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Journey mapping student experiences in engineering education
This research topic explores the use of journey mapping as a research and design methodology to better understand, analyse and improve student experiences in engineering education. The project investigates how students navigate key stages and touchpoints across the academic lifecycle including transition into university, curriculum progression, assessment, engagement, wellbeing and career development. By systematically mapping these journeys, the research aims to reveal patterns, barriers, and opportunities that shape student engagement, experience and success.Situated at the intersection of engineering education research, …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Educator capability development and recognition in engineering education
This research topic examines educator capability development and recognition in engineering education, with a particular focus on the misalignment between the skills increasingly required of educators and the ways those skills are formally recognised and rewarded in higher education.Building on contemporary scholarship in engineering education and academic career development, the project explores how expectations around teaching quality, digital capability, assessment design, and evidence‑based practice have expanded—while promotion, workload, and recognition frameworks have not always kept pace.The research aims to inform …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
Emerging technologies and data-driven learning in engineering education
This research topic explores the use of emerging technologies and data‑driven approaches to enhance learning and teaching in engineering education. The project investigates how diverse educational data sets can be leveraged to support evidence‑based decision making across multiple levels of the institution—from individual educators and course teams to faculty leaders and senior executives. The work sits at the intersection of engineering education, learning analytics, and strategic use of educational data to improve student engagement, experience, and success.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Data Science
Gender, leadership and performance in higher education industry
Institutions of higher learning are essential for supplying any economy with high-quality labour and innovations. Also, these institutions are crucial to actively achieving the objectives of inclusive and sustainable development. These organisations have adapted more inclusive and sustainable development practices over time; particularly, the leadership team now has a higher percentage of female members. Rarely is there literature on how adjustments to these strategies and leadership have an impact on institutional performance. This study fills in this knowledge gap to …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Economics and Finance
English and literacy education
Research relating to English and literacy education includes projects relating to primary, secondary and early childhood contexts. It includes research on curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, and research on the history, traditions and philosophies of English and literacy education.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- School of Education
Developing teacher capability in statistical reasoning and modelling
This project investigates how teachers develop confidence and capability in teaching statistics, probability, and modelling. It focuses on strengthening pedagogical and content knowledge in complex mathematical domains.This project builds on extensive experience in pre-service teacher education and research on strengthening statistical reasoning and conceptual understanding.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- 1043176
Teacher Education
This project concerns Teacher education and professional knowledge in primary, secondary and tertiary education settings / working with diverse learners.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- 1043176
Inclusive Education
Potential Topics for study in the area of Inclusive Education include:Inclusive practices for primary school teachers: design-based research study investigating the inclusion of gender and sexuality diversityBeyond NAPLAN: Promoting student engagement, achievement and wellbeing through inclusive school reform.Identifying and addressing over-representation of at-risk groups in school suspension and exclusion.Investigating the prevalence of, reasons for and alternatives to informal suspension and restrictive practices in Australian schools.What can we learn from parents of students with disability about parent-school partnerships?The increasing problem of …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- 1043176
- Research centre(s)
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Centre for Inclusive Education
Bridging Real-World Modelling and Secondary Mathematics Education
This project explores how authentic modelling approaches (for example Bayesian reasoning and systems thinking) can be integrated into secondary mathematics classrooms to enhance engagement and conceptual understanding.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- 1043176
Teaching and learning entrepreneurial capabilities in diverse educational contexts
Projects may address entrepreneurial skills, behaviours and attributes as learnable human capabilities across a diverse range of educational contexts. Sub-topics may include entrepreneurial alertness, risk taking and productive failure, values formation and creation, agency-passivity, emancipatory entrepreneurialism, antifragility, entrepreneurial leadership, global mindset, emotive experiences and interplay with learning for entrepreneurial capabilities, opportunity creation.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- 1043176
Reconciling competing perspectives of mathematics in teacher education
This project explores how pre-service teachers experience and reconcile competing conceptions of mathematics, such as mathematics as a formal discipline versus a pedagogical practice. These tensions can shape teaching approaches and classroom environments.The project will investigate how teacher education programs influence these perspectives and how pre-service teachers develop coherent professional identities.
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- 1043176
Home schooling / Home education
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- School
- 1043176
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