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 doctoral supervision consult our list of staff and their area of expertise or interest.

Name	Area of Expertise/Interest	Name	Area of Expertise/Interest
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 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
Professor Patrick Danaher	Open and distance education Social education Student mobility	Dr Ann Dashwood	Classroom talk Second language teacher thinking Language teacher education
Dr Mark Dawson	Grounded theory Career Development School Improvement	Associate Professor 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 Carole Haeusler	Assessment and higher order thinking Science education Teacher professional development	Associate Professor 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	Associate Professor Romina Jamieson-Proctor	Transforming learning, teaching and the curriculum with ICTs Mathematics education Intelligence, thinking, problem solving and creativity
Associate Professor Anne Jasman	Development of authentic assessment strategies Futures research Initial teacher education	Dr Marian Lewis	Learning in professional communities School change and development Educational leadership
Dr Con Lozanovski	Mathematics education Mathematics modelling Statistics and statistical mechanics	Dr Peter McIlveen	Career counselling and development Training career development practitioners Evaluation of career development interventions using quantitative or qualitative methods
Dr Warren Midgley	Bilingualism and bilingual education Language, culture and identity Qualitative research	Associate Professor Karen Noble	Early childhood education Scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education Workforce capacity building
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 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
Professor Nita Temmerman	Arts Education Internationalisation of Education Teacher Education	Dr Henriette Van Rensburg	Computer aided learning Language teaching ICT in 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