Awarded Seed Grant to investigate the effects of social justice education on student's understanding of social justice. Member of the UWS Conference Convening Committee for Postgraduate Students. Member of the AARE Conference Convening Committee( UWS).Co- editor of Special Issue - Journal (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry) and Special Issue (Australian Educational Researcher 2007.
Awarded UWS grant for Sino-Australia Research Project. The key research question to be investigated by this project is: How do educators in China and Australia engage with, and respond to the practices of globalisation manifested in particular changes in education? Or more specifically, how do they position their life trajectory, or that of their colleagues, students, or family, advantageously in the new global ordering of things? The aims of this research project are, therefore is to find out what educators in China and Australia:
1.are doing to mediate and mitigate local experiences of globalisation so as to better position themselves and/or others in the changing local/global order.
2.identify as the dilemmas they experience in positioning their life trajectory (or that of others) advantageously in the new global order?
3.regard as desirable (and undesirable) features of (a) the new global order and (b) ways of engaging with, and responding to the everyday practices of globalisation?
4.see as realistic possibilities, given identifiable constraints, for mediating and mitigating globalisation so as to better position themselves and/or others in the changing global order?
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