AARE Conference 2018
2018 2 to 6 December, The University of Sydney
Education Research Matters: Impact and Engagement
We look forward to seeing you all at the 2018 Annual Conference.
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Key Dates:
- Friday 31 August - Acceptance of abstract notification complete
- Monday 20 August - Registration opens
- Sunday 30 September - Early Bird Registraion Closes
- Sunday 2 December - Postgraduate and Early Career Workshop
- 2 – 6 December 2018 - AARE Conference
Australian Research funding must be awarded without political interference.
Australian Research funding must be awarded without political interference.
This week at the Senate Estimates hearings, the ARC confirmed that in recent funding rounds for Discovery Projects, Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) and Future Fellows Awards, the then Minister for Education Senator Simon Birmingham denied funding to 11 projects recommended by the Australian Research Council. All of the projects were in the humanities, with a combined total proposed funding of 4.2 million dollars.
This action is very concerning, as is Senator Birmingham’s willingness to defend his interference in the award process with disparaging comments about the worth of the humanities projects denied funding. READ MORE
AARE Theory Workshop - Sunshine Coast
We had a very successful theory workshop weekend at the University of Sunshine Coast (USC) with lots of challenges to participants by presenters and through an array of experiences. We started with an excellent Welcome to Country and dialogue with Lyndon Davis who had many yarns to share about his Elders past and present as well as the Country where we met. Professor Catherine Manuthunga welcomed us to USC and stayed for workshops until she had to fly out of the country. As our keynote Professor Lyn Yates was ill and could not come at the last minute Dr lisahunter did an unKeynote about making sense of educational narratives and we went through a process to create Narrative Research Circles as a way for all participants to introduce themselves and share some of their work. This was digested at a local Thai restaurant with lovely food and great company. The next day A/Prof Liz Mackinlay took us deep into feminist narratives through the use of drawings and dialogue in 'Writing with theory on the sensational edge' followed by sessions by Dr Kevin Lowe who worked us through what community responsive research might be for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and Dr Michael Crowhurst who explored and experimented with connections between stories, practice, research and theory. On the final day Professor Tania Aspland used a responsive method of presentation to draw on participants own experiences to create a discussion around qualitative research design and alignment between epistemology, methodology, theory and examination or evaluation. The productive weekend was framed by generous presentations, lovely spaces and substantial hospitality by the USC participants and via co-hosting organisation from Dr Rachael Dwyer. Stayed tuned for 2019 venues and dates.
Lend a Hand
AARE is pleased to announce a new initiative that has been launched in conjunction with the opening of conference registration. The Lend a Hand program will ask those people registering for the conference to make a small contribution via a special link attached to this image. This money will be used by AARE to offer bursaries to help subsidise non and low waged ECR and Postgraduate students attendance at the AARE conference. One hundred percent of money raised will go towards these bursaries, either for the 2018 year or subsequent years.
AARE Quantitative Research Methodology Summit 2018
We are pleased to announce the “AARE Quantitative Research Methodology Summit 2018”.
This is your opportunity to access a range of international experts and topics ranging from introductory to complex, rarely available in Australia, and never at this greatly subsidised cost. The target audience for the Summit is those seeking to become more familiar with quantitative methods in educational research - whether university students/staff or researchers in other organisations.
Book release
AARE congratulates the Education Theory and Philosophy Special Interest Group (SIG) who, as an outcome of the AARE SIG competitive grant in 2015 have just released a book titled, Theory-and-Philosophy-in-Education-Research-Methodological-Dialogues edited by John Quay, Jennifer Bleazby, Steven A. Stolz, Maurizio Toscano, and R. Scott Webster. See more at https://www.routledge.com/Theory-and-Philosophy-in-Education-Research-Methodological-Dialogues/Quay-Bleazby-Stolz-Toscano-Webster/p/book/9780815386025
Third book in the series available now. Local and Global Issues in Education
AARE is pleased to say that the third edition of the Book Series Local and Global Issues in Education has been released.
AARE has a some copies that are being made available at a discounted rate. To purchase
The book, titled The Relationality of Race in Education Research, is an edited collection that examines the ways in which the local and global are key to understanding race and racism in the interesectional context of contemporary education. Analysing a broad range of examples, it highlights how race and racism comprise a relational phenomenon that interconnects local, national and global contexts and ideas. For more information
AARE Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into the National Education Evidence Base
Guidelines for the NSW State Education Research Applications Process
These guidelines have been amended. For further information.
AARE is partnering with schooling systems across Australia to promote the implementation of the National Application Form.
