Research candidates

Nicola Apps

Thesis Title: Stay at Home! Home Education and Unschooling in Central Queensland during a pandemic.

Tim Barrington

Thesis: A Symphony of Binaries: Exploring Critical and Creative Thinking through Encounters with Luminaries, Learners, and Loud Heavy Metal Music.

Interests: Tim is a passionate metalhead multi-instrument musician, learner, and teacher. 

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Adrienne (Adi) Brown)

Thesis title: Locating place-based pedagogy: A posthuman inquiry into Visual Arts and Design Higher Education in China and New Zealand
Interests: Visual Arts curriculum and pedagogy in higher education, within international settings of art making, and the intra-actions that occur between learner, artist, teacher and researcher.

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Teresa Carapeto

Thesis: Relations as Nature in Steiner Waldorf Teacher Practice and its Transcendence into the Classroom and Beyond

Interests: Sustainability and Indian medieval history.

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Jennifer Desrosiers

Thesis Title: A mixed methods critique of explicit and implicit curricula about gender, sexuality and culture in teacher education programs.

Mellissa Evans

Thesis Title: Youth agency and well-becoming in Australian Schools: A cartography of entanglement between dogs and young people.

David Ellis

Thesis:Professional Learning ; Technology Education: Enabling the Future

Interests: Whole-of-school and whole-of-system approaches to education for sustainability: Uptake of environmental technology in schools.

Natalie Gardham

Thesis: VET Voices of Success: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Experiences

Interests:  Research interests include, Vocational Education and Training, students succeeding in meeting their goals, increasing completion rates, and understanding what success is for students.

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Kate Herwig

Thesis Title: Embedding wellbeing practices into everyday classes: Impact on students’sense of belonging and academic achievement

Kelly Humphrey

Thesis: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership matters in the education sector: Disrupting the racial disparity perspective.

Interests: Aboriginal education, leadership, Aboriginal methodologies, diversity in education. Aboriginal practice: Basket weaving.

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Carl Hotko

Thesis Title: Teaching While the Black Dogs Bark: Australian Secondary Teachers’ stories of Vicarious Trauma.

Aleasa Kermode

Thesis Title: 'Genderverse': an autoethnographic study of the metaverse of gendered interactions in early childhood and primary education.

Elizabeth Makishe

Thesis Title: Gendered Constructions of Leadership Education in Tanzania Primary Schools.

Frances Mason

Thesis Title: Youth co-designed secondary school career development practice: What would it look like.

Tahlia McGahey

Thesis Title: Social Improvement for Disengaged Youth through A/r/tography

Samantha van der Toorn

Thesis Title: A Priest and the Posthuman: Metatheorising worldviews through the relational conversations about the Anthropocene

Narissa Wheatley

Thesis Title: Refiguring the autistic child: Schooling, affective artefacts and the joyful events of m(other)ing

Regina (Gina) Ygoa McKeown

Thesis Title: “Live the Learning” – Connecting science education to sustainability through environmental education