagogy, ARC Linkage LP0100714 with DECS, 2012-2014
Recognition
Appointment as Honorary Professor, School of Education, University of Nottingham, August 2015-July 2018
Radford Lecture at Australian Association for Educational Research Annual Conference, December 2015
Nomination to the 2008 South Australian Women’s Honour Roll,
Distinguished Scholar 2008, Division of Education, Arts & Social Sciences, UniSA
Life Membership of the Primary English Teaching Association, October 2007
Australian Literacy Educators Association, Inaugural Research Award, July 1999
Australian Association for Educational Research Doctoral Thesis Award, 1997
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Adelaide College of the Arts | AUSTRALIA |
Australian Catholic University | AUSTRALIA |
Brookings Institution | UNITED STATES |
Central Queensland University | AUSTRALIA |
Charles Sturt University | AUSTRALIA |
Columbia University | UNITED STATES |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
DECD (Department of Education and Child Development) | AUSTRALIA |
Department of Education | PHILIPPINES |
Department of Education and Training, Qld | AUSTRALIA |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
Gilles Street Primary School | AUSTRALIA |
Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
Harvard University | UNITED STATES |
Institute of Technology Bandung | INDONESIA |
Kristiania University College | NORWAY |
La Trobe University | AUSTRALIA |
Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
Mount Saint Vincent University | CANADA |
National Institute of Education | SINGAPORE |
Open University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Private Individual | UNITED KINGDOM |
Queensland University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
St Francis Xavier University | CANADA |
University College Cork | IRELAND |
University of Arizona | UNITED STATES |
University of Georgia | UNITED STATES |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | UNITED STATES |
University of Kentucky | UNITED STATES |
University of Manchester | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of New England | AUSTRALIA |
University of Newcastle | AUSTRALIA |
University of Nottingham | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of Sheffield | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
University of the Witwatersrand | SOUTH AFRICA |
University of Victoria - BC | CANADA |
University of Wollongong | AUSTRALIA |
Victoria University | AUSTRALIA |
Winston-Salem State University | UNITED STATES |
Woodville Gardens School B-7 | AUSTRALIA |
York University | CANADA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Distinguished Contribution to Research in Educational Leadership AwardAustralian Council for Educational Leaders South Australian Branch (ACEL SA) |
2018 |
Editorial Board MemberAustralian Journal of Language and Literacy |
2018 |
Editorial Board MemberThe Australian Educational Researcher |
2018 |
Editorial Board MemberEducational Action Research |
2018 |
MemberAustralian Association for Research in Education (AARE) |
2018 |
MemberPrimary English Teaching Association Australia |
2018 |
MemberUnited Kingdom Literacy Association |
2018 |
MemberAustralian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA) |
2018 |
MemberAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) |
2018 |
MemberNational Council of Teachers of English (USA) |
2018 |
MemberInternational Literacy Association |
2018 |
MemberAustralian Association for the Teaching of English |
2018 |
Editorial Board MemberThe Australian Educational Researcher |
2017 |
Editorial Board MemberAustralian Journal of Language and Literacy |
2017 |
Editorial Board MemberEducational Action Research |
2017 |
Honorary ProfessorUniversity of Nottingham |
2017 |
MemberAustralian Association for the Teaching of English |
2017 |
MemberAustralian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA) |
2017 |
MemberNational Council of Teachers of English (USA) |
2017 |
MemberInternational Literacy Association |
2017 |
MemberUnited Kingdom Literacy Association |
2017 |
MemberAustralian Association for Research in Education (AARE) |
2017 |
MemberAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) |
2017 |
MemberPrimary English Teaching Association Australia |
2017 |
Reading Centre Advisory GroupDepartment of Education and Training, Government of Queensland |
2017 |
Honorary ProfessorUniversity of Nottingham |
2016 |
Invited Plenary AddressLiteracy Research Association Annual Conference, Literacy Research Association |
2016 |
Keynote SpeakerInternational Literacy Association, Annual Convention |
2016 |
Keynote SpeakerNational Conference for Teachers of English and Literacy |
2016 |
Hall of FameInternational Literacy Association |
2015 |
Honorary ProfessorUniversity of Nottingham |
2015 |
Invited Lecture - Graham Nuthall LectureUniversity of Canterbury |
2015 |
Invited Lecture - Radford LectureAustralian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference, Fremantle, Australia |
2015 |
Peer ReviewerExcellence in Research for Australia |
2012 |
http://www.aare.edu.au/ Australian Association for Research in Education
http://www.aate.org.au/ Australian Association for the Teaching of English
http://www.alea.edu.au/ Australian Literacy Educators Association
http://www.peta.edu.au/ Primary English Teaching Association
http://www.aera.net/:American Educational Research Association
http://www.ncte.org/ National Council of Teachers of English (USA)
Practitioner research
Critical literacies
Research methods in language and literacy education
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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An investigation of arts-based pedagogies for democratic participation in early childhood | Current |
Towards critical global literacies: building social participation and citizenship in a superdiverse world | Current |
A situated study of literacy teachers at work in an environmental communications project | Completed |
Open space technology: complexity thinking, classroom discourse and mathematics learning in the elementary classroom | Completed |
The roles of parents in the literacy development of young children beginning school in South Australia and Israel | Completed |
Young children¿s language socialisation in a small, rural, Indo-Fijian community in Fiji | Completed |