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This year’s National Reconciliation Week celebrates the 20th anniversary of the reconciliation walks across bridges and down roads where the Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of this land now known as Australia came together showing their support for a more progressive society working towards reconciliation. So, it is only apt that this year’s theme nods towards this momentous point of time in our shared histories as we continue to work towards reconciliation. #InThisTogether

As an associat…

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…

Call for Expressions of Interest: Associate Editors, ECR Editor Interns

The Australian Educational Researcher is seeking to appoint up to five new members of the Editorial Team to support the work of the journal in publishing high quality research by and/or of interest to members of the Australian educational research community: 

Two or three Associate Editors; and
Two or three Early Career Researcher Editor Interns.
As part of giving practical voice to AARE’s commitment, articulated in the As…

AARE invites early career researchers, postgraduate students, and other interested people to participate in a series of activities. 

Please contact the 2024 Postgraduate Representative, Ms Sarah Langman, or the ECR Representative, Dr Ben Zunica, if you have any questions.

The Sociology of Education SIG will host a 90-minute Writing Workshop on Friday, October, 2nd 2020 aimed at supporting HDR students and ECRs with their publications.  This workshop is designed to assist with improving the writing skills required for both thesis writing and publication.  We will share best practices around academic writing, editing, revising and resubmitting journal articles as well as finding the most suitable journal in the field of sociology of education.  It is expected the a…

Call for presenters and abstract submissionAs economies and schools emerge from the pandemic, it is time to take an opportunity to examine how schools effectively support the needs of students by including their voices in the reshaping and rebuilding activities that are taking place.  Building on our commitment to empower children and student voice, agency and participation, some questions we ask are:

How can student voice become more inclusive? 
What were school-system priorities in the age…

About the symposium

This 2 hour online symposium is being convened by the AARE Professional and Higher Education SIG co-convenors. The first question that we consider is whether conferences have gone missing at all. Is it possible that the routine work of face-to-face conferences has been distributed across new platforms for gathering academics and disseminating knowledge? What affordances do these new forms of gathering promise? What are their limits? The second question we consider is this: c…

Nominations for the following positions on the Executive Committee of AARE should be submitted  by COB Monday 9 November 2020.

Secretary (three-year term, 2021–23)
Research Development Co-ordinator (three-year term, 2021–23)
Communications Co-ordinator (three-year term, 2021–23)
Special Interest Groups Co-ordinator (three-year term, 2020–23)
Ordinary Executive Member (two positions, including Postgraduate Student member) (two-year terms, 2021–22).
See role descriptions

Please use this form to…

Congratulations to the following members who have been appointed to the AER Editorial Team following our recent call for Expressions of Interest.

Associate EditorsCathie Burgess, University of Sydney
Emma Burns, Macquarie University
Steven Lewis, Deakin University

ECR EditorsAbbey Cruickshank, University of Tasmania
Troy Heffernan, LaTrobe University
Melitta Hogarth, University of Melbourne
Katrina Thorpe, University of Technology, Sydney

We warmly welcome the new members of the Editorial Tea…

AARE is pleased to announce that it has again been invited to host a symposium as part of the program at the 2021 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting to be held virtually April 9 through April 12.  AARE proudly invites members to submit expressions of interest to present a symposium at this conference. 
Submissions should be submitted using the form on the AARE website by COB 30 November 2020.