Telephone: | +61 8 6304 3531 |
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Email: | e.taylor@ecu.edu.au |
Campus: | Mount Lawley |
Room: | ML17.129 |
ORCID iD: | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0328-0733 |
Lily is a Senior Lecturer in Primary Science Education and an educational researcher.
Lily has been teaching Primary Science Education and conducting research at ECU since 2018. To-date she has supervised to completion 11 doctoral and 1 masters by research students at ECU, Murdoch University and Curtin University. Prior to coming to ECU (2013-2017), she took a break from her full-time academic career to focus on her family. During that time she was working part-time as adjunct senior lecturer at Murdoch University developing secondary science units and teaching a range of online units.
Between 2004 and 2013, Lily was a senior lecturer at Curtin University where she developed and taught units in curriculum theory and research methods - particularly qualitative research methods - at Honours, Masters and doctoral levels. Between 2009 and 2012, she was a chief investigator on an ARC Discovery Research Grant focusing on Sustainability Education. In her role as Academic Course Coordinator of the BEd Secondary and the Graduate Diploma Secondary at Curtin, she coordinated a major course review. During her PhD (1999-2003), she was a research associate at the ARC Science and Mathematics Education Centre (SMEC).
Before migrating to Australia, Lily trained as a secondary Biology/Environmental Science teacher and graduated with a Master's degree from the University of Salzburg, Austria. During her Masters studies, she worked as a student assistant at the Department of Biophysics, University of Salzburg, conducting measurements in the Salzburg Province Radiation Laboratory and at the Department of Mineralogy where she engaged in X-Ray Crystallography. Her current research interests lie in STEAM, Sustainability Education and Transformative Education. In addition to her passion for science and particularly for transformative STEAM and sustainability education, Lily has completed additional training in Counselling (Master of Counselling), Executive Certificate of Coaching and an Advanced Diploma in Creative Art Therapy.
2009-2012: ARC Discovery Grant.
Role: Chief Investigator
Funding Body: The Australian Research Council, Canberra, Australia.
Title: Sustainable Sustainability: Preparing Australia’s Future Citizens for Informed Decision-making through Socially Responsible Science Education.