Research

Staff expertise

The Research Experts website is the complete directory of USQ researchers. For a complete listing of Faculty of Education academic staff, please see our staff directory.

For guidance regarding areas of supervision consult our list of staff and their area of expertise or interest.

Name	Area of Expertise/Interest	Name	Area of Expertise/Interest
Associate Professor Peter Albion	Educational multimedia Applications of ICT to education Online education	Associate Professor Dorothy Andrews	School change and development Educational leadership Professional development of teachers/leaders
Associate Professor Jon Austin	Critical multiculturalism Conceptions of social justice Critical and empancipatory pedagogy	Dr Margaret Baguley	Visual Arts Education Creative Collaboration Arts Engagement
Dr Rick Churchill	Pre-service and early career teacher learning Teachers' work and their work life satisfaction Curriculum and pedagogy for the middle years	Dr David Cleaver	Issues, ideas and identity within music and creative arts education Teaching and learning - theory and philosophy
Dr Joan Conway	Teacher professional development and shared meaning making Educational leadership Capacity building for sustainable progress in school communities	Associate Professor Patrick Danaher	Open and distance education Social education Student mobility
Dr Ann Dashwood	Classroom talk Second language teacher thinking Language teacher education	Dr Ken Edwards	Health and Physical Education (pedagogy, curriculum) Socio-Cultural Aspects of Sport and Physical Activity (biographies, traditional games etc) Thinking Skills (Marzano, Costa etc)
Dr Barry Fields	Behaviour management policy and practice Strategies for managing defiant students Anger management in school settings	Dr Helmut Geiblinger	Health and physical education Biomechanics Sports coaching
Dr John Green	Constructivism Problem solving and technology in primary and secondary mathematics education	Dr Jean Healey	Bullying and violence in schools Child protection for pre-service teachers -Pre-service teachers professional self-concept
Dr Robyn Henderson	Literacy, multiliteracies and literacy pedagogy Diversity, social justice and disadvantage Critical discourse analysis	Dr Andrew Hickey	Cultural studies Sociology of community Qualitative research methodologies
Dr Bonnie Hoi Yin Yim	Arts education Multicultural education Research methods in early childhood education	Associate Professor Romina Jamieson-Proctor	Transforming learning, teaching and the curriculum with ICTs Mathematics education Intelligence, thinking, problem solving and creativity
Dr Marian Lewis	Learning in professional communities School change and development Educational leadership	Dr Jerry Maroulis	Applications of web-based pedagogy and ICTs in science education Environmental and sustainability education Physical geography and earth science education
Dr Peter McIlveen	Career counselling and development Training career development practitioners Evaluation of career development interventions using quantitative or qualitative methods	Dr Karen Noble	Early childhood education Scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education Workforce capacity building
Dr Patsy Norton	Curriculum and pedagogy Teacher learning Literacy learning	Dr Patrick O'Brien	Guidance and counselling Multiple intelligences and use in counselling Teacher attrition
Associate Professor Shirley O'Neill	Teaching English as a second language and global education Cross-cultural communication and intercultural literacy Language and literacies learning and assessment	Associate Professor Lindsay Parry	Educational reform and professional development Curriculum theory and development History and social studies education
Dr Jeong-Bae Son	Computer-assisted language learning Second language classroom research Language teacher education	Dr Karen Spence	Science education Professional experience as an embedded and integral component of preservice teacher education. supporting girls in science as a career
Dr Jan Stenton	Health and education Middle ear problems and their impact on learning and behaviour Research in special education, inclusion and early interventions in education	Dr Kerry Taylor-Leech	Language ideologies policy and planning bi/multilingual identities and literacies in education and society teaching and learning second languages
Professor Nita Temmerman	Arts Education Internationalisation of Education Teacher Education	Dr Mark Tyler
Dr Henriette Van Rensburg	Computer aided learning Language teaching ICT in education	Dr Andy Yeh	Design and evaluation of ICT applications in education Online educational communities of practice Mathematics and science education
Dr Kathie Young	Teaching English as an international language Curriculum development, evaluation and textbooks and teacher autonomy Identity and voice as a post-colonial challenge	Dr Agli Zavros	Teacher efficacy, agency and identity Social and professional networks and social and educational change Critical and transformative pedagogies