Current Research Projects
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This project, funded by the University of Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) Fellowships program (2018-2019), uses corpus-assisted discourse analysis to map print media representations of Australian teachers since the 1990s. This research is the focus of a research monograph, published by Bloomsbury in 2022, and a number of published and upcoming research papers.
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This project, undertaken with Professor Greg Thompson (QUT), Dr Anna Hogan (UQ), Dr Meghan Stacey (UNSW) and Dr Amanda McKay (QUT), in partnership with the Queensland Teachers' Union, focuses on the intensification of teachers' work. The project was funded by the Australian Research Council and while the research concluded in 2024, we continue to write and publish out of our extensive dataset.
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This project is based at the Teachers and Teaching Research Centre at the University of Newcastle, and led by Laureate Professor Jenny Gore, Dr Leanne Fray, Dr Drew Miller and Dr Sally Patfield. Funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education under the National Teacher Workforce Action Plan, the project involves 1600 teachers in all Australian states and territories, and seeks to support teacher induction and retention through the Quality Teaching Rounds approach to teacher professional learning.