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The ‘Protecting and extending research in education in Australia’ Working Party, established at the AARE Annual General Meeting in 2017, delivered its report to the AARE executive and members in May 2020 titled: The growing urgency of attending to the state of Education Research in Australian Higher Education.

AARE, as the peak professional body for education researchers in Australia, has strong interest in supporting high quality research and research capacity in the field of education in the…

Aim:The Schools and Education Systems SIG provides a forum for AARE members from schools, universities, education sectors and policy contexts to network, collaborate, and identify areas of research need, with the goal of strengthening school-based research. We are interested in promoting the role of research in informing and improving policy and practice in schools and education systems as well as encouraging the active engagement of systems and schools as partners in research. With its strong c…

Aim:The Politics and Policy in Education SIG provides a space within which AARE members can present, discuss and debate research on the production, enactment and impacts of politics and policy in relation to educational issues. The SIG includes members engaged in quantitative, qualitative, interpretive, critical, ethnographic and comparative methodological approaches. It brings together researchers from a broad variety of disciplines and professional areas to foster and support the conduct, coll…

Aims:Our SIG aims to enliven understandings about teachers' and school leaders’ work and lives through research that is conducted by/with/for teachers. We recognise teachers as educators and educational team leaders working in diverse settings including early childhood, primary and secondary schools, skills training institutions, universities (in particular Initial Teacher Education), and other discrete or alternative settings. We use a range of theoretical and methodological frameworks to…

Each year AARE is invited to send a representative symposia to the British Educational Research Association (BERA) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA). 

Purpose:  Such symposia are intended to showcase the quality of Australian education research and the selected symposium team should see themselves as ambassadors of AARE. 

 

Details of the fundingFunding round: annual for each conference

Applications due: varies, please refer to the call for applications notice

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Children and student voice across all sectors SIG bursary 2021Purpose

The Children and student voice across all sectors SIG is keen to encourage emerging researchers, based nationally, with an interest in this field to attend the 2021 AARE virtual conference (Nov 28-Dec 2) and the Children and student voice SIG online symposium (13-15 December).

This bursary will aid an awardee to: 1) expand their knowledge in this field; 2) provide networking opportunities with other professionals with an…

Conference Paper Awards in 2024AARE will be offering the following Conference Paper Awards in 2024. The purpose of these awards is to encourage, acknowledge, and recognise the quality work of AARE members. 

Award categories include:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Researcher Award
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Postgraduate Researcher Award
Betty Watts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Award
Early Career Researcher Award  
Postgraduate Researcher Award  
Postgraduate…

PurposeInaugurated in 2001, the Betty Watts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Award recognises an outstanding conference paper related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education, presented at the Annual AARE Conference.  

The award is intended to recognise excellence in research by individual researchers or teams of researchers across all career stages.  

This award honours the memory of Emeritus Professor Betty Watts.  A former primary school teacher, Professor Watts was…

On 22 October 2021, the Australian Association for Research in Education hosted a seminar followed by an AARE members’ discussion: ‘Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) and its relevance to AARE and members’.

The Australian Education Research Organisation was established in 2021 as ‘Australia’s national education evidence body, working towards excellent and equitable outcomes for all children and young people’ (Tehan, 2020). It has received $50 million over four years from the Comm…

AARE is a national professional association of educational researchers in Australia. Established in 1970, the association has provided support for successive generations of educational researchers from Australian universities; local, state and federal governments; early childhood education contexts; schools, colleges and training organisations; as well as private research agencies. Its objectives centre on advancing scholarly inquiry into education, enhancing quality in educational research, and…