Meet Professor Sarojni Choy

Professor Sarojni Choy is dedicated to the lifelong learning practices and professional development of adults through innovative workplace learning strategies. Read More

Meet Dr Michelle Ronksley-Pavia

Dr Michelle Ronksley-Pavia is an inspiring researcher working to raise awareness and standards of gifted and talented children and their education in Australia and across the world.   Read More

New publication on the strategic use of languages to raise children bilingually

Areej Yousef is a Higher Degree Research candidate and research assistant with GIER, in the area of bilingualism and bilingual education, settlement, belonging and identity construction among migrants and refugees.    Recently, she has had her second article from her Master of Education and Professional Studies published.  Read More

Meet Professor Peter Grootenboer

Professor Peter Grootenboer came to academia after experience with middle school leadership at a young age. His lived experiences inspired his research in understanding practices to inform and improve teaching, learning and leading.     Read More

Meet Professor Stephen Billett

Professor Stephen Billett is a long-term distinguished member and mentor for many researchers within GIER. Stephen's life work has been founded upon ideas about learning and knowledge acquired through practice and what constitutes an educative experience.   Read More

Creating Futures Summit 2022: Conversations that Matter 

The 2022 Creating Futures summit, the 7th in the series, was a bold foray into the future of education and teacher education, in a post-pandemic world.  This year's theme provoked educators to move away from the conservative and pervasive narrative of “back to normal.”   Read More

Doing School Differently Podcast

‘Doing School Differently’ 2022 is the pre-eminent Australian conference for all those committed to developing and sustaining alternative educational opportunities and pathways for young people experiencing barriers to education. The work showcased at this year's conference is very relevant to the ARC Linkage project currently underway, “Who teaches in flexible and non-traditional schools in Australia?”  Read More

Gifted and Talented Education Symposium

Dr Michelle Ronksley-Pavia convened and led the 2022 Griffith University Gifted and Talented Education Symposium, with this year’s theme of “Diversity and Gifted Education” aimed at building educators’ capacity in recognising and supporting the needs of diverse gifted students.   Read More

Mundane Moments Matter

A new cross-cultural project has found that “mundane moments matter” when it comes to wellbeing. The ways in which "the mundane matters" have emerged from a pilot study exploring wellbeing and identity involving researchers from Griffith, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the University of Queensland (UQ) and students from HKU and UQ. Read More

EDJEE Research

EDJEE is a collaborative project comprising a number of researchers within GIER, co-facilitated by Dr Sue Whatman and Professor Parlo Singh. EDJEE researches the impacts of socio-economic circumstances, mental and emotional upheaval and discrimination on the grounds of race, ethnicity, migration status, gender and age on students' experiences of education.   Read More

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