A5071411394- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Innovative Education and Learning Practices
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Legal Issues in South Africa
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Education Systems and Policy
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Higher Education Practises and Engagement
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Livestock Management and Performance Improvement
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Mentoring and Academic Development
- Livestock Farming and Management
- Organizational Learning and Leadership
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
Monash University
2015-2024
Monklands Hospital
2021
University of Science and Culture
2019
Clayton Foundation
2015-2018
Australian Catholic University
2012-2016
University of Technology Sydney
2016
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
2016
The University of Queensland
2016
Royal Stoke University Hospital
2015
Peninsula College
2004-2011
Objectives/Goals: We developed an educational online module to equip researchers with knowledge, skills, and resources for conducting community-engaged research, aiming foster meaningful collaboration between academia communities. Methods/Study Population: A working group was formed, including three research faculty, four staff members, community partners who have partnered on engaged projects. The first identified objectives the outlined what should be covered each objective. existing...
The organisational territory of academia has become heavily gridded by consuming requirements to produce publications that ‘count’. To survive, the scholar must plug herself into this machine – a heaving, monstrous academicwritingmachine. She invest libidinal energy process counting if she desires be counted. This troubles us, who write for both ‘work’ and ‘pleasure’, seek connections with one another, our sense unknowns, ways people learn in communities.Taking as starting point concept...
Therapy dogs in educational settings have gained increase traction recent years. Despite its potential benefits and popularity, there remain concerns of perceived risks such as sanitation, allergies, safety issues, well a lack guidelines, regulations support resources available to school staff. Research is further lacking into the implementation process therapy dog programs settings. To construct set recommendations for staff achieve successful program, present study investigated...
This article critiques the usefulness of double stimulation, a key concept in Vygotskian analyses human development, with leaders early childhood services Australia. A series formative interventions was conducted to identify and address systemic tensions that were confounding leaders’ attempts realise central object activity their work: development staff order enhance children’s learning. An example stimulation is drawn from workshop comments interviews one participating leaders. The...
This paper provides a rationale for understanding personal/professional identities to support learning and positioning in academe higher education. It explains the importance of women writing speaking out stories their lives (everyday academic), having voices heard responded to, using embodied knowledge question challenge workplace systems structures power sexism invisibility. Importantly, this opens space women's visibility, voice agency academic educational life.
This paper examines workforce reform in early childhood education England, specifically the policy trajectory that led to implementation of Early Years Teacher Status (EYTS) qualification 2014. Taking a critical perspective on analysis, uses rhetorical analysis make sense how EYTS is understood within reform. From an assemblage salient documents, we report our two key texts: Foundations for Quality and More Great Childcare. Both documents identify levers drivers reform, but from markedly...
This article follows two women-academics engaging in a methodology of collaborative writing that holds each other folds friendship. By together which has been hidden, new openings are being created where experiences trauma, mourning, and forgetting seeking out ways to re-member heal. In this process, the authors discovering becoming-differently their positioning as women-academics.
This paper reports a rhetorical analysis of policy texts illustrating the emergence mandatory Educational Leader role in early childhood services Australia. We argue that before 2012 constructed 'problem' workforce quality education and offered new leadership configuration as solution. identify critically address how this social architecture was made persuasive through key devices, particularly combined pathos vulnerable child logos improvement. Initial indicated an apparent contradiction...
Abstract The article addresses the problem of providing in-service education within government-led reform initiatives yet enhancing professionalism in Early Childhood Education and Care sector. study was conducted during policy-mandated Australia to investigate effective ways support educational leaders centres rated as not meeting national quality standard. Data were derived from a larger project designed formative intervention funded by Australian Research Council. In this article, we...
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) has been impacted by COVID-19. Australia's ECEC not spared this impact. sector was positioned as an 'essential' service providing vital childcare support for frontline workers. This meant the workforce workers caring young children. It long before reports emerged of experiencing high levels stress anxiety. paper on findings from a survey early teachers educators (n = 75) across Australia. The presents analysis data 33 (ECTs). shows ECTs were higher...
The Solution Circle (SC) approach is a flexible tool which encourages participants to maintain positive, creative problem-solving. This project focussed on the introduction of this staff in primary and secondary school. rationale was implement problem-solving/discussion that would allow utilise expertise present within school before looking outside agencies for support. In both schools reported positively about process, highlighting its potential use promote inclusion pupils with wide range needs.
This article reports on an evaluation of three action research projects developed by a group teachers working across the early years in independent schools. The examines role developing educational leadership capabilities. Drawing literature, concepts and ideas activism, influence change, capacity to develop vision are used describe analyse data from qualitative pre-project post-project individual interviews. argues that empirical findings suggest was powerful tool concludes suggesting...
Introduction The literature on the early childhood--school relationship has identified this as being dominated by differences, and--more often than not--these differences are unable to be reconciled (e.g., Moss, 2008). This article examines findings from a study with three childhood teachers in an Early Learning Centre (ELC) (1) private school setting Australia. sought understand what it meant for engage continuous professional learning through action research setting. I begin discussing...
Since early childhood has become the focus of national and supranational political spaces, issues around teacher learning have also gained a firm position in debates. This seen literature on largely being positioned within managerial/alternative dichotomy, arising from resistance to technical-rationalist discourses present contemporary policy. article examines data participatory action research project investigating three teachers working an centre located independent school Australia. It...
The explosion of information, misinformation and disinformation (the "infodemic") related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on digital social media is reported affect mental health quality life. However, reports assessing COVID-19 infodemic health-related life (HRQL) in patients with chronic diseases are scarce. In this study, we investigated associations between HRQL uninfected individuals pre-existing respiratory (CRDs) such as asthma, obstructive pulmonary (COPD) other...
There is considerable literature describing the use of Change Laboratory as a simultaneous research and intervention methodology in workplace settings. However, there limited from researcher-facilitator perspective. This paper examines ethical dimensions this perspective specifically how ‘rule care’ became conscious rule. The context series Laboratories implemented with Centre Directors Educational Leaders early childhood education care centres Darwin Melbourne, Australia. Based on our...