AARE

In 2010 we celebrate 40 years of educational research community in Australia. We are planning a major celebration of educational research in Australia at our annual conference in Melbourne this year, and we invite all our members to come along and celebrate, reflect and join in the process of building our research community into the next decade. We  are particularly keen to welcome new members to join us before the conference, and access our services and support for research students, early career researchers and our Special Interest Groups.

We have already held two very successful activities this year:

 - the National Education Research Futures Summit,  held at UTS on February 25-26. Over eighty participants from almost all Australian universities attended.  Check out our newsletter and here on the website to see the initial outcomes from this.

- the 2010 Utility of Theory(ies) Workshop, held again at CSU in Bathurst with a great collection of speakers and participants.  Many thanks to all the presenters who gave their time and expertise to support newer members of Australia's educaiton research community. We will be trying a different venue next year, so please watch the website to  find out early about registration for that.

We are very pleased to note that the Australian Council of Deans of Education will be sponsoring a new award for ECR and postgraduate researchers at the 2010 Conference: the ACDE Award for Best Poster by an ECR or postgraduate student.  Please let your colleagues know and encourage them to support the poster presentations.

 The May edition of the AARE Newsletter is available online now, as is the latest edition of the Australian Educational Researcher behind the member log in page.   

 Jo-Anne Reid, President. 

Check out the details for the 2010 AARE International Conference which will be held in  Melbourne from November 29 - December 2 at the CONFERENCE WEBSITE..