Funded Research

Graduate School of Education researchers have enjoyed considerable success in winning external funding to support their work. Current projects are supported by grants from the Australian Research Council and from government, cultural, industry and community organisations.

• Australian Research Council (ARC) Grants
• Other National Competitive Grants
• Other Public Sector Competitive and Non-competitive Research Funding
• Industry Based Funding
• Graduate School of Education Competitive Grants, 2006 and 2007
• University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grants 2008
• University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grants 2007
• University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grants 2006

ARC Grants

ARC success for funding commencing in 2008:

• Professor Kaye Stacey, Dr Helen Chick, Dr Vicki Steinle – Supporting personalised learning in secondary schools through the use of specific mathematics assessments that reveal thinking

• Dr Ani Wierenga, Professor Johanna Wyn, Dr Jose Guevara and Professor Annette Gough (RMIT University), Ms Sarah Dyer (Plan International Australia) – Youth-led learning: local connections and global citizenship


• Professor David Clarke, Professor Russell Tytler (Deakin University)– An investigation of causal relations between complex classroom practices and science learning using high capacity new research technologies and multiple theory-testing
  


• Dr Lyndal Bond (Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences), Associate Professor Erica Frydenberg and Ms Nola Firth – Success despite learning difficulties: The effectiveness of a coping program for adolescent students
• Professor Simon Marginson – University position-taking strategies in the global environment: a cross-country study of the Asia-Pacific region
  
  
• Professor Simon Marginson, Professor Mark Considine (Faculty of Arts) – Boundary making and strategy making in knowledge-forming organisations
  
  
• Professor David Clarke; Professor Christine Keitel‑Kreidt (Berlin); Associate Professor Yoshinori Shimizu (Tsukuba); Professor Ference Marton (Göteborg); Dr Jonas Emanuelsson ( Göteborg); Associate Professor Fritjof Sahlström (Uppsala); Professor Frederick Leung (Hong Kong); Associate Professor Rongjin Huang I (Macau); Professor Zhongdan Huan (Beijing); Professor Jarmila Novotna (Prague); Dr Berinderjeet Kaur (Singapore); Associate Professor Kyungmee Park (Korea); Dr Floranda Gallos (Philippines) – International Classroom Research Collaboration
  
  

ARC success for funding commencing in 2007:

• Professor John O'Toole, Assoc. Prof. Angela O'Brien, Dr Kate Donelan and Dr Christine Sinclair, Professor Bruce Burton and Asoc. Prof. Penelope Bundy (Griffith University); Assoc. Prof. Robyn Ewing, Dr Michel Anderson and Dr John Hughes (University fo Sydney) - Accessing the cultural conversation: investigating participation and non-participation of young people as audiences of live theatrical performances in Australia
  
  
• Dr Tony Jones; Associate Professor Anne McDougall; Mrs Margaret Robertson (Royal Children's Hospital Education Institute) - An Investigation into Strategies for using Information and Communication Technologies to Address Educational Disadvantage Resulting from Prolonged School Absence
• Professor Glenda MacNaughton; Professor Eleanor Wertheim; Ms Liz Freeman - Creating culturally respectful primary schools: Enhancing relationships through strategic professional learning


• Dr Dianne Mulcahy; Dr Jeana Kriewaldt; Professor David Clarke; Mr John Hutchinson (Australian Geography Teachers Association); Ms Anne Dempster (Geography Teachers’ Association of Victoria); Ms Frances Cosgrove (Victorian Institute of Teaching)  - Strengthening standards of teaching through linking standards and teacher learning: The development of professional standards for teaching school geography
  


• Associate Professor John Polesel; Professor Jack Keating; Professor Richard Teese - Vocational Education and Training in Schools: Cultural Resistance and the Academic Tradition
  
  
• Professor Kaye Stacey - The Shallow Teaching Syndrome in School Mathematics ­ towards practical ways that will engage students more deeply
  
  
• Professor Lyn Yates - School knowledge, working knowledge and the knowing subject: a review of state curriculum policies 1975-1005
  
  
• Professor Patrick Griffin, Professor Ray Adams, Dr Charles Parsons, Mr J J Allman, Mr I J Claridge, Ms K Underwood - Profiling developmental standards of learning for students with intellectual disabilities
  
  
• Professor John O'Toole, Dr Neryl Jeanneret - Mapping and augmenting engagement, learning and cultural belonging for children undertaking ArtPlay workshops
  
  
• *Professor Jeff Richardson, (Monash University); Dr R Borland; Professor RA Cummins; Professor HE Herrman; Associate Professor Ros Hurworth; Professor BA Swinburn; Associate Professor ET Vos - Developing methods for benefit measurement in health-related economic analyses and their use in selecting public health promotional programs *administered by Monash University
  
  
• * Professor Alan Reid (UniSA); Associate Professor NC Cranston; Professor Jack Keating; Professor WR Mulford - Education Investment in Australian Schooling : Serving Public Purposes * administered by the University of South Australia

ARC success for funding commencing in 2006:

• Dr Erica Frydenberg, Liz Freeman, Dr Esther Care, Ms M Tobin (Catholic Education Office) and Mrs B Begg (Catholic Education Office) - Enhancing Wellbeing and Learning in Middle Years Classrooms
  
  
• Associate Professor Glenda MacNaughton and Dr Patrick Hughes - Staff Parent Relations in Culturally Diverse Early Education Settings
  
  
• Professor Lyn Yates; Dr Julianne Moss; Dr Julie White; Dr Trevor Hay; Dr Peter Ferguson; Dr Mary Dixon; Dr L Bond; Dr SE Drew; Dr Pam St Leger -  A multi‑disciplinary investigation of how Trauma and Chronic Illness impact on Schooling, Identity and Social Connectivity
  

• Professor Brian Caldwell, Professor WR Mulford, Dr David Gurr, Dr Lawrie Drysdale and Dr RS Swann - International comparative study of successful school leadership: Successful school leadership in Australia
• Professor Richard James, Associate Professor Gay Baldwin and Dr Kerri-Lee Krause - The influence of disciplinary cultures on approaches to undergraduate teaching and learning: extending higher education theory and practice
• Professor David Clarke and Professor F Leung - Responsibility for knowledge generation in Australian and Korean mathematics classrooms: Beyond the teacher-centred/student-centred dichotomy
• Professor Richard Selleck - The work and workings of the Masson family
• Professor Johanna Wyn and Associate Professor L Andres - Pathways then and now: new student transitions to adulthood in a comparative context
• Professor Richard Teese and Associate Professor Stephen Lamb - Academic Curriculum and School Setting : How school subjects live different lives in different schools
• Professor Patrick Griffin, Mr Andy Mak and Dr Margaret Wu - Modelling person and item parameters of computer administered problem solving strategies
• Dr Kate Donelan, Associate Professor AM O'Brien, Mr B New and Mr D Everist - Transformative arts education partnerships: a creative approach to whole school renewal
• Associate Professor Anita Harris and Professor Johanna Wyn - Youth civic participation and social connection in post-industrial society: a comparative analysis

ARC success for funding commencing in 2004:

• Professor Kaye Stacey, Dr Gloria Stillman and Dr RU Pierce (Texas Instruments Australia) - Enhancing mathematics achievement and engagement by using technology to support real problem solving and lessons of high cognitive demand
• Dr Christina Hart - Conceptual complexity and student engagement with science in secondary school
• Associate Professor Glenda MacNaughton - Preschool children's constructions of cultural and 'racial' diversity
• Dr Mary O'Brien- Young people, preventive health discourses and self care

Other National Competitive Grants

For funding commencing in 2008:

• Professor Jeff Richardson (Monash), Professor Ronald Borland (Cancer Council Victoria), Professor Robert Cummins (Deakin), Professor Helen Hurman (Medicine, Melbourne), Associate Professor Ros Hurworth – Benefit measurement for health economic evaluation and its application to priority health programs
  
  
• Associate Professor Melissa Wake (Royal Children’s Hospital), Dr Teresa Ching (National Acoustic Laboratories), Ms Lisa Gold (Deakin University), Dr Zeffie Poulakis (Royal Children’s Hospital), Professor Field Rickards and Professor Sheena Reilly (Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences) – Population outcomes and cost-effectiveness of universal newborn hearing vs risk factor screening at age 5 years

For funding commencing in 2005:

• Associate Professor Jane Maree Gunn (General Practice, The University of Melbourne), Dr Kelsey Lee Hegarty (General Practice, The University of Melbourne), Associate Professor Rosalind Hurworth, Dr Gail Primrose Gilchrist (General Practice, The University of Melbourne), Dr David Pierce (General Practice, The University of Melbourne) - Re-order/ re-organising care for depression and related disorders in the Australian primary health care setting

Other Public Sector Competitive and Non-competitive Research Funding

For funding commencing in 2006:

• Professor Kaye Stacey, Professor Peter Sullivan (Monash University), Ian Lowe (Mathematics Association of Victoria), Lynda Ball, Catherine Pearn, Dr Vicki Steinle, Dr Helen Chick, Sue Ferguson - P-10 Developmental Numeracy Continuum of growth points for the five dimensions of the Mathematics Domain of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards, with correlating explicit developmental learning and teaching strategies
  
  
• Dr Mary Dixon, Dr Julianne Moss, Kim Senior, Associate Professor Christine Ure, Dr Peter Ferguson - Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Thinking Processes, Science and ICT.
  
  
• Professor Patrick Griffin, Dr Margaret Wu, Nathan Zoanetti - Standard Setting and Examiniation Processing for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons' Basc Surgical Sciences MCQ Examination.

For funding commencing in 2005:

• Associate Professor Erica Frydenberg, Dr Mary Ainley and Dr Valerie Russell - Schooling Issues Digest: Student Motivation and Engagement
  
  
• Dr Julianne Moss, Dr Mary Dixon, Jennifer Dixon, Kim Senior, Michael Francis, Ric Carnale, Sally Godinho - Principles of Learning and Teaching P-12 (PoLT) On-line Professional Learning Resource
  
  
• Professor Marilyn Fleer ( Monash University), Professor Bridie Raban - Early Childhood Learning Resources Project
  
  
• Professor Kaye Stacey, Dr Jill Vincent, Dr Max Stephens and Dr Vicki Steinle - National Numeracy Research and Development Initiative
  
  
• Dr Kerri-Lee Krause, Robyn Hartley, Professor Richard James and Professor Craig McInnis - The First Year Experience in Australian Universities: Findings from a Decade of National Studies
  

Industry Based Funding

Graduate School of Education Competitive Grants

For funding commencing in 2007

• Dr Linda Byrnes; Associate Professor Margaret Brown; Dr Anna Bortoli - Young children’s literacy knowledge

• Professor David Clarke - Qifa Shi teaching: Confucian heuristics and mathematics teaching in Shanghai

• Dr Sally Godinho; Mr Bradley Shrimpton - Crossing the Discipline Divide: A transdisciplinary approach to curriculum design

• Dr David Gurr; Dr Lawrie Drysdale - Supporting Schools in Challenging Circumstances

• Dr Neryl Jeanneret; Mr Andrew Swainston - Musica Viva in Schools: A case study and evaluation

• Dr Kristina Love; Dr Julie Hamston; Ms Janet Scull; Dr Paul Molyneux - Preparing beginning teachers of language and literacy in the Middle Years of Schooling

• Associate Professor Kay Margetts - Outside-school-hours-care and children’s early school adjustment

• Dr Tony Jones - Investigating effects on learners and teachers of interactive whiteboard use

• Dr Kim Cuc Nguyen - Developing unbiased measures for students from different regions and socio-economic backgrounds

• Dr Kieran O’Loughlin - Benchmarking the University of Melbourne English Language Bridging Program

• Professor Field Rickards, Dr Eleanor Peeler - Exploratory study of archival educational records fundamental to writing a Biography of Lawrie Shears

• Dr Maria Remine - Mental health survey of young deaf people in Western Australia

• Ms Amanda Thomas; Ms Masa Pavlovic; Dr Esther Care - Appropriateness of cognitive ability tests for non-English speaking background students

For funding commencing in 2006

• Professor David Clarke - Video-based mediation between research and practice
• Professor Lyn Yates - An ethnographic study of one school's Year 9 curriculum reform
• Dr Julie Hamston, Dr Kristina Love and Matthew Clarke - Reflective Practice Online for Graduate Teachers in the UAE
• Dr Anna Bortoli, Associate Professor Margaret Brown and Ms Jan Deans - Predicting academic outcomes from social emotional characteristics of preschoolers
• Dr Jane Orton and Professor Joseph lo Bianco - Globalisation, Identity and English in China
• Dr Sharne Rolfe - Attachment from the perspective of the early childhood practitioner
• Dr Erica Frydenberg - An evaluation of an intervention program targeting bully/victim problems
• Associate Professor Glenda MacNaughton - Quality indicators for children's services in indigenous communities
• Dr Kieran O'Loughlin - English language preparation for postgraduate study: The case of FELC
• Mr Paul Molyneux - Language and children's constructions of national identity
• Associate Professor Anne McDougall and Dr Tony Jones - Investigating teacher professional development for using interactive whiteboards in secondary classrooms
• Dr Esther Care - Stability of student perceptions of quality of teaching in Education

University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grants 2008

• Dr Russell Cross - Literacy and teaching English outside of the mainstream.
• Dr Barbara Kameniar - Examination of an educational program for Buddhist 'nuns' in regional Thailand
• Dr Paul Molyneux - Bilingual Education: Students' Perspectives and Learning Within an Innovative Program
• Dr Maria Remine - Investigating mental health problems in young deaf people
• Dr Kylie Smith - Observation, documenting and reporting outcomes in Australian early childhood classrooms
• Dr Ani Wierenga - Making a rural village: fifteen years on

University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grants 2007

• Dr Kelly Farrell - PhD Students' Identity Development Within a Community of Practice
• Dr Christine Redman - Investigating Cognitive Modelling in Science Education Using the Interactive Whiteboard
• Dr Erlenawati Sawir - University Staff Understanding of International Students and Intercultural Teaching and Learning
• Dr Maurizio Toscano - Investigating Thought Experiments in the Science Classroom

University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grants 2006

• Dr Karina Davis - Teaching for cultural diversity in early childhood
• Dr Peter Ferguson - Comparison of student perspectives of schooling in Tasmania pre and post Essential Learnings implementation
• Dr Sherie McClam - Developing Transdisciplinary Practices: What does it mean for discipline-based academics?

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