Dr Carly Lassig
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education
Biography
Dr Carly Lassig is a Lecturer in the QUT Faculty of Education with a passion for social justice, equity, and inclusion. Her research and teaching interests include: inclusive education, disability, differentiation, Universal Design for Learning, gifted education, and creativity.
Carly's PhD, "Perceiving and pursuing novelty: A grounded theory of adolescent creativity" used grounded theory methodology to research student voice in relation to young people's experiences of creativity within and beyond the school environment.
Carly's background is as a primary and middle years teacher, having taught nationally and internationally. She also worked with Independent Schools Queensland to lead schools in implementing the Australian Curriculum. Carly conducts professional development for schools and higher education institutions in the areas of differentiation, Universal Design for Learning, and gifted education. She is on the editorial board of the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education
Discipline
Specialist Studies in Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Education (Hons 1) (Griffith University)
Selected publications
- Lassig C, Doherty C, Moore K, (2015) The private problem with public service: rural teachers in educational markets, Journal of Educational Administration and History, 47 (2), pp. 117-139.
- Doherty C, Lassig C, (2013) Workable solutions: the intersubjective careers of women with families. In W Patton, Conceptualising Women's Working Lives: Moving the Boundaries of Discourse [Career Development Series, 5], Sense Publishers, pp. 83-104.
- Lassig C, (2013) Approaches to creativity: How adolescents engage in the creative process, Thinking Skills and Creativity, 10, pp. 3-12.
- Lassig C, Dillon L, Diezmann C, (2013) Student or scholar? Transforming identities through a research writing group, Studies in Continuing Education, 35 (3), pp. 299-314.
- Lassig C, (2012) Creating creative classrooms, The Australian Educational Leader, 34 (2), pp. 8-13.
- Lassig C, Lincoln M, Dillon L, Diezmann C, Fox J, Neofa Z, (2010) Writing together, learning together: the value and effectiveness of a research writing group for doctoral students, Proceedings of the Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference 2010 : Making a Difference, pp. 1-14.
- Lassig C, (2009) Teachers' attitudes towards the gifted: The importance of professional development and school culture, Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 18 (2), pp. 32-42.
- Lassig C, (2009) Promoting creativity in education: from policy to practice: an Australian perspective, Proceedings of the Seventh ACM conference on Creativity and Cognition, pp. 229-238.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Carly, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Best practice in gifted education: A review of a Queensland school's extension and enrichment program
Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Deborah Henderson