Postgraduate research

Postgraduate research

Academic research groups

The Faculty has established itself as one of the most productive and exciting centres for learning and research in a range of areas associated with adult and teacher education. It has the largest number of academic staff in any English-speaking university concerned with the education and training of adults. Adult and vocational learning has been identified as one of the first Key University Research strengths.

The Australian Centre for Organisational, Vocational and Adult Learning (OVAL) Research is a Key University Research Centre undertaking collaborative research, development projects and consultancies focusing on productive learning at work.

The Changing Knowledges/Changing Identities Research Group (CKCI) comprises people within the Faculty who have an interest in researching effective responses to educational change. This interest encompasses both the process and product of educational change and involves empowering educational practitioners with an understanding of the change process so that they can promote change, and assisting them to respond appropriately to trends and initiatives for change.

The research group Teacher Learning and Development (TLD) comprises people within the Faculty with research reputations in the area of teachers' learning and teachers' work. The focus of the group is to investigate the factors that facilitate and constrain best teaching practice and to develop strategies for supporting teachers in their quest for quality teaching and learning.

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Staff research interests and expertise

A full list of staff research interests and expertise is available online at: