What's on at the Faculty of Education
The Faculty of Education hosts and engages in numerous research events throughout the year. These include keynote addresses, workshops, conferences and seminar series. See below for upcoming events and recordings of previous presentations.
Coming Up and Past Events

Dean's Keynote Series: What’s departing radically got to do with academic writing? Everything
8 December - 8 December - 8 December - 8 December 2022, 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (QLD Time)
TeachLab Seminar Series: Lessons about government teacher education policy: Teacher education in England
6 December - 6 December - 6 December - 6 December 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time)
Early Years Research Lab Launch
11 November - 11 November - 11 November - 11 November 2022, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: Young people’s multiple climate justice activisms
9 November - 9 November - 9 November - 9 November 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: Bringing Social Robots to Preschool
19 October - 19 October - 19 October - 19 October 2022, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time)
TeachLab Seminar Series: Teaching How to Learn
18 October - 18 October - 18 October - 18 October 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: 5 October 2022. Complexity thinking and understanding for everyone: a patterns-based approach
- 5 October - 5 October - , - 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 AM (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
TeachLab Seminar Series: 27 September 2022. Social Learning Spaces: Learning to make a difference.
- - 27 September - 27 September , - , - (NSW Time) 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: 21 September 2022. Education through Child and Youth Activism, with Associate Professor Louise Phillips
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TeachLab Seminar Series: 23 August 2022. What future teaching and schooling?
23 August - 23 August - 23 August 23 August - 23 August 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM , - 05:00 PM (NSW Time) 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: 13 July 2022. Exploring place-belongingness through student voices
13 July - 13 July - 13 July 13 July - 13 July 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM , - 05:00 PM (NSW Time) 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series:June 2022. Professor Sue Walker, Professor of Early Education and Inclusive Education, Southern Cross University
9 June - 9 June - - 2022, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
Book Launch. Liz Mackinlay, Director of Higher Degree Research; Doctor of Education Course Coordinator, Faculty of Education, SCU
6 June - 6 June - 6 June - 6 June 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: 4 May 2022. Enabling constraints for angel-in-the-making
4 May - 4 May - 4 May - 4 May 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: April 2022. Professor Pasi Sahlberg, Professor of Education, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University
20 April - 20 April - 14 April - 14 April 2022, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time)
NSW Council of Deans of Education Grassroots "Research Agenda" Setting Project
16 February - 16 February - 23 February - 23 February 2022, 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM , - (NSW Time) 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM (QLD Time) 2022, 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: November 2021. Deictic Pedagogy, Affect, and Interrogative Force, with Dr Nathan Snaza
11 November - 11 November - 11 November - 11 November 2021, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM , - (NSW Time) 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM (QLD Time) 2021, 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM (QLD Time)
Climate Action Adventure! App Launch
3 November - 3 November - - 2021, 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: October 2021. Professor Martin Nakata, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Indigenous Education & Strategy), JCU
14 October - 14 October - 14 October - 14 October 2021, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time) 2021, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: September 2021. Absurdity, Creativity, and Healing, with Professor Kakali Bhattacharya
14 October - 14 October - 14 October - 14 October 2021, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM , - (NSW Time) 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM (QLD Time) 2021, 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: September 2021. Professor Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews, Director of Indigenous Research, Western Sydney University
28 September - 28 September - - 2021, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
Childhoodnature Play Seminar and Launch
23 September - 23 September - - 2021, 03:30 PM - 06:00 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: Sept 2021. Implementing Indigenous Knowledges in Doctoral Education, with Associate Professor Kathryn Gilbey
7 September - 7 September - - 2021, 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: August 2021. Conditions of Success to Enhance Aboriginal Students Academic Outcomes, with Dr Lynette Riley
17 August - 17 August - - 2021, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: July 2021. Aboriginal Memory Techniques
27 July - 27 July - - 2021, 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: July 2021. Matrixial Eco Gnosis, with Associate Professor Barbara Bickel
22 July - 22 July - - 2021, 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: June 2021. How Do We Get There from Here? with Professor Timothy Morton
29 June - 29 June - - 2021, 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: May 2021. Building Relationship with Indigenous Knowledge, with Dr Stuart Barlo
18 May - 18 May - - 2021, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: May 2021. The poetics of living and writing as inquiry in an entangled world, with Professor Bronwyn Davies
27 May - 27 May - - 2021, 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: April 2021. Engaging with Indigenous Knowledge, with Dr Shawn Wilson
20 April - 20 April - - 2021, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: April 2021. Fellow feelings, with Senior Research Fellow Pauliina Rautio, Faculty of Education, University of Oulu
27 April - 27 April - - 2021, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: March 2021. Learning to live with Climate Change, with Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Blanche Verlie
18 March - 18 March - - 2021, 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: March 2021. Indigenous Scholarship: Research-led creative arts practice, with Dr Rea Saunders
15 March - 15 March - 15 March - 15 March 2021, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time) 2021, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: March 2021. Learning As, Of and With Queer Animals, with Associate Professor Joshua Russell, Canisius College Buffalo, US
2 March - 2 March - - 2021, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
SEAE Seminar Series: Sept 2020. Scholar Activism: Radical Praxis in Support of Democracy in Dangerous Times, with Associate Professor Johnny Lupinacci
30 September - 30 September - - 2020, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: Nov 2020. Gathering, Holding, Gifting and Collective Making, with Associate Professor Louise Phillips
10 November - 10 November - 10 November - 10 November 2020, 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (QLD Time) 2020, 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: October 2020. Enacting Indigenous perspectives in Schools of Education, with Professor Tracy Bunda
27 October - 27 October - 27 October - 27 October 2020, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time) 2020, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: Sept 2020. Building a new legacy: Supporting women in research, led by Laureate Professor Marilyn Fleer
29 September - 29 September - - 2020, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)
Dean's Keynote Series: July 2020. The imperative of creative pedagogies in contemporary teaching, with Emerita Professor Robyn Ewing
16 July - 16 July - - 2020, 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)Dean's Keynote Series: June 2020. Feminist affect: Thinking through the child body, with Professor Anna Moody
25 June - 25 June - - 2020, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM , - (NSW Time) - (QLD Time) , - (QLD Time)Contact the Faculty of Education
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