Dr Bec Neill is the Deputy Chair of the UniSA Human Research Ethics Committee and Program Director for Early Childhood Education in UniSA's Education Futures unit.
She is an expert in systems thinking, problem solving, and the design and implementation of Digital Technology solutions in organisational settings. She holds a degree in Information Systems and a PhD in Communications, with extensive experience working as an ICT professional in private industry and public administration contexts. Her current work across a diverse range of educational settings as an education researcher, pre-service and in-service teacher educator, and education program director builds organisational capacity to deliver culturally responsive,... Read more
About me
Dr Bec Neill is the Deputy Chair of the UniSA Human Research Ethics Committee and Program Director for Early Childhood Education in UniSA's Education Futures unit.
She is an expert in systems thinking, problem solving, and the design and implementation of Digital Technology solutions in organisational settings. She holds a degree in Information Systems and a PhD in Communications, with extensive experience working as an ICT professional in private industry and public administration contexts. Her current work across a diverse range of educational settings as an education researcher, pre-service and in-service teacher educator, and education program director builds organisational capacity to deliver culturally responsive, digitally inclusive, and high value education and care systems.
Bec's teaching expertise encompasses digital technologies and pedagogies, integrated and personalised learning approaches, post-graduate ICT-industry and education-research project supervision, and child protection curricula and teaching practice. Her research investigates the human-technology relations of Australian families and their children. It uses visual critical systems methods to integrate population level data with families' and children's’ lived-experience, and maps the digital amplification of inequitable and violent geographical and gendered terrains of education in post-colonial Australian society.
Inquiry into child-family-community-technology relations is a cohesive theme across Bec’s diverse post-doctoral education research. As critical systems thinker and maternal feminist, her research engagement develops holistic views of:
About me
Date | Title |
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10/12/2018 |
NCP UniSA Fiji Water Safety and Swimming Program, https://www.unisa.edu.au/siteassets/unisanews/archive-pdfs/unisa-news-february-2019.pdf#page=34 |
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bachelor of Business (Information Systems) University of South Australia
Education Industry Engagement
2021 TAFE SA Child Care Network, Salisbury Communities for Children, SchoolsMinistries Group, Industry Funded, Place andPlay Based Wellbeing in Early Childhood Contexts, Research Team
2020 Catholic Education South Australia primary schools, Industry Funded, Trialling EvaluationTools and Protocols for Evidence of Impact with School and Literacy Leaders (north-western Adelaide region), Research Fellow
2020 Department for Education primary schools (Southern Adelaide region), URIPA funded: Becoming strong in broken places, ResearchAssociate
2020 UniSA STEM, Teaching and Learning Development Grant: Supporting anddeveloping online learners' collaborative problem-solving experiencesusing 360-degree video, Research Fellow
2020 Department for Environment and Water, National Parks and WildlifeService, Tertiary Industry Placement, Fire Reduction Program: Slashing Community Information System Requirements, Feasibility and Conceptual Design, Academic Mentor
2019-20 Department for Education & SalisburyCommunities for Children, Industry Funded, The Wellbeing SchoolProgram and Impact Evaluation, Steering Committee member andResearch Fellow
2019-2020 UniSA Research for Educational and Social Inclusion Concentration, Education Futures Funded: Publications and research Pperformance data management and reporting to support Centre status application, Research Fellow
2019 Department for Education schools (northern Adelaide region), UniSA URIPA Mentor Funding Scheme: Connecting health and physical education to student life-worlds, Research Fellow
2019 - 2020 UniSA Research and InnovationServices: Human Research Ethics Compliance Officer
2017-18 TAFE SA, Helping Young People Achieve, City of Playford, City ofOnkaparinga, City of Adelaide, UniSA School of Psychology and SocialWork (Youthworx Alliance), UniSA Research Themes Investment Scheme funded: Re-engaging youth in learning and work through filmmaking, Research Associate
2017 - 2018 Department for Education children's centre (regional hub): Strategic planning and facilitation, Consultant (Hampton Mead Consulting Pty Ltd trading as Bec Neill Consulting)
2016-17 Department for Education secondary schools (eastern & northern Adelaide regions),Helping Young People Achieve, City of Playford & Northern Sound System, EASS Research Performance Fund: Psycho-social and academic benefits for adolescents engaging in alternative learning,Steering Committee Member & Research Associate
2015-16 Catholic Education South Australia, EASS Research Performance Fund, Disrupting Deficit Narratives of Refugee students: Processes of being, becoming, and belonging, Research Associate
2013 Department for Education primary schools (eastern and Western Adelaide regions) UniSA Learning and Teaching Grant: Creating digital learning resources for pre-service educators from practice-based and standardised literacy assessment data,
2006-2012 TAFE SA Childcare and Preschool Network: Strategic planning; federal curriculum and regulation transition management; staff performance and skills development, Consultant, Hampton Mead Consulting Pty Ltd
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Assessing the Impacts of a Wellbeing Approach on Young Children's Transitions from Preschool to Junior Primary School, Salvation Army (SA) Property Trust, 30/01/2023 - 06/01/2025
Developing mathematical thinking in the early years: Challenges of multi-age classrooms in inner regional South Australian Schools, Early Childhood Australia South Australian Branch Incorporated, 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2023
Wellbeing in Early Childhood Settings, Salvation Army (SA) Property Trust, 24/02/2021 - 31/07/2022
Addressing the gap between policy and implementation: Strategies for improving educational outcomes of Indigenous students, OLT-Grants - Innovation & Development, 10/02/2016 - 24/08/2018
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.
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2024 |
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1
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2024 |
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54
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2023 |
Open access
2
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2023 |
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2023 |
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2023 |
Open access
2
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2023 |
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2021 |
Open access
1
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2020 |
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2018 |
Open access
3
1
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2024 |
Open access
1
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2024 |
Open access
54
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2023 |
Open access
1
1
2
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2022 |
Open access
3
3
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2022 |
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2022 |
Open access
2
1
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2021 |
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2020 |
Open access
4
3
4
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2024 |
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Neill, B 2015, 'Mothering in Australian network society 2006-2013: a longitudinal critical systems inquiry', PhD Thesis, University of South Australia, Adelaide.
Franzway, S & Neill, B 2013, 'Coordinated and integrated services: the integrated rape crisis service in Yarrow Place, Australia', in Walby, S, Olive, P, Towers, J, Francis, B, Strid , S, Krizsán , A, Lombardo , E, May-Chahal, C, Franzway , S, Sugarman, D & Agarwal , B (eds), Overview of the worldwide best practices for rape prevention and for assisting women victims of rape, Policy Department, European Parliament, Bruxelles, pp. 136-141.
Neill, B & Thorne, K 2005, 'Rediscovering dependency and discovering technological contempt: mothering with disembodied information and communication technologies', in CHJ Gilson (ed), Proceedings of the 4th International Critical Management Studies Conference 2005, International Critical Management Studies Conference, pp. 1-24.
Neill, B 2005, 'Getting out the back: A tale of surfing and post graduate research', in T Vilkinas (ed), The Thesis Journey, Pearson Sprint, Sydney.
Neill, B 2001, 'Metaphor Analysis for Improved Information Systems Design', International Conference on Information Systems 2001 Proceedings, Paper 51, AIS. <http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2001/51>.
Metcalfe, M, Neill, B & Marriot, P 2001, 'Appropriate technology for oral knowledge sharing', in F Burstein (ed), Knowledge Management for Information Communities, Australian Conference of Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support 2000, Australian Scholarly Publishing, pp. 95-109.
Grant, S & Neill, B 2001, 'Indigenous Community Information Preferences: An Interpretive Research Study', Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2001 Proceedings, Paper 27. <http://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2001/27>.
Neill, B 2000, 'Imaging an Information System: An Interpretative Case Study', Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2000, AIS, Brisbane.
Research
Wrench, A, Neill, B & Diamond, A 2022, 'International service-learning: possibilities for developing intercultural competence and culturally responsive pedagogies', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 215-228.
2020 New Colombo Plan UniSA Fiji Water Safety and Swimming Tour Leader
2018 New Colombo Plan UniSA Fijij Water Safety and Swimming Tour Leader
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Central Queensland University | AUSTRALIA |
Charles Darwin University | AUSTRALIA |
Fiji Early Childhood Teachers Association | FIJI |
Fiji Early Childhood Teachers' Association | FIJI |
Fiji National University | FIJI |
James Cook University | AUSTRALIA |
National Council of Women Fiji | FIJI |
Private Individual | UNITED KINGDOM |
Seeds of Affinity | AUSTRALIA |
University of Newcastle | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of the South Pacific | FIJI |
University of Wyoming | UNITED STATES |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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TreasurerWorking Women Centre of South Australia |
2020 |
TreasurerWorking Women Centre of South Australia |
2019 |
New Colombo Plan Study Tour: water safety and learn to swim program for children aged 4-13Nacovi community, Fiji |
2018 |
TreasurerWorking Women Centre of South Australia |
2018 |
TreasurerWorking Women Centre of South Australia |
2017 |
Board MemberWorking Women Centre of South Australia |
2016 |
Board MemberWorking Women Centre of South Australia |
2015 |
Board MemberWorking Women Centre of South Australia |
2014 |
Board MemberWorking Women Centre of South Australia |
2013 |
Board MemberWorking Women Centre of South Australia |
2012 |
Board MemberWorking Women Centre of South Australia |
2011 |
Treasurer and Board Member, Seeds of Affinity - Pathways for Women Inc, 2018 - present
Treasurer (2017-2020) and Board Member, Working Women's Centre of SA, 2010 - 2020
Parent Advisory Committee Member, City West Child Care Centre, 2002-2012
Member, Lartelare Land Action Group, 2005-2007
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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An investigation of the impact of STEMfooty: an integrated curriculum to aid motivation, self-regulation and academic performance in Mathematics and Science subjects | Current |
Exploring the influencers and influences on middle school students career self-efficacy: a theory of change approach | Current |