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On 24th March, 2015, I was awarded the honorary title of Emeritus Professor at the University's School of Education Graduating Ceremony. My previous appointments were as an Adjunct Research Professor of Education (2014), full Professor of Education (2007-2013) and Dean: Research Education (2003-2007) in the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences. My research interests include human resilience, curriculum theory and development, school reform, classroom management, and sexuality education.
I am currently a memeber of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts (2022-2024).
MY CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS INCLUDE:
School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact - ARC Discovery Grant 2021-2024
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On 24th March, 2015, I was awarded the honorary title of Emeritus Professor at the University's School of Education Graduating Ceremony. My previous appointments were as an Adjunct Research Professor of Education (2014), full Professor of Education (2007-2013) and Dean: Research Education (2003-2007) in the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences. My research interests include human resilience, curriculum theory and development, school reform, classroom management, and sexuality education.
I am currently a memeber of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts (2022-2024).
MY CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS INCLUDE:
School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact - ARC Discovery Grant 2021-2024
Team members: Professor Anna Sullivan, Emeritus Professor Bruce Johnson, Emeritus Professor Barry Down, Dr Neil Tippett
This project aims to investigate how and why Australian schools use exclusionary practices to manage disorderly students. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of school discipline about the extent and impact of these practices. It will provide a detailed analysis of the political, legislative and policy frameworks that impact on exclusion rates. Expected outcomes of this project include alternative policy and practice recommendations for legislatures and education systems. This should provide significant benefits, such as reducing youth alienation from schooling; creating inclusive schools; reducing the financial burden of exclusion on individuals and governments; and improving the health and wellbeing of young people.
How schools foster refugee student resilience - ARC Linkage Grant 2018-2023
Research Team: Emeritus Professor Bruce Johnson, Dr Mel Baak, Associate Professor Anna Sullivan and Professor Roger Slee
This research aims to investigate how schools transcend refugee students' past life experiences by creating the social and educational conditions that enhance their resilience. It will focus on the policies, practices, relationships, and events that shape the schooling experiences of refugee students and promote their resilience. The study will provide education sectors, schools, and refugee service providers with crucial new knowledge about how school-based policies and practices can foster refugee student resilience. Outcomes of this project will include the development of research-based guides to good policy and practice in refugee education, and improved educational and social outcomes for refugee students. www.refugeesatschool.edu.au
Engaging young people in sexuality education study - ARC Linkage Grant 2013-2017
Research team: Professor Bruce Johnson, Associate Professor Lyn Harrison, Dr Debbie Ollis, Dr Leanne Coll, Professor Colleen McLaughlin, Dr Helen Calabretto, Ms Jane Flenjke.
Young people are rarely consulted about school-based sexuality education. Adults usually decide what content is covered and how it is taught. This research project aims to give young people a say about what they learn in these programs. Using participatory research methods, new insights will be gained into students’ views about sexuality education, the in-school and out-of-school sources of their sexual information and values, and how they make sense of them. These insights will inform the re-design of school-based sexuality education programs that promote the sexual health of our young people. www.youthsexuality.com.au
Keeping the best: how school leaders engage and retain high quality early career teachers - ARC Linkage Grant 2013-2017
Research team: Professor Bruce Johnson, Dr Anna Sullivan, Associate Professor Michele Simons, Dr Judy Peters
Attracting and retaining high quality teachers to the profession is of international concern as it has far reaching economic and social implications for all nations. In Australia, teacher workforce development has focused predominantly on attracting and recruiting quality teachers, with less attention given to the broader retention process. This study will investigate how school leaders influence new teachers and foster their professional commitment. Furthermore, it will identify micropolitical strategies and activities that can be employed by leaders to promote the effective engagement and retention of quality early career teachers. www.rqt.edu.au
Punish them or engage them? Identifying and addressing productive and unproductive student behaviours in South Australian schools - ARC Linkage Grant 2011-2013
Research team: Dr Anna Sullivan, Professor Bruce Johnson, Professor Larry Owens and Professor Bob Conway
The management of unproductive student behaviour is one of the greatest challenges faced by schools across Australia. Yet there is little empirical evidence to guide teachers, schools and systems in their attempts to promote productive student engagement. This study sets out to provide a contemporary profile of the existing state of student behaviour and its management in South Australian schools. Furthermore, it will investigate how schools develop and enact policies to support an integrated approach to behaviour, learning and teaching. The study will provide a platform for the design of policies and practices that focus on the development of environments where students are productively engaged in their learning. www.bass.edu.au
Addressing the teacher exodus: Enhancing early career teacher resilience and retention in changing times - ARC Linkage Grant 2008-2013
Research team: Professor Bruce Johnson, Professor Barry Down, Dr Rosie Le Cornu, Dr Judy Peters, Dr Anna Sullivan, Dr Jane Pearce and Ms Janet Hunter
The first few years of teaching are difficult for many teachers. Yet research into the ‘problems’ of beginning teachers is nearly exhausted. Few new ideas about how to address these ‘problems’ are emerging. There is a need for a new generation of collaborative research that investigates how beginning teachers develop resilience and sustain their commitment to teaching. Therefore, this project aims to find out how early career teachers deal with threats to their wellbeing. It will identify what internal strengths and external strategies promote teacher resilience. It will provide the evidence base for interventions that will increase teacher commitment and reduce teacher attrition. www.ectr.edu.au
About me
Member, Australian College of Educators
Member, Australian Association for Research in Education
Member, Centre for Research in Education (CREd), School of Education
Member, British Educational Research Association
Member, European Education Research Association
Assessor, Australian Research Council
Assessor, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Assessor, Office for Learning and Teaching
Member, Scientific Leadership Council, Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre
About me
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Adelaide
Master of Education Flinders University
Bachelor of Education Flinders University
Bachelor of Education Flinders University
Emeritus Professor of Education 2015-present
Adjunct Research Professor of Education 2014
Professor of Education, School of Education, UniSA 2007-13
Dean: Research Education, Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences 2003-07
Associate Professor of Education, School of Education, UniSA 2004-07
Associate Director, Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work 1999-2003
Research Degrees Coordinator, School of Education, UniSA 1998-2003
Hawke Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hawke Research Institute, UniSA 2001
Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education, UniSA 1993-2003
Lecturer in Education, School of Education, UniSA 1986-92
Teacher and Advisory Teacher, Education Department of SA 1974-85
Teachers' careers
Human Resilience
School leadership
Child Protection Issues
School Discipline
Curriculum Development
Sexuality education
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact, ARC - Discovery Projects, 01/02/2021 - 15/12/2025
How schools foster refugee student resilience, ARC - Linkage Project, 12/06/2018 - 31/12/2023
CCYP WA - Exclusionary policies and practices in Australian Schools and the impact they have on vulnerable children, Commissioner for Children and Young People Western Australia, 24/12/2018 - 31/05/2021
UNICEF - Exclusionary policies and practices in Australian Schools and the impact they have on vulnerable children, Australian Committee for UNICEF Ltd, 10/12/2018 - 31/05/2021
CCPY VIC - Exclusionary policies and practices in Australian Schools and the impact they have on vulnerable children, Commissioner for Children and Young People Victoria, 24/12/2018 - 31/05/2021
CCYP - Exclusionary policies and practices in Australian Schools and the impact they have on vulnerable children, Commissioner for Children and Young People South Australia, 10/12/2018 - 31/05/2021
Keeping the best: How school leaders engage and retain high quality early career teachers, ARC - Linkage Project, 06/09/2013 - 30/09/2019
Turning them on: Engaging young people in disrupting silences about their sexual wellbeing, ARC - Linkage Project, 30/10/2013 - 30/09/2018
Punish them or engage them? Identifying and addressing productive and unproductive student behaviours in South Australian schools, ARC - Linkage Project, 15/06/2011 - 31/12/2016
Punish them or engage them? Identifying and addressing productive and unproductive student behaviours in South Australian schools, South Australian Commission for Catholic Schools Incorporated (SACCS), 15/06/2011 - 31/12/2016
Safe and well online, Young and Well CRC Ltd, 01/07/2012 - 30/06/2016
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 |
8
8
|
2016 |
7
|
2016 |
17
|
Year | Output |
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2022 |
|
2019 |
72
|
2016 |
17
|
2016 |
11
56
|
2015 |
2
|
2011 |
5
|
Year | Output |
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2022 |
|
2019 |
|
2019 |
15
|
2019 |
15
|
2016 |
1
3
|
2016 |
8
8
|
2016 |
7
|
2016 |
2
|
2011 |
|
Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
91
|
2023 |
Open access
2
2
10
|
2023 |
Open access
1
2
9
|
2023 |
Open access
8
|
2022 |
Open access
2
2
1
|
2021 |
Open access
22
20
26
|
2020 |
5
3
|
2020 |
13
12
|
2014 |
159
131
11
|
2014 |
38
23
3
|
2014 |
Open access
134
79
42
|
2013 |
42
28
|
2012 |
Open access
|
2009 |
178
123
|
2009 |
Open access
7
|
2008 |
Open access
|
2008 |
Open access
95
75
|
Year | Output |
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2011 |
Open access
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Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
|
2021 |
Open access
|
2020 |
Open access
|
2020 |
Open access
|
2020 |
Open access
|
2020 |
Open access
|
2020 |
Open access
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2019 |
|
2019 |
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2019 |
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2014 |
Open access
1
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2012 |
Open access
|
2009 |
Open access
|
Research
Teachers' careers
Human Resilience
School leadership
Child Protection Issues
School Discipline
Curriculum Development
Sexuality education
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Australian National University | AUSTRALIA |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
Dublin City University | IRELAND |
Edith Cowan University | AUSTRALIA |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
Murdoch University | AUSTRALIA |
SHINE SA | Sexual Health Information Networking and Education | AUSTRALIA |
University of Cambridge | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Sussex | UNITED KINGDOM |
Western Sydney University | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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MemberARC College of Experts |
2022 |
Editorial Board MemberInternational Journal Of Emotional Education |
2018 |
Curriculum development
Teacher Professional Development
Qualitative Research Methods
Student Welfare
Sexuality and relationships education
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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A narrative study of the leadership stories of Indonesian female senior high school principals | Completed |
An exploratory investigation of early career teacher resilience | Completed |
An investigation into the relationships between cyberbullying, coping and help seeking in young adolescents | Completed |
An investigation into the transition from primary to secondary school: student perceptions of their transition experience | Completed |
An investigation into young children's perspectives of their wellbeing during transition from preschool to school | Completed |
An investigation of ClassDojo as a technology of power and the school discipline practices and pedagogies performed through its use | Completed |
An investigation of persistent bullying at school: multiple perspectives on a complex social phenomenon | Completed |
Exploring the conceptualisation, development and implementation of the University of South Australia's pre-service teacher education programs with a middle years component: case studies with lessons concerning change | Completed |
Given up: reflections of adult adoptees in the context of South Australian child care since 1836 | Completed |
Health teacher education and its contribution to teacher curriculum designed for social action | Completed |
I've got my degree and teacher registration but where do I get my professional identity? | Completed |
Learner-centeredness in teachers¿ beliefs and practices: a study of secondary teachers of English as a foreign language in China | Completed |
On the periphery: classroom teacher accounts of including special needs students in Nova Scotia | Completed |
Reconnection or disconnection: the influence of alternative education for marginalised students in the middle years of school | Completed |
School culture and innovation: essential elements for fostering student belonging | Completed |
The impact of crucible events on the development of female political leaders in Kenya | Completed |