Rafaan Daliri-Ngametua

Dr Rafaan Daliri-Ngametua

Lecturer in Education
National School of Education

Areas of expertise: education policy and governance; data; datafication; teachers' work; assessment; student voice

Email: rafaan.daliri-ngametua@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Brisbane Campus

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0613-8284

Dr Rafaan Daliri-Ngametua (FHEA) is a lecturer and researcher in education at the National School of Education, Australian Catholic University. Rafaan previously worked at The University of Queensland and prior to that was a classroom teacher, with experience in primary and secondary schools and in both the public and private sector. Rafaan has received several teaching and research awards and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2022, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Queensland. Her PhD explored the nature and effects of the datafication of assessment and learning on student, teacher and school practices and has been nominated for the UQ Dean's Outstanding Thesis Award.

Select publications

Select Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Daliri-Ngametua, R., & Hardy, I. (2022). The devalued, demoralized and disappearing teacher: The nature and effects of datafication and performativity in schools. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 30, (102). https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.30.6174
• Daliri-Ngametua, R., Hardy, I., & Creagh, S. (2022). Data, performativity and the erosion of trust in teachers. Cambridge Journal of Education, 52(3), 391-407, https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2021.2002811
• Payne, A.L., Langman, S. & Daliri-Ngametua, R. (2022). Metrics, standards, and alignment in teacher policy: critiquing fundamentalism and imagining pluralism. Journal of Education Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2022.2087973
• Daliri-Ngametua, R. (2021). Students' experiences of overt data-talk in the classroom: "It's all just this stupid system." In S. Riddle, A. Heffernan & D. Bright (Eds.), New perspectives on education for democracy: creative responses to local and global challenges (pp. 94 - 109). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145806-10
• Daliri-Ngametua, R., & Good, M. (2020). Book Review. D'Ignazio, C. & F. Klein, L.F. (2020). Data Feminism. The MIT Press. Theory, Research, & Action in Urban Education (TRAUE).
• Conference Presentations
• Daliri-Ngametua, R., & Hardy, I. (2022). The devalued, demoralised and disappearing teacher: The nature and effects of datafication and performativity, The Instrumentation and enactment of public education reform. The Reformed Project Conference - Barcelona, June 15-17, 2022.
• Daliri-Ngametua, R. (2021, November 28 - December 2). Students as data producers and classrooms as sites of data production, Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• Daliri-Ngametua, R. (2021, November 28 - December 2). The datafication of assessment and learning across three coalescing timelines in one school year, Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• Clutterbuck, J. & Daliri-Ngametua, R. (2021, November 28 - December 2). Reimagining the life of data: birth to zombie, Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• Daliri-Ngametua, R. (2019, December 1 - 5). The erosion of trust in teachers [conference presentation]. Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
• Daliri-Ngametua, R. (2018, October). The nature and effects of NAPLAN on student, teacher and school practices [conference presentation]. The University of Queensland Post-Graduate Research Conference, QLD, Australia.

Invited Talks

• Keynote Lecture - My values-based approach to being and becoming an early career academic. UQ Postgraduate Research Conference (2022, September 17)
• Featured ECR - Emerging Researchers in Education, Strategic Development in Research Seminar for Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University.
• Invited Presenter - Conducting the VIVA VOCE. HDR Forum, The University of Queensland.
• Host of the AARE Teachers Work and Lives SIG Online Symposium (2021, May 25). Workload and Wellbeing: Research, policy and experiential narratives. The symposium heard from world class speakers: Dr Amanda Heffernan (Monash University), Emeritus Professor Hon. Dr Geoff Gallop A.C (lead author of Valuing the teaching profession: An independent inquiry), Chantel Nunn (beginning teacher) and Brendan Crotty (Harvard Kennedy Business School and Deputy General Secretary of the Queensland Teachers' Union)
• Guest Speaker - Queensland Teachers' Union State Council (2019). Recognising my contribution to the UQ Global Change Scholars Program Showcase - "A Voice at Last" presentation. Link to video available here.
• Invited Presenter - Presenting at conferences: Managing the (un)manageable unease? UQ, Griffith, QUT and CQU Post-Graduate Research Conference, 2019.
• Invited Presenter - Create Positive Change: 30 ideas in 30 Minutes. The Global Scholars Program - The University of Queensland. How my research at UQ is creating positive change.

Projects

• •Chief Investigator on funded PHD research project: 'The datafication of assessment and learning: An ethno-case study of student, teacher and school practices in Queensland, Australia.' (2018 - 2022). ($27000 pa - Research Training Program Scholarship).
• Chief Investigator on funded research project in collaboration with the Queensland Teachers' Union: 'Respecting Virtuosity: Trust and Professional Autonomy for Queensland Teachers.' (2022 - Current). $10000 - FEA Internal grant
• Chief Investigator on Australian Research Council Discovery Project Submission: 'The Datafied Demos: A comparative case study of refugee settlement programs in Australian Higher Education.' (2022- current).
• Investigator on research project in collaboration with the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, ACU: 'Self Determination Theory and Ageing Systemic Review Project.' (2022 - Current).

Accolades

• Research Trust Fellow, The Research Trust Program, Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, ACU.
• State Head Commendations for Teaching 2022, National School of Education, Australian Catholic University
• Faculty Research Grant 2022, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University ($10000)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), 2021
• Carolyn D. Baker Memorial Scholarship Prize 2021, The University of Queensland ($1000)
• Tutor Award 2021, UQ Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences ($1000)
• Tutor Commendation Award 2020, UQ Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences ($500)
• Selected for the Global Change Scholars Program - 2018/19, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland ($5000)
• Ideas for Change Peoples' Choice Award 2019, Independent projects - 'A Voice at Last.' Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland ($300)
• Australian Postgraduate Award Research Training Program Stipend 2018 - 2022 ($27,000 pa)
• Dean's Commendation for Academic Excellence - 2010, 2011, 2017, The University of Queensland

Appointments

• Lecturer and Researcher in Education, Australian Catholic University - Brisbane Campus (2022 - Current)
• National Academic Integrity Officer, National School of Education, ACU (2022 - Current)
• Co-founder/Co-Convenor, The Practice Zone, National School of Education, ACU (2022 - Current)
• Founder/Convenor, ACU Shut Up & Write Group, National School of Education, ACU (2022 - Current)
• Sessional Academic, School of Education, The University of Queensland (2019 - 2021)
• PhD Candidate, School of Education, The University of Queensland (2018 - 2022)
• Teacher Tutor, Kip McGrath Education Centre (Caloundra/Buderim) (2017 - 2018)
• Primary and Secondary Teacher, TRACER Education Queensland (2016 - 2021)
• Secondary Teacher, Kimberley College (2012 - 2016)
• Teaching assistant, Ocean of Light International School, Tonga Nuku'Alofa (2009)
• Memberships and Affiliations
• Queensland College of Teachers (QCT) - Full Registration: 860164
• Member of Australian Association for Research in Education
• Member of Pedagogy, Education and Praxis (PEP) International Network

Public engagement activities

Public Engagement and Outputs

• Holloway, J., Daliri-Ngametua, R., & Langman, S. (2022, July 27). Read the room, Premier. Performance pay for teachers will make the crisis worse. The Conversation. Article available here.
• Clutterbuck, J., & Daliri-Ngametua, R. (2021, November 30). How to recognise an attack of the zombie (data). EduResearchMatters - Australian Association for Research in Education. Article available here.
• Teachers' Education Review Podcast. (2022, May 11). TER #196 Main Feature: Steven Kolber interviews Dr. Rafaan Daliri-Ngametua and Dr. Jennifer Clutterbuck about Zombie Data in education. Link available here.
• Live Radio Interview. (August 4, 2022). Fiveaa - Jade Robran's afternoon program (SA). Teachers leaving the profession - too much testing. Link unavailable.
• Quoted in Sydney Morning Herald. (April, 26, 2022). "Children are back in the classroom, but teachers are weighing up their options." Article available here.
• Exclusive Interview. The Herald Sun. (August 3, 2022). "We just want to teach" - Interviewed in relation to my latest publication: The devalued, demoralized and disappearing teacher. Article available here.
• Quoted in Geelong Advertiser. (August 3, 2022). "Testing times for teachers." Print Media, Page 9.
• Quoted in Cairns Post. (August 3, 2022). "Teachers say testing is taking too much time out of students' classroom learning." Article available here.
• Quoted in Gold Coast Bulletin. (August 3, 2022). "Teachers say testing is taking too much time out of students' classroom learning." Article available here.
• Quoted in The Courier Mail. (August 3, 2022). "Testing times for teachers." Print Media, Page 5.
• Quoted in The Courier Mail. (August 6, 2022). "It's their party and you're paying.' Op-Ed, Print Media, Page 47.