In 2010 we celebrate 40 years of educational research community in Australia. We are planning a major celebration of educational research in Australia at our annual conference in Melbourne this year, and we invite all our members to come along and celebrate, reflect and join in the process of building our research community into the next decade. We are particularly keen to welcome new members to join us before the conference, and access our services and support for research students, early career researchers and our Special Interest Groups.
We have already held two very successful activities this year:
- the National Education Research Futures Summit, held at UTS on February 25-26. Over eighty participants from almost all Australian universities attended. Check out our newsletter and here on the website to see the initial outcomes from this.
- the 2010 Utility of Theory(ies) Workshop, held again at CSU in Bathurst with a great collection of speakers and participants. Many thanks to all the presenters who gave their time and expertise to support newer members of Australia's educaiton research community. We will be trying a different venue next year, so please watch the website to find out early about registration for that.
We are very pleased to note that the Australian Council of Deans of Education will be sponsoring a new award for ECR and postgraduate researchers at the 2010 Conference: the ACDE Award for Best Poster by an ECR or postgraduate student. Please let your colleagues know and encourage them to support the poster presentations.
The May edition of the AARE Newsletter is available online now, as is the latest edition of the Australian Educational Researcher behind the member log in page.
Jo-Anne Reid, President.
Call for Nominations for AARE Executive
Nominations are now open for the following positions on the Executive Committee of AARE from 2011.
Positions available:
• Honorary Treasurer (remaining two years of three-year term 2010-12),
• Editor, Australian Educational Researcher (three-year term 2011-13), and
• Ordinary AARE Executive Member (three positions, including postgraduate research student) (all two-year terms 2011-12).
Further information and a nomination form are available here. Nominations should be forwarded to the Honorary Secretary by 24 September 2010.
Check out the details for the 2010 AARE International Conference which will be held in Melbourne from November 29 - December 2 at the CONFERENCE WEBSITE..
Click here to view the paper index or here to search for papers in OCS.
2010 ACDE/AARE Educational Research Futures Summit
The National Education Research Futures Summit was a joint venture of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and the Australian Council of Deans of Education (ACDE). It was held at UTS on February 25-26 2010, hosted by the Centre for Research in Learning and Change at the University of Technology, Sydney.
The purpose of the Summit was to a rethinking the boundaries, limits, constraints and responsibilities for education research in Australia at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. The report of the Summit discusses outcomes and directions for future discussion and planning for educational research in Australia. 
