Dr Naomi Barnes

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Senior Lecturer

Doctor of Philosophy (Griffith University)

Dr Naomi Barnes is a Senior Lecturer interested in how crisis influences education politics. With a specific focus on moral panics, she has demonstrated how online communication has influenced education politics in Australia, the US and the UK. She has analysed and developed network models to show the effect of moral panics on the Australian curriculum and how it is taught. Naomi is also regularly asked to comment on how Australian teachers should respond to perceived threats to Australian nationalism, identity, and democracy. Naomi lectures future teachers in Modern History, Civics and Citizenship and Writing Studies. She has worked for Education Queensland as a Senior Writer and has worked as a Secondary Humanities and Social Science teacher in the government, Catholic and Independent schooling sectors.

Additional information

Experience

Naomi was a Secondary English, History and Geography Teacher from 1997 to 2010 in Southeast and North Queensland. She has experience in the government, Catholic and Independent sectors. Naomi worked as a Head of Curriculum from 2005-2010 in all sectors and a Year Co-ordinator for three of those years. She also worked for Education Queensland on a curriculum project from 2012-2013. Naomi has a particular expertise in writing composition and political education history.

Publications

Current Supervisions

  • Emergency Remote Learning (ERL) in Australian Higher Education: The Experience of International Students From Malay-Speaking Countries
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Associate Professor Kate Thompson
  • Professional, Public or Private: Policy and Teacher Identity on Social Networking Sites
    Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Dr Radha Iyer
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