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Dr Susan Creagh

Research Fellow, Lecturer in TESOL Education
Honorary Lecturer
School of Education
+61 7 334 67802
+61 7 336 56478
screagh@uq.edu.au

Publications

Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (14)
Conference Papers (3)
Thesis (1)
Newspaper Articles (2)
Research Reports (2)

Book Chapters

Creagh, Sue (2016). Understanding the politics of categories in reporting national test results. National testing in schools: an Australia assessment. (pp. 110-125) edited by Bob Lingard, Greg Thompson and Sam Sellar. Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315659312-9
Lingard, Bob, Creagh, Sue and Vass, Greg (2013). Education policy as numbers: data categories and two Australian cases of misrecognition. Politics, policies and pedagogies in education: the selected works of Bob Lingard. (pp. 51-67) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203765708

Journal Articles

Creagh, Sue, Hogan, Anna, Lingard, Bob and Choi, Taehee (2022). The ‘everywhere and nowhere’ English language policy in Queensland government schools: a license for commercialisation. Journal of Education Policy, 1-20. doi: 10.1080/02680939.2022.2037721
Daliri-Ngametua, Rafaan, Hardy, Ian and Creagh, Sue (2021). Data, performativity and the erosion of trust in teachers. Cambridge Journal of Education, 1-17. doi: 10.1080/0305764x.2021.2002811
Clutterbuck, Jennifer, Hardy, Ian and Creagh, Sue (2021). Data infrastructures as sites of preclusion and omission: the representation of students and schooling. Journal of Education Policy, 1-22. doi: 10.1080/02680939.2021.1972166
Creagh, Sue, Kettle, Margaret, Alford, Jennifer, Comber, Barbara and Shield, Paul (2019). How long does it take to achieve academically in a second language? Comparing the trajectories of EAL students and first language peers in Queensland schools. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 42 (3), 145-155.
Creagh, Sue (2019). Reading pedagogy for refugee-background young people learning literacy for the first time in English as an additional language. The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL, 8 (1) 1, 3-20.
Graham, Anne, Truscott, Julia, O’Byrne, Catherine, Considine, Gillian, Hampshire, Anne, Creagh, Susan and Western, Mark (2019). Disadvantaged families’ experiences of home-school partnerships: navigating agency, expectations and stigma. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 25 (11), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/13603116.2019.1607913
Creagh, Susan (2016). Multiple ways of speaking back to the monolingual mindset. Discourse, 38 (1), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2016.1163861
Creagh, Sue (2015). A critical analysis of the Language Background Other Than English (LBOTE) category in the Australian national testing system: a Foucauldian perspective. Journal of Education Policy, 31 (3), 275-289. doi: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1066870
Creagh, Sue (2014). NAPLaN test data, ESL Bandscales and the validity of EAL/D teacher judgement of student performance. TESOL in Context, 24 (2), 30-50.
Creagh, Sue (2014). A Foucauldian and quantitative analysis of NAPLaN, the category 'Language Background Other Than English', and English as a second language level. TESOL in Context, 24 (2), 7-9.
Creagh, Sue (2014). National standardised testing and the diluting of English as a second language (ESL) in Australia. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 13 (1), 24-38.
Creagh, Susan (2013). 'Language Background Other Than English': a problem NAPLaN test category for Australian students of refugee background. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 19 (2), 252-273. doi: 10.1080/13613324.2013.843521
Creagh, Sue (2013). A critical analysis of problems with the LBOTE category on the NAPLaN test. Australian Educational Researcher, 41 (1), 1-23. doi: 10.1007/s13384-013-0095-y
Lingard, Bob, Creagh, Sue and Vass, Greg (2012). Education policy as numbers: Data categories and two Australian cases of misrecognition. Journal of Education Policy, 27 (3), 315-333. doi: 10.1080/02680939.2011.605476

Conference Papers

Tran, Nam, Western, Mark, Creagh, Susan, Clague, Denis and Baxter, Janeen (2019). How non-cognitive skill profiles associated with educational outcomes among disadvantaged students. The 2019 International Convention of Psychological Science, Paris, France, 7-9 March 2019.
Tran, Nam, Western, Mark, Creagh, Sue, Clague, Denise and Baxter, Janeen (2018). Non-cognitive skills profiles and academic outcomes among Australian disadvantaged students. The 14th Asia-Pacific Sociological Association Conference, Hakone, Japan, 5-7 October 2018.
Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Barney, Katelyn and Creagh, Susan (2014). Becoming, belonging and being in the profession: evaluating a mentoring program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander initial teacher educators. ATEA 2014: Australian Teacher Education Association Conference 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 6-9 July, 2014. Bathurst, NSW, Australia: Australian Teacher Education Association.

Thesis

Creagh, Sue (2013). A Foucauldian and quantitative analysis of NAPLaN, the category 'language background other than English', and English as a second language level.. PhD Thesis, School of Education, The University of Queensland.

Newspaper Articles

Madsen, Beth, Marnee Shay and Creagh, Sue (2020, 10 13). The budget has more money for school programs for Indigenous boys than girls The Conversation
Creagh, Sue (2015, 01 28). Australia's most disadvantaged children invisible in official NAPLAN results EduResearch Matters

Research Reports

Povey, J., Creagh, S., Bellotti, M., Gramotnev, A., Kennedy, E., Pedde, C. and Betros, G. (2017). Evidence-informed practices to improve student engagement. Final Report. Prepared for the New South Wales Centre for Education statistics and Evaluation. St Lucia QLD Australia: The University of Queensland Institute for Social Science Research.
Povey, J., Creagh, S., Bellotti, M., Gramotnev, A., Kennedy, E., Pedde, C. and Betros, G. (2017). Parent engagement in secondary schools. Discussion paper. Prepared for the New South Wales Centre for Education statistics and Evaluation. St Lucia QLD Australia: The University of Queensland, Institute for Social Science Research.

Areas of research

Curriculum, pedagogy and learning sciences
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