Name | Area of expertise |
Dr Rebecca Andrews
Senior Lecturer in Educational Studies
E: rebecca.andrews@mq.edu.au | - Educator-child Interactions
- Children's memory
- Teacher education student mentoring
- Professional experience
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Ms Michelle Bishop
Associate Lecturer in Educational Studies
E: michelle.bishop@mq.edu.au | - Education policy and Indigenous/Aboriginal students
- Indigenous and critical perspectives in education
- Indigenous Knowledges
- Indigenous research methodologies
- Curriculum and pedagogy
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Professor Matt Bower
Professor in Educational Studies
E: matt.bower@mq.edu.au | - Technology-enhanced learning
- Learning design
- Blended learning
- Educational technology innovation
- Teacher education
- Computing education
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Professor Rebecca Bull
Professor of Numeracy in Educational Studies
E: r.bull@mq.edu.au | - Early numeracy development and intervention
- Cognitive development
- Impact of hearing loss on learning and development
- Educator-child interactions and classroom quality
- Early childhood education and care
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Dr Emma Burns
Lecturer of Educational Psychology
Deputy Director -Secondary Education Program
E: emma.burns@mq.edu.au | - Motivation and engagement
- Quantitative Analysis
- Teacher-student relationships
- Social cognitive theory
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Associate Professor Michael Cavanagh
Director of Education
E: michael.cavanagh@mq.edu.au | - Teacher education
- Reflective practice
- Professional experience
- Mathematics education
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Associate Professor Alice Chik
Associate Professor in Educational Studies
E: alice.chik@mq.edu.au | - Multilingualism in education
- Learner autonomy
- Digital literacy
- Foreign language learning
- Reading acquisition
- Literacy teaching
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Dr Hye-Eun Chu
Senior Lecturer in Educational Studies
E: hye-eun.chu@mq.edu.au | - Cross-cultural science education research
- Interactions in science classrooms
- Innovative science teaching and learning(e.g. arts integrated STEM)
- Students’ conceptual development in science learning through explanatory modelling and multimodal thinking
- Scientific literacy/Environmental literacy
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Dr Tamara Cumming
Postgraduate Director
E: tamara.cumming@mq.edu.au | - Early Childhood Education
- Educator Wellbeing
- Workforce Sustainability
- Practice and Leadership
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Dr Belinda Davis
Course Director for Early Childhood
E: belinda.davis@mq.edu.au | - Professional experience
- Reflective practice
- Infant toddler experiences in early childhood settings
- Curriculum
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Dr Poulomee Datta
Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education
Program Director: Primary Education
E: poulomee.datta@mq.edu.au | - Inclusive and Special Education
- Disability Studies
- Educational Psychology
- Behaviour Management
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Professor Sheila Degotardi
Interim Dean of Education
E: dean.education@mq.edu.au | - Infant-toddler learning and teaching
- Relationship-based pedagogies
- Young children’s interactions
- Pedagogies for language development and learning
- Young children's thinking
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Dr John De Nobile
Course Director - Primary Teacher Education
E: john.denobile@mq.edu.au | - Educational leadership
- Organisational behaviour
- Classroom management
- Primary science methodology
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Dr Emilia Djonov
Senior Lecturer in Educational Studies
E: emilia.djonov@mq.edu.au | - Multi-literacies
- Early language and literacy
- Multimodality
- (Critical) Discourse Analysis
- Social Semiotics
- Systemic Functional Linguistics
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Dr Dean Dudley
Senior Lecturer in Educational Studies
E: dean.dudley@mq.edu.au | - Health and Physical Education
- Physical Literacy
- Assessment
- Sport & Coaching
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Dr Janet Dutton
Lecturer in Secondary English
E: janet.dutton@mq.edu.au | - Secondary English curriculum and HSC English
- Creative literacy pedagogy
- Teacher motivation and retention
- Teacher identity, voice and reflective practice
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Dr John Ehrich
Senior Lecturer in Educational data, Measurement and Assessment
E: john.ehrich@mq.edu.au | - Rasch modelling
- Experimental psychology
- Assessment
- Reading processes
- Dark Leadership
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Dr Anne Forbes
Senior Lecturer in STEM Education (Early Childhood & Primary)
E: anne.forbes@mq.edu.au | - STEM Education - primary and early years
- Communities of Science Practice
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Dr Ruth French
Lecturer in Educational Studies
E: ruth.french@mq.edu.au | - Literacies education
- Teacher education
- Systemic functional linguistics
- Curriculum and pedagogy
- Children’s literature
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Associate Professor Fay Hadley
Director of Initial Teacher Education
E: fay.hadley@mq.edu.au | - Early childhood workforce
- Educational leadership
- Family diversity
- Professional learning and development
- Professional experience
- Partnerships with families
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Professor Linda Harrison
Professorial Research Fellow
E: linda.j.harrison@mq.edu.au | - Infant and toddler learning, development and well being
- Child-adult attachment relationships at home and in early childhood education and school settings
- Innovative approaches to measurement and assessment in early childhood education and care
- Quantitative research design and methodology, longitudinal analysis techniques
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