MGSE staff news
Who's travelling?
The following MGSE staff will be travelling soon. If you have colleagues, potential RHD scholars, prospective students, events, or opportunities in or near the locations that they are travelling to, you are encouraged to get in touch with these staff directly to explore the potential for collaboration.
Name | Departure | Route | Destination | Purpose |
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Michael Francis | 8/11/18 | MEL AUH RUH AUH MEL | Abu Dhabi | Other |
Aine Healy | 12/11/18 | SYD MEL OOL | Melbourne | Conference |
Georgina Julian | 12/11/18 | SYD MEL OOL | Melbourne | Conference |
Christopher Hatton | 12/11/18 | MEL OOL | Gold Coast | Conference |
Andrew Jahoda | 12/11/18 | MEL OOL | Gold Coast | Conference |
Lynda Ball | 16/11/18 | MEL PER SIN JOG SIN MEL | Singapore | Conference |
Julie Butler | 12/11/18 | DPO MEL DPO | Melbourne | Conference |
Judy Huett | 12/11/18 | DPO MEL DPO | Melbourne | Conference |
Joseph Lobianco | 14/11/18 | MEL SYD MEL | Sydney | Conference |
Joann Cattlin | 16/11/18 18/11/18 | MEL CBR CBR MEL | Canberra Melbourne | Undertake Research |
Fiona Young | 18/11/18 | SYD MEL SYD | Melbourne | Meeting |
Jim Watterston | 19/11/18 | MEL SYD PEK SYD MEL | Beijing | Conference |
John Polesel | 19/11/18 | MEL SCL BOG SCL SYD MEL | Bogata | Other |
Liz Carter | 19/11/18 | MEL MCY MEL | Sunshine Coast | Conference |
Duncan Symons | 20/11/18 | MEL BNE MEL | Brisbane | Conference |
Russell Cross | 1/12/18 | MEL SYD MEL | Sydney | Conference |
Vernon Crew | 2/12/18 | ARM SYD BNE SYD ARM | Sydney | Other |
Maurizio Toscano | 6/12/18 | MEL SYD MEL | Sydney | Conference |
Staff vote 'yes' to new Enterprise Agreement
Eligible employees have voted overwhelmingly in support of the University's proposed new Enterprise Agreement. When the ballot closed at 5.00pm last Friday (26 October), 2,294 eligible members of staff had cast their vote.
Ninety-two per cent voted in favour of the ballot. The agreement will come into effect seven days after it is approved by the Fair Work Commission, with the first salary increase backdated to May 2018. The commission approval process is currently taking three to four months; the University is well prepared to provide any assistance required by the Commission to facilitate that process. Read more on the Staff HUB.
Academic procession registrations
A reminder that the MGSE Graduation Ceremony will be held on Saturday 8 December 2018 at the Royal Exhibition Building. This ceremony will be MGSE only.If you wish to be a part of the Academic Procession please register via the University's graduation page. Registrations close on Thursday 29 November.
You will need to login with your University details and tick the ceremony you wish to attend, including the capacity in which you will be attending.
Further details about graduations can be found on the Graduation Information page.
MGSE End of Year Function
The MGSE End of Year function will be held on the 19 December 2018, commencing at 1.00pm. Please hold this date and we will provide further details in the next two weeks.
MGSE Research Development Awards Outcomes
We congratulate all the staff who were successful in receiving an award up to $5,000 generously funded by Chancellery Research and Enterprise. This scheme aims to strengthen researcher capability by either building a stronger publication track record, or developing a bid for a grant application in the next major round. All applications have been assessed by a panel, and 34 were successful.
Name | Team Members | Project title |
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Daniela Acquaro | Prof Fazal Rizvi (MW); A/Prof David Gurr (MW) | Exploring female teachers’ work in boys’ schools & Preparing teachers for alternative settings. |
Alex Bacalja | Investigating trends in text lists in the Senior English Curriculum | |
Jane Bird | A/Prof Kate Donelan (co-CI; MW); | Creative and innovative approaches to education and research methodology |
Robert Brown | A/Prof Neryl Jeanneret (co-CI); | Engaging young people, families and practitioners in museums and galleries. Translating research into scholarly publications. |
Tan-Chyuan Chin | Prof Dianne Vella-Brodrick (co-CI & MW) | Youth experiences and perspectives on well-being: Implications for policy and practice |
Julie Choi | Dr Yvette Slaughter (co-CI) | The impact of plurilingual pedagogies in Australian education system |
Rhonda Di Biase | Ms Carmel Mesiti (co-CI); Dr Miriam Ham (PI; UCQ); Prof Fazal Rizvi (MW); Prof David Clarke (MW) | Investigating pedagogical practices: exploring teacher knowledge, classroom practices and the conditions for classroom reform |
Sarah French | Dr Gwilym Croucher (co-CI); | Understanding career outcomes and pathways for Australian HDR graduates |
Annie Gowing | Prof Helen Cahill | Tales from inside the classroom: Student understandings of good and bad teachers. Schools as sites of identity formation: Exploring personal and organisational understandings of self. |
Amy Gullickson | Prof Jean King (MW); | Advancing Evaluation Education |
Mahtab Janfada | A/Prof Larissa McLean Davies | Exploring a Dialogic Approach in Teaching English for Academic Purposes Contexts: Insights into Theory & Practice |
Amy McKernan | Prof Julie McLeod (MW) | Publications from Uncomfortable Histories: Learning with confronting and contested histories in Australian museums |
Victoria Millar | Prof Jan van Driel (co-CI; MW) | Developing track record in science education |
Annemarie O'Brien | A/Prof Larissa McLean Davies (MW) | Teaching design of visual meaning in creating multimodal texts: contributing to contemporary literacy pedagogies through publication of two papers |
Jon Quach | Understanding how primary schools meet the developmental and health needs of their students: Examining the evidence | |
Maurice Toscano | Prof Jan van Direl (MW) | Science education: the science of what is and the art of what matters. |
Marnee Watkins | Dr Kathryn Coleman (co-CI) | Intergenerational, relational dialogues as artist: Facilitating participatory arts-based communities of practice to support early career arts educators |
Peter Woelert | Dr Gwilym Croucher (co-CI); A/Prof Jens Jungblut (PI; Univ. Oslo); Prof Jenny M. lewis (MW; School or Social Sciences/ Public Policy) | Governance dynamics and the politics of performance measurement in the university sector |
Terence Bowles | Prof Jim Watterston (MGS); Prof Jan van Driel (MGS); A/Prof Lawrie Drysadale (MGS); A/Prof David Gurr (MGS); Dr Merryn Dawborn-Gundlack (RA); Ms Daniela Russo (RA) | Expanding on The Facilitators and Barriers to Principals’ Intention to Leave the Education Profession: A National Perspective. |
Kathryn Coleman | Ms Sarah Healy (co-CI); A/Prof Patsie Polly (MW/UNSW); A/Prof Wes imms (GS); Ms Rose Hiscock (Mentor) | Curiosity, Creativity and Community: The Art and Science of Practice |
Hernan Cuervo | Dr Rimi Khan (PI); | Australia's multicultural youth: resilience, optimism and opportunity |
Jessica Gerrard | Prof Julie McLeod | Evidence, disadvantage and policy development: investigating the understanding of, and intervention into, educational disadvantage |
Marian Mahat | A/prof Wes imms (MGS); | Designing for learning: Innovative spaces for innovative learning in higher education |
Larissa McLean Davies | Prof Lyn Yates (GS); | State of the Nation: Australian literature in secondary education (ARC Future Fellowship) |
Ghislain Arbour | Paper 1 : Dr Amy Gullickson (co-CI); | PAPER 1: The relationship between discipline, expertise and practice: where lies evaluation knowledge? PAPER 2: Frameworks for evaluation; research, practice and institutions |
Esther Chan | Prof David Clarke (MW) | Bridging Discourse in Educational Research: A Focus on Stability and Change |
Jenny Chesters | A/Prof Hernan Cuervo | Perennial students? Learning across the life course to remain competitive in the 21st century labour market |
Gwilym Croucher | Prof William (Bill) Lacy (PI; UC-Davis) | Exploring the future of leadership in Australian Higher Education through the eyes of its leaders |
Babak Dadvand | Prof Helen Cahill (co-CI) | Publication 1: Examining the predictors of teachers’ intention to teach topics relating to gender, gender identity and prevention of gender-based violence Publication 2: A study of peer attitudes towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) students in primary and secondary schools |
Ben Deery | Dr Jon Quach (co-CI); | Impact and implementation of a teacher-delivered mindfulness intervention on cognitive and behavioural outcomes in preschool and early primary school. |
Gavin Slemp | Dr Zhongzua Zhang (co-CI) | a systematic review and meta-analysis of the antecedents and consequences of autonomous and controlled motives for careers in teaching. |
Anne Suryan | Dr Gosia Klatt (MW) | Engaging with Indonesian Education |
Joanne Blannin | Accounting for Teachers’ Choices to Use, or Not to Use, Digital Technologies in the Upper Primary School Classroom | |
Zhang Zhonghua | Prof Mark Wilson (co-CI; MW); | A process perspective on collaborative problem solving |
Visiting Professor: higher education and curriculum studies
Professor Berit Karseth from the University of Oslo is based on 100 Leicester St, Level 7 in room LW 722 and can be contacted via her email berit.karseth@iped.uio.no
She was recently Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at University of Oslo, and is a previous President of the Nordic Education Research Association. Berit is known for an array of interesting research and writing, including on curricular changes in higher education knowledge work of the professions; curriculum theory and policy; and educational reforms. Her current research projects include ‘Curriculum policy and curriculum traditions within and beyond national boundaries’, and ‘Policy knowledge and lesson drawing in Nordic school reform, in an era of international comparison’. Recent publications include:
- Karseth, Berit & Solbrekke, Tone Dyrdal (2016). Curriculum Trends in European Higher Education: The pursuit of the Humboldtian University Ideas, In Sheila Slaughter & Jay Taylor Barrett (ed.), Higher Education, Stratification, and Workforce Development: Competitive Advantage in Europe, the US, and Canada. Springer ISBN 978-3-319-21511-2. part 3, chapter 11. s 215 – 233;
- Mølstad, Christina Elde & Karseth, Berit (2016). National curricula in Norway and Finland: The role of learning outcomes. European Educational Research Journal. ISSN 1474-9041. 15(3), s 329- 344 . doi: 10.1177/1474904116639311;
- Solbrekke, Tone Dyrdal; Englund, Tomas; Karseth, Berit & Beck, Eevi Elisabeth (2016). Educating for Professional Responsibility: From Critical Thinking to Deliberative Communication, or Why Critical Thinking Is Not Enough, In Franziska Trede & Celina McEwen (ed.), Educating the Deliberate Professional. Springer ISBN 978-3-319-32956-7. Kap 3. s 29 – 44;
- Nerland, Monika & Karseth, Berit (2015). The knowledge work of professional associations: approaches to standardisation and forms of legitimisation. Journal of Education and Work. ISSN 1363-9080. 28(1), s 1- 23 . doi:10.1080/13639080.2013.802833
Berit will be holding a seminar on Thursday 22 November (details TBC) and will be with the Graduate School until Friday 14 December. She looks forward to talking with colleagues and students with interests in these areas.
New Director for Melbourne's Centre for the Study of Higher Education
Dr William Locke has been appointed as the new Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education.
Dr Locke is currently Reader in Higher Education Studies at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, where he is Director of the Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES) and Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE). Dr Locke has published extensively on topics such as higher education policy, management and governance of institutions and the changing academic profession. He is also a dedicated teacher at all levels of education, and has led the development of highly-regarded professional development programs for people in the sector, most notably the internationally-renowned MBA in Higher Education Management at the UCL Institute of Education. He was formerly Head of Learning and Teaching policy at the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Prior to this, he was Assistant Director of the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (CHERI) at the Open University and Deputy Director of Policy Development at Universities UK. He is a member of the Governing Council and Publications Committee of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) and founding Joint Editor of the SRHE journal Policy Reviews in Higher Education.
Nominations for the Dean's Lecture Series 2019
With the 2018 Dean’s Lecture Series soon drawing to a close it is now time to call for speaker nominations for the 2019 series.
Jim is seeking your suggestions on international or interstate academics and other leaders who you think would be suitable and available to present as part of next year’s series. As our Dean’s Lectures provide a platform for discussion and debate in the education community, we are looking for leaders who have a widely recognised capacity to speak on education related topics with significant public interest.
To make a suggestion please provide the following information to Liz Carter by Friday 16 November with the following details:
- Name of proposed speaker and their institution
- Their area of expertise
- Possible lecture topic, and
- Likely date for availability.
Please note that we do not have funding to support travel, accommodation or an honorarium. We expect that nominated speakers will already be travelling to Melbourne.
The final lecture in the 2018 series will be presented by Professor Lindsay Oades on Wednesday 14 November. This lecture will be held as part of our 10 year anniversary activities. Further details and registration can be found on the registration page.
Voices for Justice, Stories for Change
On Thursday 25 October the Justice-involved Young People Network and Conflict, Development, Justice Research Cluster from Criminology hosted the Voices for Justice, Stories for Change event at MGSE. The Koorie Youth Council reported on their Ngaga-dji project and there were conversations between African Australian and Koorie young people working to combat the effects of racism in their communities and build the strength and capacity within their communities. It was a powerful event, captured here on SBS World News on Friday 26th October. If you are interested in being involved in this work or finding out more please email Sophie Rudolph.
Academic Women in Leadership Program 2019
This Leadership Program is one of several strategies aimed at addressing women’s under-representation in higher level academic appointments and on key policy, decision making and governance bodies. This remains an issue of strategic importance to the University.
As potential participants are required to speak with the Dean to gain endorsement for their application, applicants are asked to arrange a meeting by Monday 19 November at the latest to enable MGSE to assess all applications and ensure they are submitted by the official close date of Monday 26 November. Please also ensure you speak with your direct supervisor prior to finalising your application.
If you have any questions about the program or the process, please contact the Program Manager, Julie Eastman via email or call ext 44159. Alternatively you can contact the Dean directly.