Previous awardees
2023
Dr Sally Larsen University of New England
Are Australian students’ academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data.
2022
Dr Somayeh Ba Akhlagh The University of New England
Australian and Iranian Pre-school Teachers’ Conceptualizations of Creativity
2020
Dr Meghan Stacey University of New South Wales
'Pre-service teachers’ choice of schools as workplaces in a system of social, cultural and religious division: to be ‘selfish’, or to be a ‘hero’?'
2017(Joint winners)
Dr Jenny Martin Australian Catholic University
Researching preservice teachers’ environmental agency in times of post truth and denial
2017
Dr Lyn Vernon Murdoch University
University enabling programs while still at school: Supporting the transition of low-SES students from high-school to university
2016
Dr Melissa Wolfe
Post-qualitative filmic research in education: utilising a ‘re/active documentary’ methodology
2015
Dr Lucinda McKnight Deakin University
Meet the phallic teacher: designing curriculum and identity in a neoliberal imaginary
2014
Dr Hannah Soong University of South Australia
The Imagination of Mobility: Windows into Australian Teacher Education as a Site of Transnational Lifeworld Negotiations
2013
Dr Niranjan Casinader Monash University
A failure to communicate? Cultural dispositions of thinking and some implications for teacher education
2012
Dr Greg Thompson Murdoch University
The Effects of NAPLAN: Teacher perceptions of the impact of NAPLAN on pedagogy and curriculum (co-authored with Allen G. Harbaugh)
2011
Dr Linda Graham Macquarie University
For whose purposes and to what ends? Disproportionate over-representation of Indigenous students in NSW government "Schools for (Very) Specific Purposes"
2010
Dr Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews University of Western Sydney
Looking Past Positivity for Indigenous Australian Students: A preliminary investigation of racial discrimination and the illusion of resiliency in academia (co-authored with Nida Denson and Rhonda Craven)
2009
Kathy Jordan
The “framing” of teachers in national ICT policies
2007
Dr Jane Wilkinson Charles Sturt University
Policy and leadership as practice: Senior women academics and the “risky business” of diversity policies in enterprise universities
2005
Dr Colleen Hawkins University of Sydney
2004
Helen Watt University of Michigan
Development of Adolescents' Self Perceptions, Values and Task Perceptions According to Gender and Domain through Australian Grades 7 to 11
2003
Neil Harrison University of New England
The learning is in-between: The search for a metalanguage in Indigenous education
2002
Amanda Keddie
It's more than a game: Little boys, masculinities and football culture
2001
Francesca Collins
2001
Dr Julianne Lynch
2018
Dr Melitta Hogarth University of Southern Queensland
The musings of an Aboriginal researcher: Disrupting the thesis template’
2019
Dr David Bright Monash University
Qualitative inquiry and Deleuze and Guattari’s minor literature: In which I consider verisimilitude as a criterion for judging the quality of qualitative writing with reference made to Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse 5 albeit not really in the telegr
2021
Connie Cirkony Monash University
Reflecting on the Role and Conduct of Rapid Review Methodology for Educational Research