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Our Research

The Social Transformations and Education Academic Group addresses questions about educational purposes, policies and practices in light of social transformations. Our work explores new formations of knowledge, identities, social relations and cultural diversity, and how these are shaping and are shaped by education.

Researchers

Researchers in the research group. Showing 12 of 24.

Ms Abbey Boyer

Dr Ben Williams

Ms Bernadette Murphy

Dr Carla Luguetti

Dr Chris McCaw

Dr Dianne Mulcahy

Prof Elizabeth McKinley

A/Prof Gosia Klatt

Dr Harry Galatis

A/Prof Jason Beech

Prof Jessica Gerrard

Prof John Quay

Projects

Projects conducted by research group members

Displaying 10 projects from 65 for the research group.

Slow Emergencies, Policy Change, and Hopeful Futures for Young People

2026 - 2030

Active

European Education Systems and Policies (EESaP) Module- Grant Agreement

2025 - 2028

Active

The Climate Resilient Education Project: Strengthening Disaster Resilience and Empowering Adaptation

2025 - 2028

Active

Teacher Educators for Justice: Exploring Their Understandings, Identities and Praxis

2026 - 2027

Active

Bridging School Education With Post-School Life: A Study of Young People’s Meaningful Learning Experiences in Early Transitions

2026 - 2027

Active

Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

Displaying 10 scholarly works from 1364 for the research group.

Lessons from EdTPA for the AfGT

Anne Bellert, Aristidis Galatis, Therese N Hopfenbeck

Book Chapter | 2026

Imagining Anti-oppressive Education Futures

Sophie Rudolph, Bonita S Cabiles, Stephen Chatelier, Elisa Di Gregorio, Aleryk Fricker, Archie Thomas

Book | 2026

Power of country: Indigenous relationality and reading Indigenous climate fiction in Australia

Sandra Phillips, Larissa McLean Davies, Sarah E Truman

Book Chapter | 2026

As a curriculum area, English has been foundational to empire, invasion, and colonisation of Indigenous peoples the world over. It..

Tracking sustainability in higher education policy: a systematic literature review of trends

R Adjei, R Di Biase, M McKenzie

Journal article | 2026 | International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

Purpose – This study aims to review the literature on sustainability in higher education policy over the period of 2017–2022, buil..

Intersecting knowledge worlds: describing the cultural interfaces within a socioscientific issue

BR Wagner, B France, E McKinley

Journal article | 2026 | Cultural Studies of Science Education

Open access

Increasing numbers of science teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand are exploring ways to incorporate indigenous mātauranga Māori (Māor..

Investigating outdoor education in Finland and Australia: positioning outdoor education as curriculum

J Kokkonen, E Baillieul, J Quay

Journal article | 2026 | Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education

Open access

Outdoor education is often missing in formal curriculum, especially in primary education. With our experience living and working i..

‘You Don't Discuss These Things With Your Superior’: Surfacing Dependence Taboos in Doctoral Education Through Near-Peer Mentoring

M Martinussen, S Thurlow, B Lang

Journal article | 2026 | Higher Education Quarterly

Open access

Doctoral education increasingly emphasises both independence and supportive supervision, creating contradictory expectations for c..

Honouring Relational Responsibilities for Indigenous-Led Social Change: A Literature Review of International Indigenous Evaluation Frameworks

F Belcher, N Moodie, E McKinley

Journal article | 2026 | Evaluation Journal of Australasia

Open access

Indigenous evaluation literature is a powerful approach to upholding the aspirations of Indigenous Peoples. As a site of knowledge..

Becoming activist teacher educators: The learning journeys of two physical education cooperating teachers in a school–university partnership

LL Gonçalves, L Liziero, KS Silva, CN Luguetti, M Parker

Journal article | 2026 | European Physical Education Review

Open access

Since the late 20th century, school–university partnerships have been promoted as collaborative efforts in teacher education. Trad..

What if there was a year 7–10 outdoor education curriculum in Victoria, Australia?

J Ambrosy, J Quay, M Morse, M Cox, S Allen-Craig

Journal article | 2026 | Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education

Open access

There has been significant and sustained advocacy for a Year 7–10 Outdoor Education curriculum in Victoria and Australia for over ..

News

News by research group members

Displaying 10 news articles from 36 for the research group.

How learning grows in school gardens across the Indo-Pacific

Rhonda Di Biase

Living on a fishing island in the Maldives for eight months was a turning point in my career. It was 2012, and I was conducting my PhD fie..

June 25, 2026

pursuit Article

The truth about First Nations children and schooling has been told, retold and ignored

Beth Marsden, Matthew Keynes, Sue-Anne Hunter

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this article refers to issues that may be considered culturally sensitive, in..

June 23, 2026

pursuit Article

Djambatj Dhukarr – Walking the Road to Excellence Together

Yalmay Yunupiŋu, Bernadette Murphy

Our communities – the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne and the Yambirrpa Schools of Yirrkala and Laynhapuy Homelands in Northe..

May 28, 2026

pursuit Article

Why collaborative mentoring for teachers is key to great education

Jeana Kriewaldt, Nicky Dulfer, Edith Nicolas

Australia’s education system is grappling with a serious challenge. The Australian Federal Government has warned that secondary teacher dem..

July 23, 2025

pursuit Article

‘We have always been here’

Matthew Keynes

It’s Sámi National Day throughout Sápmi – the Sámi homelands – which stretch across present-day Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia’s Kola P..

February 5, 2025

pursuit Article

Swimming is our national pastime, but too many kids aren’t learning how

Abbey Boyer

For a country with 34,000 kilometres of coastline, it may not come as a surprise that swimming is the most popular form of recreation and p..

January 24, 2025

pursuit Article

Three reasons why teachers should learn to meditate and it’s not (just) about wellbeing

Christopher T. McCaw, Amanda Samson

There is growing evidence that mindfulness-based training programs may support teacher wellbeing and resilience. This clearly sounds like a..

October 9, 2024

pursuit Article

For the first time, the curriculum in Australian classrooms has a focus on truth-telling

For the first time, the Australian school curriculum has been revised to focus on ‘truth-telling’.In many societies with histories of viole..

May 27, 2024

pursuit Article

Before the 1980s, Australian teachers could be banned for being gay. A new report wants to protect them at religious schools too

Archie Thomas, Jessica Gerrard

In 1976, Greg Weir was banned from teaching by the Queensland government because he was gay – and was then denied employment in New South W..

March 22, 2024

conversation Article

Blind faith in Australia’s education ‘system’ is failing our kids

John Quay

Have you heard of ‘Flat-Earth education’? It’s a phrase I am using as a provocation to highlight a problem – the unquestioning acceptance o..

January 17, 2024

pursuit Article

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Social Transformations & Education Academic Group

Our Research

Researchers

Projects

Slow Emergencies, Policy Change, and Hopeful Futures for Young People

European Education Systems and Policies (EESaP) Module- Grant Agreement

The Climate Resilient Education Project: Strengthening Disaster Resilience and Empowering Adaptation

Teacher Educators for Justice: Exploring Their Understandings, Identities and Praxis

Bridging School Education With Post-School Life: A Study of Young People’s Meaningful Learning Experiences in Early Transitions

Becoming Me: Empowering Young People for a Future Beyond School

Oral Histories With Communities: Understanding Education Change

LGBTQ Teachers: Examining Present-Day Experiences and Historical Reflections

Towards Reparative Futures in Global Education Policy

Technology, Sustainability, and Social Equity Through Science Fiction

Scholarly Works

Lessons from EdTPA for the AfGT

Imagining Anti-oppressive Education Futures

Power of country: Indigenous relationality and reading Indigenous climate fiction in Australia

Tracking sustainability in higher education policy: a systematic literature review of trends

Intersecting knowledge worlds: describing the cultural interfaces within a socioscientific issue

Investigating outdoor education in Finland and Australia: positioning outdoor education as curriculum

‘You Don't Discuss These Things With Your Superior’: Surfacing Dependence Taboos in Doctoral Education Through Near-Peer Mentoring

Honouring Relational Responsibilities for Indigenous-Led Social Change: A Literature Review of International Indigenous Evaluation Frameworks

Becoming activist teacher educators: The learning journeys of two physical education cooperating teachers in a school–university partnership

What if there was a year 7–10 outdoor education curriculum in Victoria, Australia?

News

How learning grows in school gardens across the Indo-Pacific

The truth about First Nations children and schooling has been told, retold and ignored

Djambatj Dhukarr – Walking the Road to Excellence Together

Why collaborative mentoring for teachers is key to great education

‘We have always been here’

Swimming is our national pastime, but too many kids aren’t learning how

Three reasons why teachers should learn to meditate and it’s not (just) about wellbeing

For the first time, the curriculum in Australian classrooms has a focus on truth-telling

Before the 1980s, Australian teachers could be banned for being gay. A new report wants to protect them at religious schools too

Blind faith in Australia’s education ‘system’ is failing our kids

Support Our Research

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