Education and young people

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• Disability and inclusion

  Supporting the disability strategy (school infrastructure)

  • Kirsty Young and the Design Innovation Research Centre Funding: NSW Department of Education $253,000

  Transdisciplinary Education in Specialised School Settings

  • Kirsty Young
  • Funding: NSW Department of Education schools via Toyota Foundation Grant $105,000
  • Link: project video

  Transition to work for young people with intellectual disability (Steps to employment program)

  • Kirsty Young and Donna Rooney with Onemda
  • Funding: National Disability Insurance Agency  $123,259

• Education policy

  Astroturfing Education Policy: The influence of think-tanks and social media  

  • Keith Heggart and Naomi Barnes (QUT) 
  • Funding:  Independent Education Union of Australia: $5,000 

• Education quality and outcomes

  • Jane Hunter and Darrall Thompson
  • Funding:  New South Wales Department of Education $35,000

  Using holistic student data to improve student outcomes 

  • Nick Hopwood, Tracey-Ann Palmer, and Matthew Bentley in collaboration with SCEGGS Redlands 
  • Funding: SCEGGS Redlands $40,000

  What’s the evidence? Developing indicators of teacher quality to investigate the predictive validity of Teaching Performance Assessments (TPA)

  • Damian Maher and Joanne Yoo
  • Funding: New South Wales Department of Education $830,000

• Intercultural perspectives

  Australian and Korean children and teachers as 21st century problem solvers

  • Joanne Yoo
  • Funding: Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) $56,050

  Investigating the influences of the Chinese and English Languages on students’ processing of mathematics word problems

  • Mun Yee Lai and Professor Frederick Leung (University of Hong Kong)

  Schooling, Parenting and Ethnicity: Asian Migration and Australian Schooling

  • Christina Ho, Megan Watkins and Greg Noble
  • Funding: ARC Discovery Project $361,452

• Literacy and numeracy

  Investigating the implementation of the Literacy and Numeracy Skills Phase 2

  • Don Carter, John Buchanan and Kimberley Pressick-Kilborn
  • Funding: New South Wales Department of Education and Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation $770,000

  • Katherine Bates (UTS), Mary Teague & Sally Baker (Macquarie) and Janet Dutton & Stewart Upton (UNSW)
  • Funding:  NSW Equity Consortium $500,000
  • Link: Imagined Futures

• Technology-enhanced learning and STEM

  Developing and evaluating innovative mobile pedagogies

  • Project team: :  Matthew Kearney, Sandy Schuck and Kevin Burden (Hull University, UK)
  • Funding: Erasmus Plus $86,000 (UTS component)
  • Link:  iPac Framework

  Exploiting digital pedagogies to improve learning and well-being for all students in challenging times

  • Matthew Kearney and Paul Burke (UTS Business)
  • Funding: Association of Independent Schools (NSW) $41,200

  In Their Shoes: Leveraging VR for Experiential Civics and Citizenship Education   

  • Keith Heggart, Bhuva Narayan and Museum of Australian Democracy 
  • Funding:  ROCF ECR CDI: $10 000 

  Special education teachers’ mobile pedagogies

  • Matthew Kearney, Kirsty Young, Sue Cranmer (Lancaster, UK), Kevin Burden (Hull, UK)

  Steam Craft Edu Pty Limited, STEAM in the context of game-based learning

  • Jane Hunter
  • Funding:  Craft Edu Pty Ltd $16,000

  STEM x Play Project

  • Mun Yee Lai in collaboration with UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT
  • Funding: NSW Women Grant and Dell Industry Grant $30,000

  STEM/STEAM – High Possibility Classroom Coaches

  • Jane Hunter
  • Funding:  New South Wales Department of Education $84,000
  • Link:  High Possibility Classrooms