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The Institute for Positive Psychology and Education gives researchers the space to develop multi-disciplinary, collaborative projects.
We look at the importance of compassion for promoting wellbeing as well as how can it be enhanced, particularly for overworked and tired health care workers.
Explore project
This project looks at how teachers can help students from low socioeconomic backgrounds engage with education during their early years of secondary school.
Explore project
This project adopts a positive psychology framework which incorporates Indigenous worldviews to identify characteristics of schools that help students achieve their potential.
Explore project
Our researchers are determining the best and most cost-effective ways to help 11–14-year-old students, at risk of dropping out, to re-engage with school and improve their opportunities.
Explore project
Indigenous Game Changers’ purpose is to enable Indigenous children, youth and communities to, not just succeed, but thrive.
Explore IGC Research Program
This research stream explores the factors that allow humans to flourish and to contribute to their community and society.
Explore EDP Research Program
This program focuses focused on understanding human motivation and behaviour for the promotion of human wellness.
Explore M&B Research Program
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ACU has been named as Australia’s leading research institution in educational psychology and counselling by The Australian 2026 Research magazine.
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Professor Larissa McLean Davies has been appointed Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education and Arts at Australian Catholic University.
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ACU education experts have won an Australian Research Council grant for a home reading program that will improve Indigenous literacy.
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Researchers from ACU have been awarded more than $1.3 million in the highly competitive Australian Research Council Discovery Projects scheme.
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A new study has shown established and emerging ACU educational psychologists are world leaders when it comes to producing and publishing their research.
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ACU researchers have been awarded more than $2 million in Australian Research Council grants.
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Seven new research centres will enhance ACU’s reputation in the arts, education, health, and theology and philosophy.
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Two Australian Catholic University researchers have been awarded prestigious ARC Discovery Project grants to further their work
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Australian Catholic University (ACU) has performed remarkably well over the last three years in the 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluation.
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ACU has been awarded over $2.6 million in prestigious Australian Research Council funding in 2018.
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It’s been almost four decades since two pioneering psychologists proposed a radical shift in the science of motivation.
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Our very own Professor Herb Marsh (BA Hons, Indiana Univ, MA, PhD, UCLA; Dsc UWestSyd; HonDoc, Ludwig Maximilians Univ Munich) has presented his keynote address at the ...
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Recognised as the most productive educational psychologist in the world, Professor Herb W Marsh from ACU's Institute for Positive Psychology and Education has recently ...
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