Our Research

The Arts & Humanities Education Academic Group brings together academics in Arts & Humanities Education from a range of education focused contexts, including early years, primary, secondary and tertiary settings and into adulthood.

Researchers

Researchers in the research group. Showing 12 of 13.

A/Prof Brad Merrick

Dr Chris Summers

A/Prof Emily Wilson

Dr Fiona King

Prof Jeana Kriewaldt

Jefferson Kinsman

Dr John Whitehouse

Dr Marnee Watkins

Dr Melina Mallos

Dr Prue Wales

A/Prof Richard Johnson Sallis, Richard

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Dr Sue Arney

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Projects

Projects conducted by research group members

Displaying 10 projects from 46 for the research group.

The ILESE DLR/BOLD Project

2026 - 2029

Active

Creativity and AI: Implications and Responsible Innovations for Interdisciplinary Learning

2027 - 2027

Active

Understanding the Phenomenon of Permission to Teach (PTT) Teachers in Australian Schools: A Multi Stakeholder Study

2026 - 2027

Active

Using Arts Education to Improve School Connectedness for Secondary Students With Disabilities in Flexible Learning Environments.

2026 - 2026

Active

One Note at a Time: Developing an Innovative and Accessible Melody-First Pathway Into Ukulele Learning for People With Chronic Illness

2026 - 2026

Active

New Concepts for Learning Environments of Tomorrow

2023 - 2026

Completed

Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

Displaying 10 scholarly works from 620 for the research group.

Making the Complex Simple: The Concept of Typologies When Applied to Learning Environments

Wesley Imms

Book Chapter | 2026

This book contains an Open Access Chapter. Innovative Learning Environments offers a comprehensive conceptual and theoretical tool..

Music Education Research Poster Session 2026: Booklet of Presenters' Names, Abstracts and Posters

Fiona King

Book | 2026

This event booklet contains the full list of presenters and the submitted abstracts and posters from the 2026 Music Education Rese..

The ILESE project: Building an evidentiary database about students' use of learning environments

W Imms, JE Morris, K Day, C Bradbeer, L Lockhart-Barker, C Campbell

Journal article | 2026 | Review of Education

Open access

This paper presents the progress of a unique study of significant scope. The industry-funded innovative Learning Environments and ..

Arts Education, Wellbeing and Leisure: Australian Primary Teacher Education Student Views

Dawn Joseph, William Baker, Bradley Merrick

Journal article | 2026 | International Journal of Education and the Arts

Open access

Arts Education fosters personal development and cultivates opportunities for students to be creative and innovative. This research..

Beyond 'staging a play': text, research-based theatre and futures of Arts Education

Chris Summers

Conference Proceedings | 2026 | Beyond 'staging a play': text, research-based theatre and futures of Arts Education

This work interrogates the complex ways artists / researchers / educators work with dramatic texts (plays, ethnodramas, monologues..

In Our Sites: Using Research-based Theatre to Play with Space, Place and Histories

Chris Summers, Richard Sallis, Prue Wales

Conference Proceedings | 2026 | In Our Sites: Using Research-based Theatre to Play with Space, Place and Histories

Tracking Australian students’ participation in senior secondary geography: Trends and implications for geography’s future

Shu Jun Lee, Lucy Robertson, Jeana Kriewaldt, Catherine Holmes

Journal article | 2026 | Geographical Research

Open access

This study examines trends in senior secondary geography participation in Australia from 1998 to 2023, using data from the Longitu..

Historical Thinking: Procedural Concepts for Learning and Teaching History

J Whitehouse

Book Chapter | 2026

This chapter examines the role of cultivating historical thinking and historical understanding in history pedagogies in the classr..

Teaching History Through Turning Points

J Whitehouse

Book Chapter | 2026

This book chapter explores the use of turning points in history teaching. Historians describe instances of pivotal change as turni..

Teaching Historical Causation in a Global Culture

J Whitehouse

Book Chapter | 2026

Traditionally, history has been taught in ways that serve the interests of individual nation-states. This has involved the constru..

News

News by research group members

Displaying 6 news articles from 6 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

Let’s face it — children miss valuable ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ learning moments during remote schooling

Jeana Kriewaldt, Shu Jun Lee

With Greater Sydney in extended lockdown and south-east Queensland and Victoria plunged back into lockdown, remote schooling is part of lif..

August 9, 2021

conversation Article

Group tables, ottomans and gym balls: kids told us why flexible furniture helps them learn

Julia E. Morris, Wesley Imms

The COVID pandemic has meant many students learnt from home for a lot of the year. But with schools returning to normal across Australia, ..

November 18, 2020

conversation Article

Helping teachers 'practise what they teach' could help them stay teaching for longer

Julia E. Morris, Wesley Imms

Early career teachers are more likely to stay on if they practise what they teach in their own time. We found that practitioner-teachers – ..

March 28, 2019

conversation Article

Made Possible By Melbourne

Wesley Imms, Benjamin Cleveland

Moveable walls, beanbag drop zones and free-range layouts. Today’s classrooms would be barely recognisable to teachers from yesteryear, mor..

October 28, 2016

pursuit Article

Changing the shape of teaching

Wesley Imms

In Ms Richmond’s Grade 2 class of ’65, East Devonport Primary School, Wesley Imms got an education that set him on course for life. His you..

August 28, 2016

pursuit Article

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Arts & Humanities Education Academic Group

The Arts & Humanities Education Academic Group brings together academics in Arts & Humanities Education from a range of education focused contexts, including early years, primary, secondary and tertiary settings and into adulthood.

Our Research

Researchers

Projects

The ILESE DLR/BOLD Project

Creativity and AI: Implications and Responsible Innovations for Interdisciplinary Learning

Understanding the Phenomenon of Permission to Teach (PTT) Teachers in Australian Schools: A Multi Stakeholder Study

Stages Beyond Cities: Regional-Based Youth, Drama Education and Belonging.

Designing Learning Spaces for Diversity, Inclusion and Participation

Designing Learning Spaces for Diversity, Inclusion and Participation

Evaluating Inclusive Learning Through a School Pump Track

Using Arts Education to Improve School Connectedness for Secondary Students With Disabilities in Flexible Learning Environments.

One Note at a Time: Developing an Innovative and Accessible Melody-First Pathway Into Ukulele Learning for People With Chronic Illness

New Concepts for Learning Environments of Tomorrow

Scholarly Works

Making the Complex Simple: The Concept of Typologies When Applied to Learning Environments

Music Education Research Poster Session 2026: Booklet of Presenters' Names, Abstracts and Posters

The ILESE project: Building an evidentiary database about students' use of learning environments

Arts Education, Wellbeing and Leisure: Australian Primary Teacher Education Student Views

Beyond 'staging a play': text, research-based theatre and futures of Arts Education

In Our Sites: Using Research-based Theatre to Play with Space, Place and Histories

Tracking Australian students’ participation in senior secondary geography: Trends and implications for geography’s future

Historical Thinking: Procedural Concepts for Learning and Teaching History

Teaching History Through Turning Points

Teaching Historical Causation in a Global Culture

News

Why collaborative mentoring for teachers is key to great education

Let’s face it — children miss valuable ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ learning moments during remote schooling

Group tables, ottomans and gym balls: kids told us why flexible furniture helps them learn

Helping teachers 'practise what they teach' could help them stay teaching for longer

Made Possible By Melbourne

Changing the shape of teaching

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