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In September 2022, the AARE Executive committee will be calling for nominations for the following Executive positions in the 2022 Executive Committee Election, to be held in October.

Secretary: current office bearer John Lester will vacate in 2022; AARE will call for a secretary to fill the current term vacancy 2021-2023
Treasurer: AARE will call for nominations to fill a 3 year term 2023-2025 (current office bearer Michele Simons is eligible to re-nominate)
Ordinary Member Postgraduate Student…

‘National Reconciliation Week—27 May to 3 June—is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.’
www.nrw.reconciliation.org.au

Nobody could fail to miss that in his first words as the new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese committed to the ‘Uluru Statement from the heart' in full.  The Statement highlights three key objectives – a voice to Parliament, treaty, a…

The Australian Association for Research in Education would like to invite you to participate in a series of seminars about Australian Research Council (ARC) Discover Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme (Details available here).

The DECRA scheme is a separate element of the Discovery Program. The DECRA scheme provides focused research support for eligible early career researchers in both teaching and research, and research-only positions.

The objectives of the DECRA scheme are to:

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Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and Community of Associate Deans Research in Education (cADRE), a subgroup of the Australian Council of Deans of Education (ACDE) are co-convening a national summit on 29 and 30 June in Adelaide at UniSA. This summit will bring together 80 senior education researchers from across Australia, including the Executive and senior members of AARE, and members of cADRE and ACDE. The purpose of the summit is to explore responses to existing and eme…

Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews

Director of Indigenous Research, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership

Western Sydney University

‘Knowledge’ about Indigenous pathology circulates as strategic truth in the race war to rationalise the continuing subjugation of the Indigenous population and encourage non-Indigenous investment in patriarchal white sovereignty (Moreton-Robinson, 2009, p.72).

It was during a meeting that I started to consider writing of the NAIDOC theme Get Up! Stand U…

Dear members,

I hope this newsletter finds you in good spirits despite continued tough times for health and wellbeing.
 
Finehaus have been providing strong support and we have been updating and filling gaps in AARE policies and processes and creating sustainable resources for each executive portfolio to ensure efficient handover and induction for new executive members. Please note that a number of roles are open for election soon, so please consider nominating.

In June we took part in a…

Associate Professor Stewart Riddle has been appointed the new Editor in Chief of the Australian Education Researcher. Stewart is an Associate Professor (Curriculum and Pedagogy) at the University of Southern Queensland and currently an Associate Editor for the journal (beginning in 2017); he has previously served on the AARE Executive as SIG co-ordinator and more recently as Conference Co-convenor (with Amanda Heffernan). His appointment follows an open call for Expressions of Interest requiring…

744 abstracts were received for this year’s AARE Conference in Adelaide (Sunday 27th November – Thursday 1st December). Thank you to everyone for your efforts made in preparing abstract submissions. A special thank you to SIG Coordinator Ilektra Spandagou and our team of SIG Convenors – We would like to acknowledge and thank them for their efforts and energy given to conducting careful and timely reviews of those abstracts submitted to their SIGs.

Outcomes for abstract submissions have all be…

Assessing Australia Research Council Grant Applications

Did you know that many Australian Education researchers provide feedback in ARC assessment reports, which is putting applications at risk of not being funded? 

At the recent Australian Education Research Leaders’ Summit, the assessment of ARC applications was discussed. Informal advice from previous ARC College of Experts indicates that, in Education we could do better in the way we provide assessments.
 
For example, many Australia…

Reminder: Call for nominations – AARE Conference Paper Awards
Nominations are open for this year’s conference paper awards. The awards include:

Betty Watts Indigenous Researcher Award: recognises an outstanding paper from a researcher who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person presented at the 2022 AARE conference (Nominations due by Sept. 30th)

ECR Award: recognises an outstanding paper from an Early Career Researcher presented at the 2022  AARE conference (Nominati…