Congratulations, and 2024 Faculty Research Development Grant outcomes

Dr Sophie Rudolph won the 2023 Springer Best Reviewer Award for Australian Educational Researcher, as recently announced at AARE. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition for your contributions to the peer-review process, Sophie.

MERI is also pleased to announce that the following proposals have been successful in receiving funding as part of the Faculty’s 2024 Research Development Funding:

  • Amelia Church and team, Learning in Intergenerational Programs
  • Anneliese Gill and team, Co-designing a Wellbeing Informed Performance Skills Inventory to Personalise Wellbeing Education and Enhance Performance and Wellbeing.
  • Claudia Munoz and team, Understanding First-Year Students’ Expectations and Engagement in the Post-Covid University
  • Daniel Loton and team, A Quest for Social Success: Charting a path to optimise social inclusion and wellbeing through large scale multiplayer gaming
  • David Gurr and team, Understanding the Career Progression of Assistant Principals in Australian Schools
  • Gavin Slemp, A Cross-Disciplinary Meta-Analysis on the Effectiveness of Interventions to Support Basic Psychologogical Needs
  • Georgia Dawson and team, Student Voice in Evidence: a Systematic Review of Student Feedback in School Based Mental Health Interventions
  • Hyejeong and team, Redefining Phonic Instruction: Exploring Teacher Attitudes Towards a Variety of Englishes in Australian Classrooms
  • Jessica Gannaway and team, Building Capacities for Discomfort in First Nations in Education
  • Julia Hill and team, Conceptualising Mathematics Teacher Wellbeing: A Strength Based Initiative to Support Thriving Teachers and Excellent Mathematics Education for All
  • Marian Mahat and team, Developing Teachers’ Spatial Competency: Rethinking Approaches to PLD to Enhance Teachers’ Professionalism in Australia
  • Matt Harrison and team, Evaluating the Impact of a Neuroinclusive Social Capacity Building Program
  • Pamela Robertson and team, Identifying Best Practice use of NAPLAN Data by Policymakers

We commend all the applicants for their high-quality proposals and their contribution to the Faculty’s research excellence. We acknowledge the hard work and dedication involved in this process, and we encourage those who were not successful this time to apply again in the future.