Dr Melinda Miller
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Biography
Melinda is a lecturer in the School of Early Childhood at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane. Her research and service interests include embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, cultural studies, reconciliation, and teacher professional development. Melinda is an experienced facilitator of action research projects and professional development workshops for educators and teachers in long day care, family day care, outside school hours care, and formal schooling contexts. Melinda teaches in the area of child development at QUT, with a particular focus on children's speech and language development. She is also a supervisor for field experience. Research Interests- Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives
- Reconciliation
- Teacher professional development
- Action research
Current service
- Early Childhood Australia (Queensland Branch) Reconciliation Committee
- QUT Learning Potential Fund Ambassador
Consultancy
- Preferred provider for the Health and Community Services Workforce Council
- Experienced facilitator of workshops and action research projects in the areas of diversity, sustainability education, theoretical perspectives, documentation, critical reflection and child development
Awards
- 2015, 2011: Springer Publishing Best Paper Award - Australian Educational Researcher
Personal details
Discipline
Education Systems, Specialist Studies in Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- BEd (Early Childhood) (Hons) (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
- Early Childhood Australia (Queensland Branch) Reconciliation Committee
- Reconciliation Queensland
- Early Childhood Australia (ECA)
- Early Childhood Teacher's Association (ECTA)
- ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation)
Teaching
Teaching Experience
* All units comprise a field experience component
Recent Awards
- EDB120: Early Childhood Learning and Development 1 (Undergraduate)
- EDB121: Early Childhood Learning and Development 2 (Undergraduate)
- EDN660: Understanding Learners and Learning (Masters)
- EDN673: Culture Studies: Indigenous Studies (Masters)
* All units comprise a field experience component
Recent Awards
- 2015: Faculty of Education Evidence-Based Practice Teaching Award
- 2015: Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award
Selected publications
- Miller M, (2016) Whiteness scholarship in early childhood education, New Zealand Research in Early Childhood Education, 19, pp. 61-77.
- Miller M, (2015) Consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in early childhood education: the impact of colonial discourses, Australian Educational Researcher, 42 (5), pp. 549-565.
- Miller M, (2014) Productive and inclusive? How documentation concealed racialising practices in a diversity project, Early Years, 34 (2), pp. 146-160.
- Miller M, Petriwskyj A, (2013) New directions in intercultural early education in Australia, International Journal of Early Childhood, 45 (2), pp. 251-266.
QUT ePrints
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