Congratulations FoE Researchers and GRs!

Join us in celebrating the amazing research achievements in FoE.

Dr Penny Levickis and Dr Colin Bannard (University of Manchester) were successful for the Manchester-Melbourne Call for Jointly Awarded/Dual PhD Projects.

Dr Jo Mosen was awarded full support for MDAP Collaboration for her project “Science of Learning and Mother Tongue Instruction Strengthening Foundational Literacy”.

Dr Donnie Adams “Leadership for Inclusion Toolkit” and Dr Hugh Gundlach “Whose Literature? Text Selection in the Australian English Literature Curriculum” were successful for MDAP Consultation support.

Dr Eric Fu was part of a successful team receiving funding from the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies (CCCS) at The Asian Institute:

“Mapping the Chinese migrant media ecosystem and its role in configuring the civic and political participation among Chinese Australian”

“Multicultural effectiveness among Chinese international students in the Australian HE context”.

Dr Catherine Hamm and her colleague from OISE (University of Toronto) successfully received 2025 INEI funding for their project “Elders as Teachers of Environmental Knowledge: Centering Climate Justice within Land and Country Education”.

Graduate Researcher Al Giles-Kaye was awarded Thesis to Publication funding for her journal article “How to measure domains that influence teacher readiness for change? A scope review of existing instruments in non-tertiary settings”

Graduate Researcher Kate Scott was awarded Thesis to Publication funding for her journal article “How to measure domains that influence teacher readiness for change? A scope review of existing instruments in non-tertiary settings”

Also many thanks to Professor Russell Cross who has been a great Associate Dean Research for the last 3 years and welcome to Professor Kate Reynolds in 2025 as the new Associate Dean Research!