2023 Competitive Grants Awarded
Congratulations to the following SIGs for their successful applications for Competitive Grants in the 2023/2024 SIG Round:
Arts Education Practice Research SIG - $5,000.00
Contact/Convenors: Kate Coleman, Peter Cook
The SIG will run a one-day workshop and seminar: ‘Creativity, Science of learning, and Artificial Intelligence: What would Maxine Greene do?’’
The aim of this innovative and participatory event is to dive deep into contemporary issues related to creativity, and the impact on hot topics and debates, especially related to learning sciences, artificial intelligence, initial teacher education and arts-based practices.
Assessment and Measurement SIG - $900.00
Contact/Convenors: Gulay Erin Dalgic, Samantha Low-Choy, Ameena Payne
The SIG will run a series of three seminars. The aim of this series is to bring together scholars whose interests are with regards to artificial intelligence in teaching, assessment, and feedback that spans primary/secondary and higher education.
Cultural Historical & Activity Theory SIG - $3,000.00
Contact/Convenors: Suxiang (Susan) Yu, John Cripps Clark, Samran Daneshfar, Hongzhi (Veronica) Yang
The SIG will host a 2023 Residential Summer School. The aim/purpose of the event is to address the research needs of education researchers at all career stages:
- Advance high quality educational research in Australia and internationally
- Promote understandings of educational issues
- Inform education policy
- Provide a research forum for education researchers to debate current problems and issues
Educational Leadership and Schools and Education Systems SIG - Joint submission - $8,000.00
Contact/Convenors:
Educational Leadership SIG: Katrina MacDonald
Schools and Education Systems SIG: Zid Mancenido, Melissa Tham
SIG Member: Prof. Scott Eacott
The SIGs will run a workshop ‘Geospatial analysis in education systems and leadership research’. The aims/purposes of the workshop are:
- Capacity building
- Collaboration building
- SIG activity build
- Showcasing facilities
Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Studies SIG - $3,000.00
Contact/Convenors: Michelle Jeffries, Lizzie Maughan, Victoria Rawlings
The SIG will run a series of events that will be participatory and provide invaluable opportunities for SIG members (and prospective SIG members) to:
- Build strategic networks and enable collective and collegial dialogue between GS&CS SIG members (and the wider Ƶcommunity);
- Forge strategic connections and build meaningful relationships between SIG members, key international scholars, key educational stakeholders and community partners;
- Build research capacity
- Advance high quality educational research in Australia and internationally
- Address the needs of education researchers at all career stages
Health and Physical Education SIG - $4,700.00
Contact/Convenors:
Health and Physical Education SIG Convenors: Cassandra Iannucci, Carla Luguetti, Jacqui Peters
SIG Members: Lisahunter, Ben Williams, Laura Alfrey
The SIG will run a symposium that is aimed to:
- Promote discussion and debate between a diverse range of educational researchers, practitioners and policy makers with a variety of perspectives on social justice and health and physical education
- Explore new ideas, directions, connections and agendas for educational research on social justice and health and physical education
- Enhance the voice and visibility of the HPE SIG in matters of on social justice and health and physical education and connections with practitioners and policymakers in the area.
The title for the symposium is "Social Justice and Health and Physical Education Symposium: Critical Dialogues and Diverse Perspectives ”.
Inclusive Education SIG - $2,994.00
Contact/Convenors:
Inclusive Education SIG Convenors: Kate de Bruin, Sofia Mavropoulou , Haley Tancredi
SIG Members: Amy Claughton, Glenys Mann
The SIG will run an online event ‘’ Risks and opportunities in achieving an inclusive schooling system in Australia: A pre-mortem’’. The aim of this event is to undertake collective brainstorming through a pre-mortem exercise.
Motivation and Learning and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics SIGs - Joint submission - $2,000.00
Contact/Convenors:
Motivation and Learning SIG Convenors: Emma Burns, Natasha Kett, Anne Suryani
STEM SIG Convenors: Ben Zunica, Liang Li, Victoria Millar, Emma Stevenson
SIG Member: Helen Watt
The SIGs will run 4 interrelated events:
- Joint SIGs Webinar: ‘Motivation and STEM Research: A collaborative webinar discussing the enhancement of motivation in STEM and STEM education
- Joint SIGs Keynote at Ƶ2023 open to all conference delegates: working title ‘Joint ML & STEM SIGs.
- Joint SIGs Mentoring and Networking Session for ML & STEM SIG members at Ƶ2023.
- Cross-listed symposium at Ƶ2023: working title, ‘Socio-motivational influences on STEM engagement outcomes.
Qualitative Research Methodologies SIG - $600.00
Contact/Convenors: Sheena Elwick, Keith Heggart
The SIG will host a series of seminars and workshops 'Decentring the Human in Qualitative Research Methodologies'. The seminar series aims to create an online learning community that is inclusive of all Ƶmembers, whilst maintaining an explicit focus on qualitative research methodologies. The key prompt that will guide that focus is: Exploring the challenges and opportunities of decentring the human in qualitative research methodologies employed in educational research
Teacher Education and Research Innovation SIG - $1,320.00
Contact/Convenors: David Clements, Bianca Coleman, Jessica Premier, Melissah Thomas
The SIG will run an event - Expanding Horizons: ƵTERI SIG Research Day
The research activity day will provide a platform for SIG members to learn from each other and explore ongoing collaborations and will offer an opportunity for members to interact, share ideas and establish a collaboration that could lead to joint research projects and/or publications. The event will also create a platform for researchers to showcase their research interests and expertise, enabling others to seek advice, share information, and foster new research collaborations.
Teachers' Work and Lives SIG - $3,000.00
Contact/Convenors: Ellen Larsen, Craig Wood
The SIG will host a Writing Retreat to support AARE’s commitment to fostering educational research in Australia. The event supports AARE’s purpose to promote, support and improve research and scholarship in education.
Technology and Learning SIG - $2,000.00
Contact/Convenors: Elham (Ellie) Manzari , Natalie McMaster, Ellie Meissner
The SIG will run a Podcast series that aims to create a vibrant and dynamic platform for researchers to connect, collaborate, and learn from each other. By featuring interviews with researchers from various disciplines aligned to Technology and Learning, the podcast will provide a space for researchers to discuss their work, share insights, and learn about the latest research trends and findings. Additionally, the podcast will offer training and professional development opportunities, helping researchers build new skills and deepen their understanding of important research topics.
2022 Competitive Grants Awarded
Congratulations to the following SIGs for their successful applications for Competitive Grants in the 2022/2023 SIG Round:
Arts Education Practice Research (AEPR), Post Structural Theory (PST) - Joint submission - $8,000.00
Contact/Convenors:
Arts Education Practice Research: Kate Coleman, Peter Cook, Mark Selkrig
Post Structural Theory: George Variyan, Benjamin Zonca
SIG members Brad Gobby, Sarah Healy
The SIGs will undertake a 4-day Climate, Arts and Digital Activism Festival that will bring together researchers, educators, and practitioners with expertise in the climate-related social issues, media, refugee communities, creative arts, curatorial practice, arts-based research, small data, and digital methods.
Children and Student Voice across all sectors - $2,625.00
Contact/Convenors: Manaia Chou-Lee, Trang Hoang
The SIG will run four online symposiums that centre on the practices of “partnership opportunities”. The title for the symposiums is "Critical discussions beyond the narrative: Partnerships opportunities in curriculum and pedagogy”.
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Education - $3,000.00
Contact/Convenors: Rachel Burke, Bonita Cabiles, Tebeje Molla
The SIG will run a hybrid event “Education in Resettlement: Facilitating Community-Driven Research”. This event focuses on the challenges, complexities, and ethical implications of community-driven approaches to educational research, with the emphasis on practical supports for researcher development.
Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) SIG - $5,000.00
Contact/Convenors: David Rousell, Helen Widdop Quinton, Thilinika Wijesinghe
The SIG will deliver a series of activities to explore and extend on supervisor-candidate partnerships climate justice activities and outcomes.
Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Studies SIG - $2,000.00
Contact/Convenors: Michelle Jeffries, Lizzie Maughan, Victoria Rawlings
The SIG will undertake the following activities:
- Media engagement workshop
- Funding Gender and Sexuality Research: Getting the Grants
- ARC Film screening during the ƵConference
- Communities of Conversation around our research: Qualitative analysis for multi-media data
- Communities of Conversation around our research: Ethics
Global Contexts for Education, Cultural Historical & Activity Theory, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics SIGs - Joint submission - $5,000.00
Contact/Convenors:
Global Contexts for Education: Rhonda Di Biase, Rebecca Spratt
Cultural Historical & Activity Theory: John Cripps Clark, Samran Daneshfar, Judith MacCallum, Hongzhi Yang, Suxiang Yu
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: Amanda Berry, Liang Li, Ann Osman
The three SIGs will run a developmental series of events exploring the theme of crossing boundaries: across content, theory and practice in global education contexts.
History and Education SIG - $780.00
Contact/Convenors: Yeow-Tong Chia, James Goulding
The SIG will run a hybrid Theory Workshop “Decolonising History Education and History of Education”. This workshop will provide mentorship to HDRs and ECRs of the SIG and the wider Ƶcommunity on the role of theory in historical research in education.
Policy and Politics of Education SIG - $2,880.00
Contact/Convenors: Jessica Holloway, Steven Lewis
The SIG will host a Summer School for PhD candidates and ECRs whose research aligns with the SIG. The summer school will be spread across three days and will include a variety of learning activities.
Professional and Higher Education SIG - $3,000.00
Contact/Convenors: Giedre Kligyte, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Knight, Alisa Percy, Jing Qi
The SIG will undertake a sustainable community building activity for PHE SIG. The initiative to begin to build and maintain a stable community in this space to foster dialogue and collaboration.
Sociology of Education & Social Justice - Joint submission - $7,800.00
Contact/Convenors:
Sociology of Education: Babak Dadvand, Stephen Kelly, Sam Schulz, Garth Stahl
Social Justice: Tim Fish, Lesley Friend, Ana Larsen
SIG members: Jo Lampert
The SIGs will run a workshop titled “Fostering Community Engagement in Education for Equity, Diversity and Social Justice”. This workshop brings together leading scholars and academics from around Australia and overseas to discuss existing and emerging research on practical approaches to community engagement for inclusive education. This workshop aims to create opportunities for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students to participate in capacity-building and networking activities.
Teacher Education and Research Innovation - $500.00
Contact/Convenors: Bianca Coleman, Thi Kim Anh Dang, Jessica Premier, Jon Quach
The SIG will run an online symposium: “Teacher Education: Preparing teachers for a changing world”. The symposium will promote the work of the SIG by allowing members to come together to share their research, learn from each other and to explore ongoing collaborations.
2018 Competitive Grants Awarded
Congratulations to the following SIGs for their successful applications for Competitive Grants in the 2018/2019 SIG Round:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Research - $5,000
Contact/Convenor: Dr Melitta Hogarth
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Research SIG reaching out to our Maori counterparts as part of NZARE to submit a joint symposium for this year's conference. To continue building and supporting HDR students, we are proposing providing a bursary for up to 4 PhD students working with the 4 academics joining us in the Symposium to attend the Conference.
Education Theory and Philosophy - $5,000
Contact/Convenor: Dr Steven Stolz
The Education Theory and Philosophy SIG will undertake a one-day symposium open to academics and the wider educational community, with national and international speakers. A formal book proposal will be developed, provisional title: The Body, Embodiment, and Education.
Motivation and Learning - $5,000
Contact/Convenor: Dr Emma Burns
The Motivation and Learning SIG will run an invited a speaker session with Professor Judith Harackiewicz from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to be held at the ƵAnnual Conference.
Post Structural Theory and Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Studies - Joint submission - $10,000
Contact/Convenor: Dr Melissa Wolfe
Professor Emma Renold is Professor in Childhood Studies at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales. She will be invited to speak at the Annual Conference.
Qualitative Research Methodologies and Early Childhood - Joint submission - $4,956
Contact/Convenor: Louise Phillips.
Funds will bring Professor Elizabeth Quintero to Sydney to present in Research, through with and as Storying symposium at ƵConference 2018, Sydney University.
Sociocultural Activity Theory - $5,000
Contact/Convenor: Jenny Martin.
Team:
David Kellogg
Joce Nuttall
Peter Renshaw
Nikolai Veresov
Judith MacCallum
John Cripps Clark
The Sociocultural Activity Theory SIG will run an AARE/ISCAR Summer School is a five-day retreat modelled on the Russian ISCAR Summer School tradition.
Sociology of Education - $5,000
Contact/Convenor: Dr Babak Dadvand
The SIG will host a two-day workshop on Open Access, Data Sharing and Archiving of Qualitative Research. This builds on a program of work undertaken by Julie McLeod, Kate Connor and Nicole Davis and colleagues at the University of Melbourne, with the support of the ARC, e-Scholarship at Melbourne University and the Australian Data Archive.
Teacher Education and Research Innovation - $5,000
Contact/Convenor: Dr Thi Kim Anh Dang
The SIG will run a one-day symposium, with Professor Ken Zeichner from the University of Washington (USA). The title for the proposed symposium is ‘Crossing Boundaries in Teacher Education: Promoting Collaboration and Partnerships’.
Technology and Learning - $5,000
Contact/Convenor: Dr Ulla Freihofner
A workshop, titled Using Data and Analytics to support technology-enhanced learning will offer educators methods to go beyond conventional approaches and widen their tool kit to overcome challenges involved with meeting the needs and expectations of modern learners.