Blog post on one of our recent papers led by A/Prof Kate Simpson: Time for Change: Measuring Quality of Life and Well-Being in Autism: #autismresearch autismresearchtalk.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/tim…

GIER were honoured to host Professor Dwayne Donald this week for a seminar on Unlearning colonialism and renewing kinship relations.

Dwayne is a descendant of the amiskwaciwiyiniwak (Beaver Hills Cree) and works as a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta Faculty of Education…

My PhD student Emma is looking at how psychologists and other relevant mental professionals diagnose or provide supports for depression with autistic clients. If this is you we'd really value your help. Learn more:
autismdepression.com

Hear our stellar research fellow Dr Ana Borges Jelinic present her work on women, partner migration, waiting times and domestic violence Melbourne Social Equity Institute

youtu.be/t5vjfzL7LVU (4:00 - 25:17)

Today, on World Autism Day, the first draft of the Australian National Autism Strategy is now available for public consultation from today (April 2nd) until May 31st. Read and have your say here: engage.dss.gov.au/developing-the…
#AutismAcceptanceMonth

New Publication Alert 📢

GIER member Prof.Peter J. Anderson, PhD, SFHEA, MAIATSIS, FQA and colleagues have just published an important article Patterns of Educational Performance among Indigenous Students in Australia, 2010–2019: Within-cohort, peer matching analysis for…

Survey invitation-have your say on the current most pressing issues in gifted education in Australia, further info & survey link: griffithuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4H… #gifted #gifted education #australia #griffithuni #gifted ness #2e #Researchproject

Curriculum work and hermeneutics: A new paradigm for contemporary education? GIER Deputy Director Steven Hodge discusses the often controversial work of Teachers curriculum work.
As mentioned by Steven, Curriculum itself needs to be understood as a shared, dynamic…

GIER were honoured to welcome Professor Catherine Compton-Lilly from University of South Carolina to present at two events. The first session attended by over 100 people heard Catherine discuss Decades of Reading Research: What We Truly Know? followed by an intimate round table discussion with…

‘Definitions are often very western. This excludes us.’ Our research shows how to boost Indigenous participation in STEM

Important piece of research from GIER members Ren Perkins and his colleagues from UQ News. Always great to see our members contributing with such…

‘Inequality serves no-one’: Australia finally has a strategy to achieve gender equality - but is it any good?
#WorkingforWomen #GenderEquality
Katy Gallagher The Office for Women Law Futures Centre Griffith Climate Action
theconversation.com/inequality-ser… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

For VET observers a striking feature of the Accord document is the prevalence the language of ‘skills’ throughout. For those who research VET skills talk is so common it is no longer noticed, so to see it assume such importance in this context is interesting.

Read insights from…

Our research fellow Dr Ana Borges Jelinic will speak at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute Gender and Migration Symposium on “In the middle… waiting for a future” – time and waiting in partner migration and family violence in Australia.'

🗓️15 March 2024, 2 - 4:30pm AEDT

socialequity.unimelb.edu.au/news/events/ge…

GIER are excited to host Professor @Catherine Compton-Lilly, John C. Hungerpiller Professor at the University of South Carolina to present a seminar on Decades of Reading Research: What Do We Truly Know?

As a professor in the College of Education, Catherine teaches courses in literacy studies,…

GIER & Autism Centre of Excellence members A/Professor Kate Simpson and Prof. Dawn Adams are in Mackay delivering a workshop to parents, teachers and teacher assistants on mental health, wellbeing and connections in schools.

Always great to see our members working with the community…

On Saturday 10th February, Dr Candace Kruger Candace Kruger was invited to give the opening Welcome to Country for The 13th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (@AACTA) Awards, held at the #HOTA , Home of the Arts on the Gold Coast.

Candace shared the stage with many…

Hear from some of the amazing #HDR students in GIER. We are fortunate to have an exceptional, diverse range of students #researching topics that impact directly on the quality and dignity of peoples' lives.

Keep this playlist in your favourites as we continue to update it…

Congratulations to GIER HDR member Dr Carla Tapia Parada on being awarded the AILASA 2023 Award for Best PhD Thesis for her thesis 'Public Activism and Pedagogical Work: Teachers' Struggles for Educational Justice in Chile'.
Griffith University #HDR #Thesis #research

New article just released to keep decolonising approaches to #HPE #PE #physicaleducation on the radar - …line-com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/doi/full/10.10… GIER Taylor & Francis Research Insights Routledge Sport, Leisure, and Tourism T&F Education Research

I'm excited to share my latest open access article in The Curriculum Journal: 'Curriculum in special school contexts: A collaged framework for personalised, individual student learning'. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cu… #disability #specialeducation @GIER #Griffith #schools #education