Education and young people

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)

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 

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

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

 

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.