We have over 100 higher degree by research students studying in a diverse range of research areas in education by various study modes. About one-third are international students, adding a rich, culturally diverse dimension to our research community.
Current candidates and their projects
| Last Name | First Name | Project Title | Advisor Role | Advisor Full Name |
| Agustina | Rina | Pedagogies to support academic honesty an indonesian case study | Principal | AsPr Rhonda Faragher |
| Associate | Dr Stephen Heimans | |||
| Associate | Dr Vicente Reyes | |||
| Ahmad Afip | Liyana | The common European framework of reference from the perspective of Malaysian educators in higher education institutions | Principal | Dr Obaid Hamid |
| Associate | Prof Peter Renshaw | |||
| Al Aseri | Hashem | English as a medium of instruction in higher education in Saudi Arabia: Policy and pedagogy | Principal | Dr Obaid Hamid |
| Associate | Prof Peter Renshaw | |||
| Ali | Md Maksud | The socio-political dimensions of high-stakes English language tests in Bangladesh: scores and social policy | Principal | Dr Obaid Hamid |
| Associate | AsPr Ian Hardy | |||
| Ali | Muhammad | Narrative /experience of students from refugee and asylum seeker background in higher education in Australia | Principal | AsPr Katie Makar |
| Associate | Dr Susan Creagh | |||
| Alkorbi | Jamaan | Investigating teachers' beliefs and practices in promoting out-ofclass autonomous EFL learning with technology in a Saudi university | Principal | Dr Simone Smala |
| Associate | Prof Peter Renshaw | |||
| Allotta | Elizabeth | Stories of struggle and success: Teachers? stories from within the teaching profession | Principal | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay |
| Associate | AsPr Carmen Mills | |||
| Almutairi | Azizah Majed | Cooperative Learning in Higher Education in Saudi Arabia | Principal | Dr Simone Smala |
| Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies | |||
| Alshammari | Faisal Hakim M | The effect of cloud computing on students' skills in education | Principal | Dr Katherine McLay |
| Associate | Dr Vicente Reyes | |||
| Andriani | Dewi | ?Situating the experiences of Indonesian women students: Autoethnographic exploration? | Principal | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay |
| Associate | Dr Ravinder Sidhu | |||
| Barry | Clayton | Hope is critical: an inquiry into the place of critical pedagogy in Australia and its potential to engender in students hope for the future | Principal | Prof Martin Mills |
| Associate | Dr Linda-Dianne Willis | |||
| Beaumont | Glenn | Adolescent Students' Creation of Knowledge through Curiosity: Bringing the Curious Mind into Science Education | Principal | Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Associate | Prof Patricia D Morrell | |||
| Beencke | Andrew | Implementing a Metacognitive Critical Thinking Program in the Primary Years | Principal | Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Associate | Dr Peter Ellerton | |||
| Bekavac | Kathryn | The impact of student wellbeing, school engagement and school context characteristics on academic achievement: what are the relationships and what makes a difference over time? | Principal | Prof Annemaree Carroll |
| Associate | Dr Julie Bower | |||
| Bin Tahal | Cindy | What do school leaders do that teachers perceive as effective school leadership and management; that motivates and encourages productive pedagogical practices? | Principal | Dr Jodie Miller |
| Associate | Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed | |||
| Bolton | Samantha | Trust and teacher learning: a collective case study. | Principal | AsPr Katie Makar |
| Associate | Dr Christina Gowlett | |||
| Burke | Sian | Marist Pastoral Care and its impact on relationships and behaviour management in schools | Principal | Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Associate | AsPr Rhonda Faragher | |||
| Burton | Rochelle | Instructional coaching: Building capacity, improving student outcomes | Principal | Prof Annemaree Carroll |
| Associate | Dr Cameron Brooks | |||
| Campbell | Sally | Why Go To School: Why Students Disengaged From Learning Continue To Attend School Past Compulsory School Age | Principal | Prof Annemaree Carroll |
| Associate | Dr Marnee Shay | |||
| Claire | Rebecca | Literacy learning for the 21st Century: An investigation of literacy practices within the inquiry learning program of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program | Principal | Dr Linda-Dianne Willis |
| Associate | Dr Louise Phillips | |||
| Clark | Theo | Science Education: research, policy and politics | Principal | AsPr Ian Hardy |
| Associate | AsPr Kim Nichols | |||
| Cuskelly | Lauren | Commercialisation of Public Schooling | Principal | Dr Anna Hogan |
| Associate | Prof Robert Lingard | |||
| Daliri | Rafaan | The nature and effects of NAPLAN on student, teacher and school practices | Principal | AsPr Ian Hardy |
| Associate | Dr Susan Creagh | |||
| Dexter | Karen | Ladies who stitch - online craft communities and what they can teach workplace Learning & Development | Principal | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay |
| Associate | Dr Louise Phillips | |||
| Dietler | Emily | Building Text Type Competency in Science Subjects | Principal | Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Associate | Dr Mary Rafter | |||
| Dilly | Samuel | Negotiating Permanent Limbo while Reframing the Role of the Educator: How has the teaching profession in Australian schools responded to recent immigration policies for people seeking asylum? | Principal | Dr Christina Gowlett |
| Associate | AsPr Carmen Mills | |||
| Ejlertsen | Maria | Negotiating Affective Encounters ? An exploration of youth belonging in school through attention to affect and place | Principal | Dr Christina Gowlett |
| Associate | Prof Peter Renshaw | |||
| Fleming | Mark | Conceptualising an Educational Quality of Life in Religious Education to enhance Catholic school experiences for students with intellectual disabilities | Principal | AsPr Rhonda Faragher |
| Associate | Prof Karen Nankervis | |||
| Fletcher | Brigid | A study of the impact of the marketisation of the VET sector in Australia on education policy. | Principal | AsPr Ian Hardy |
| Associate | Dr Anna Hogan | |||
| Flowers-Smith | Machelle | What?s `good care?? Care pedagogies of educational guidance counsellors. | Principal | Dr Linda-Dianne Willis |
| Associate | AsPr Louise McCuaig-Holcroft | |||
| Forrester | Louise | Understanding excessive school absenteeism in primary school children | Principal | AsPr Carmen Mills |
| Associate | Dr Christina Gowlett | |||
| Galvin | Patrick | Language Games in Primary Mathematics: a qualitative study of how dialogic pedagogy is further enabled by using Wittgenstein's notion of language games to provide rich contexts for talk in primary mathematics | Principal | AsPr Katie Makar |
| Associate | Dr Jodie Miller | |||
| Godbold | Nattalia | Exploring group professional learning practice, in the form of professional learning communities (PLC's), to enable deep collaboration and improved teaching practice (curriculum and pedagogy) in a University setting. | Principal | AsPr Kelly Matthews |
| Associate | AsPr Karen Moni | |||
| Associate | Dr Deanne Gannaway | |||
| Green | Mel | A study of the rationale, significance and pedagogic practices of mandated demands for students to 'engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment' | Principal | Dr Louise Phillips |
| Associate | Dr Linda-Dianne Willis | |||
| Associate | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay | |||
| Greenwood | Kathryn | Finding common ground: school leadership practices for Aboriginal parent engagement in schools | Principal | AsPr Gilbert Burgh |
| Associate | Prof Norman Sheehan | |||
| Haghighi Siahgorabi | Sara | Understanding different approaches to mathematics teaching and resulting mathematical classroom discourses in Iran | Principal | Dr Jana Visnovska |
| Associate | AsPr Katie Makar | |||
| Hamarjit Singh | Daljit Kaur | Students? perceptions of Science inquiry method versus traditional teaching method in learning Science | Principal | AsPr Kim Nichols |
| Associate | Dr Reshma Parveen | |||
| Hatten-Roberts | Toni | Inquiry learning vs. teacher directed instruction: A critical synthesis and analysis | Principal | AsPr Jason Lodge |
| Associate | Dr Jodie Miller | |||
| Heng | Kimkong | Promoting Cambodian ELT research engagement and publication: Challenges and opportunities | Principal | Dr Obaid Hamid |
| Associate | AsPr MD Khan | |||
| Hurrell | Lisa | An Appreciative Narrative Inquiry Capturing the Voice of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Views of their Teachers to Explore Engagement and Inclusion in Secondary Schools | Principal | AsPr Rhonda Faragher |
| Associate | Prof Karen Nankervis | |||
| Hyne | Victoria | The Space Between: How to lead and enact change working within and through bureaucratic systems | Principal | Prof Peter Renshaw |
| Associate | Dr Ron Tooth | |||
| Jackson | Kirsty | Perezhivanie and literacy learning arising from childrens' interactions with the more than human world | Principal | Prof Peter Renshaw |
| Associate | Dr Ron Tooth | |||
| Jeffery | Danielle | Decolonising Spanish languaging practices: A critical autoethnographic, com-post analysis | Principal | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay |
| Associate | Dr Adriana Diaz | |||
| Associate | Dr Carlos R Rivera Santana | |||
| Jennings | Michael | Issues in bridging between senior secondary and first year university mathematics | Principal | Prof Merrilyn Goos |
| Associate | Prof Peter Adams | |||
| Jeong | Da Eul | Policy-makers' perceptions on the post-2015 global education discourse in relation to ethnic educational inequality: A case study of Lao PDR | Principal | AsPr Ian Hardy |
| Associate | Dr Kayoko Hashimoto | |||
| Associate | Dr Vicente Reyes | |||
| Jiao | Ming | Parent support in sexuality and human relationships development of adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities | Principal | Prof Karen Nankervis |
| Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies | |||
| Jones | Jacqui | Truth to tell: Teachers' conceptions of NAPLAN in a `post-truth' age | Principal | AsPr Ian Hardy |
| Associate | Dr Obaid Hamid | |||
| Associate | Dr Vicente Reyes | |||
| Jordan | David | Becoming Internationally Minded: Critical Reflection for the International Educator | Principal | Dr Linda-Dianne Willis |
| Associate | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay | |||
| Kleiss | Donna Maree | Scientific Literacy in Primary School: Developing a Pragmatic Framework | Principal | Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Associate | Dr Mary Rafter | |||
| Kuss | Adam | Controlling the Controllables: Leading Pedagogical Change for School-wide Implementation of Teaching for Thinking Pedagogies | Principal | Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Associate | Prof Deborah Brown | |||
| Lam | Kai Wei | Community-based STEM Professional Learning for Teachers of Middle Years: How can STEM be Embedded in Science/Everyday Curriculum Learning? | Principal | AsPr Kim Nichols |
| Associate | Dr Kay Colthorpe | |||
| Associate | Dr Reshma Parveen | |||
| Landroth | Andrew | Use of student data to enhance teacher performance | Principal | AsPr Kim Nichols |
| Associate | Dr Kay Colthorpe | |||
| Lee | Huan Yik | English as a Global Language: Education Policies and Practices in the ASEAN Context | Principal | Dr Obaid Hamid |
| Associate | AsPr Ian Hardy | |||
| le Goullon | Damian | A Place to Belong the Community Experiences of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities | Principal | Prof Karen Nankervis |
| Associate | AsPr Rhonda Faragher | |||
| Leibovitch | Yael | Writing as a 21st Century Skill: Foregrounding Student Thinking in Literacy Pedagogy | Principal | Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Associate | Prof Deborah Brown | |||
| Levitt | Jennifer | Student and Teacher Perceptions of Feedback in Year 7 and Year 9 Writing: A Peer Feedback Intervention | Principal | Prof Annemaree Carroll |
| Associate | Dr Cameron Brooks | |||
| Liang | Yifei | How Chinese university students and lecturers understand the (western) concept of engaging students as partners in teaching and learning | Principal | AsPr Kelly Matthews |
| Associate | AsPr Jason Lodge | |||
| Lima | Solange | Applying learning analytics to learning management systems at a secondary school to design personalized learning plans | Principal | Prof Peter Renshaw |
| Associate | Dr Katherine McLay | |||
| Lloyd | Janette | National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) - how it affects the lives of young adults with Intellectual Disability (ID) and their families living in Queensland. | Principal | AsPr Karen Moni |
| Associate | AsPr Monica Cuskelly | |||
| Lynn | Sasha | Mindfields: Navigating the Wellbeing of Adolescents in School Through Social Emotional Learning | Principal | Prof Annemaree Carroll |
| Associate | Prof Karen Nankervis | |||
| Associate | Dr Emma Antrobus | |||
| Madden | Karen | Can I be feminist here? A critical autoethnographic perspective of feminist leadership in Australian girls' schools | Principal | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay |
| Associate | Dr Christina Gowlett | |||
| Madsen | Beth | Built In or Bolt On? A Policy Analysis of Non-Government Programs in Indigenous Education | Principal | Dr Marnee Shay |
| Associate | Dr Susan Creagh | |||
| McKenna | Thomas James | Curriculum connection ? outdoor learning: Experiences of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder on an overnight school camp | Principal | Prof Karen Nankervis |
| Associate | AsPr Rhonda Faragher | |||
| McKinnon | Daniel | Developing a Typology of School Types | Principal | Dr Anna Hogan |
| Associate | Dr Greg Thompson | |||
| Associate | Prof Robert Lingard | |||
| Nagy | Joseph | Exploring Design Thinking in Community-Based STEM Professional Learning for Teachers of Middle Years | Principal | AsPr Kim Nichols |
| Associate | Dr Reshma Parveen | |||
| Olssen | Emma | The voices and experiences of Indigenous peoples working in professional roles | Principal | Dr Marnee Shay |
| Associate | Prof Bronwyn Fredericks | |||
| Parkinson | Martha | Towards an effective model of mathematics and science interdisciplinary learning | Principal | AsPr Kim Nichols |
| Associate | Dr Jana Visnovska | |||
| Perkins | Ren | Keeping Indigenous teachers in the profession: Indigenous Teachers? voices on why they stay in the profession | Principal | Dr Marnee Shay |
| Associate | Prof Peter Renshaw | |||
| Petrie | Kirstie | Personalised interventions for enhancing university student self-regulated learning | Principal | AsPr Jason Lodge |
| Associate | Dr Sarah Ainscough | |||
| Princi-Hubbard | Rita | The student teacher relationship: Exploring neuroscience variables that impact upon student wellbeing and learning | Principal | Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Associate | Prof Ross Cunnington | |||
| Associate | Dr Stacey Parker | |||
| Purcell | Diane | Language is Power: Charting the Refugee Journey from Intensive English Centre to the Mainstream Classroom | Principal | Dr Susan Creagh |
| Associate | Prof Peter Renshaw | |||
| Raffaele | Danielle | Feline-assisted Educational Interventions and Engagement in Students with Special Needs within Primary and Secondary School Contexts | Principal | AsPr Kim Nichols |
| Associate | AsPr Carlie Driscoll | |||
| Rahimah | Dewi | Representation of project based learning, problem based learning, and discovery learning in junior high schools Indonesian mathematics textbooks | Principal | Dr Jana Visnovska |
| Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies | |||
| Rom | Mitchell | Teaching on Sacred Ground: A Critical Insight into the Experiences of Academics in Teaching Preservice Teachers in Indigenous Australian Courses | Principal | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay |
| Associate | Dr Katelyn Barney | |||
| Associate | Prof Tracey Bunda | |||
| Rye | Charmaine | A Tale of Two Curricula: Supporting students for successful transition in Australian Montessori-International Baccalaureate hybrid schools | Principal | Dr Linda-Dianne Willis |
| Associate | AsPr Ian Hardy | |||
| Schurch Santana | Roberto | International evidence-informed policies. A multiple-case study about the recent use of OECD studies by education policy-makers in Australia and Chile | Principal | Dr Susan Creagh |
| Associate | AsPr Ian Hardy | |||
| Associate | Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed | |||
| Seevaratnam | Vijayakumari | Design Thinking-Learning and its Impact on Students? Learning for the 21st Century | Principal | Dr Deanne Gannaway |
| Associate | AsPr Jason Lodge | |||
| Shakhovskoy | Marian | Parents and their adolescents: Being a strength in their success | Principal | Dr Linda-Dianne Willis |
| Associate | Dr Jenny-Louise Povey | |||
| Simpson | Annette | Investigating and identifying the drivers that are pushing more mature aged (over 25) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to undertake university studies. | Principal | Dr Marnee Shay |
| Associate | Dr Katelyn Barney | |||
| Associate | Dr Rea Saunders | |||
| Sinton | Emilia | Vocabulary-centred teaching approaches designed to enhance student understanding and success in mathematical problem solving | Principal | Dr Jana Visnovska |
| Associate | AsPr Shelley Dole | |||
| Associate | Prof Merrilyn Goos | |||
| Skinner | Elizabeth | Do we learn differently from print and digital text? | Principal | AsPr Jason Lodge |
| Associate | AsPr Karen Moni | |||
| Smith | Timothy Cole | Really raising achievement: are the successes of Piagetian cognitive acceleration programmes on transferable achievement the result of changed neurological processes | Principal | Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Associate | Prof Annemaree Carroll | |||
| Stein Guerrero | Jose | Power, status, and social markers in school environments: An exploration of school cultures and their influence on bullying | Principal | Prof Peter Renshaw |
| Associate | Dr Katherine McLay | |||
| Swendson | Carol | Behind our backs, yet through our heads: Capitalism and the transfer of nurse education in Queensland (1967 - 1987) | Principal | Prof Robert Lingard |
| Associate | AsPr Ian Hardy | |||
| Tan | Aik Lim | Bridging the gap between formal and informal learning: An application of neuroscience to improve student learning outcomes through interest-driven learning | Principal | Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Associate | Dr Azilawati Bte Jamaludin | |||
| Taylor | Richard Paul | Evaluating the impact of gamification on ESL students | Principal | Dr Chris Campbell |
| Teo | Aaron | ?We?re not helpless here!?: Counter-stories of recently-migrated Australian teachers from Asian Confucian Heritage Culture backgrounds | Principal | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay |
| Associate | Dr Susan Creagh | |||
| Tahal | Cindy |
International Mindedness: An exploration of how teachers and school leaders Perceive and enact international mindedness. |
Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed | |
| Theobald | Katherine | Investigating the disconnect between perception, rhetoric and reality of the value of the Humanities in Australian higher education: a case study of Brisbane universities | Principal | Dr Deanne Gannaway |
| Associate | EmPr Frederick D'Agostino | |||
| Torepe | Toni | Cultural taxation: A workplace myth or cultural reality | Principal | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay |
| Associate | Dr Marnee Shay | |||
| Valente Ramos | Marcelo | Learning in and out doors: the experiential education (EE) praxis for a sustainable education in Australian graduate courses | Principal | Prof Peter Renshaw |
| Associate | Dr Louise Phillips | |||
| van der Kruk | Yolanda | Impact of improved classroom acoustics on the educational outcomes of students with ASD | Principal | AsPr Rhonda Faragher |
| Associate | Prof Karen Nankervis | |||
| van Ommen | Mark | Educational Quality of Life for Students with Disabilities | Principal | AsPr Rhonda Faragher |
| Associate | Prof Karen Nankervis | |||
| Vayada | Preeti | Speaking for ourselves: Exploring how students from the Indian subcontinent experience `student-staff partnership? projects in an Australian university. | Principal | AsPr Kelly Matthews |
| Associate | Dr Eimear Enright | |||
| Associate | Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed | |||
| Walker | Ross | Orchestrating change: Music training as a mechanism of enhancing auditory discrimination for children who have a disability. | Principal | AsPr Rhonda Faragher |
| Associate | AsPr Julie Ballantyne | |||
| Williams | Llewellyn | An exploration of corporates in Australia with Reconciliation Action Plans Valuing Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander women through leadership opportunities | Principal | Dr Marnee Shay |
| Associate | Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed | |||
| Yako | Kele | Providing Inclusive education for students with learning difficulties through reliable curriculum practices at the lower primary level in Primary Schools in Papua New Guinea. | Principal | AsPr Rhonda Faragher |
| Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies | |||
| Yang | Suijing | The Mechanism of Effective Learner Control in Computer-supported Collaborative Learning Environment | Principal | AsPr Jason Lodge |
| Associate | Dr Cameron Brooks |
Graduates
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