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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.

A/Prof Jason Beech

MS Abbey Boyer

DR Stephen Chatelier

DR Rhonda Di Biase

A/Prof Nicky Dulfer

DR Harry Galatis

Prof Jessica Gerrard

DR Matthew Keynes

A/Prof Gosia Klatt

DR Julian Rawiri Kusabs

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DR Carla Luguetti

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DR Maree Martinussen

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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 - 2029

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

Coaching for Social Impact: Empowering Multicultural Women and Girls Through Culturally Safe Coaching Education

2026 - 2026

Active

Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

Displaying 10 scholarly works from 1340 for the research group.

Administrative burden in Australian universities: Insights into dimensions and drivers from a nationwide survey

P Woelert, J Chesters, M Martinussen, J Gannaway

Journal article | 2026 | Science and Public Policy

Open access

Despite widespread concern about levels of administrative burden within universities, understanding of the associated dimensions a..

‘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 ..

Before ‘gender whisperers’: morality, teacher employment and LGBTIQ futures

J Gerrard, A Thomas

Journal article | 2026 | Sex Education

This paper responds to the contemporary backlash to LGBTIQ+ rights and its focus on queer and transgender children and teachers in..

Becoming Care-Full Collectives in Schools and Scholarship Through Sympoethical Withnessing

A Flynn, J Quay, J Kriewaldt

Book Chapter | 2026 | International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education

In this chapter we offer a narrative of ‘care-full collectives’ in education. The narrative is assembled by weaving together the ‘..

Unsettling critical literacy: Indigenous climate fiction and relational reading practices

SR Phillips, LML Davies, C Archer-Lean, SE Truman, M Hogarth

Book Chapter | 2026

It is well understood that the climate crisis and global racial injustice are inextricably linked and tied to the practices of col..

Four affective strategies for queer(er) research with Oblique Curiosities

DB Shannon, SE Truman

Book Chapter | 2026

In this chapter, the authors propose how qualitative researchers interested in queer theory might enact qualitative research in qu..

Physical education to transgress: exploring an activist approach in a primary school setting

BS Silva, CN Luguetti, MZ Martins

Journal article | 2026 | Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy

Introduction: There is a body of research that describes the importance of the Activist Aproach (AA) as a way to improve students'..

News

News by research group members

Displaying 10 news articles from 33 for the research group.

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

The Australian Universities Accord cannot ignore climate change

Andrew Deuchar, Marcia McKenzie

As the year draws to a close, two major events that will shape the future of the country look set to coincide. In December, the Australian ..

November 30, 2023

pursuit Article

Communication and education to mobilise global climate action

Marcia McKenzie

The climate crisis is well and truly here, with scenes of wildfires, flooding and extreme weather becoming the new norm across the globe. S..

November 23, 2023

pursuit Article

3 key moments in Indigenous political history Victorian school students didn't learn about

Mati Keynes, Archie Thomas, Beth Marsden, Samara Hand

I never learned about this in school! This is an all-too familiar response from those learning Indigenous histories in Australia. The..

October 12, 2023

conversation 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

LGBTQ Teachers: Examining Present-Day Experiences and Historical Reflections

Oral Histories With Communities: Understanding Education Change

Towards Reparative Futures in Global Education Policy

Coaching for Social Impact: Empowering Multicultural Women and Girls Through Culturally Safe Coaching Education

Scholarly Works

Administrative burden in Australian universities: Insights into dimensions and drivers from a nationwide survey

‘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?

Before ‘gender whisperers’: morality, teacher employment and LGBTIQ futures

Becoming Care-Full Collectives in Schools and Scholarship Through Sympoethical Withnessing

Unsettling critical literacy: Indigenous climate fiction and relational reading practices

Four affective strategies for queer(er) research with Oblique Curiosities

Physical education to transgress: exploring an activist approach in a primary school setting

News

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

The Australian Universities Accord cannot ignore climate change

Communication and education to mobilise global climate action

3 key moments in Indigenous political history Victorian school students didn't learn about

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