Associate Professor
Lisa van Leent
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Education
Biography
Associate Professor Lisa van Leent is an academic in the School of Education within the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice at QUT. Their research interests concern social justice in education with a focus on teachers' pedagogical practices regarding genders and sexualities, teacher attraction and retention, the purpose of schooling. Dr Lisa van Leent has extensive experience as a primary classroom teacher. They completed their doctoral study, titled “Primary School Teachers’ Conceptions of Pedagogical Responses to Concepts of Diverse Sexualities” at Queensland University of Technology. Lisa's future research interests involve developing socially just practices with teachers regarding diverse genders and sexualities.Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Education
Keywords
Diverse sexualities, Primary, Pedagogy, Teacher education, Sex education, Digital literacies, English Curriculum
Research field
Curriculum and pedagogy, Specialist studies in education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Master of Learning Innovation (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Education (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Co-Lead QUT Queer Research Group
Executive: Queer Pride Staff Network
Membership of Learned Societies
- Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA)
- Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE): Genders and Sexualities Special Interest Group and Teachers' Work and Lives
Teaching
Lisa specialises in teaching in the following areas:
- English and literacy education
- Health education
- Integrated curriculum
- Sociology of education
Dr van Leent has been awarded a Teaching and Learning Award: Teaching Excellence (Early Career Award) from the Executive Dean, Faculty of Education and the Assistant Dean Teaching & Learning, Faculty of Education in 2014. Lisa is committed to providing real world learning experiences for pre-service teachers at QUT with coordinated visits to local schools. The real world experiences directly relate to the learning and teaching on campus and through blended learning opportunities.
Supervision:
Lisa is currently an associate supervisor for multiple higher degree research students including topics on queering Catholic education, queering social work, sex education evaluation, consent education, social justice in education, teacher attraction and retention.
Experience
Dr Lisa van Leent enjoys working with schools to improve the teaching and learning for students and staff. Her passion is in supporting teachers with effective tools and strategies within a whole school environment.
Lisa is engaged with key stakeholders such as community groups, the Department of Education, and schools to support socially just teaching and learning regarding diverse genders and sexualities.
Publications
- van Leent, L., (2023). Primary years and teacher practices. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education, 1–9. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/241943
- van Leent, L., Walsh, K., Moran, C., Hand, K. & French, S. (2023). Effectiveness of relationships and sex education: A systematic review of terminology, content, pedagogy, and outcomes. Educational Research Review, 39, Article 100527. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/240408
- Starkey, D., Van Leent, L. & Singh, A. (2023). Experiences of embedding gender and sexuality diversity workshops in an undergraduate medical imaging curriculum. Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, 70(1), 95–98. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/236730
- Aguilar Alonso, R., Walsh, K., Van Leent, L. & Moran, C. (2024). School-based relationships and sexuality education programmes in primary schools: contexts, mechanisms and outcomes. Sex Education, 24(2), 188–207. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/238261
- van Leent, L. & Spina, N. (2023). Teachers' representations of genders and sexualities in primary school: the power of curriculum and an institutional ideological code. Australian Educational Researcher, 50(3), 683–700. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/229990
- Van Leent, L., Jeffries, M., Barnes, N. & Jowett, S. (2023). Submission to the ALRC Consultation regarding 'Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws: Consultation Paper (2023)'. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/238260
- Callaghan, T. & van Leent, L. (2019). Homophobia in Catholic schools: An exploration of teachers' rights and experiences in Canada and Australia. Journal of Catholic Education, 22(3), 36–57. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/133384
- McGraw, K. & van Leent, L. (2018). Textual constraints: Queering the Senior English text list in the Australian Curriculum. English in Australia, 53(2), 28–39. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122885
- van Leent, L., (2017). Supporting school teachers: primary teachers' conceptions of their responses to diverse sexualities. Sex Education, 17(4), 440–453. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/104713
- van Leent, L. & Ryan, M. (2016). The changing experiences of primary teachers: responding to scenarios involving diverse sexualities. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 20(7), 711–725. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/91630
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Lisa, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Filter publications:
A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/lisa.vanleent
Supervision
Current supervisions
- A Phenomenological Study of Gender-And-Sexuality-Diverse Pre-Service Teachers' Lived Experiences in Colombia
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Matthew Ball - Disrupting education: Reimagining leadership in next generation schools
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Martin Mills - Does participation in face-to-face intensive mode teaching (IMT) units that maintain a collaborative teaching pedagogy, enable/prepare students for engagement in subsequent traditional mode (TMT) units
EdD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Jennifer Clifton - How do educators and staff experience and reimagine consent education in the boarding sector of all-boys schools?
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Michael Flood - Queering Queensland Catholic secondary schools
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Martin Mills - Resilience and Resistance: academic and student experiences in disrupting hetero-cis-normativity in social work and human services education in Australia
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Jennifer Clifton - Teacher Retention in Queensland: Late-career Teachers in Hardest-to-staff Schools
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Martin Mills
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- School-based coaching: Examining disciplinary literacy learning for secondary mathematics teachers (2023)
- Exploring the Perspectives of Community Workers Engaging with Schools in Relation to Work with Gender and Sexuality Diverse Young People (2021)
- Building Linguistic Subject Knowledge for Writing Instruction: Teacher Responses to Professional Learning (2019)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.