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
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. 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 |
|
2015 |
102
6
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Year | Output |
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2023 |
|
2021 |
1
24
|
2021 |
4
|
2019 |
|
2019 |
2
|
2019 |
1
|
2018 |
|
2018 |
|
2018 |
4
154
|
2016 |
34
|
2016 |
|
2016 |
5
|
2015 |
12
|
2015 |
39
|
2015 |
29
|
2015 |
2
|
2015 |
11
|
Year | Output |
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2023 |
|
2022 |
Open access
2
1
1
|
2022 |
Open access
7
7
4
|
2021 |
Open access
4
4
|
2021 |
Open access
25
16
13
|
2021 |
1
|
2021 |
Open access
3
1
1
|
2020 |
Open access
26
20
12
|
2019 |
Open access
61
48
31
|
2019 |
Open access
7
8
15
|
2019 |
Open access
17
10
2
|
2018 |
Open access
22
14
56
|
2018 |
Open access
28
21
6
|
2018 |
Open access
15
11
1
|
2017 |
Open access
17
14
6
|
2017 |
Open access
31
22
2
|
2016 |
Open access
23
15
|
2016 |
89
56
18
|
2016 |
72
55
|
2016 |
30
1
|
2016 |
Sellar, S 2016, 'Leaving the future behind', Research in Education, vol. 96, no. 1, pp. 12-18.
6
6
|
2015 |
48
37
1
|
2015 |
15
11
5
|
2015 |
22
16
4
|
2015 |
100
93
1
|
2015 |
9
8
|
2015 |
176
150
6
|
2011 |
71
57
|
2009 |
11
8
|
2009 |
31
27
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Year | Output |
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2010 |
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2010 |
Open access
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External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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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 |
Manchester Metropolitan University | UNITED KINGDOM |
National University of Tainan | TAIWAN |
Queensland University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
RMIT University | AUSTRALIA |
University of British Columbia | CANADA |
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 Western Ontario | CANADA |
University of Wollongong | AUSTRALIA |
Victoria University | AUSTRALIA |
Western Sydney University | AUSTRALIA |
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 |
MemberComparative and International Education Society |
2017 |
MemberBritish Educational Research Association |
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 IssueCambridge Journal of Education |
2011 |
Guest Editor of Special IssueAustralian Educational Researcher |
2011 |
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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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 |