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Dr Emily Palmer

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 3182
Email: emily.palmer@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML16.109  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9435-2922

Emily is a Lecturer in Secondary English at the School of Education.

Current Teaching

  • CUR6210 - Curriculum Enrichment for the Major Secondary Specialisation
  • LAN2250 - Introduction to Secondary English Teaching
  • EDU1010 - Becoming a Teacher

Background

Emily has worked in various secondary and tertiary contexts across the Northern Territory and Western Australia. She completed the Teach for Australia program before commencing at ECU, and is passionate about equity in education, and fostering a love of reading and literature in her students.

Awards and recognition

  • 2019 - Carclew Project Development Grant

Professional associations

  • English Teachers' Association of Western Australia
  • Teachers Registration Board of Western Australia

Research areas and interests

  • English education in secondary schools
  • Gaps between theory & practice in English education
  • Apprenticeship models of teacher education
  • Young adult fiction
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Textual representations of gender & sexuality

Qualifications

  • Master of Teaching (Secondary) (Leading Learning), Australian Catholic University, 2022.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Adelaide, 2020.
  • BA with First Class honours, The University of Adelaide, 2015.
  • BA Creative Writing and English, The University of Adelaide, 2014.
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