Email: jamie.manolev@mymail.unisa.edu.au
Jamie Manolev is a Research Associate at the University of South Australia, and a member of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion.
Jamie's research program is concentrated on educational issues across two primary areas, a) the platformisation and datafication of education, and b) school discipline, including in particular, school exclusionary practices. His program focuses on what the implications of contemporary developments in these two areas are, or may lead to, in education. His research is critical in orientation and therefore concentrates on examining how education is mediated by power, including in ways that produce disadvantage and inequality.
His current research is focussed on examining issues of policy... Read more
About me
Jamie Manolev is a Research Associate at the University of South Australia, and a member of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion.
Jamie's research program is concentrated on educational issues across two primary areas, a) the platformisation and datafication of education, and b) school discipline, including in particular, school exclusionary practices. His program focuses on what the implications of contemporary developments in these two areas are, or may lead to, in education. His research is critical in orientation and therefore concentrates on examining how education is mediated by power, including in ways that produce disadvantage and inequality.
His current research is focussed on examining issues of policy and practice, and the relationships between them, to develop understandings about:
a) the ways digital education platforms and datafication are shaping, or re-shaping, education.
b) the ways disciplinary exclusions are being used to manage student behaviour, the impacts these exclusions have on students and their families, and less harmful educative alternatives to exclusion.
He draws on critical platform studies, critical data studies, critical policy studies, sociological theory, and Foucauldian theory as sites of knowledge to make sense of these issues.
He is currently working as a postdoc on an ARC Discovery project titled School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact. His PhD research investigated the ways in which ClassDojo (an education platform) is influencing contemporary education, in particular school discipline practices and pedagogies.
Jamie’s PhD research has attracted considerable media attention including coverage that spanned television (The Project), radio, print, and online mediums.
About me
Member, Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Member, Surveillance Studies Network
About me
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 02/05/2025 |
Are we under surveillance? It’s time for a re-think on school technology, expert says, https://educationhq.com/news/are-we-under-surveillance-its-time-for-a-re-think-on-school-technology-expert-says-193411/ |
| 02/05/2025 |
Experts call for big rethink on technology in schools, https://www.theeducatoronline.com/k12/news/experts-call-for-big-rethink-on-technology-in-schools/287057 |
| 20/01/2025 |
The rise of metrics-based school discipline: How ClassDojo is changing discipline practices in schools, https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/the-rise-of-metrics-based-school-discipline-how-classdojo-is-changing-discipline-practices-in-schools |
| 10/09/2024 |
Whole school approach to managing classroom disruptions, https://www.educationreview.com.au/2024/09/whole-school-approach-to-managing-classroom-disruptions/ |
| 20/08/2024 |
Suspended students more likely to experience poor post-school outcomes: new study, https://www.6pr.com.au/school-suspensions-lead-to-worse-future-education-outcomes/ |
| 20/08/2024 |
School suspensions lead to worse future education outcomes, https://www.6pr.com.au/school-suspensions-lead-to-worse-future-education-outcomes/ |
| 04/08/2022 |
If Australian schools want to improve student discipline, they need to address these 5 issues, https://theconversation.com/if-australian-schools-want-to-improve-student-discipline-they-need-to-address-these-5-issues-187993 |
| 21/10/2020 |
NSW wants to change rules on suspending and expelling students. How does it compare to other states?, https://theconversation.com/nsw-wants-to-change-rules-on-suspending-and-expelling-students-how-does-it-compare-to-other-states-144676 |
| 19/05/2019 |
ABC Radio National, Future Tense program - Robots in the classroom and news on Wikipedia, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/robots-in-the-classroom-and-news-on-wikipedia/11106720 |
| 18/02/2019 |
Vast amounts of data about our children are being harvested and stored via apps used by schools, https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?s=classdojo |
| 31/01/2019 |
Digitally tracking student behaviour in the classroom encourages compliance, not learning, https://theconversation.com/digitally-tracking-student-behaviour-in-the-classroom-encourages-compliance-not-learning-110181 |
| 23/01/2019 |
Study claims @ClassDojo encourages an archaic approach to school discipline, https://ukedchat.com/2019/01/23/classdojo-discipline/ |
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bacheloor of Education (Primary and Middle) University of South Australia
2022 - present Postdoctoral Researcher (UniSA)
2015 - 2022 Research Assistant (UniSA)
2014 - 2017 Teacher (South Australian Department for Education)
School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact, ARC - Discovery project, 2021-2025
An investigation of ClassDojo as a technology of power and the school discipline practices and pedagogies performed through its use, PhD, 2017-2022
School Exclusions Pilot Study: Exclusionary policies and practices in Australian schools and the impact they have on vulnerable children, 2019-2020
How schools foster refugee student resilience, ARC - Linkage Project, 2018-2020
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
School Exclusions Study: Exclusionary policies and practices in Australian schools and the impact they have on vulnerable children 2019-2020
How schools foster refugee student resilience, ARC - Linkage Project, 2018-2020
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 |
|---|---|
| 2025 |
Open access
3
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| 2024 |
Open access
2
2
91
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| 2024 |
Open access
1
13
|
| 2023 |
Open access
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| 2019 |
Open access
145
109
128
|
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2025 |
Open access
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| 2024 |
Open access
2
2
91
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| 2024 |
Open access
1
13
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| 2023 |
Open access
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| 2022 |
Open access
3
3
1
|
| 2019 |
Open access
145
109
128
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2020 |
Open access
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| 2020 |
Open access
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| 2020 |
Open access
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| 2020 |
Open access
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| 2020 |
Open access
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| 2019 |
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Conference presentations
Manolev, J, Hartong, S, & Ebejer T (2025), A scoping review of research on parents and digital education platforms: Key insights for the field of Critical EdTech Studies, European Conference on Critical Edtech Studies, Zurich, Switzerland.
Manolev, J, Sullivan, A, & Tippett, N (2024), ClassDojo's platform as an architecture of pervasive disciplinary surveillance, AARE 2024, Sydney.
Manolev, J., Sullivan, A., & Tippett, N (2023). Metric power and education platforms: An investigation of ClassDojo as a school discipline technology, AARE 2023, Melbourne, Australia.
Down, B., Sullivan, A., Tippett, N., Johnson, B., Manolev, J., & Robinson, J. (2023). What is missing in policy discourses about school exclusions?. AARE 2023, Melbourne, Australia.
Hartong, S., & Manolev, J. (2022). The construction of (good) parents (as professionals) in/through learning platforms (paper presentation). in Hartong, S., Decuypere, M., & Manolev, J. (Organisers), The rising influence of education platforms: (how) do they reshape educational professionality?. Symposium at AARE 2022, Adelaide, Australia.
Sullivan, A., Tippett, N., Manolev, J., Johnson, B., & Down, B. (2021). A critical policy analysis examining how the AITSL Professional Standards guide teachers to maintain student discipline. AARE 2021, Australia. (Virtual Conference)
Manolev, J., & Sullivan, A. (2021). Datafying school discipline: Examining ClassDojo as a technology of government in the school and classroom (paper presentation). in Hartog, S. (Organiser), Seeing through Data: The Normalizing Politics of Datafication and its Impact on Teacher and Student Subjectivities. Symposium at ECER 2021, Geneva, Switzerland. (Virtual Conference).
Sullivan, A., Johnson, B., Manolev, J., & Tippett, N. (2020). School Exclusions in Australia: Critical Policy Analysis of Education Legislation Guiding Disciplinary School Practices. ECER 2020, Glasgow, Scotland. https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-2020-glasgow/ (Conference cancelled).
Manolev, J., & Sullivan, A. (2019). Platform governance: ClassDojo, power and the production of data-driven realities of school discipline and student conduct. AARE 2019, Brisbane, Australia.
Sullivan, A., Johnson, B., Slee, R., Manolev, J., & Tippett, N. (2019). School Exclusions in Australia: Critical policy analysis of education legislation guiding disciplinary school practices. AARE 2019, Brisbane, Australia.
Sullivan, A., Baak., M., Johnson, B., Slee, R., & Manolev, J. (2019). A critical policy study of the Australian federal government multicultural statement and its alignment and misalignment with education policies. AARE 2019, Brisbane, Australia.
Manolev, J., Sullivan, A,. & Slee, R. (2018). The datafication of discipline: ClassDojo, surveillance and a performative classroom culture. AARE 2018, Sydney, Australia.
Manolev, J., Sullivan, A,. & Slee, R. (2018). ClassDojo’s datafication of discipline: Surveillance, performativity and the data based management of students. The Inclusive Education Summit 2018, Geelong, Australia.
Research
School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact, ARC - Discovery project, 2021-2025
An investigation of ClassDojo as a technology of power and the school discipline practices and pedagogies performed through its use, PhD, 2017-2022
School Exclusions Pilot Study: Exclusionary policies and practices in Australian schools and the impact they have on vulnerable children, 2019-2020
How schools foster refugee student resilience, ARC - Linkage Project, 2018-2020
My research on school discipline platform ClassDojo was covered on national television program The Project (Network 10) - A popular app is helping Aussie teachers keep students in line but is it doing more harm than good (aired in January 2019)
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Humboldt University Berlin | GERMANY |
| London School of Economics and Political Science | UNITED KINGDOM |
| North Carolina State University - Raleigh | UNITED STATES |
| Pennsylvania State University | UNITED STATES |
| University of Cambridge | UNITED KINGDOM |
| University of Hamburg | GERMANY |
| University of Nebraska–Lincoln | UNITED STATES |
| University of Oxford | UNITED KINGDOM |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
Teaching & student supervision
