Research Team

  • Professor Karen Dooley

    Karen is the Research Training Coordinator in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership (STEL) in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice (CIESJ). Teaching Karen teaches research methods. She supervises Higher Degree Research students on a range of topics, including language and literacy education in conditions of...

  • Elizabeth Briant

    Elizabeth is the Senior Research Assistant on the project ‘Private Literacy Tutoring: A sociology of shadow education’. She is also a current PhD candidate researching the role that private literacy tutoring may have in parental education strategies. Prior to her academic work, Elizabeth was a secondary teacher for Education Queensland,...

  • Dr Megan Kimber

    Megan is a Senior Research Assistant on the project ‘Private Literacy Tutoring: A sociology of shadow education’. Her research interests and publications are in educational administration and education policy, public management and public policy, ethical dilemmas, inclusive education, service-learning, and school improvement. Megan has been working as a Senior Research...

  • Dr Mary Finch

    Dr Mary Finch is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at QUT. Within the project, she is working on a study “University students as private tutors: A comparative study of students from Education and non-Education courses”. This study will investigate the experience of university students who work as private academic tutors for school-aged...

  • Adon Berwick

    Adon is involved in the Private Literacy Tutoring research project as research assistant. His PhD study is a sociological investigation into the production and use of materials and coursebooks in EFL classrooms. His own linguistic interests took him to Asia for over 10 years, where he learnt languages, worked as an...

  • Dr Rebecca English

    Dr. Rebecca English is a researcher, teacher and mother whose work is concerned with parenting and education. She has an interest in the ways parents make choices for their children that align with their beliefs about family, parenting and other factors. Her particular interest is in the choice of non-mainstream education, especially democratic...

  • Professor Catherine Doherty

    Professor Doherty is a co-investigator, previously with us at QUT, now working at the University of Glasgow. I am a sociologist of education and applied linguist. I am interested in how education practices and policies can both contribute to social change, and mitigate its effects. Before becoming an academic, I...

 

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