Grants and achievements
National research rankings
Our research ranked 4/5 (above world standard) in the 2010 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) reports in:
- education
- curriculum and pedagogy.
Staff and student achievements
Our researchers have won numerous prestigious awards:
- Dr Clare O'Farrell won the American Library Association Choice Award for Michel Foucault (2005).
- Professor Kerry Mallan won the Children's Book Council of Australia Dame Annabelle Rankin Award, 2006 for 'Distinguished Services to Children's Literature in Queensland'.
- Professor Carmel Diezmann is an Honorary Professor of Beijing Normal University in recognition of her efforts to foster and develop collaboration between our faculty and Beijing Normal University Faculty of Education.
- Dr Lisette Dillon was awarded the QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in 2012 for her thesis, 'Gifted Young Adolescents: Voices of Self'.
- Dr David Nutchey was awarded the QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in 2012 for his thesis, 'Towards a Model for the Analysis and Description of Mathematical Knowledge and Understanding'.
Funding for research
We are one of the top-performing education faculties in Australia for ARC Discovery and Linkage grants.
QUT has been awarded more than half of the education funding nationally in ARC Linkage grants for 2013. We are the only education faculty to be awarded three grants, and received the highest funded grant in education in this round.
Professor Susan Danby has been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship; the only fellowship awarded nationally in education for 2012.
In 2009, our researchers received over $10.7 million for two important Indigenous projects:
- the YuMi Deadly Centre project
- a research evaluation of the Stronger Smarter Learning Communities.
Other funding we've received includes:
ARC Linkage
New literacy demands in the middle years: learning from design experiments
- Researchers
- Barbara Comber, Helen Nixon, Peter Freebody (University of Sydney), Victoria Carrington (University of South Australia)
- Research partners
- Department of Education and Children's Services South Australia, Australian Education Union of South Australia
- Years
- 2009-2012
- Funded
- $218,163
New literacy demands in the middle years
Skilling Indigenous Australia: effective numeracy learning for employment by regional and remote Indigenous students in vocational education and training courses
- Researchers
- Tom Cooper, Bronwyn Ewing, Chris Matthews (Griffith University), industry partner investigators
- Research partners
- Department of Education and Training Queensland, various state high schools, Construction Skills Queensland
- Years
- 2009-2013
- Funded
- $458,378
Digital learning and print literacy: a design experiment for the reform of low socio-economic, culturally diverse schools
- Researchers
- Annette Woods, Allan Luke, Beryl Exley, Karen Dooley, Michael Dezuanni, Vinesh Chandra, John McCollow (Queensland Teachers Union), Lesley McFarland (Queensland Teachers Union), Kathy Mills
- Research partners
- Queensland Teachers Union
- Funded
- $471,324
Digital learning and print literacy
Industry-school partnerships: a strategy to enhance education and training opportunities
- Researchers
- Cushla Kapitzke, Stephen Hay (Griffith University), James Watters, Hitendra Pillay, Neil Dempster (Griffith University), John Dungan (Department of Education, Training and Employment)
- Research partners
- Education Queensland, Independent Schools Queensland
- Years
- 2010-2013
- Funded
- $349,594
Images, perceptions and resources: enhancing Australia's role in China's English language education
- Researchers
- Huizhong Shen, Chen Hu (University of Sydney), Margaret Kettle, Robyn Ewing (University of Sydney), Allan Luke
- Research partners
- Fudan University Press, Foreign Language and Teaching Research Press
- Years
- 2010-2013
- Funded
-
$192,000
Images, perceptions and resources
Building capacity for online counselling for schools: developing and evaluating an online school counselling program
- Researchers
- Marilyn Campbell, Mary McMahon (University of Queensland), Ian Shochet, Debra Rickwood (University of Canberra)
- Research partners
- Queensland Guidance and Counselling Association, Learning Place
- Years
- 2010-2013
- Funded
- $108,958
Building capacity for online counselling in schools
A legally informed intervention for schools to prevent and intervene in cases of cyberbullying
- Researchers
- Marilyn Campbell, Desmond Butler, Donna Cross (Edith Cowan University), Barbara Spears (University of South Australia), Sally Kift, Phillip Slee (Flinders University), Mr Andrew Knott (Macrossans Lawyers)
- Research partners
- Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association Queensland Chapter, Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Emil Ford and Co, Macrossans Lawyers, Queensland, Queensland Guidance and Counselling Association, Queensland Independent Education Union, Queensland Teachers Union
- Years
- 2011-2013
- Funded
- $143,226
A legally informed intervention for schools to prevent and intervene in cases of cyberbullying
Emotional learning in socioscientific issues for enhancement of scientific literacy
- Researchers
- Steve Ritchie, Louisa Thomas (James Cook University), Alberto Bellocchi, Donna King, Kenneth Tobin (City University of New York)
- Research partners
- The Corporation of the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane, Kedron State High School, Kirwan State High School, City University of New York
- Years
- 2011-2014
- Funded
- $200,000
Emotional learning in socioscientific issues
Accelerating the mathematics learning of low socio-economic status junior secondary students
- Researchers
- Tom Cooper, Lyn English, David Nutchey, Bevan Penrose
- Research partners
- Energy Skills Queensland, Queensland Department of Employment and Training, various state high schools, Queensland Resources Council, Construction Skills Queensland
- Years
- 2012-2015
- Funded
- $640,000
Accelerating the mathematics learning of low socio-economic status junior secondary students
ARC Discovery
Making prevention matter: establishing characteristics of effective child sexual abuse prevention programs
- Researchers
- Kerryann Walsh, Donna Berthelsen, Jan Nicholson
- Years
- 2010-2012
- Funded
- $251,000
Interacting with knowledge, interacting with people: web searching in early childhood
- Researchers
- Susan Danby, Amanda Spink, Karen Thorpe, Christina Davidson (Charles Sturt University)
- Years
- 2011-2013
- Funded
- $463,971
Career mobility in educational markets: a sociological study of how families reconcile priorities
- Researchers
- Cathie Doherty, Wendy Patton, Paul Shield
- Years
- 2011-2015
- Funded
- $211,216
Career mobility in educational markets
Statistical literacy in the primary school: beginning inference
- Researchers
- Lyn English, Jane Watson (University of Tasmania)
- Years
- 2012-2014
- Funded
- $468,000
Statistical literacy in the primary school
Eventful learning in quality pre-service science teacher education
- Researchers
- Steve Ritchie, Kenneth Tobin (City University of New York), Alberto Bellocchi, Donna King
- Years
- 2012-2014
- Funded
- $185,000
Eventful learning in quality pre-service science teacher education
ARC DECRA
Classroom relations and moral order in compulsory non-academic pathways in high school and TAFE settings
- Researcher
- Cathie Doherty
- Years
- 2012-2015
- Funded
- $125,000 per annum
Classroom relations and moral order in high school and TAFE settings
Who wins? Who loses? The social values of Australian children's book awards
- Researcher
- Erica Hately
- Years
- 2012-2015
- Funded
- $125,000 per annum
Public sector funded research
Accelerated Indigenous mathematics (AIM)
- Researchers
- Tom Cooper, Grace Sarra, Bronwyn Ewing, Annette Baturo, Chris Matthews (Griffith University), Shane Lester
- Research partner
- Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
- Years
- 2009-2012
- Funded
- $1,000,000
Teaching Indigenous mathematics education (TIME)
- Researchers
- Tom Cooper, Grace Sarra, Bronwyn Ewing, Annette Baturo, Chris Matthews (Griffith University), Angela Douglas
- Research partner
- Department of Education, Training and the Arts (DETA)
- Years
- 2009-2012
- Funded
- $750,000
Teaching Indigenous mathematics education (TIME)
Stronger smarter learning communities - research
- Researchers
- Chris Sarra, Peter Downing, John Baker, Allan Luke, Val Klenowski, Annette Woods, Paul Shield, Courtney Cazden (Harvard University), John Lester (Newcastle University), James Ladwig (Newcastle University)
- Research partner
- Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
- Year
- 2009
- Funded
- $10,378,738
Contacts
Faculty of Education - Research
- Phone: 3138 3460
- Int. phone: +61 7 3138 3460
- Fax: 3138 3025
- Email: edn.research@qut.edu.au
- Level 5, B Block
Kelvin Grove
Victoria Park Rd
Kelvin Grove QLD 4059
- Postal address:
Faculty of Education - Research
GPO Box 2434
Brisbane QLD 4001
