At Griffith Institute for Educational Research (GIER), we have one of the largest concentrations of university-based education researchers in the country. Our researchers work are an interdisciplinary coalition working to ensure that the benefits which can flow from any form of education and learning are genuinely accessible to all people in all contexts. Our focus is on the pursuit of educational and social justice, and we invest in research and research activities that generate new knowledge about diverse learners and diverse contexts. Our Blog provides introductions to our outstanding team of researchers, and our original, impactful research.
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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
Meet Dr Danielle H Heinrichs
Dr. Danielle H. Heinrichs is passionate about improving language education and would love to see the way we teach languages evolve in order to support multilingualism in Australian society. Read More
Meet Associate Professor Sarah Prestridge
Associate Professor Sarah Jane Prestridge is a digital technologies expert and is passionate about the learning potential and student development opportunities that digital educational technologies afford. Sarah has been named the top scholar in Australia in teacher and teacher education, for both 2020 and 2021, recognising her breadth and depth of high-quality research publications. 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
Meet Associate Professor Jennifer Cartmel
Associate Professor Jennifer Cartmel works in a niche area, being one of the only full time academics in Australia undertaking research in outside school hours care services (OSHC), alongside her colleague Bruce Hurst. Read More
Meet Dr Natalie Lazaroo
Dr Natalie Lazaroo fuses her passion and interest for physical theatre and the performing arts with research in the educative and transformational role of community collaborations in this space. She is passionate about changing the narratives around inclusion and belonging for young people especially those in social housing. Read More
Meet Dr Leah Le
Dr Leah Le has had a lifelong interest in teaching and she has risen to meet the challenge of being a university teacher and scholar, in not one, but two, countries, after relocating from Vietnam nearly a decade ago. Read More
