Megan Pedler
Research degree: PhD
Supervisors: Dr Tony Yeigh & Dr Sue Hudson
Thesis title: The influence of teachers’ conceptualisations of student engagement on their teaching practices.
Research interest(s): Student engagement, students’ sense of belonging, teacher wellbeing, effective pedagogies.
Sarah James
Research degree: PhD
Supervisors: A/Prof Alexandra Lasczik & Dr Suzanne Hudson
Thesis title: Preservice teachers’ perspectives about their literacy mentoring during professional experience.
Research interest(s): Preservice Teacher and Initial Teacher Education / Mentoring, Literacy Mentoring / Literacy Education/ Concept Formation.
Tarandeep Kaur Dhonsi
Research degree: PhD
Supervisors: Dr Wendy Boyd & Dr Angela Turner
Thesis title: School readiness: Perspectives of early childhood educators.
Research interest(s): School readiness
Nathananiel (Nate) Siler
Research degree: PhD
Supervisors: Dr Christos Markopoulos, A/Prof Marilyn Chaseling & Dr Bill Boyd
Thesis title: Leading educational jurisdictions in academic performance in science – What factors have shaped the teaching of science in the schools of Alberta, Canada?
Research interest(s): International benchmark assessment in science, education of preservice science teachers, literacy within science, literacy within mathematics, science instruction for 21st century students.
Thilinika Wijesinghe
Research degree: PhD
Supervisors: A/Prof Alexandra Lasczik & Prof Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles
Thesis title: An exploration of how Speculative Drama can be engaged to understand children and young people’s future worldviews on Climate Change.
Research interest(s): Drama and Theatre, Speculative Drama, Arts-Based Educational Research, Environmental Education; Climate change education; Child-Framed Research Methodologies.
Adrienne (Adi) Brown
Research degree: PhD
Supervisors: A/Prof Alexandra Lasczik & Prof Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles
Thesis title: Locating Place Based Pedagogy: A Posthuman inquiry into Visual Arts and Design Higher Education in China and New Zealand.
Research interest(s): Visual Arts curriculum and pedagogy in higher education, within international settings of art making, and the intra-actions that occur between learner, artist, teacher and researcher.
Katie Hotko
Research degree: PhD
Supervisors: A/Prof Alexandra Lasczik & Dr Suzanne Hudson
Thesis title: Teachers' creative self-beliefs and their effects on teaching Visual Arts in Primary School.
Research interest(s): Process philosophy and a/r/tography.
Lisa Siegel
Research degree: PhD
Supervisors: Prof Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A/Prof Alexandra Lasczik & Dr. Anne Bellert
Thesis title: Moving towards the Gynocene: exploring the life experiences of women environmentalists.
Research interest(s): The lived experiences of women environmentalists. Based on a new materialist feminist theoretical framework, this research employs a collective biography methodology to explore how environmental agency can be understood and mediated.
Marie-Laurence Paquette (Mahi)
Research degree: PhD
Supervisors: Prof Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles & A/Prof Alexandra Lasczik
Thesis title: Planetary ethics and agentic capacities in business: Accelerating the paradigm shift in the Capitalocene.
Research interest(s): Understanding and mapping the transition between the current paradigm of business as usual in SMEs and the next paradigm, using theories of poststructuralism, postmodernism and posthumanism as bridging inquiries through methodologies associated with pedagogy of wisdom and experience.
Matthew Hodge
Research degree: PhD
Supervisors: Prof David Lynch &Prof Martin Hayden
Thesis title: Developing collective teacher efficacy in rural Queensland secondary schools.
Research interest(s): How school leaders in rural secondary schools overcome the factors that hinder the development of collective teacher efficacy as a means of improving student achievement.
Teresa Carapeto
Research degree: PhD
Supervisors: Prof Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles & A/Prof Alexandra Lasczik
Thesis title: Relations as Nature in Steiner Waldorf Teacher Practice and its Transcendence into the Classroom and Beyond.
Research interest(s): Steiner Waldorf Education and Environmental Education.