The AARE RADFORD Awards

The Radford Lecture

Since 1978 one of the plenary lectures given at each AARE annual conference has been designated the Radford Lecture, as a memorial to the late, distinguished educationist Dr William (Bill) Radford. Each year's Lecturer is a distinguished figure in an area relevant to educational research, who is especially invited by the Association to give the Lecture. The conference each year makes a presentation to the Radford Lecturer, and the Lecture is afterwards published.

Radford Lecture Presenters:

1978

Mr Kim, Beazley

'Australian Education - Heritage and Future'

1979

Professor Peter Karmel

'Youth, Education and Unemployment'

1980

Dr Stewart Houston

'The Next Decade: Some Critical Issues in Australian Education'

1981

Professor Syd Dunn

'The Parable of the Sower: Its Relevance to Research in Education'

1982

Professor Jack Campbell

'Towards Intervening More Effectively in Educational Matters'

1983

Professor Barry McGaw

'The Aquisition of Skill in Problem Solving'

1984

Professor Donald Spearritt

'Approaches to the Education of 16 to 18 Year-Olds'

1985

Mr Robert Vickery

'Educational Policy and Educational Research: A Personal Perspective on the 1980s'

1986

Professor Malcolm Skilbeck

'The School and the New Techno-Industrial Society in OECD Countries'

1987

Dr Cyril Beeby

'Educational Research and the Making of Policy'

1988

Professor Richard Selleck

'The Manchester Statistical Society and the Foundation of Social Science Research'

1989

Professor Brian Crittenden

'Policy Making in Education: The Role of Academics'

1990

Dr Don Anderson

'Universities and the Professions'

1991

Professor Peter Fensham

'Commonsense Knowledge: A Challenge to Research'

1992

Professor Millicent Poole

'The Patterning and Positioning of Educational Research'

1993

Professor John Biggs

'What are Effective Schools? Lessons from East and West'

1994

Professor Michael Dunkin

'Synthesising Research in Education: A Case Study of Getting it Wrong'

1995

Dr Bob Bessant

'Lessons From the Past. Lessons For the Future'

1996

Paige Porter [Singapore joint conf]

'Educational Research in Australia: Indigenous or Exotic? The Case for the Indigenous'

1997

Pam Gilbert

'Gender and schooling in New Times: The challenge of boys and literacy'

1998

Marjorie Theobald

'Teaching and its Discontents: In Search of a Golden Past'

1999

Lyndsay Connors

'Schools in Australia: A Hard Act to Follow'

2000

Stephen Kemmis

'Educational research and evaluation: Opening communicative space'

2001

Sue Willis

'Crossing Borders: Learning to Count'

2002

Alan Luke

'After the Marketplace: Evidence, Social Science and Educational Research'

2003

Simon Marginson

'National and Global Competition in Higher Education'

2004

Richard Teese

'Class War and a War on Class: The Two faces of Neo-conservative research in the Australian media'

2005

Mary Kalantzis

'Elements of a Science of Education'

2006

Fazal Rizvi

'Educational Research and its Publics'

2007

Jane Kenway

'Ghosts of School Curricula: Past Present and Future'

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