Early Bird registration is open

AARE conference bursaries

AARE is pleased to offer bursaries to support conference attendance of non-waged or low waged full time postgraduate students or early career researchers in 2018.

The AARE Conference Bursary program is part of initiatives aimed to address equity issues in the education sector. 

Each bursary will be equivalent to concessional, early bird registration, and this registration will be paid directly by AARE to the conference. No reimbursements will be possible so applicants are advised not to register for the conference before they are notified of the result. Notification will be made before close of Early Bird rate for registration.

To view the bursary criteria please click here.

To apply please click here.

Applications close Monday 3 August 2018.

AARE Executive - Call for nominations

AARE invites members to consider nominating for the following positions on the Executive Committee of AARE. Nominations should be forwarded to the Secretary by 14 September 2018.

• Treasurer (three-year term, 2019–21)
• Secretary (three-year term, 2019–21)
• Research Development Co-ordinator (three-year term, 2019–21)
• Ordinary Executive Member (two positions, including Postgraduate Student member) (two-year terms, 2019–20).

Please refer to the role descriptions and nomination form attached here 

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. 

Theory Workshop - Sunshine Coast

A second Theory Workshop weekend will be held at the University of the Sunshine Coast October 19-21 co-hosted by the School of Education-University of the Sunshine Coast and co-convened by Rachael Dwyer. Stay tuned for details of presenters and registration process.

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.

For more information

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

Please find the report here

Guidelines for the NSW State Education Research Applications Process

These guidelines have been amended. For further information.