School of Education

Professor Leon Benade

Yes

• Theory and philosophy of education
• Education policy
• Teachers' work
• Innovative learning Environments

l.benade@ecu.edu.au

Professor Mindy Blaise

No

• Interdisciplinarity
• Postdevelopmentalism
• Queer theory
• Feminism
• Post-empiricism
• Multi-species ethnography
• Creative practice
• Interdisciplinary research
• Environmental issues (e.g., water, waste, weathering)
• Pedagogies for the Anthropocene

m.blaise@ecu.edu.au

Associate Professor Fiona Boylan

No

• Mindset
• Design based research
• Metacognition
• Play and pedagogy
• Social emotional development and learning
• Wellbeing of children and teachers
• Digital technologies
• Transitions in the early years

f.boylan@ecu.edu.au

Associate Professor Melanie Brooks

No

• School leadership, management, and administration
• Islamic school leadership and Islamic schooling
• Culturally responsive leadership
• Religion, critical spirituality, and education
• Education and ethno-religious conflict
• Geographical specialisations: Australia, United States, Southeast Asia

melanie.brooks@ecu.edu.au

Associate Professor Anne Coffey

Yes

• Transition of students from primary to secondary school
• Early adolescence - particularly student engagement
• Middle years student leadership
• Service-Learning
• Mental Health and Wellbeing

a.coffey@ecu.edu.au

Professor Dianne Chambers

No

• The use of assistive technology to support communication and learning
• Accessible Open Education Resources (OER)
• The preparedness and attitudes of beginning teachers to accommodate students with diverse abilities in their classrooms
• Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
• International Education

d.chambers@ecu.edu.au

Dr Patricia (Trish) Collins

No

• Personal values (i.e. individual motivational goals) in adults and children
• Relationships between personal values and wellbeing (including self-esteem)
• Relationships between personal values and social behaviours
• Best-Worst Methodology
• Teacher and Pre-Service Teacher's personal values impact their teaching style, wellbeing   and behaviour
• Social and emotional development and learning
• Associate investigator for the Centre for Excellence for the Digital Child
• STEM in education

trish.collins@ecu.edu.au

Dr Jason Goopy

Yes

• Music and arts education
• Identity
• Wellbeing
• Singing
• Teacher education
• Arts-based, narrative, and mixed research methods

j.goopy@ecu.edu.au

Dr Christina Gray

No

• Drama and Arts education
• Belonging and connection
• Initial teacher education
• Teacher beliefs
• Teacher career trajectories
• Narrative methodologies

c.gray@ecu.edu.au

Dr Vesife Hatisaru

Yes

• Mathematics education
• Teacher pedagogical content knowledge
• Teacher beliefs
• Teaching practices
• Student affective outcomes
• Drawing on education
• Images of mathematics and mathematicians
• Problem-based learning
• STEM education

v.hatisaru@ecu.edu.au

Dr Rikki James

Yes

• Media literacy education development for Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers
• Media education pedagogy development for primary and secondary schools
• Digital media technologies in education
• Generative artificial intelligence and immersive virtual reality simulation innovations for education training
• Arts in Education pedagogies and innovations
• Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher, and academic wellbeing
• The Growth Mindset and its benefit to students
• Best practice in Professional Experience for Pre-Service Teacher training

rikki.james@ecu.edu.au

Professor Aaron Jarden

Yes

• Defining and conceptualising wellbeing
• Wellbeing assessment
• Wellbeing literacy
• Wellbeing interventions
• Positive education and positive systems science
• Wholebeing
• Ethical guidelines and codes
• Wellbeing and public policy
• Interdisciplinary approaches to wellbeing science

a.jarden@ecu.edu.au

Associate Professor Nicola Johnson

No

• Critical theories
• Doctoral pedagogies
• Technologies within higher education
• Temporalities
• The sociology of technology and education

nf.johnson@ecu.edu.au

Dr Olivia Johnston

Yes

• Teacher expectations
• Ability grouping/streaming
• Adolescent perspectives of their education
• Student-teacher interactions
• Inclusive education and meeting diverse student needs
• Grounded theory
• Composite narrative

o.johnston@ecu.edu.au

Dr Jane Kirkham

Yes

• Systems-informed wellbeing practice in schools
• Student and teacher wellbeing and mental health
• Student motivation and engagement

j.kirkham@ecu.edu.au

Dr Anabela Malpique

No

• Writing instruction and development
• Self-regulated learning
• Teacher education

a.malpique@ecu.edu.au

Associate Professor Paula Mildenhall

No

• STEM education
• Teacher education
• Case study M=methodology
• Video research

p.mildenhall@ecu.edu.au

Associate Professor Julia Morris

Yes

• Learning environments
• Student engagement
• Applied research evaluation

j.morris@ecu.edu.au

Dr Karen Nociti

No

• Place-children relations
• More-than-human literacies
• Walking-with methodologies
• Relational ontologies
• Feminist new materialisms

k.nociti@ecu.edu.au

Dr Eibhlish O'Hara

No

• Psychosocial aspects of Health, Physical Activity, & Sport (e.g. sport as an agent of social change)
• Health and Wellbeing
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in HPE Teacher Education

e.ohara@ecu.edu.au

Dr Carol Puddicombe

Yes

• Design & Technology education across early childhood, primary, secondary, and tertiary contexts
• ICT and digital technologies education
• Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher education in Technologies
• Curriculum design, reform, and implementation in Technologies education
• Gender, participation, and diversity in Design & Technology education
• Design-based, hands-on, and maker-oriented pedagogies
• Digital design, fabrication, and emerging technologies in education

c.puddicombe@ecu.edu.au

Dr Valeria Varea

Yes

• Sociocultural perspectives in Health and Physical Education, sport and physical activity
• The body
• Qualitative methods
• Equity and inclusion in Health and Physical Education, sport and physical activity

v.varea@ecu.edu.au

Professor Stuart Woodcock

Yes

• Inclusion
• Inclusive education
• Self-efficacy
• Collective-efficacy
• Classroom management
• Student wellbeing

stuart.woodcock@ecu.edu.au

Dr Siew Yap

Yes

• Ethics
• Critical thinking
• Interdisciplinary education
• Educational leadership

siew.yap@ecu.edu.au