Sam Sellar is Dean of Research (Education Futures) and Professor of Education Policy at the University of South Australia.
Sam’s research focuses on education policy, large-scale assessments and the datafication of education. He is currently co-investigator for an ESRC project investigating digital platforms in higher education (led by Janja Komljenovic, Lancaster University).
Sam has published more than 70 books, book chapters and journal articles, and he is Lead Editor of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. His forthcoming book is Algorithms of Education: How datafication and artificial intelligence shape policy, co-authored with Kalervo N. Gulson and P. Taylor Webb.
About me
Sam Sellar is Dean of Research (Education Futures) and Professor of Education Policy at the University of South Australia.
Sam’s research focuses on education policy, large-scale assessments and the datafication of education. He is currently co-investigator for an ESRC project investigating digital platforms in higher education (led by Janja Komljenovic, Lancaster University).
Sam has published more than 70 books, book chapters and journal articles, and he is Lead Editor of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. His forthcoming book is Algorithms of Education: How datafication and artificial intelligence shape policy, co-authored with Kalervo N. Gulson and P. Taylor Webb.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bachelor of Education (Junior Primary and Primary) with Honours University of South Australia
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Artificial intelligence in education: Democratising policyect, ARC - Discovery Projects, 30/05/2024 - 29/05/2026
Illuminating Principal Practice, South Australian Secondary Principals Association Inc (SASPA), 24/04/2023 - 15/02/2024
Illuminating principal practice, South Australia Area School Leaders Association, 24/04/2023 - 24/12/2023
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 or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2022 |
Open access
|
2018 |
5
|
2017 |
13
|
2015 |
116
6
|
Year | Output |
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2024 |
|
2023 |
|
2023 |
|
2021 |
4
23
|
2021 |
7
|
2019 |
|
2019 |
4
|
2019 |
1
|
2018 |
|
2018 |
|
2018 |
4
151
|
2016 |
101
34
|
2016 |
|
2016 |
6
3
|
2015 |
13
|
2015 |
46
|
2015 |
32
|
2015 |
2
|
2015 |
13
|
Year | Output |
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2024 |
2
|
2023 |
1
|
2022 |
Open access
6
1
1
|
2022 |
Open access
15
8
4
|
2021 |
Open access
4
4
|
2021 |
Open access
36
17
13
|
2021 |
1
|
2021 |
Open access
10
3
1
|
2020 |
Open access
41
21
12
|
2019 |
Open access
91
49
31
|
2019 |
Open access
9
8
13
|
2019 |
Open access
25
10
2
|
2018 |
Open access
27
14
55
|
2018 |
Open access
33
21
7
|
2018 |
Open access
17
11
1
|
2017 |
Open access
19
15
6
|
2017 |
Open access
35
22
2
|
2016 |
Open access
24
15
|
2016 |
106
56
18
|
2016 |
80
56
|
2016 |
34
1
|
2016 |
Sellar, S 2016, 'Leaving the future behind', Research in Education, vol. 96, no. 1, pp. 12-18.
7
6
|
2015 |
57
38
1
|
2015 |
15
11
5
|
2015 |
25
17
4
|
2015 |
116
93
1
|
2015 |
10
8
|
2015 |
214
167
6
|
2011 |
76
57
|
2009 |
11
8
|
2009 |
36
30
|
Year | Output |
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2022 |
Open access
|
2010 |
|
2010 |
Open access
|
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
---|---|
Australian Catholic University | AUSTRALIA |
Columbia University | UNITED STATES |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
Indiana University | UNITED STATES |
Kyoto University | JAPAN |
La Trobe University | AUSTRALIA |
Lancaster University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Manchester Metropolitan University | UNITED KINGDOM |
National University of Tainan | TAIWAN |
Queensland University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
RMIT University | AUSTRALIA |
Sultan Qaboos University | OMAN |
University of British Columbia | CANADA |
University of Cambridge | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Connecticut | UNITED STATES |
University of Glasgow | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of New England | AUSTRALIA |
University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA |
University of Nottingham | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Oslo | NORWAY |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
University of Wollongong | AUSTRALIA |
Victoria University | AUSTRALIA |
Western Sydney University | AUSTRALIA |
Western University | CANADA |
York University | CANADA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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MemberEuropean Education Research Association |
2022 |
MemberComparative and International Education Society |
2019 |
Guest Editor of Special IssueEducational Philosophy and Theory |
2018 |
MemberComparative and International Education Society |
2018 |
MemberBritish Educational Research Association |
2018 |
MemberAmerican Educational Research Association |
2017 |
MemberBritish Educational Research Association |
2017 |
MemberComparative and International Education Society |
2017 |
MemberAustralian Association for Research in Education |
2016 |
MemberAmerican Educational Research Association |
2016 |
MemberComparative and International Education Society |
2016 |
MemberAmerican Educational Research Association |
2015 |
MemberComparative and International Education Society |
2015 |
MemberAmerican Educational Research Association |
2014 |
Guest Editor of Special IssueDiscourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education |
2013 |
Guest Editor of Special IssueAustralian Educational Researcher |
2011 |
Guest Editor of Special IssueCambridge Journal of Education |
2011 |
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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An Investigation of Educational Leadership for Indigenous Engagement in South Australian Schools | Current |
Embedding the teaching and assessing of employability skills in the university curriculum | Current |
Professional learning communities that support social justice through action-research: a critical narrative ethnography of the redesigning pedagogies in the north project | Current |