LLE researchers investigate the learning experiences of children and adolescents across a broad range of formal and informal education contexts, both in Australia and internationally.
Our research examines pedagogical practices alongside the educational structures that support or impede young people’s participation, inclusion and development.
Our expertise in adolescent education and professional learning underpins the Master of Education (Secondary Education).
Disability and inclusion
Supporting the disability strategy (school infrastructure)
- Research team: Institute for Public Policy and Governance, Kirsty Young and the Design Innovation Research Centre Funding: NSW Department of Education $253,000
Transdisciplinary Education in Specialised School Settings
- Researcher: Kirsty Young
- Funding: NSW Department of Education schools via Toyota Foundation Grant $105,000
- Link: project video
Transition to work for young people with intellectual disability (Steps to employment program)
- Research team: Kirsty Young and Donna Rooney with Onemda
- Funding: National Disability Insurance Agency $123,259
Education policy
Astroturfing Education Policy: The influence of think-tanks and social media
- Research team: Keith Heggart and Naomi Barnes (QUT)
- Funding: Independent Education Union of Australia: $5,000
Education quality and outcomes
Researching Review for Secondary School Assessment
- Research team: Jane Hunter and Darrall Thompson
- Funding: New South Wales Department of Education $35,000
Using holistic student data to improve student outcomes
- Research team: Nick Hopwood, Tracey-Ann Palmer, and Matthew Bentley in collaboration with SCEGGS Redlands
- Funding: SCEGGS Redlands $40,000
What’s the evidence? Developing indicators of teacher quality to investigate the predictive validity of Teaching Performance Assessments (TPA)
- Research team: Sydney University with Damian Maher and Joanne Yoo
- Funding: New South Wales Department of Education $830,000
Intercultural perspectives
Australian and Korean children and teachers as 21st century problem solvers
- Researcher: Joanne Yoo
- Funding: Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) $56,050
Investigating the influences of the Chinese and English Languages on students’ processing of mathematics word problems
- Research team: Mun Yee Lai and Professor Frederick Leung (University of Hong Kong)
- Funding: Research Grant Council of Hong Kong Government $55,000
Schooling, Parenting and Ethnicity: Asian Migration and Australian Schooling
- Research team: Christina Ho, Megan Watkins and Greg Noble
- Funding: ARC Discovery Project $361,452
Literacy and numeracy
Investigating the implementation of the Literacy and Numeracy Skills Phase 2
- Research team: Institute for Public Policy and Governance with Don Carter, John Buchanan and Kimberley Pressick-Kilborn
- Funding: New South Wales Department of Education and Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation $770,000
NSW Equity Consortium: whole of cohort research for years 7-10
- Research team: UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion, Katherine Bates (UTS), Mary Teague & Sally Baker (Macquarie) and Janet Dutton & Stewart Upton (UNSW)
- Funding: NSW Equity Consortium $500,000
- Link: Imagined Futures
Technology-enhanced learning and STEM
Developing and evaluating innovative mobile pedagogies
- Project team: : Matthew Kearney, Sandy Schuck and Kevin Burden (Hull University, UK)
- Funding: Erasmus Plus $86,000 (UTS component)
- Link: iPac Framework
Exploiting digital pedagogies to improve learning and well-being for all students in challenging times
- Research team: Matthew Kearney and Paul Burke (UTS Business)
- Funding: Association of Independent Schools (NSW) $41,200
In Their Shoes: Leveraging VR for Experiential Civics and Citizenship Education
- Research team: Keith Heggart, Bhuva Narayan and Museum of Australian Democracy
- Funding: ROCF ECR CDI: $10 000
Special education teachers’ mobile pedagogies
- Research team: Matthew Kearney, Kirsty Young, Sue Cranmer (Lancaster, UK), Kevin Burden (Hull, UK)
- Funding: Centre for Research in Education in a Digital Society $10,000
Steam Craft Edu Pty Limited, STEAM in the context of game-based learning
- Research team: Jane Hunter
- Funding: Craft Edu Pty Ltd $16,000
STEM x Play Project
- Research team: Mun Yee Lai in collaboration with UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT
- Funding: NSW Women Grant and Dell Industry Grant $30,000
STEM/STEAM – High Possibility Classroom Coaches
- Research team: Jane Hunter
- Funding: New South Wales Department of Education $84,000
- Link: High Possibility Classrooms