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 |
Dr Tetiana Bogachenko | No | - Task-based needs analysis
- Glocalisation
- Additional language teaching and learning
- Migrant and refugee education
- Educational technology
- Educational change
- Comparative education
- Disability equity in education
| t.bogachenko@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Julie Boston | Yes | - Gaming and immersive technologies to support learning and teaching across a range of disciplines.
- Pedagogical transformations required to support 21st century skills and learning environments in schools
- Service learning
- Applied Research
| julie.boston@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 Matthew Byrne | No | - Education and health for disadvantaged students and communities
- Aboriginal education
- Educational leadership
- Behaviour management and positive learning through environments
| m.byrne@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 Christine Cunnigham | No | - Educational administration, management and leadership
- Comparative and cross-cultural education
| c.cunningham@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Cath Ferguson | No | - Adult learning
- Adult literacy
| c.ferguson@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Maria Gamble | Yes | - Senior secondary dance
- Pedagogy and assessment
- Curriculum and policy enactment
- HPE/Dance
- Digital performance assessment
- Integrating AI with assessment for learning
- Primary Arts integration/curriculum
| m.gamble@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 |
Mrs Marnie Harris | Yes | - Professional Experience, focus on Regional, Rural and Remote
- Well-Being in Professional Experience
- AI and how to use ethically for Professional Experience
- HASS
| marnie.harris@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 |
Dr Sarah Jefferson | No | - Social support and well-being
- Teacher Wellbeing
- Long term and later career teachers
- Diversity and inclusion in education
- Educational policy design and implementation
| sarah.jefferson@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 |
Associate Professor Andrew Jones | No | - Educational policy design and implementation
- Digital assessment in senior school
- Pedagogies to support senior school physical education
| andrew.jones@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 |
Professor Narelle Lemon | No | - Wellbeing literacy in educational contexts
- Self-care and proactive ways of being
- Wellbeing education
- Initial teacher education wellbeing and self-care
- Community education wellbeing and self-care
- Creativity, making and wellbeing
- Creative research methods
| n.lemon@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Susan Main | No | - Instructional coaching
- Effective pedagogy in Literacy
- Classroom management and challenging behaviours
- Use of technology to support learning.
| s.main@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Anabela Malpique | No | - Writing instruction and development
- Self-regulated learning
- Teacher education
| a.malpique@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Maggie McAlinden | Yes | - Intercultural teacher empathy and emotion
- Intercultural communication
- Critical pedagogies in intercultural education
- Critical discourse analysis
| m.mcalinden@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 Christa Norris | Yes | - Pre-Service Teacher Education
- Science Teaching and Learning
- Teaching Self-efficacy
- STEM Teaching and Learning
- Critical and creative thinking skills
| c.norris@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 John O’Rourke | Yes | - Inclusive pedagogy
- Happiness and well-being
- Digital technology in curriculum
- Enabling pedagogy
| j.o_rourke@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Emily Palmer | No | - Secondary English Education
- Young adult fantasy fiction
- Post-apocalyptic fiction
- Gender and sexuality
| emily.palmer@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Annamaria Paolino | No | - LOTE, ESL and TESOL Curriculum and Pedagogy
- Multicultural Education
- Primary Education
| a.paolino@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Simmone Pogorzelski | Yes | - Beginning reading instruction
- The role of texts in early reading
- Assessment of reading difficulties
- Reading and spelling intervention
| s.pogorzelski@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 David Rhodes | Yes | - Social justice in education
- Sexuality, gender, and gender equality in education
- LGBTIQ+ inclusion in schools and teacher education
- Inclusive curriculum design
- Combating homophobia in schools
- Sex, gender, and sexuality education
- Indigenous education
- Young adult literature and LGBTIQ+ inclusion
- Primary Pre-Service Teacher education, including integrating LGBTIQ+ issues into undergraduate programs
| d.rhodes@ecu.edu.au |
Associate Professor Christine Robinson | Yes | - Early childhood development and learning
- Play-based pedagogies
- Spirituality in the early years
- Holistic and relational pedagogies
- Literacy in the early years
- Teacher formation
- Religious Education
- Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)
| christine.robinson@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Carli Sanbrook | No | - Pre-Service Teacher Wellness
- Classroom Management
- Employment-Based Pathways
- Self Care and Teacher Wellbeing
- Professional Experience
- Scholarly Internships
| c.sanbrook@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Serap Sevimli-Celik | Yes | - Professional Development of Teachers
- Play Pedagogy & Playfulness
- Movement Education
- Outdoor Education
- Creative & Playful Learning
- Active Designs for Play & Movement
| serap@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Suzanne Stewart | Yes | - Special and Inclusive Education
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ASD, ADHD and SLD)
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- The therapeutic potential of serious games
- Teaching and Learning in a Neurodiverse Classrooms
- Best practice pedagogy and assessment
| suzanne.stewart@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Michelle Striepe | Yes | - Educational leadership
- Teacher leadership
- Leadership and contexts
- Visual methodology
| m.striepe@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Tracey Taylor | No | - Curriculum differentiation and assessment
- Gifted education/Twice exceptional learners
- Inclusive education
- 21st Century skills
- Teacher education
| t.taylor@ecu.edu.au |
Dr Cassandra Tytler | No | - Feminist and queer theory
- Post-humanism
- Creative practice outcomes in environmental education
- Video art practices
- Site-specific art practices
- Film
| c.tytler@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 |
