Welcome to the following new staff members in the School of Education

• Team Leader, Gina MacKenzie, OPL- 2 June 2025
• Aboriginal Education (Leadership, Pedagogy, Diversity & Inclusive Education)
  • Associate Professor Aunty Cynthia Briggs- 30 June 2025

Currently advertising the following positions:

• Level B/C, Pedagogy, Leadership, Pedagogy, Diversity & Inclusive Education
• Level B, Early Childhood Education 

Farewell

• Dr Angel Mok, 7 July 2025- We wish Angel well with her new opportunities

School of Education Research Presentation days

Researchers in the School of Education presented their current research on Tuesday 17 and Thursday 18 June. All academics presented their research via 7 minutes and it was excellent to observe and engage in everyone’s research.

Congratulations – AAUT Awards

A/Prof Ingrid Harrington, Dr Kristy O’Neill and Dr Cat Johnston were presented with their AAUT Award in North Syndey (on behalf of their team of Ingrid, Kristy, Cat, Rob Whannell, im Bartlett-Taylor, Marc Mellors, Rachael Adlington and Steve Grono). This is the 10^th award that this team has received – internally, state and nationally – a very impressive achievement.

Out and About in the School of Education 

Strength Cards – week beginning 19 May 2025 – Results (385 cards were given out to all people, 71% were anonymous and 38% contained a message) 😊. Our Top 10 Strengths, in this order are: Spirituality, Leadership, Teamwork, Gratitude, Kindness, Perspective, Perseverance, Social Intelligence, Humour, and Fairness.

Early Childhood Conference – Friday 13 June – very successful with over 100 participants. Congratulations to Caroline Cohrssen, Leanne Lockrey, Sally Larsen and the EC team for another great event

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other 

• ASCILITE – free membership for all in the university, please complete this form – join a SIG, social media, monthly newsletters, webinars, research schools, CMALT, TELAS, AJET, mentoring – community and women in academic leadership, grants, awards, bursaries, peer-assisted learning and AJET. Research School – held at Torrens University, Brisbane campus in September – if interested, please reach out.