Research Expertise

There is a diverse array of research undertaken within the Faculty of Arts and Education, ensuring we have supervisors with a broad scope of expertise.

To find a specific area of interest, just start typing your topic in the search box. If you are a CSU Staff Member, you can also view a slide show/pdf of the broad range of work and research interests by staff in the Faculty of Arts and Education.

Name	Content Expertise	Methods Expertise	Discipline
Zundans-Fraser, Lucie Teacher Education	Inclusive education; Special education; Gifted education; Course design; Curriculum design; Collaborative practice; Higher education	Qualitative research methods; Design-based research
Yucel, Salih Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation	Islamic Theology; Quranic Exegesis; Jurisprudence; interfaith relations and contemporary Islamic movements
Yi, Zhixian Information Studies	Management and leadership for information professionals; Change management; Knowledge management; Marketing techniques; Information needs and use; Digital libraries; Information technology use	Quantitative and qualitative data analysis
Winslade, Matthew School of Teacher Education	Health and Physical Education; Health Promotion; Physical Activity; Professional Experience /Work Integrated learning; Intercultural and cultural competence; teacher education; School-university partnerships	Qualitative research methods	Teacher Education
Villar, Oliver School of Humanities and Social Sciences	United States-China-Latin America relations: great power rivalries, the rise of China, US-Colombian relations and politics.Critical security studies: international security and great powers; economic and resource security; territorial conflicts and cross-border security; grand strategy; intra-state conflicts, insurgencies and guerrilla movements.American foreign policy: counterinsurgency and counter terrorism strategy; state violence; civil wars and proxy wars.International political economy: capitalism, globalisation, class analysis and class relations between and within the First World and Third World (or Global North and Global South).
Vigliante, Tace Teacher Education	Social justice education; Anti-racism education; Indigenous studies in higher/teacher education; Philosophy for and with children; Philosophical and ethical inquiry in teacher education; Capabilities Approach in education; Society and Environment (social studies) education
Velander, Fredrik School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Climate change and mental health; mindfulness; general mental health; community mental health; workplace mental health; addiction; organisational development; community development	Qualitative methods (interviewing, focus groups, survey development, literature reviews, evaluations); Quantitative methods (survey development, data extrapolation)	Human Services
Van Duinen, Jared School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Imperialism; colonialism; sports history; British empire; transnationalism; social and cultural history; historiography; history theory; Anglo-Australian history; history of pulp fiction
Smith, David School of Education	Online learning; Learning design; Educational leadership; Technology assisted pedagogy; Mobile learning; Information literacy and practice	Mixed methods
Simmons, Peter School of Communication and Creative Industries	Organisational communication; internal and external; Principles for professional communication of fairness and legitimacy; Human perspectives on coexistence with non-human animals; Strategies and tactics for communicating the future.	Social media analysis; Surveys; questionnaires; interviews; vignettes
Sertkaya, Suleyman Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation	S?rah of the Prophet (Biography of Prophet Muhammad) and S?rah Philosophy; Interpretation of Islamic Sacred Texts; Tafsir (Exegesis of the Qur’an) and Had?th (Prophetic Tradition); Islamic Theology; Radicalisation and Islam; Islam and Morality; Oral History, History of Islam and Muslims in Australia
Rush, Emma School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Environmental ethics; professional ethics; sexualisation of children
Ragusa, Angela School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Environmental Sociology; Media Studies, Advertising, & Communication; Cultural studies (animal studies, LGBTIQ); Social Inequality (class, gender, sexuality); Organisational Behaviour (institutional & individual change); Social Psychology (social/self-identity, attitudes); Human Geography (land use, migration, tree/sea-change); Social Control (power & deviance); STS (Sociology of Science & Technology) - education technologies, health/mental health; Leisure & work (materialism/consumerism)	Qualitative & quantitative social research methods (discourse, content & narrative analysis; interviews; surveys; case studies)
Randell-Moon, Holly School of Indigenous Australian Studies	Indigenous media studies; critical race and whiteness studies; communications and new media; feminist media studies; education policy and the knowledge economy; cultural geography, creative cities, and digital infrastructure	Critical and cultural theory; discourse analysis; textual analysis; case studies; ethnography - interviews; qualitative research – mixed methods; Indigenist methodologies
Qayyum, Asim Information Studies	Human computer/document interaction; Digital libraries; Information and knowledge management; User needs; Information practices
Pawar, Manohar School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Social work and social policy; international social work; social development; social consequences of climate change and water; social work education; informal care and ageing; community development
Ozalp, Mehmet Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation	Islam in the West: Islam and West relations, intercultural and interfaith dialogue, social cohesion/multiculturalism in Australian and in the West, Islamophobia, radicalisation, citizenship and integration; Muslim Youth in the West: Muslim youth identity and identity formation, Muslim youth issues in Western societies and in Australia; Islamic theology and its contemporary applications in public theology; Islamic classical and modern history including contemporary religious, cultural, political issues in the Middle East
Owens, Kay Teacher Education	Mathematics education particularly transitions in culture and early childhood education; Geometry and measurement education; Visuospatial reasoning; Ethnomathematics; Evaluation research; Indigenous education particularly in Papua New Guinea and Australia; Curriculum evaluation; Human society and environmental education studies; Integrating ICTs in schools	Mixed methods; Quantitative; Qualitative research
O'Sullivan, Dominic School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Australian and New Zealand history; Australian and New Zealand politics and policy; Comparative indigenous politics and policy; Education policy and theory; Health policy; Social policy; Public theology/religion and politics		Political science; history; sociology; indigenous studies; public theology; education
Neville, David School of Theology	New Testament Theology; Gospels; Biblical Hermeneutics; Scripture and Ethics; Scripture and Public Theology	Methods appropriate to the study of biblical literature, including historical, literary, and theological modes of analysis	New Testament studies
Murray, Libbey Teacher Education	Early childhood; Transition to school; School adjustment; Kindergarten; Starting school; Learning readiness; Including children in research; Teacher-child relationships; Classroom quality
Munday, Jennifer School of Education	Creative Arts, theatre arts; early childhood arts & technology; hybrid arts; multi-media; online learning and teaching; reflective practice; ePortfolio creation and processes; sense of self; sense of place; ethnotheatre; the T and A in STEAM (or the T in STEM)	Qualitative methods, including Crystallisation; Bricolage; ethnotheatre.	Theatre Arts; Online education; Early Childhood creative arts & technology pedagogy
Moorhead, Bernadette School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Professional identity; newly qualified social work; early career social work; social work education; study abroad/international mobility programs; phenomenology; qualitative research	Phenomenology; interpretive phenomenological analysis; qualitative research methods; interpretivist approaches	Social work and human services
Mlcek, Susan School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Rural community development; community management; Indigenous ideas and issues; including cross-cultural competencies; volunteering; social capital; cultural capital; human services delivery; narratives from social work and human services; societal issues; for example: social inclusion of homeless people; marginalisation and isolation of refugees and migrants; sociology of education
McLeod, Sharynne Teacher Education	Speech-language pathology; Early childhood; Speech; Multilingual
McGillion, Chris School of Communication and Creative Industries	Journalism; Development communication; US-Latin American relations; religious sociology (Australia)	Documentary analysis; ethnography	Communication
McFarland, Laura School of Education	Early childhood education; Parenting; Parent-educator relationships; Teacher-child relationships; Families; Birth-two education and care; Attachment; Parental well-being and mental health; early childhood environmental sustainability
Masterman-Smith, Helen	Environmental sociology; sociology of animals; critical animal studies; sociology of work; labour history; political economy; social movement
Mathews, Jeanette School of Theology	Old Testament/Hebrew Bible; Biblical Performance Criticism; Biblical Hermeneutics; Hebrew language	Performance Criticism; Historical critical methods of biblical interpretation; literary interpretation of the bible; advocacy interpretation of the bible	Theology; Biblical Studies
Mairata, James School of Communication and Creative Industries	Film and television production and theory including narrative film style; cognitive theory and emotion research; Film History	Film and television production	Media Studies
Mansourian, Yazdan School of Information Studies	Human Information Behaviour; Information Activities in Serious Leisure; Everyday Life Information Seeking; Information Grounds; Information Visibility/Invisibility; Information Literacy and Information Society	Qualitative methods; Grounded Theory; Ethnography; Thematic Analysis; Phenomenology; Discourse Analysis; Case Studies and Action Research	Information Science
Mahony, Linda School of Education	Teacher practice; teacher education; emotional wellbeing; families; early childhood education; literacy	Grounded theory
Mackenzie, Noella School of Education	Writing acquisition; Writing processes; Writing instruction; Early years literacy; Literacy education; Early reading instruction; Transition; Teacher morale; Teacher status; Teaching awards	Qualitative
MacDonald, Amy School of Education	Early childhood mathematics education; Primary mathematics education; Mathematics curriculum and pedagogy; Transitions to school; Researching with children; Children's drawings; Representations; Ecological theory; Bronfenbrenner; Prior-to-school and out-of-school contexts; Early childhood STEM education; Professional development for early childhood educators
Lymn, Jessie Information Studies	Collections; especially zines and other DIY and community collections; Archival practices; LGBTQI+ considerations in information studies; Research data management	Qualitative research methods; Ethnography & autoethnography; Discourse analysis; Narrative; Queer theory & scavenger methods
Luck, Morgan School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Philosophy of religion; metaphysics; new and alternative religious movements; video game ethics	Analytical Philosophy
Logan, Helen School of Teacher Education	Early Childhood Education; quality; policy and policy history; educator well-being; leadership and pedagogical practice	Qualitative research methods; discourse analysis; elite interviews; mixed methods design
Liu, Jianxin (Richard) Teacher Education	TESOL; New learning; Multimodality and multimodal assessment; Gender and masculinity studies; Cultural studies; China and Chinese studies; Post-structural and postcolonial theories
Lewis, Robert School of Communication and Creative Industries	Acting, voice and movement	Voice and speech; Accents and dialects; Actor training; Directing for performance; Integrative practices; Performance making	Acting and Performance
Letts, Will Teacher Education	Science education; Cultural studies of science education; Gender and sexuality in schooling; Teacher education theory and practice	ethnographic methods; queer theory; feminist post-structuralism
Langat, Kiprono School of Education	Teacher education; Workplace learning and development; International education; Critical pedagogy; Socio-cultural studies	Ethnographic research; Case study; Critical discourse analysis
Lamping, Sally School of Teacher Education	Literacy: Adolescent and late primary; literacy acquisition among students with previously interrupted access to formal education; English education; critical and participatory literacy; critical pedagogy, metacognition, and teacher leadership; embedded literacy instruction in STEM programs; Montessori; Project Based Learning; culturally sustaining literacy pedagogies	Qualitative; Participatory Action Research; Cross Discipline Approaches	Literacy; English Education; Educational Leadership
Keskin, Zuleyha Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation	Contemporary Islamic Studies; Islamic Spirituality; Radicalisation	Theological methods; Content analysis	Islamic Studies
Kennan, Mary Anne Information Studies	E-research; Data management; Scholarly communication; Information openness; E-participation; Informed participation	Interpretivist approaches; qualitative research methods; Actor-network theory; content analyses
Jamali, Hamid R. Information Studies	Human information behaviour; health information; Scholarly communication; scientometrics	Quantitative methods; Statistics; Mixed-methods design; Qualitative data analysis
Iner, Derya Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation	Islamophobia; Muslims in the West and Australia; Religiosity; Women in Islam and Muslim societies; Early 20th century intellectual debates in the Muslim world and its extension today; Early 20th century Muslim Women history	Interdisciplinary study; mixed methods (Questionnaire surveys and interviews); archival research in early periodicals; research in Ottoman archives
Hyndman, Brendon School of Education	Social media; Media Influences; Technology-Assisted Pedagogy; Physical Education; Health Education; Climate Protection in Schools; Educational Technology; Educational Psychology; Social-Ecological Model; School Environmental Influences; Physical Activity Measurement; Active Play; School Playground Safety; Playground Equipment Strategies; Behaviour Change; Psychosocial Influences	Quantitative Methods; Qualitative Methods; Questionnaire Development; Direct Observation; Intervention Research; Document Analysis; Student-Centred Approaches; Leximancer	Personal Development, Health and Physical Education; Teacher Education; Education Across Sectors (Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Education)
Holland, Travis School of Communication and Creative Industries	Fan studies; digital media; television; communication; higher education pedagogy	Content analysis; Social network analysis; Media studies	Communication; Creative Industries; Media Studies
Holcombe, Jamie School of Communication and Creative Industries	Photography (digital and analogue); Fine Art; Creative Practice; Practice-led research; Exhibitions and Curation; Art Theory; Photographic Melancholy; Urban Landscape; Tanka Poetry; Social Comment Song Writing; Photography/Musicology Collaboration	Practice-led research; Exhibition	Photography / Fine Art
Hider, Philip Information Studies	Information organisation; Information retrieval; Information architecture; Online information behaviour; Informetrics; Valuation of library and information services; LIS education	Questionnaire surveys; transaction log analysis; usability/protocol analysis; content analysis; contingent valuation and choice modelling
Harvey, Robin School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Social Gerontology education; Mental health and ageing; Health promotion with older people; Age-friendly communities	Auto-ethnography	Gerontology
Gottschall, Kristina Indigenous Australian Studies	Cultural studies; Subjectivity (gender; childhood; Indigenous); Post-structuralism; Post-colonialism; Feminist theory	Visual and textual analysis; Discourse analysis; Alternative research methods
Gates-Stuart, Eleanor School of Communication and Creative Industries	Creative Industries; SciArts; Visual Arts; Digital Video and Print Media; Interactive technologies – museum Installation; Science Communication	Cross-Disciplinary methods; Practice-led research; Interdisciplinary practice; Science-arts visual communication; Exhibition and Museum Installation, Models of Practise, Experiential Materials and Installation	Creative Industries; Communication; Science-Arts; Visualisation, Interactive arts; Innovation Practice
Garrison, Kasey Information Studies	Educational information services; Teacher librarianship; Academic libraries and libraries in educational settings; Children's and youth literature; Storytelling; e-learning and information literacies in educational contexts (schools and higher education); Educational informatics
Garner, Jane School of Information Studies	Libraries and their role in correctional facilities; libraries and their role in the community; information poverty; access and equity; library services to the disadvantaged and underserved	Qualitative research; phenomenology	Information Studies
Francisco, Susanne School of Education	Workplace learning; Professional Learning/Professional Development; Adult and vocational education; Leading Vocational Education and Training (VET) pedagogy	Case studies; The theory of practice architectures (analytical and theoretical framework); Action research	Adult and vocational education; Education
Fenton, Angela School of Education	Early childhood education and care; Strengths approaches; Child protection; Health and safety; Child development; Emotional development; Capacity building; Parent-Educator partnerships; Children with complex needs; Resilience and well-being; Teacher education	Qualitative methods including Case studies
Elwick, Sheena School of Education	Early childhood education; child development; teacher education; visual pedagogies and methodologies, ethical responsiveness; post-qualitative research methodology; researching with infants and toddlers; Merleau-Ponty	Visual methods; philosophical-empirical inquiry; phenomenology; post-phenomenology
Edwards-Groves, Christine School of Education	Literacy education; English curriculum; Professional practice (Teaching and middle leading); Dialogic pedagogies	Conversation Analysis; Action Research (CPAR); Critical Ethnography; The theory of practice architectures	Education
Douglas, Brian School of Theology	Anglican theology; Anglican sacramental theology; especially Eucharistic theology; interfaith dialogue
Doherty, Bernard School of Theology	Church history; Patristics; History of religions; new and alternative religious movements; world religions; religion and media; sociology of religion; Australian history
Daylight, Russell School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Australian literature and culture; theatre studies; philosophy of language; semiotics; communication theory; literary theory; structuralism and post-structuralism; postmodernism; urban studies	Qualitative and quantitative research	English; Cultural Studies; Communications
Davidson, Christina School of Education	Digital literacies; Literacies; Young children’s social interactions; Classroom interactions	Ethnomethodology; Conversation analysis	Education
Daniel, Graham School of Teacher Education	Family School Partnerships; Children's experience of schooling; Early childhood research; Teacher Education	Qualitative methods; (Phenomenology; Discourse analysis; Case study research); Quantitative methods	Education; Primary Education; Early Childhood Education
Danaia, Lena Teacher Education	Science education; Astronomy education; Teacher education; Transition (primary to high school and high school to tertiary); Teacher professional learning; Classroom practice; Curriculum development
Cumming, Tamara School of Teacher Education	Early childhood education and care; early childhood educators; early childhood practice and politics; well-being; workforce sustainability; policy	Qualitative and post-structural methodologies
Crichton, Merrilyn School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Rural sociology; water politics and social equity; rural and regional mental health; rural social inequality; rural communities; qualitative social research; Bourdieu
Coruh, Hakan Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation	Medieval Exegesis of the Qur'an (Classical tafsir); Modern Qur'an Exegesis (Modern tafsir); Contemporary Islamic thought; Islamic Legal Theories (usul al-fiqh) and Jurisprudence (fiqh); Islamic Theology; Radicalisation, theological ideologies, and counter-radicalisation; Comparative Theology and Interfaith relations; Nursian Studies	Qualitative research methods
Cohen, Daniel School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Free will; moral responsibility; self-control; ethical theory; population ethics	analytic philosophy
Clarke, Stephen School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Applied Ethics; Medical Ethics; Professional Ethics; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Moral Psychology; Philosophy of Religion; Conscientious Objection; Human Enhancement; Cognitive Bias; Cognitive Science of Religion; Tolerance; Religion and Violence; Conspiracy Theories	Analytic Philosophy; Naturalistic Philosophy; Empirically Informed Philosophy
Cash, Belinda School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Informal care giving; spousal care; rural service provision; social policy; ageing in rural areas; mental health and well being	Qualitative research; multiple methods; focus groups; interviews; critical discourse analysis; thematic analysis	Social work; critical social gerontology
Carroll, Mary Information Studies	Information infrastructure; Access and equity; Education in work place; Vocational education and higher education; Libraries and their role in the community; Libraries as social and cultural institutions; Impact of outside agencies particularly philanthropic agencies on the Australian education landscape
Bowker, Sam School of Communication and Creative Industries	Research methods in art history and curatorship; learning in museum/ gallery contexts; portraiture and self-portraiture; war art; khayamiya (Egyptian tentmaker applique); Australian art; travelling artists; orientalism; anonymity in art history; tourist art; ancient art; nineteenth-century European art; Islamic art and architecture; visual cultures	Object-centered analysis; provenance and art historiography; visual analysis (formal, comparative, iconographic, semiotic and reception theories); postcolonial frameworks; subaltern or vernacular studies, as well as archival research and ethnographic studies	Art History & Visual Culture
Bell, Karen School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Post-conventional social work theory; gender; social justice; epistemic justice; ecological social work; psychosocial aspects of assisted reproduction; rural health; rural service delivery; women's health; qualitative research; social work education; international social work and international mobility programs/international social work; global social work	Qualitative methods	Social Work
Bain, Alan School of Teacher Education	Inclusive Education- learning and Behaviour foci; Inclusive Schools; Educational Technology; Educational Productivity Research; Teaching and Learning (School and University); Teacher Preparation; School and Higher Education Reform and Improvement; School Organisation	Qualitative and Quantitative research approaches; Evaluation Research	Inclusive Education; Teacher Education; School Learning; Educational Technology
Bacchus, Ruth School of Humanities and Social Sciences	Literature; literary theory; reflective pedagogy; colonialism and post coloniality; especially India/South Asia; identity; subjectivity; feminism; post-structuralism; gender; sexuality; youth; childhood	Cross-disciplinary methods; textual analysis	Literature; politics
Ansari, Masheed Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation	History of Islam and Muslims in Australia; Oral History & Migration History; Transnational and Transcultural Islamic Movements; Islamic Sacred Texts & Theology; The history of Islamic Thought, Spirituality and Culture; South Asian Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Islamic Studies & Religion & Society.
Afzal, Waseem Information Studies	Human information behaviour; Information and knowledge management; Information communities
Aernie, Jeff School of Theology	Gospel of Mark; Greek linguistics; Pauline Epistles (esp Corinthian correspondence); Pauline Theology