End of year congratulations to our MGSE Researchers

As the year wraps up, a big congratulations to a number of our MGSE Researchers for their accomplishments across November and December.

• Professor Chi Baik and Dr Tracii Ryan, Associate Professor Glenn Savage, and Professor Kate Reynolds for securing Australian Research Council Discovery Grants. Their respective projects—Improving the mental health of young adults in Australia’s universities, Rethinking collaborative federalism in Australian schooling policy, and Beyond directional motivated reasoning: Social Identity and Partisan Truth—will generate an array of new knowledge to advance the discipline in exciting ways, and we wish them every success as they embark on this significant work.
• Dr Sarah Truman’s new book, ‘Feminist Speculations and the Practice of Research-Creation’ (Routledge), was launched with an interactive seminar in Studio 5. The event included small group activities and discussions animated by thought experiments explored in the book, providing an opportunity for collaborative thinking about the future of interdisciplinary scholarship among those who attended, and deliberation on the implications this raises for the ethics and politics of qualitative research in education.
• Tim Bush for being selected as the International Network of Educational Institutes (INEI) nominee to attend the 2023 Peace Education & Lesson Study for Teacher Education (PELSTE) Symposium, hosted by Educational Vision Research Institute (EVRI) at INEI parter, Hiroshima University. The 2023 symposium will focus on the question: “Can we universalize localized peace education?”
• Rachel Colla for being awarded a 2023 Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP) Collaboration Grant, to pursue the project, Stories of Hope: A participatory narrative inquiry into the emergence of hope.
• Dr Shu Ohki, Dr Mahtab Janfada, Graduate Researcher Yuqi Lin, and Graduate Researcher Scott Cameron and all of their respective teams for being awarded 2022/23 Research Development Unit Research Initiative Grants. These team projects all focus on building our Graduate and Early Career Research capabilities and it is fantastic to see these bottom-up initiatives being led by GR/ECRs, for GR/ECRs—congratulations on these successful proposals.