Previous awardees
2023
Dr Jennifer Dove WSU being presented with the Ray Debus Award
Dr Jennifer Dove - Winner Western Sydney University
The place and art of writing alongside secondary English students in rural communities: An ethnographic case story of writerly identities
2023
Dr Fiona Westbrook (Special Commendation) RMIT
Early Childhood Educators’ Political Dialogues during the Pandemic: A Bakhtinian Dialogic Analysis in Facebook Groups
2023
Dr Belinda Friezer (Special Commendation) CSU
How do infants interact in groups in long day care across the first two years of life?
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2022
Dr Roz Ward RMIT
Family Values: An autotheoretical exploration of the backlash against Safe Schools in Australia
Dr Helena Granziera (Special Commendation) School of Education, University of New South Wales
Teacher Well-Being: An Examination of the Antecedents, Processes, and Outcomes of Teachers’ Psychological Functioning Through the Lens of Job Demands-Resources Theory
Dr Amelia Ruscoe (Special Commendation) Edith Cowan University
Power, perspective and affordance in early childhood education
2021
Harsha Chandir Deakin University
Global Competence: Situated Enactments
Dr John Paul Staats (Commendation) Western Sydney University
Haptic History: Heads, Hands and Hearts
2020
Dr Katrina MacDonald Monash University
Socially just principals in unjust times: Social justice leadership in disadvantaged Victorian primary schools,
2019
Dr Melitta Hogarth Queensland University of Technology
Addressing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Education: A Critical Analysis of Indigenous Education Policy
Dr Sally Patfield University of Newcastle
On ‘Being First’: Reconsidering Australian Higher Education Equity Policy through a Comprehensive Analysis of the Aspirations of Prospective First-In-Family Students
2019
Dr George Variyan (Commendation) Charles Sturt University
Privilege, Power and Agency: A multisite study of teachers in elite private schools in Australia
2019
2018
Dr Naoko Mochizuki The University of New South Wales
Genre learning through oral interactions: A case study of students’ thesis writing in group conferences from sociocultural perspectives
Dr Thida Kheang (Commendation) University of Western Australia
Leadership at the primary school level in post-conflict Cambodia: A study of the historical background, recent developments, and current concerns of school leaders’
2018
Dr Kate O'Connor (Commendation) University of Melbourne
Remaking the university curriculum: what counts as knowledge in new forms of online learning
2018
2017
Professor John Lester University of Newcastle
Why do Aboriginal Kids Switch Off School? A Holistic Examination of the System, School, Students and Their Community in One Rural District
Dr Deborah Moore (Commendation) Australian Catholic University
A place within a place: Toward new understandings on the enactment of contemporary imaginative play
2017
Dr Melissa Wolfe (Commendation) Monash University
Girls’ Tales: Experiences of Schooling
2017
2016
Dr Kristen Cohen University of Newcastle
Evaluation of a School-based Physical Activity and Fundamental Movement Skill Intervention for Children Living in Low-income Communities: The Supporting Children’s Outcomes using Rewards, Exercise and Skills (SCORES) Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
2016
Dr Eve Mayes University of Sydney
The lines of voice: An ethnography of the ambivalent affects of student voice
2016
Dr Ben Whitburn (Commendation) Deakin University
Critical Engagement with Insider Accounts of Inclusive Schooling
2016
2015
Dr Harsha Perera The University of Technology Sydney
The role of trait emotional intelligence in adaptation and achievement during the transition to University
2015
2014
Dr Susan E Creagh The University of Queensland
A Foucauldian and Quantitative Analysis of NAPLaN, the category ‘Language Background Other Than English’, and English as a Second Language Leve
2014
Dr Cheryl D Jakab The University of Melbourne
Molecules as Tools: Discourse, artefacts and children’s meaning-making about particles of matte
2014
2013
Dr Kin Yee Chan James Cook University
A Comparison of Automated Scoring Engines and Human Raters on the Assessment of English Essay Writing
2013
Dr Clare Hall Monash University
Voices of Distinction: Choirboys’ Narratives of Music, Masculinity and the Middle-Class
2013
2012
Dr Amy Chapman University of Newcastle
Towards a New Paradigm of Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education
2012
Dr Bronwyn James (Commendation) University of Wollongong
Silences, Voices, Negotiations: Becoming a Postgraduate Research Write
2012
2011
Dr Dan Woodman University of Melbourne
The Post-Secondary School Transition and the Desynchronisation of Everyday Life
2011
Dr Mary Chen Johnsson University of Technology, Sydney
A Relational Re-view of Collective Learning: Concerts, Condiments and Correction
2011
2010
Dr Tyson Yunkaporta James Cook University
Aboriginal Pedagogies at the Cultural Interfac
2010
2009
Dr Marjorie Seaton University of Western Sydney
The Big-Fish-Little Pond Effect under the grill: tests of its universality, a search for moderators and the role of social comparison
2009
2008
Dr Linda Graham Queensland University of Technology
Schooling attention deficit hyperactivity disorders: educational systems of formation and the behaviourally disordered school child
2008
Dr Graham Par University of Melbourne
Inquiry-based professional learning of English Literature teachers: Negotiating dialogic potential
2008
Dr Claire Aitchison (Commendation) University of Technology, Sydney
Mothers and school choice: Effects on the home front
2008
2007
Dr Karen Martin James Cook University
Please knock before you enter: An investigation of how rainforest Aboriginal people regulate outsiders and the implications for western research and researchers
2007
Dr Steven Etherington Charles Darwin University
Learning to be Kunwiinjku: An Australian Indigenous Pedagogy
2007
Dr Veronica Arbon (Commendation) Deakin University
Thirnda Ngurkarnda Ityrnda: Ontologies in Indigenous Territory Education
2007
Dr Guan Cheng Quek (Commendation) University of Western Australia
The Construction and Practice of Creativity Policy in Singaporean Education (1985-2004): A holistic discourse-oriented policy analysis
2007
2006
Dr Gaynor Williams University of Melbourne
Improving Intellectual and Affective Quality in Mathematics Lessons: How Autonomy and Spontaneity Enable Creative and Insightful Thinking
2006
Dr Annette Woods (Commendation) University of Queensland
The contexts and purposes of school literacy pedagogy: ‘Failing’ in the early years
2006
2005
Dr Sue Saltmarsh Macquarie University
Complicit Institutions: representation, consumption and the production of school violence
2005
2004
Dr Helen Carberry Queensland University of Technology
Semiotic analysis of clinical chemistry: For ‘knowledge work’ in the medical sciences
2003
Dr Ravinder Sidhu University of Queensland
Selling Futures: Globalization and Discourses of International Education
2003
2002
Dr Coral Kemp Macquarie University
Transition to School and Integration into Mainstream Classrooms for Children with Intellectual Disabilities
2002
2001
Dr Erica Southgate University of Newcastle
Remembering school: Mapping continuities in power, subjectivity and emotion in stories of Australian school life
2001
Dr Sheralyn Campbell (Commendation) University of Melbourne
The definition and description of a justice disposition in young children
2001
2000
Dr Pat Thomson
2000
Dr Helen Nixon (Commendation)
2000
1999
Andrew Martin University of Western Sydney
Susan Danby University of Queensland
1999
1998
Dr Loretta Baker rsj
The pursuit of visions and ideas. Thomas Barr Greenfield: building an ideography
1998
Judith MacCallum (Commendation)
Motivational change in transition contexts: Students’ theories of success in story writing and mathematics.
1998
1996
Roger Stancliffe
1996
Anne Hickling-Hudson
1996
1994
Dr Paul Chandler University of New South Wales
Cognitive Load Theory and Design of Instruction
1994
1993
Dr Mary McCorriston La Trobe University
Cognitive Processing Strategies and Sublexical Orthographic Knowledge in Developmental Dysgraphia
1993
1992
Dr Gary Kidd University of Melbourne
Tertiary Course Choice: Interests as Predictors
1992
Dr J. Orton (Commendation) La Trobe University
1992
1991
Dr Ilana Snyder Monash University
The Impact of Word Processor on Students' Writing: A Comparative Study of the Effects of Pens and Word Processors on Writing Context, Process and Produc
1991
1990
Dr Alison MacKinnon University of Adelaide
Awakening Women: Women, Higher Education and Family Formation in South Australia c.1880-192
Dr R. Fielding (Commendation) James Cook University
1989
Dr Lyndall English University of Queensland
Young Children's Competence in Solving Novel Combinatorial Problems
1989
Dr C. Wilson (Commendation) University of Sydney
1989
Dr G. Cooper (Commendation) University of New South Wales
1989