Early Childhood Futures recognises multiple complexities in the lives of children, families and educators in contemporary society and is predicated on a multi-disciplinary approach to co-designed research.
Program Lead: Professor Suzy Edwards
National School of Education
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education)
The STEM Education for Critical Citizenship and Sustainability program aims to explore ways to support both young people and adults in becoming capable and critical users of STEM in a complex technologically-oriented and data-rich world.
Program Lead: Professor Vince Geiger
National School of Education
Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
The AI and Digital Citizenship research program offers solutions to new technological opportunities and problems, developing the literacies, critical capabilities, and dispositions of young people and educators that are encountered in everyday interactions online.
Program Lead: Professor Kathy Mills
National School of Education
The Multiliteracies in English & Curriculum Area Learning program addresses teaching and learning of traditional literacies and new forms of multimodal and digital literacy in English and other curriculum areas, as well as for personal, aesthetic, intellectual, social and political purposes.
Program Lead: Professor Len Unsworth
National School of Education
The Gender and Literacy in the Digital Age program examines how education systems can strengthen young people’s reading engagement, critical thinking, and meaning making in increasingly digital environments.
Program Lead: Professor Laura Scholes
National School of Education
The School Improvement, Leadership and Policy program advances context-responsive, co-designed research to strengthen school leadership, organisational practice and system improvement to address persistent schooling challenges, such as workforce sustainability, leadership development and equity.
Program Lead: Associate Professor Steven Lewis
National School of Education