Research Centres, Academic Groups and Hubs
Research Centres
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Assessment and Evaluation Research Centre
The AERC is dedicated to the advancement of assessment, measurement, and evaluation in various fields, with a primary focus on education.
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Centre for Wellbeing Science
The Centre for Wellbeing Science (CWS) is Australia’s leading research centre in positive psychology and wellbeing science. Areas of focus include wellbeing literacy, wellbeing education and training, and wellbeing communities and connections.
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Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education
The Melbourne CSHE is dedicated to research and development, dedicated to improving and utilising the best evidence-base for professional development and for influencing policy and practice in higher education.
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Research in Effective Education in Early Childhood (REEaCh) Centre
The centre's purpose is to make a sustained impact upon the lives of young Australians through advancing the quality of early learning experiences for all children.
Academic Groups
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Arts & Humanities Education
Led by A/Prof Jeana Kriewaldt and Dr Marnee Watkins, the group makes a significant contribution to education where learning can occur ‘in’, ‘through’, ‘with’ and ‘about’ the Arts. The Arts Education team are committed to ensuring quality arts education is provided and accessible to all learners in all contexts.
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Early Childhood Studies
Led by Prof Nicola Yelland, the Early Childhood team consider and question the over-reliance on child development and enact relational pedagogies and research methodologies to generate new and innovative knowledge that is responsive to all children and supports them to reach their full potential.
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Educational Leadership
Led by Prof David Gurr and A/Prof Lawrie Drysdale, the group brings together academics in Educational Leadership from a range of education focused contexts, including early years, primary, secondary and tertiary settings and into adulthood.
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Languages and Literacies Education
The Language and Literacy Education group, led by A/Prof Yvette Slaughter, brings together language and literacy education researchers from a range of contexts, including the early years, primary, secondary and tertiary education, and into adulthood.
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Learning Intervention
Led by Prof Kate Reynolds and A/Prof Lisa McKay-Brown, the Learning Intervention Academic Group brings together academics in inclusive education. Through outstanding interdisciplinary research, graduate programs and professional training in learning science, educational and developmental psychology and learning intervention, the group is committed to education where teachers are highly trained and all learners thrive.
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Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
Led by Prof Wee Tiong Seah and Prof Jan van Driel, the MSTEG group actively contribute to the improvement of mathematics, science and technology education by working with local schools and early childhood services, state and national education authorities, international bodies, professional associations and other researchers to conduct and publish research.
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Melbourne Metrics
Melbourne Metrics provides next-generation research-based transformative assessment tools, credentials and services, empowering systems and schools to assess and credential the complex competencies learners need for life.
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Social Transformations and Education
Led by Prof Marcia McKenzie and A/Prof Jessica Gerrard, the group explores new formations of knowledge, identities, social relations and cultural diversity, and how these are shaping and are shaped by education.
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Teacher Education
Led by Prof Helen Stokes, he Teacher Education Academic Group brings together academics in teacher education from a range of education focused contexts, including early years, primary, secondary and tertiary settings and into adulthood.
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Youth Research Collective
Led by Prof Hernan Cuervo, The Youth Research Collective’s (YRC) research and teaching is informed by a holistic approach to young people’s lives in a context of social and economic change, including learning settings, work, home, and leisure.
Research Hubs
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Digital Wellbeing Communities
The Digital Wellbeing Communities Research Hub will investigate how we can safely and effectively capitalise on young people’s engagement with technology to optimise their social connections and belonging, and deliver real outcomes that enhance social connection among Australian young people.
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Educational Philosophy
The Educational Philosophy Research Hub aims to generate knowledge of how researchers from different areas of education develop philosophical and theoretical positions to frame their investigations, and how these philosophical understandings inform education research and the academic and public debates that researchers engage with to impact practice.
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First Nations in Education
The First Nations in Education Research Hub will investigate how education researchers from a range of contexts and disciplines can contribute to the growth of knowledge about First Nations in Education through evidence-driven scholarly research and practices, to privilege sovereign, reparative, and relational research to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’ future livelihoods.
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Global Childhoods
The Global Childhoods Research Hub will focus on the lives and experiences of children from birth to 18 across the world to disrupt silo discourses that break up childhoods into conventional categories by age, and investigate the interconnections and disconnections of these multiple childhood experiences within those varied contexts.
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International Classrooms
Which will investigate how teachers across disciplines understand their practice, in and across international sites and settings, and contribute cross-cultural understanding of teaching practices to facilitate reflective practice and professional learning in teaching.