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 |
| Ahmad Afip | Liyana | The common European framework of reference from the perspective of Malaysian educators in higher education institutions | Principal | Dr Obaid Hamid 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 |
| Algate | Peter | Teacher Wellbeing - Developing a framework for teacher wellness | Principal Associate | Prof Annemaree Carroll AsPr Louise McCuaig-Holcroft |
| Ali | Md Maksud | The socio-political dimensions of high-stakes English language tests in Bangladesh: scores and social policy | Principal | Dr Obaid Hamid AsPr Ian Hardy |
| Alkorbi | Jamaan | Investigating teachers' beliefs and practices in promoting out-ofclass autonomous EFL learning with technology in a Saudi university | Principal Associate | Dr Simone Smala Prof Peter Renshaw |
| Allotta | Elizabeth | Stories of struggle and success: Teachers? stories from within the teaching profession | Principal Associate | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay AsPr Carmen Mills |
| Almutairi | Azizah Majed | Cooperative Learning in Higher Education in Saudi Arabia | Principal Associate | Dr Simone Smala Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Alshammari | Faisal Hakim M | The effect of cloud computing on students' skills in education | Principal Associate | Dr Katherine McLay Dr Vicente Reyes |
| 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 Associate | Prof Martin Mills Dr Linda-Dianne Willis |
| Beaumont | Glenn | Adolescent Students' Creation of Knowledge through Curiosity: Bringing the Curious Mind into Science Education | Principal Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies Prof Patricia D Morrell |
| Beencke | Andrew | Implementing a Metacognitive Critical Thinking Program in the Primary Years | Principal Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies Dr Peter Ellerton |
| 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 Associate | Dr Jodie Miller Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed |
| Bolton | Samantha | Trust and teacher learning: a collective case study. | Principal Associate | AsPr Katie Makar |
| Brazil | Jonathan | Understanding why students do not use effective learning techniques and how universities can better encourage them to | Principal Associate | AsPr Jason Lodge AsPr Kelly Matthews |
| Breedt | Radostina | Active engagement of people with disability in genomic research: honouring their knowledge and perspectives in creating recommendations and evaluation framework for designing value enhanced participatory research. | Principal Associate | Prof Karen Nankervis AsPr Rhonda Faragher
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| Burke | Sian | Marist Pastoral Care and its impact on relationships and behaviour management in schools | Principal Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies AsPr Rhonda Faragher |
| Campbell | Sally | Why Go To School: Why Students Disengaged From Learning Continue To Attend School Past Compulsory School Age | Principal Associate | Prof Annemaree Carroll Dr Marnee Shay |
| Chu | Linh | Anxiety and cognitive control as predictors of primary-school student achievement in mathematics | Principal Associate | Dr Elizabeth EdwardsProf Annemaree Carroll |
| 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 Associate | Dr Linda-Dianne Willis Dr Louise Phillips |
| Clark | Theo | Science Education: research, policy and politics | Principal Associate | AsPr Ian Hardy AsPr Kim Nichols |
| Cosgrove | Louise | Bridging the gender gap in mental health literacy | Principal Associate | Dr Elizabeth Edwards AsPr Garth Stahl |
| Cuskelly | Lauren | Commercialisation of Public Schooling | Principal Associate | Dr Anna Hogan Prof Robert Lingard |
| Dexter | Karen | Ladies who stitch - online craft communities and what they can teach workplace Learning & Development | Principal Associate | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay Dr Louise Phillips |
| 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 Associate | Dr Christina Gowlett AsPr Carmen Mills |
| dos Santos Ocriciano | Michelle | Institutional language policies, academic literacies and power: a collaborative investigation of practices in higher education in Queensland | Principal Associate | Dr Stephen Heimans Dr Jana Visnovska |
| Ejlertsen | Maria | Negotiating Affective Encounters ? An exploration of youth belonging in school through attention to affect and place | Principal Associate | Dr Christina Gowlett Prof Peter Renshaw |
| Fletcher | Brigid | A study of the impact of the marketisation of the VET sector in Australia on education policy. | Principal Associate | AsPr Ian Hardy Dr Anna Hogan |
| Flowers-Smith | Machelle | What?s `good care?? Care pedagogies of educational guidance counsellors. | Principal Associate | Dr Linda-Dianne Willis AsPr Louise McCuaig-Holcroft |
| Forrester | Louise | Understanding excessive school absenteeism in primary school children | Principal Associate | AsPr Carmen Mills 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 Associate | AsPr Katie Makar 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 Associate Associate | AsPr Kelly Matthews AsPr Karen Moni Dr Deanne Gannaway |
| Greenwood | Kathryn | Finding common ground: school leadership practices for Aboriginal parent engagement in schools | Principal Associate | AsPr Gilbert Burgh Prof Norman Sheehan |
| Griffiths | Daniel | A meta-model of self-regulated learning to facilitate transition to higher education | Principal Associate | AsPr Jason Lodge Dr Elizabeth Edwards |
| Hamarjit Singh | Daljit Kaur | Students? perceptions of Science inquiry method versus traditional teaching method in learning Science | Principal Associate | AsPr Kim Nichols Dr Reshma Parveen |
| Hatten-Roberts | Toni | Inquiry learning vs. teacher directed instruction: A critical synthesis and analysis | Principal Associate | AsPr Jason Lodge Dr Jodie Miller |
| Heng | Kimkong | Promoting Cambodian ELT research engagement and publication: Challenges and opportunities | Principal Associate | Dr Obaid Hamid 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 Associate | AsPr Rhonda Faragher Prof Karen Nankervis |
| Jackson | Kirsty | Perezhivanie and literacy learning arising from childrens' interactions with the more than human world | Principal Associate | Prof Peter Renshaw Dr Ron Tooth |
| Jeffery | Danielle | Decolonising Spanish languaging practices: A critical autoethnographic, com-post analysis | Principal Associate Associate | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay Dr Adriana Diaz Dr Carlos R Rivera Santana |
| Jennings | Michael | Issues in bridging between senior secondary and first year university mathematics | Principal Associate | Prof Merrilyn Goos Prof Peter Adams |
| Jones | Jacqui | Truth to tell: Teachers' conceptions of NAPLAN in a `post-truth' age | Principal Associate Associate | AsPr Ian Hardy Dr Obaid Hamid Dr Vicente Reyes |
| Jordan | David | Becoming Internationally Minded: Critical Reflection for the International Educator | Principal Associate | Dr Linda-Dianne Willis AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay |
| Kleiss | Donna Maree | Scientific Literacy in Primary School: Developing a Pragmatic Framework | Principal Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies Dr Mary Rafter |
| Kuss | Adam | Controlling the Controllables: Leading Pedagogical Change for School-wide Implementation of Teaching for Thinking Pedagogies | Principal Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies 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 Associate Associate | AsPr Kim Nichols Dr Kay Colthorpe Dr Reshma Parveen |
| Landroth | Andrew | Use of student data to enhance teacher performance | Principal Associate | AsPr Kim Nichols Dr Kay Colthorpe |
| Lee | Huan Yik | English as a Global Language: Education Policies and Practices in the ASEAN Context | Principal Associate | Dr Obaid Hamid AsPr Ian Hardy |
| Lee | Richard | The Governmentality of Queensland Public Academies and Independent Public Schools: A Foucauldian Analysis | Principal Associate | AsPr Ian Hardy Dr Stephen Heimans |
| le Goullon | Damian | A Place to Belong the Community Experiences of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities | Principal Associate | Prof Karen Nankervis AsPr Rhonda Faragher |
| Leibovitch | Yael | Writing as a 21st Century Skill: Foregrounding Student Thinking in Literacy Pedagogy | Principal Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies Prof Deborah Brown |
| Leighton | Victoria | Capitalising the potential environment: Activating learning strategies through Teacher Spatial Competency (TSC) | Principal Associate | Prof Annemaree Carroll Dr Stephanie MacMahon |
| Levitt | Jennifer | Student and Teacher Perceptions of Feedback in Year 7 and Year 9 Writing: A Peer Feedback Intervention | Principal Associate | Prof Annemaree Carroll 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 Associate | AsPr Kelly Matthews AsPr Jason Lodge |
| Lima | Solange | Applying learning analytics to learning management systems at a secondary school to design personalized learning plans | Principal Associate | Prof Peter Renshaw Dr Katherine McLay |
| Liu | Siyu | Understanding local-national-global imbrications in education policy: The case of Guangdong academic credit bank as a data infrastructure in Vocational Education in China | Principal Associate | AsPr Ian Hardy Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed |
| Li | Wen | Exploring Career Development and Career related Choices of China educated International Medical and Nursing Students and Graduates | Principal Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies Dr Mary Rafter |
| Madden | Karen | Can I be feminist here? A critical autoethnographic perspective of feminist leadership in Australian girls' schools | Principal Associate | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay Dr Christina Gowlett |
| Madsen | Beth | Built In or Bolt On? A Policy Analysis of Non-Government Programs in Indigenous Education | Principal Associate | Dr Marnee Shay Dr Susan Creagh |
| McKenna | Thomas James | Curriculum connection ? outdoor learning: Experiences of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder on an overnight school camp | Principal Associate | Prof Karen Nankervis AsPr Rhonda Faragher |
| McKinnon | Daniel | Developing a Typology of School Types | Principal Associate Associate | Dr Anna Hogan Dr Greg Thompson Prof Robert Lingard |
| Misitomu | Andrew | Contextual Teaching & Learning of Chemistry/ Science | Principal Associate | Prof Patricia D Morrell AsPr Kim Nichols |
| Musofer | Muhammad | Narrative /experience of students from refugee and asylum seeker background in higher education in Australia | Principal Associate | AsPr Katie Makar Dr Susan Creagh AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay |
| Nagy | Joseph | Exploring Design Thinking in Community-Based STEM Professional Learning for Teachers of Middle Years | Principal Associate | AsPr Kim Nichols Dr Reshma Parveen |
| Nugraha | Ikmanda | THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF INDONESIAN SCIENCE TEACHER EDUCATORS | Principal Associate | Prof Patricia D Morrell AsPr Ian Hardy |
| Nyarkoh | Enoch | Reforming Initial Teacher Education in Ghana: A Multi-level Analysis of Policy in Practice | Principal Associate | AsPr Ian Hardy Dr Obaid Hamid |
| Oberg | Glenys | Understanding Trauma- An exploration into beginning teachers and their perceptions of preparedness in working with children living with complex trauma | Principal Associate | Prof Annemaree Carroll Dr Stephanie MacMahon |
| Olssen | Emma | The voices and experiences of Indigenous peoples working in professional roles | Principal Associate | Dr Marnee Shay Prof Bronwyn Fredericks |
| Palmer | Zoe | The Role of Intuition in English and Literature Classrooms | Principal Associate | Dr Peter Ellerton Prof Deborah Brown |
| Parkinson | Martha | Towards an effective model of mathematics and science interdisciplinary learning | Principal Associate | AsPr Kim Nichols Dr Jana Visnovska |
| Perkins | Adam | Exploring effective Indigenous programs in secondary schools: What matters most? | Principal Associate | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay Dr Katelyn Barney |
| Perkins | Ren | Keeping Indigenous teachers in the profession: Indigenous Teachers? voices on why they stay in the profession | Principal Associate | Dr Marnee Shay Prof Peter Renshaw |
| Petrie | Kirstie | Personalised interventions for enhancing university student self-regulated learning | Principal Associate | AsPr Jason Lodge Dr Sarah Ainscough |
| Playsted | Skye | Investigating Perspectives on Pronunciation Teaching in the Adult Migrant English Programme | Principal Associate | Dr Damon Thomas Dr Stephen Heimans |
| Pratt | Melinda | Transformational learning in practice the exploration of teachers and school leaders role in the design of professional learning | Principal Associate | Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay |
| Princi-Hubbard | Rita | The student teacher relationship: Exploring neuroscience variables that impact upon student wellbeing and learning | Principal Associate Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies Prof Ross Cunnington Dr Stacey Parker |
| Purcell | Diane | Language is Power: Charting the Refugee Journey from Intensive English Centre to the Mainstream Classroom | Principal Associate | Dr Susan Creagh Prof Peter Renshaw |
| Rahimah | Dewi | Representation of project based learning, problem based learning, and discovery learning in junior high schools Indonesian mathematics textbooks | Principal Associate | Dr Jana Visnovska Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Rillera Kempster | Jemima | An investigation of the impact of crisis-prompted online learning for refugee-background students | Principal Associate Associate | Dr Simone Smala Dr Katherine McLay Dr Susan Creagh |
| Rom | Mitchell | Teaching on Sacred Ground: A Critical Insight into the Experiences of Academics in Teaching Preservice Teachers in Indigenous Australian Courses | Principal Associate Associate | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay Dr Katelyn Barney Prof Tracey Bunda |
| Rueda Balaguera | Laura Cristina | Teachers Performance Evaluation in South America: A comparative study in Colombia Chile and Argentina. | Principal Associate | Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed AsPr Ian Hardy |
| Rye | Charmaine | A Tale of Two Curricula: Supporting students for successful transition in Australian Montessori-International Baccalaureate hybrid schools | Principal Associate | Dr Linda-Dianne Willis 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 Associate Associate | Dr Susan Creagh AsPr Ian Hardy Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed |
| Seevaratnam | Vijayakumari | Design Thinking-Learning and its Impact on Students? Learning for the 21st Century | Principal Associate | Dr Deanne Gannaway AsPr Jason Lodge |
| Sinton | Emilia | Vocabulary-centred teaching approaches designed to enhance student understanding and success in mathematical problem solving | Principal Associate Associate | Dr Jana Visnovska AsPr Shelley Dole Prof Merrilyn Goos |
| Skinner | Elizabeth | Do we learn differently from print and digital text? | Principal Associate | AsPr Jason Lodge AsPr Karen Moni |
| Swendson | Carol | Behind our backs, yet through our heads: Capitalism and the transfer of nurse education in Queensland (1967 - 1987) | Principal Associate | Prof Robert Lingard AsPr Ian Hardy |
| Taylor | Richard Paul | Evaluating the impact of gamification on ESL students | Principal | Dr Chris Campbell |
| ten Hacken | Lotte | Using picture books to foster children's intercultural understanding | Principal Associate | Dr Damon Thomas AsPr Kerryn Dixon |
| Teo | Aaron | ?We?re not helpless here!?: Counter-stories of recently-migrated Australian teachers from Asian Confucian Heritage Culture backgrounds | Principal Associate | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay Dr Susan Creagh |
| 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 Associate | Dr Deanne Gannaway EmPr Frederick D'Agostino |
| Thomson | Amy | Conceptualising Co-design with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Young Peoples in the Context of Australian English Education | Principal Associate | Dr Marnee Shay AsPr Sandra Phillips |
| Tomlins | Melissa | Critical thinking reflected in the academic writing of Chinese and Australian PhD students | Principal Associate | AsPr Garth Stahl Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Torepe | Toni | Cultural taxation: A workplace myth or cultural reality | Principal Associate | AsPr Elizabeth Mackinlay Dr Marnee Shay |
| Trumble | Emma | Study Strategies Used by Professors and Students of Physiotherapy | Principal Associate | AsPr Jason Lodge AsPr Allison Mandrusiak Dr Roma Forbes |
| Valente Ramos | Marcelo | Learning in and out doors: the experiential education (EE) praxis for a sustainable education in Australian graduate courses | Principal Associate | Prof Peter Renshaw Dr Louise Phillips |
| van der Kruk | Yolanda | Impact of improved classroom acoustics on the educational outcomes of students with ASD | Principal Associate | AsPr Rhonda Faragher Prof Karen Nankervis |
| van Ommen | Mark | Educational Quality of Life for Students with Disabilities | Principal Associate | AsPr Rhonda Faragher Prof Karen Nankervis |
| Vaughan | Kara | How might teachers improve the quality of teacher and student questioning?: Teaching for Thinking Pedagogy in the 21st Century Thinking Classroom. | Principal Associate | Dr Peter Ellerton Prof Deborah Brown |
| Vayada | Preeti | Speaking for ourselves: Exploring how students from the Indian subcontinent experience `student-staff partnership? projects in an Australian university. | Principal Associate Associate | AsPr Kelly Matthews Dr Eimear Enright Dr Suraiya Abdul Hameed |
| Walker | Ross | Orchestrating change: Music training as a mechanism of enhancing auditory discrimination for children who have a disability. | Principal Associate | AsPr Rhonda Faragher AsPr Julie Ballantyne |
| Wang | Haiyan | WeChat-mediated Chinese EFL learners L2 identity construction during Covid-19 pandemic. | Principal Associate | Dr Simone Smala Dr Kate McLay |
| Wang | Lanting | Investigating polymedia-based Family Language Policies around Chinese Heritage Language Maintenance in Australia | Principal Associate | Dr Obaid Hamid Dr Wenying Wendy Jiang |
| 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 Associate | AsPr Rhonda Faragher Prof Robyn Gillies |
| Yang | Suijing | The Mechanism of Effective Learner Control in Computer-supported Collaborative Learning Environment | Principal Associate | AsPr Jason Lodge Dr Cameron Brooks |
| Young | John | Considering a model for understanding the Australian Extreme Right-Wing | Principal Associate Associate | AsPr Garth Stahl Dr Jonah Rimer Dr Mair Underwood |
| Zhang | Wen | Cultural Competence Strategies to Help International Students Address the Challenges They Confront When Studying in Australia | Principal Associate | Prof Robyn Gillies Dr Elizabeth Edwards |
Graduates
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