From the Head of School, Education – March update | Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education

Senior Lecturer – English, Languages and Literacies (Department of Curriculum)
- Dr Nathan Lowien – 29 January 2025
Associate Professor – Inclusive Education (Department of Leadership, Pedagogy, Diversity & Inclusive Education)
- Associate Professor Inga Brasche – 10 February 2025
Lecturer – Contextual Education, (Department of Leadership, Pedagogy, Diversity & Inclusive Education)
- Katy Walsh – 11 February 2025
Lecturer – Early Childhood Education (Department of Early Childhood Education)
- Dr YooMi Byun – 19 February 2025
Lecturer – Leadership and Pedagogy, (Department of Leadership, Pedagogy, Diversity & Inclusive Education)
- Katie Stanely – 10 March 2025

Professional Staff

Tara Kitchener – Team Leader – Office for Professional Learning
Nick Allingham – Placement & Data Management Officer – Office for Professional Learning
Vanita Boopalan – Placement & Data Management Admin Assistant – Office for Professional Learning

SEC committee – Chair, Dr Cat Johnston, Deputy Chair, Dr Kristy O’Neill, Course Coordinators: Dr Nadya Rizk, Associate Professor Zuocheng Zhang, Associate Professor Helen Harper, Associate Professor Jo Bird, Dr Alicia Phillips, Dr Marg Rogers, Dr Fran Quinn
GTP Coordinator – Ms Sarah Oluk
LANTITE Coordinator – Dr Nathan Lowien
Academic Integrity Assistants – Associate Professor Leonardo Veliz and Dr Angel Mok

Heads of Departments – Associate Professor Leonardo Veliz (Curriculum), Associate Professor Donna Hewitt (Early Childhood)
SEC committee – Chair, Dr Josh Matthews, CCs – Dr Casey Mainsbridge, Dr Genevieve Thraves, Dr Theodosia Prodromou, Dr Lynn Everett, Associate Professor Bing Ngu
GTP Coordinator – Dr Sally Larsen
LANTITE Coordinator – Mr Andrew Simpson

Ms Seonia Wark – EDME145-0: Primary Mathematics 1: Numeracy (External)
Dr Peter Fletcher – EDSE353: STEM Education in the Middle Years (External)
Dr Yoo Mi Byun – EDEC308: Plurilingual Pedagogies and Dialogic Reading (External)
Dr Lachlan Hart – EDIT426: Introduction to Learning with Technology (External)
Ms Jane Boyle – EDLT500: Planning for Effective Learning (External)

Professor Caroline Cohrssen, ACER Technical Experts Group for the Preschool Outcomes Measure
Associate Professor Rachael Adlington and Dr Stoo Sepp – Best practice in screen use for education: Empowering students, teachers and school communities for digital learning – $426,943 – NSW Department of Education
Associate Professor Ingrid Harrington, Dr Rob Whannell, Mr Tim Bartlett-Taylor, Mr Stephen Grono, Dr Kristy O’Neill, Dr Cat Volpe Johnston, Associate Professor Rachael Adlington, and Mr Marc Mellors, for their work on the Commencing Student Success Program (the foundation to UNE Uplift), receiving an AAUT (Australian Awards for University Teaching) ‘2024 Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning’

Thank you to all those people who attended our December 2024 Graduation: Associate Professor Anna du Plessis, Dr Sally Larsen, Dr Mutuota Kigotho, Dr Jo Bird, Dr Angel Mok, Associate Professor
Associate Professor Anna du Plessis, Dr Sally Larsen, Dr Mutuota Kigotho, Dr Jo Bird, Dr Angel Mok, Associate Professor Mitch Parkes, Dr Gen Noone, Professor Sue Gregory at the December 2024 Graduation

Mitch Parkes, Dr Gen Noone, Professor Sue Gregory
Members of the school who attended the AARE (Australian Associate for Research in Education) Conference at Macquarie University in December 2024: Ms Sarah Oluk, Professor Jennifer Charteris, Dr Adele Nye, Dr Sally Larsen, Dr Casey Mainsbridge
Tribal Warriors – thank you to Ms Sarah Oluk who represented the School of Education on the Tribal Warriors harbour cruise
School of Education Christmas morning tea
Agricultural Teachers Conference, represented by Dr Fran Quinn, Mr Martin Levins and Dr Barb Bannister (currently seconded to NESA)

Representing SoE at Taree O’Week Associate Professor Adele Nye
SoE Staff at Armidale O’Week
- In particular, Dr Kristy O’Neill having a voice to answer questions from the audience
Dr Sally Larsen and Emeritus Professor Brian Byrne, Skeptics in the Pub
International Women’s Day, SoE representative, Dr Somayeh Ba Akhlagh

Ms Sarah Oluk, Professor Jennifer Charteris, Dr Adele Nye, Dr Sally Larsen, Dr Casey Mainsbridge at the AARE Conference

Ms Sarah Oluk who represented the School of Education on the Tribal Warriors harbour cruise

Watch this space for various events/activities that the School of Education will support and attend (coming soon is a luncheon with our on campus and local area students)

School of Education Research Seminar

Somayeh Ba Akhlagh, Marianne Knaus, Nouf Mohammed Albadi: The impact of professional development on Early childhood teachers’ perceptions of gender equity in STEM Education: An Australian–Saudi joint initiative
Brett Milliner: How many words must English learners know to comprehend family-genre film and television?
Marg Rogers, Haoran Zhen, Einar Thorsteinsson: Creating, building, sustaining and maintaining national and international interdisciplinary research collaborations and partnerships
Genevieve Thraves: A parent’s journey: One mother’s experience of Australia’s ‘inclusive’ education system
View SoE Seminar presentations: https://www.une.edu.au/about-une/faculty-of-humanities-arts-social-sciences-and-education/school-of-education/research/seminar-series

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