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This 2 hour online symposium is being convened by the AARE Professional and Higher Education SIG co-convenors. The first question that we consider is whether conferences have gone missing at all. Is it possible that the routine work of face-to-face conferences has been distributed across new platforms for gathering academics and disseminating knowledge? What affordances do these new forms of gathering promise? What are their limits? The second question we consider is this: c…

For Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers2024 Conference Bursary Program:Overview and purposeAARE is pleased to provide a conference bursary program to support conference attendance in 2024.  This program is offered as a way of reaching new members and as a service to existing AARE members.  The program is in recognition of the equity issues faced by postgraduate students and early career researchers in the current Higher Education context.

The 2024 AARE Conference is being held at…

The AARE Executive offers opportunities to support the quality and reputation of education research in Australia, serve the research community, lead within the organisation, and to gain valuable Board experience.The AARE Executive offers opportunities to support the quality and reputation of education research in Australia, serve the research community, lead within the organisation, and to gain valuable Board experience.

I invite members to nominate for a role on the Executive Committee.

Nomin…

The latest book in the AARE series Local/Global Issues in Education is now available to purchase. Community Matters: The Complex Links Between Community and Young People’s Aspirations for Higher Education is by Jennifer Gore, Sally Patfield, Leanne Fray and Jess Harris. Learn more about the book and if you are a member (or you need to renew your membership), you can purchase at a discounted price through our membership portal.

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…

This book explores the everyday ways in which time marks the experience of education as well as the concerns and methods of education and youth research. It asks: what do we notice afresh and what comes into sharper view when temporality becomes a focal point? What theories and ways of seeing offer new angles onto temporality in interaction with space and place?

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The latest book in the AARE series Local/Global Issues in Education is now available to purchase. Temporality, Space and Place in Education and Youth Research - by Julie McLeod, Kate O’Connor, Nicole Davis, Amy McKernan. 

Members receive 50% discount on all books from the LGIE series through the AARE online bookshop (you must be logged in to receive the discount). 

Pre-order your copy now and it will be shipped when it arrives in Australia. 

We extend our warm congratulations to the following AARE members on their recent appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), in recognition of their extraordinary contributions to the field of education.

Laureate Professor Jenny GORE, University of Newcastle (and AARE President elect)    
For significant service to tertiary education.

Professor Donna PENDERGAST, Griffith University 
For significant service to tertiary education.

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 2024-2025 point to the benefits of membership, as do last year’s successful AARE conference in Melbourne and this year’s Sydney conference in December. 

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

AARE recognises distinguished contribution to the association through a number of key initiatives each year.  One of which is through the Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education which recognises excellence in educational research by doctoral students. 

The award is a memorial to Dr Ray Debus, late distinguished mentor to many doctoral students and early career researchers, as well as both founding and Honorary Life Member of AARE.   

The Ray Debus Award is seen by the Association as…