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Working towards equity of access to higher education remains a fundamental issue of social justice. Despite substantial efforts to redress historical exclusions via a wealth of government and institutional policies, longstanding enrolment patterns persist and new forms of inequality have emerged in a deeply stratified system. Community Matters: The Complex Links Between Community and Young People’s Aspirations for Higher Education offers a new lens on equity of access.

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Since 2014, it has been practice that the AARE Executive include two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members - the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Researcher Member and the Co-opted Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Researcher Member. In October 2022, leaders of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research SIG called attention to this and noted that the AARE Constitution only referred explicitly to one identified Indigenous member position. This is despite long term advoc…

The 2023 AARE Conference will be held from 26 to 30 November in Melbourne, hosted by the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education. We can announce the theme for this year’s conference will be Truth, Voice, Place: Critical junctures for educational research. 

As the newly appointed Standing Chair, I’d like to acknowledge the incredible work of volunteers that draw this conference together as a point and place for care for education and educational research. The AARE Conference has…

The 2023 available grants to support SIG initiatives include Major+, Major and Minor grants:

Applications for smaller grant amounts will also be considered.

For more information please refer to the AARE website. 

Queries regarding applications, or possible uses for competitive funding should be directed to the SIG Coordinator at sigs@aare.edu.au.

Call for expressions of interest – BERA 2023

AARE is pleased to announce that it has again been invited to host a symposium as part of the program at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference taking place at Aston University Birmingham, Tuesday 12 to Thursday 14 September 2023.

AARE proudly invites members to submit expressions of interest to present a symposium at this conference.

Expression of interest submissions

Expressions of interest must include the following inf…

We invite our valued past and present members of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) to renew your AARE membership now to take advantage of a discount on your annual membership fee.

The extraordinary work of our SIGs and the range of events scheduled across 2023-2024 point to the benefits of membership, as do last year’s successful AARE conference in Adelaide and this year’s Melbourne conference in November.

Membership is vital to ensure we can strengthen the work of th…

New book release now available.

Purchase your copy from Melbourne University Press: Raewyn Connell: Research, Politics, Social Change by Raewyn Connell. 

The book is a selection from the author's writing from the 1970s to the 2010s, intended to show how knowledge about major social issues develops and deepens.

The selection includes five themes important in the author's work: 

1. Understanding masculinities
2. The concept of gender
3. The ruling class in Australia
4. Social…

Working towards equity of access to higher education remains a fundamental issue of social justice. Despite substantial efforts to redress historical exclusions via a wealth of government and institutional policies, longstanding enrolment patterns persist and new forms of inequality have emerged in a deeply stratified system. Community Matters: The Complex Links Between Community and Young People’s Aspirations for Higher Education offers a new lens on equity of access.

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