Sue Nichols is a senior researcher in UniSA Education Futures. Her research in the fields of literacy, family involvement, practitioner inquiry and inclusive education has been supported by national competitive and university grants. She has worked in collaboration with many professional and community organisations to investigate learner participation and literacy development. Her research crosses diverse contexts including health services, libraries, universities, school classrooms, kindergartens, shopping malls and religious organisations. As society increasingly moves into online spaces, her research and teaching has followed, investigating changing literacy and learning practices. She has written about these issues from the... Read more
About me
Sue Nichols is a senior researcher in UniSA Education Futures. Her research in the fields of literacy, family involvement, practitioner inquiry and inclusive education has been supported by national competitive and university grants. She has worked in collaboration with many professional and community organisations to investigate learner participation and literacy development. Her research crosses diverse contexts including health services, libraries, universities, school classrooms, kindergartens, shopping malls and religious organisations. As society increasingly moves into online spaces, her research and teaching has followed, investigating changing literacy and learning practices. She has written about these issues from the perspectives of place, networks, social relations and identity formation.
About me
About me
About me
Doctorate of Philosophy University of South Australia
Graduate Diploma of Education South Australian College of Advanced Education
Bachelor of Education (Honours) Flinders University
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Parent involvement goes online: New ecologies of school-home relations, ARC - Discovery Projects, 12/04/2021 - 11/04/2024
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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2022 |
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2018 |
13
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2017 |
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2017 |
4
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2012 |
20
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Year | Output |
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2022 |
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2022 |
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2022 |
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2022 |
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2022 |
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2022 |
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2022 |
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2022 |
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2022 |
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2022 |
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2020 |
Open access
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2018 |
1
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2018 |
Open access
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2018 |
1
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2017 |
Open access
10
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2017 |
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2015 |
2
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2014 |
3
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2013 |
3
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2012 |
1
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2011 |
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2009 |
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2008 |
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Year | Output |
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2023 |
Open access
1
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2022 |
1
1
5
|
2022 |
Open access
8
4
12
|
2022 |
Open access
3
1
|
2021 |
2
1
9
|
2021 |
Open access
3
1
|
2020 |
1
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2019 |
Open access
2
1
|
2019 |
65
44
33
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2017 |
Open access
3
2
29
|
2017 |
Open access
1
|
2017 |
41
33
12
|
2015 |
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2015 |
Open access
1
1
|
2014 |
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2013 |
12
5
|
2012 |
Open access
|
2012 |
Open access
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2011 |
10
11
|
2011 |
Open access
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2011 |
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2011 |
29
22
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2010 |
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2009 |
Open access
18
12
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2009 |
4
|
2009 |
51
38
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2008 |
Open access
19
16
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2008 |
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2008 |
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Year | Output |
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2008 |
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2008 |
Open access
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Year | Output |
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2020 |
Open access
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2019 |
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2010 |
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2010 |
Open access
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Research
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Brock University | CANADA |
Central Queensland University | AUSTRALIA |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
Institute of Teacher Education - University of Hawaii | UNITED STATES |
Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
Nanyang Technological University | SINGAPORE |
Queensland University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
Southern Cross University | AUSTRALIA |
State University of New Jersey | UNITED STATES |
University of Newcastle | AUSTRALIA |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Invited LectureDoctors, friends and Google: Parents using child health information, Healthy Development Adelaide |
2021 |
Invited Scholar LectureTeaching and learning language and literacy: An inquiry approach, Sriwijaya University, Indonesia |
2021 |
Invited webinarWinning research funds from philanthropic organisations, Australian Council of Deans of Education |
2021 |
Invited webinarWinning research funds from philanthropic organisations, Australian Council of Deans of Education |
2020 |
Editorial Board MemberAustralasian Journal of Early Childhood |
2018 |
Editorial Board MemberAustralasian Journal of Early Childhood |
2017 |
Educational Research Advisory PanelMedia Centre for Educational Research |
2017 |
Executive memberAustralian Association for Research in Education (AARE) |
2017 |
MemberAustralian College of Educators |
2017 |
MemberAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) |
2017 |
Steering group memberCouncil of Associate Deans of Research in Education |
2017 |
Sue partners with United Way to support children's literacy in disadvantaged communities and is currently leading an evaluation of the Read Aloud Pals initiative.
She is on the Editorial Board of the Australasian Journal for Early Childhood and provides review services to several scholarly publishers including Bloomsbury and Routledge.
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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An Ecological Case Study of the Digital Networks of Children with a Learning Difficulty, Disability, or other Educational Challenge | Current |
How will deliberate and sustained oral language instruction impact oral language skills and will such improvement be associated with improved reading skills in students from low socioeconomic backgr | Current |
Investigating strategies for improving children's oral language in a classroom with high cultural diversity | Current |
Investigating young children's use of semiotic resources when participating in, and communicating about, their digital game play | Current |
Supporting the digital citizens of tomorrow: an analysis of pre-service teachers' training in multimodality and multiliteracies. | Current |
Talk SCIENCE through drawings and iPads: a classroom intervention into Oral Language Development | Current |
A genealogy of policy, programs and practices for the management of the child with challenging behaviour in Prince Edward Island, Canada | Completed |
An investigation into partnerships between mothers of children with disabilities and schools | Completed |
Assembling the 21st century learner: teachers' perspectives, textual representations and the case of challenge based learning | Completed |
Bilingual preschoolers' social interactions, emotional challenges, and functional language use while learning English as an additional language | Completed |
Broadening horizons: an analysis of the health-care priority-setting of two Canadian community health boards | Completed |
Cross-cultural mentorship of international medical graduates: the discursive formation of the ideal physician | Completed |
Exploring the impact of a pedagogical intervention employing explicit, metalinguistic vocabulary instruction using technology: a practitioner action research study | Completed |
On the periphery: classroom teacher accounts of including special needs students in Nova Scotia | Completed |
Open space technology: complexity thinking, classroom discourse and mathematics learning in the elementary classroom | Completed |
Parental partnership in the learning of children with learning disabilities in inclusive classes in Malaysia | Completed |
Re-reading bullying in the institutional setting: an opportunity for change | Completed |
Shopping...with children: investigating in-store shopping behaviour of adults accompanied by children | Completed |
The knowledge economy goes to work: a critical analysis of policy and practice in Australian technology network universities and their libraries | Completed |
The roles of parents in the literacy development of young children beginning school in South Australia and Israel | Completed |
Thinking through multiplicities: movement, affect and the schooling experiences of young men with autism spectrum disorder | Completed |
What do good readers do? Students' positioning within the reading classroom | Completed |
Women music educators in institutions: pathways into, through and beyond Colleges of Advanced Education (CAEs) in Adelaide 1973-1990 | Completed |