Higher Degree by Research students
The Faculty of Education is proud of the impact of the work of our HDR students over many years. Our current Higher Degree by Research students are working across a range of innovative multidisciplinary research projects in areas such as educational policy, sustainable community development, teacher education, language teacher education and curriculum and pedagogy.
Current Students
| Student Name | Degree | Thesis Title | Research Centre/Discipline | ORCID-ID | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adi Husnawadi | PhD | Designing Flipped Classroom-based LBC for EFL Writing Instruction at an Indonesian Preservice EFL Teachers Program | |||
| Aerlie Vade | PhD | Embedding a pedagogy of play - Teacher challenges in the Primary setting | |||
| Amy Dennis | M Education (Research) | Exploring teachers understanding of the personal and social capability in the secondary school environment. | |||
| Andrew Maxwell | M Education (Research) | Developing international students’ dispositions towards critical thinking in English for Academic Purposes programs at Australian universities | andrew.maxwell@canberra.edu.au | TESOL; English for Academic Purposes | 0009-0007-2727-561X |
| Anne Fuentes | PhD | Mapping everyday risk in Mindanao: exploring how farmers in conflict-vulnerable areas navigate precarity | Anne.Fuentes@canberra.edu.au | Centre for Sustainable Communities | 0009-0002-1663-2275 |
| Arwa Alharbi | PhD | Investigating the potential for implementing family-centered practices for children with intellectual disability in primary schools in Saudi Arabia: listening to the experiences of families and cross-disciplinary professionals | |||
| Badrun Kurnia | PhD | Indonesian Year 9 and Year 12 Students' Statistical Literacy: Levels, Challenges and Understandings | Badrun.Kurnia@canberra.edu.au | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | |
| Belinda Rodwell | M Education (Research) | Should rural and remote secondary schools' success be measured using the same parameters of their regional/ metropolitan counterparts | |||
| Benjamin Mudie | PhD | A Qualitative Study on The Impact of AI on Teaching Quality and Demands of Classroom Teachers in the ACT. Is AI an efficacious approach to addressing workload concerns for classroom teachers? Does it provide quality or improved lessons and learning outcomes? | |||
| Bianka-Jayne Dyson | PhD | Wellbeing management of essential workers during a collective time of crisis. An exploration and comparison of Australian teacher and nurse wellbeing during the global Covid-19 pandemic 2020-2022 | |||
| Bill Bostle | PhD | Stones in the passway: can community-led refugee resettlement in regional Australia provide sustainable alternatives to institutional policy and practice? | |||
| Bruce Ferrington | PhD | Perspective taking and the
development of spatial thinking skills: an in-class intervention program with Year 3 students. | bruce.ferrington@canberra.edu.au | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | |
| Burhanudin Syaifulloh | PhD | Lecturers’ concerns regarding the implementation of the Indonesian Higher Education Curriculum (HEC) in undergraduate English major programs | burhanudin.syaifulloh@canberra.edu.au | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) | 0000-0002-6988-1470 |
| Christopher DeBritt | PhD | Data Literacy and Data Culture as Predicators for Sensemaking and Pedagogical Action | |||
| Christopher Morrissey | PhD | Decoding the Impact of School-Based Clinics on Preservice Teachers: Professional Experience in the Context of a School-University partnership | |||
| Craig Johnson | M Education (Research) | Analysing relationships between spatial reasoning and computational thinking to enhance the teaching of coding in implementing the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies in high school (Years 7-10) | |||
| Cynthia Avoada | PhD | Bridging Curriculum with rural students’ lifeworld: Using Place-based pedagogy to improve educational relevance to meet rural needs, through a case of the implementation of Ghana's Basic School Curriculum. | cynthia.avoada@canberra.edu.au | Centre for Sustainable Communities | |
| Dylan Hunt | PhD | Utilising Appreciative Inquiry to Highlight Stakeholder Perspectives in Relationships and Sexuality Education | dylan.hunt@canberra.edu.au | Health and Physical Education | |
| Ellie Bowe | M Education (Research) | Evaluation of Graduate Certificate: Country as Teacher | ellie.bowe@canberra.edu.au | Centre for Sustainable Communities | 0009-0006-8942-867X |
| Emily Ashcroft | PhD | Teachers' perceptions of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) within Early Years Contexts | |||
| Emily Regan | M Education (Research) | The adolescent perspective of positive risk taking. | emily.regan@canberra.edu.au | ||
| Finlay McCall | PhD | Developing a curriculum design model for human-AI teams: a case study in curriculum co-design for future human-AI swarm shepherding teams. | finlay.mccall@canberra.edu.au | Human-AI teaming; curriculum design | 0000-0003-1397-1212 |
| Francesco DeSimone | Prof Doc Education | How do mainstream primary school teachers demonstrate their mathematical knowledge for teaching when instructing EAL/D students to decode mathematical word problems? | Mathematics teaching; EAL/D | ||
| Gauri Sharma | PhD | Intentionally teaching to support executive functioning skills: A framework for supporting student agency at preschool | |||
| Genevieve Tan | PhD | Evaluating Australian Speech Pathologists: perception and knowledge of self-regulation and its role in therapeutic interventions | |||
| Gere Altangerel | PhD | I would like to study "relations between culture and students` self-regulated learning (SRL) in the Mongolian public secondary school context." SRL is defined as one`s self-generated thoughts, feelings, cognitive, metacognitive, and behavioral actions for attaining educational goals (Zimmerman, 2000, 2004). | Centre for Sustainable Communities | ||
| Hannah Worsley | M Education (Research) | "I Want To Be..." A case study of place-based aspirations outreach in Snowy Monaro primary schools, NSW | |||
| Helen Nolan | PhD | Data-driven learning - using corpus linguistics in the classroom to aid student language learning with a focus on grammar and vocabulary teaching and learning. | helen.nolan@canberra.edu.au | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages - TESOL/EALD | 0009-0007-7848-6249 |
| Ida Isandespha | PhD | Online Spatial Reasoning Teacher Professional Development in North Maluku Indonesia | Ida.Isandespha@canberra.edu.au | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | |
| Imad Alsmadi | PhD | English on Social Networking Sites in Jordan among EFL Learners: A mixed method study of usage and attitudes | imad.alsmadi@canberra.edu.au | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL); English language learning; social media | |
| Jessica Halupka | PhD | Investigating the implementation of Belonging, Being, Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia from a multi-stakeholder perspective | |||
| Jonathan Adams | PhD | The effect of visuospatial training on students' mathematical achievement in an Australian high school | |||
| Jordan Harrison | M Education (Research) | Implementing a once a week Country as Teacher Pedagogy in an ACT primary school | jordan.harrison@canberra.edu.au | Centre for Sustainable Communities | |
| Julia Davies-Duff | PhD | Exploring the perceptions of education, allied health and health professionals on cognitive lingustic factors as part of universal screening on entry to secondary school. | julia.davies-duff@canberra.edu.au | Education and health, prevention, intervention, equitable and sustainable educational development, and evidence-aligned processes | 0009-0009-6823-7067 |
| Kamirsyah Wahyu | PhD | Spatial processing of fractions to develop students' fractional knowledge | kamirsyah.wahyu@canberra.edu.au | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | 0000-0002-5523-6999 |
| Katie Wilson | PhD | To explore the use and impact of technology tools in initial teacher education (ITE) degrees globally | Katie.Wilson@canberra.edu.au | 0009-0009-4115-6574 | |
| Katy Meeuwissen | M Education (Research) | Teacher conceptualisations of Play and Play-based Learning in Australian primary schools | katy.meeuwissen@canberra.edu.au | 0009-0002-8539-3730 | |
| Kerry Woodward | PhD | Growing vegetables with care | kerry.woodward@canberra.edu.au | Centre for Sustainable Communities | 0000-0001-8187-7151 |
| Kira Dowling | PhD | Using self-transcription to
visualise spoken language: perspectives of non-tertiary adult ESL teachers and learners | Kira.Dowling@canberra.edu.au | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)/Applied Linguistics. Centre for Sustainable Communities | |
| Kithmini Aviruppola | PhD | Blurred lines of the right to education: Investigating strategies to remove barriers and enhance equity in university education: A case study | Kithmini.Aviruppola@canberra.edu.au | Educational equity; higher education | |
| Kristofer Feodoroff | PhD | A Study on BSSS curriculum and equity of educational opportunity. | Centre for Sustainable Communities | ||
| Larissa Mullen | PhD | To be feared or revered? A study of the impact of using Generative Artificial Intelligence on high school students' learning outcomes and engagement. | |||
| Liljana Petkovska | PhD | Quantum culture: Australian identity and belonging through an expatriate community, New Delhi 2010 | |||
| Lucy Bennett | PhD | The research aims to closely explore women in STEM, with a particular focus on girls' education, identifying the enablers and barriers to girls with reference to STEM engagement, participation, and achievement. The need to develop a greater capacity to teach STEM in diverse contexts will be explored. | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | ||
| Lynne Pilbrow | PhD | My research topic is Music Education, and investigating whether there is a link between the success of award-winning Australian song-writers and their formative music education, both formal and informal. The information gathered would inform future best practice in music education in Australian early childhood and primary school settings. | |||
| Matt Bacon | PhD | Exploring the relationship between drawing, problem-solving and spatial reasoning in primary-aged children. | matt.bacon@canberra.edu.au | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | 0000-0002-5398-9735 |
| Matthew Brown | PhD | How do contextual factors influence the relationship between principals’ emotions and decision making? | matthew.brown@canberra.edu.au | Education Leadership | 0009-0009-5304-6022 |
| Meagan Pearse | PhD | The Impact of Teacher Sex and Gender stereotypes on Music Education for Adolescent Males | |||
| Meredith Box | PhD | Developing language and values in Australian community language schools | Meredith.Box@canberra.edu.au | Applied Linguistics | 0000-0002-7713-4467 |
| Michaela Vergano | Prof Doc Education | How do teachers plan? A case study in how ACT secondary teachers in Catholic systemic schools use the Personalised Plan as a tool to make planning decisions in an inclusive classroom. | michaela.vergano@canberra.edu.au | Inclusion; inclusive Education | 0000-0002-8629-6337 |
| Monty Nixon | PhD | Country as Teacher: Reinvigorating place-based pedagogies in Outdoor and Environmental education | Centre for Sustainable Communities | ||
| Natalie Downes | PhD | Mapping Rural (Education) Fields | natalie.downes@canberra.edu.au | Centre for Sustainable Communities | 0000-0002-7127-7512 |
| Nicola Kovacs | PhD | Exploring the connection between spatial reasoning and maths anxiety - does improving spatial reasoning skills help alleviate maths anxiety in school students? | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | ||
| Onawe Siakimotu | PhD | Enhancing teacher capacity (in using IT as a tool) to personalise the learning within an integrated STEM approach. | ona.siakimotu@canberra.act.edu.au | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | |
| Paul Mills | PhD | Successes and failures in education policy reform, Australia, 1970 to 2025 | |||
| Puji Rahayu | PhD | Exploring the use of PICRAT model for developing EFL preservice teachers’ skills in integrating technology in the EFL context | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL); English as a second/foreign language | ||
| Sally Rule | PhD | The PLC Imperative: navigating the dynamics of system-wide, system-led PLC implementation. | sally.rule@canberra.edu.au | Professional Learning communities | |
| Susilahudin Putrawangsa | PhD | Exploring the Role of Spatial Analogy and Embodiment in Promoting Mathematical Abstraction: A Focus on Teaching on Multiplication | putra.putrawangsa@canberra.edu.au putrawangsa@uinmataram.ac.id | STEM Education Research Centre (SERC) | 0000-0002-5225-4104 |
| Thomas Stonestreet | PhD | Perspectives on school choice policies in regional, rural, and remote NSW communities |
Former Students
| Student Name | Degree | Thesis Title | Research Centre/Discipline | ORCID-ID | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jocelyn Perry | PhD | Understanding Capacity Development Theory in Practice: Perspectives of Thai Practitioners Addressing Violence Against Women in Thailand. | |||
| Ugyen Tshering | PhD | Teaching Critical Reading in Bhutanese Middle Secondary Schools: An Integrated Approach | ugyen.tshering@canberra.edu.au | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) | 0009-0003-8791-5798 |