Dr Rhonda Di Biase
Senior lecturer in Education
Rhonda is a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. She has a background in school teaching in Melbourne and internationally across Asia. Previously she worked at the Maldives National University through a post-tsunami aid project promoting learner-centred education. In 2014 undertook an Endeavour Executive Fellowship promoting local research in the Maldives. Drawing on these experiences her research interests include: pedagogical renewal focusing on active learning reform and education for sustainable development; teachers’ professional learning; and education reform with a particular interest in the needs of small island states.
International research projects
Quality Education: initiatives to improve teaching and learning in low and middle-income countries (Philanthropic funding, 2021)
Investigating sustainable education reform in a Small Island Developing State (MGSE Early Career Researcher Grant, 2017)
Promoting Education for Sustainable Development in the Maldives (Special Study Program - Short, 2019)
Locally based research projects
A study of the effectiveness of a University of Melbourne summer school outreach program (Researcher Development Award, 2021)
Investigating how international students’ conceptions of teaching and learning develop through a Master of Teaching program (MGSE Seed Funding grant, 2017)