Visiting Scholars
Dr Susan Lovett
Dr Susan Lovett joins the Commonwealth Centre for Education and LLSI for 6 weeks starting 5 October. Susan is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Canterbury College of Education, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Her postgraduate teaching interests are in leadership for learning. Her recent research projects have focused on early career teachers' professional learning and support. Susan has worked with the New Zealand Council for Educational Research on several projects. These have included an evaluation of the First Time Principals' Induction Programme and a longitudinal study entitled Teachers of Promise which has tracked the experiences of teachers in the first five years of the profession.
Susan will be presenting a seminar on the Teachers of Promise Study on 15 October 4-5.30pm in
Room 2S3, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education.
For further details about Susan, see www.canterbury.ac.nz and follow the links to research profiles
Professor Margaret Robertson
Professor Margaret Robertson joins the Centre for six weeks from 6th October from La Trobe University, Australia where she is Professor in Education and Director of Research in the Faculty of Education. Her role brings her into contact with students and educational contexts throughout the Australian state of Victoria (including metropolitan Melbourne, Bendigo and regional locations in Mildura, Albury-Wodonga and Shepparton). Teaching and learning responsibilities include supervision and teaching of post-graduate research students (including large numbers of international students), and additional input to pre-service programs related to geographical education and curriculum issues. A particular focus for 2009 is leading the ERA process (equivalent to UK's RAE) within the Faculty.
Her record of publications, grant success, research output and research higher degrees completions are evidence of international leadership within the fields of pedagogical renewal, e-learning research and sustainable development. As the lead Chief Investigator of back-to-back Australian Research Council Linkage grants 2002-09 she has successfully managed systems wide data bases linked to literacy and numeracy outcomes. Evidence based recommendations relating to the adoption of new technologies in schools located in the states of Victoria and Tasmania have directly impacted on policies in each of these states and been referenced in the NSW state education system..
She has a long association with the School of Education starting with the Land-Use UK project in 1998. Working with Dr Rex Walford during this period she conducted research within many of the schools within the region. During this visit and with the help of Liz Taylor she hope to pursue school based data collection for an international project considering cross-cultural perspectives of young people's views and visions of their future as adults.
Dr Pak Tee Ng
The Centre for Commonwealth Education is pleased to welcome Dr Pak Tee Ng as its first Visiting Scholar (July 2009-Feb 2010). Dr Ng is an Associate Professor (tenured) at the Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. More…