School of Education

Senior Research Fellow

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2009.
• Graduate Diploma in Education, Murdoch University, 2004.
• Bachelor of Arts with Honours (Cl 2A) in Psychology, Edith Cowan University, 2000.

Research

Recent Research Grants

• Factors Affecting Travel Behaviour Change,  Planning and Transport Research Centre,  PATREC - Grant,  2017,  $70,000.
• Travel behaviour change research,  Planning and Transport Research Centre,  PATREC - Grant,  2015,  $15,500.
• Scale Development: Individual and Family Resilience,  Edith Cowan University,  ECU Industry Collaboration - Grant,  2010 - 2011,  $29,558.
• Staff Climate Survey 2010,  Department of Corrective Services WA,  Grant,  2010,  $5,741.
• Department of Corrective Services Literature Review on Risk Assessment Tools,  Department of Corrective Services WA,  Grant,  2009,  $3,027.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Book Chapters

• Ferguson, C., (2017), Managing and Motivating Sustainable Travel Behaviour Change. Planning Boomtown and Beyond, 592-615, Perth, Australia, UWA Publishing.
• Corkill, J., Brooks, D., Pooley, JA., Cohen, L., Harris, K., Ferguson, C., Harms, C., (2017), The use of resilience indicators to assist in the selection of personnel for employment in classified and covert environments. The Routledge International Handbook of Psychosocial Resilience, 436-450, Abingdon, UK, Routledge.
• Cooper, T., Ferguson, C., Chapman, B., Cucow, S., (2015), Success Stories from Youth Suicide Prevention in Australia: The Youth Work Contribution. Youth and Inequality in Education, 71-93, New York, United States, Routledge.

Journal Articles

• Morris, J., Lummis, G., Lock, G., Ferguson, C., Hill, S., Nykiel, A., (2020), The role of leadership in establishing a positive staff culture in a secondary school. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 48(5), 802-820, DOI: 10.1177/1741143219864937.
• Gower, G., Ferguson, C., Forrest, S., (2020), Building effective school-community partnerships in Aboriginal remote school settings. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, n/a(n/a), 1-9, DOI: 10.1017/ jie.2020.11.
• Lummis, G., Lock, G., Freeman, C., Ferguson, C., (2019), Transforming learning in first-year Australian preservice primary teacher. Journal of Transformative Education, 17(4), 299-317, DOI: 10.1177/1541344619849043.
• Gately, N., Ferguson, C., Ellis, S., Cock, R., (2017), The Prisoners Review Board of Western Australia: What Do the Public Know about Parole?. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 28(3), 293-310, Sydney, NSW, Sydney Institute of Criminology.
• Ferguson, C., (2016), Prediction tool for parole breach: Testing the U.S. salient factor score in a population of Western Australian parolees. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 23(6), 941-955, Online, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2016.1168275.
• Ferguson, C., Robson, R., (2015), A legal and social analysis of one punch cases in Western Australia. University of Western Sydney Law Review, 18(2014/15), 19-45, Penrith, NSW, University of Western Sydney.
• Ferguson, C., (2015), Parole in Western Australia: An analysis of parole cancellations of female offenders. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, June 2015(501), 7p., Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Institute of Criminology.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

• Master of Criminal Justice by Research,  An investigation of mobile phone use while driving: An application of the theory of planned behavior
• Doctor of Psychology,  Work-related exposure to child exploitation material: The experiences of Western Australian digital forensic officers and their spouses
• Master of Criminal Justice by Research,  Can a procedural justice approach to enforcement reduce low level speeding?

Associate Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  The role of resilience in individual innovation