Graduate Students
Members of EESI supervise more than 70 graduate students, providing a rich and vibrant community for research students.
There are opportunities for graduate students to work with major research projects, to join study circles and reading groups, and to participate in a regular seminar and research workshop program.
Education, Equity and Social Identities hosts a series of regular seminars, inviting leading national and international scholars to present their work and meet with students and staff.
Within the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, there is strong administrative and research support for graduate students, with a program of Graduate Research conferences and workshops that allow you to link up with graduate students from across the School. Some financial assistance is also available to students to support participation in conferences, assist with the costs of fieldwork and other research expenses.
In addition, the School of Graduate Research at the University of Melbourne offers a program of student seminars and workshops, including academic and research skills and interdisciplinary seminars.
A sample of current graduate student projects
- Community cultural development with Horn of Africa immigrants
- Transformative arts in Footscray
- Engaging Indigenous students in further education
- The role of empathy in historical understanding: Perspectives and practices of academic and school historians
- Teacher professional learning and teaching standards: A case study of the development and use of standards for Australian school geography teachers
- The Fourth R: Why human rights education must be a national imperative
- Philosophical Progress in Philosophy for Children
- Stories from within: Professional Learning Communities and the social processes that lead to change
- An ethnographic study of how ideology impacts upon identity in teaching and learning
- Young homeless women and the role of intimate relationships in their survival
- Rural education and the idea of social justice
Young people, careers and transitions - Global routes/rural roots: identity, rural women and higher education.
An ethnographic study of an institution negotiating education and health contexts - Indigenous Perspectives in the Early Childhood Curriculum
- Cultural change in the everyday of early childhood centres
- Improving student welfare through holistic culture change
- New teachers, professional knowledge and educational reform In New Zealand
- Educating culturally diverse teachers for culturally diverse education