Research team
The Schooling, Globalisation and Refugees in Queensland project brings together researchers from a diverse range of backgrounds and from four Australian universities: University of the Sunshine Coast, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, and University of South Australia.
Chief researchers
Julie Matthews
Julie Matthews is Associate Professor and Director of Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Science at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Her co-authored book 'Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education' was published in 2004.
Dr Matthews is currently undertaking research in the areas of refugee education and reconciliation pedagogy and her research interests include visual sociology and methodology, postcolonial and feminist theory, globalisation, cosmopolitanism, identities, new ethnicities and diaspora, critical and feminist pedagogy and multicultural and antiracist education.
Parlo Singh
Professor Parlo Singh is a leading researcher in the area of pedagogy, teachers' work, globalisation and cultural identity.
She was appointed Head of School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University in 2006. Professor Singh was recognised for her contribution to Queensland University of Technology with an award in the postgraduate supervision category of the 2005 Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Awards.
Pam Christie
Pam Christie is Professorial Research Fellow in International and Comparative Education at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. She is at the forefront of research into educational policy and education and development, particularly in South Africa.
Ravinder Sidhu
Ravinder Sidhu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. Her research interests are in the areas of political sociology, globalisation studies and comparative and international education.
Robert Hattam
Robert Hattam is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of South Australia. He has worked extensively in a range of areas, including the cultural dimension of schools, teaching and learning practices, postcolonial theory, critical pedagogies, and socially just school reform.
Dr Hattam has been involved in Australian Research Council funded projects on teachers' learning in the devolving school, early school leaving and middle schooling, and with other colleagues on projects entitled 'Re-thinking Reconciliation and Pedagogy in Unsettling Times' and 'Redesigning Pedagogies in the North'.
Sandra Taylor
Sandra Taylor is an Associate Professor in the School of Cultural and Language Studies at the Queensland University of Technology. She has published widely in the fields of gender and education, globalisation and education policy, and critical policy analysis.
Associate Professor Taylor is interested in social justice in education, and in policy processes and social change.
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