Dr Lisa van Leent
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Biography
Dr Lisa van Leent is a senior lecturer in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership within the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice. Her research interests concern teachers’ pedagogical practices in relation to diverse genders and sexualities. Dr Lisa van Leent has extensive experience as a primary classroom teacher. She completed her doctoral study, titled “Primary School Teachers’ Conceptions of Pedagogical Responses to Concepts of Diverse Sexualities” at Queensland University of Technology. Her future research interests involve developing socially just pedagogical practices with teachers for and about diverse genders and sexualities.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer (Literacy)
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Keywords
Diverse sexualities, Primary, Pedagogy, Teacher education, Sex education, Digital literacies, English Curriculum
Discipline
Curriculum and Pedagogy, Specialist Studies in Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
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
Chair of the Queensland Queering Education Consultative Committee (QQECC)
QUT Pride Staff Network: founding member
LGBTI Government Roundtable: member 2018-2020
Membership of Learned Societies
- Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA)
- Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
- Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA)
Teaching
- English curriculum
- literacy
- 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 five higher degree research students including topics on literacies pedagogy, English curriculum and Queer leadership.
Experience
Lisa is engaged with key stakeholders such as community groups, the Department of Education, and schools to support equitable teaching and learning for diverse genders and sexualities.
Selected publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Lisa, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- School-based coaching: examining literacy learning for secondary mathematics teachers.
Masters by Research, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Deborah Henderson