Associate Professor James Davis

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Associate Professor, Faculty of CI, Education & Social Justice

My research focuses on innovation and entrepreneurial capabilities in STEM education across schools, post-secondary and informal learning contexts. I draw HDR students from the Indo-Pacific region and my collaborators are located in Malaysia, PR China, and Hong Kong.

Indo-Pacific experience

  • Malaysia
  • Hong Kong
  • People’s Republic of China (PRC)

Past and current projects

A study of emotional energy in a Chinese primary STEM classroom
Commenced in 2019. Collaboration with Shanghai Normal University investigating emotions in learning in a primary school context.

Emotional energy and creativity of young STEM makers: An ethnographic study using wearable devices
Proposal submitted HK Research Council. Collaboration with Education University Hong Kong.

Co-lead for Doctoral Forum linking QUT with Beijing Normal University, University of Calgary
This program connects HDR students and produced co-authoring opportunities on an annual basis.