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PurposeThis award aims to acknowledge significant leadership in and contribution to building the fields of sexuality, gender and queer research in education within the Australian context. The motivation to create this award emerged from the view that given the developing status of these research fields it is important to establish mechanisms through which contributions to and leadership within these fields can be promoted and acknowledged.

We acknowledge that the politics of awards are problema…

PurposeEduResearch Matters Blog/Blogger of the Year Award recognises an outstanding contribution to public understanding and debate of educational issues.

Merit criteriaConsideration will be given to:

Quality of blog submission/s
Ideas and argument
Timeliness
Engagement
Selection processThe Judging panel consists of the Communications Coordinator for the Australian Association for Research in Education and the EduResearch Matters Editor. The panel’s decision will be final and no further corres…

AARE is engaged in activities to promote and advocate for the positive impact of educational research on policy and practice in education and associated areas of society. 

 

This week at the Senate Estimates hearings, the ARC confirmed that in recent funding rounds for Discovery Projects, Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) and Future Fellows Awards, the then Minister for Education Senator Simon Birmingham denied funding to 11 projects recommended by the Australian Research Council. All of the projects were in the humanities, with a combined total proposed funding of 4.2 million dollars.
 
This action is very concerning, as is Senator Birmingham’s wil…

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The Complex Links Between Community and Young People's Aspirations for Higher Education

A new title in the Local and Global Issues in Education book series is now available at the special discounted rate of $35 for AARE members and $40 for non-members.

Edited by Sharon Tindall-Ford, Shirley Agostinho, John Sweller. Cognitive load theory uses our knowledge of how people learn, think and solve problems to design instruction. In turn, instructional design is the central activity of classroom teachers, of curriculum designers, and of publishers of textbooks and educational materials,…

AARE congratulates the Media Centre for Education Research Australia (MCERA) on being named a South Australian finalist in the Social Change Maker Category of the 2019 Telstra Business Awards. For more information please contact MCERA

AARE Congratulates Professor Susan Danby and her team on the award of the ARC Centre of Excellence for The Digital Child.

This is a first for Education in Australia and involves funding of $34.9 million for the establishment of the Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child to be based at QUT. Researchers from QUT including Professor Danby, Professor Annette Woods, Associate Professor Sonia White and associate investigators Dr Chris Chalmers and Dr Nerida Spina will work with a large team of re…

The Australian Government has announced that it will support projects in Australian society, history and culture under the Australian Research Council Special Research Initiatives scheme.

A total of $12 million has been allocated for this initiative for up to three years. The Government anticipates this initiative will fund around 40 projects.

There is currently limited information available about this initiative.

In a media release, the Minister for Education indicated that applications fo…