Professor Greg Thompson

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PhD (Murdoch University)

After working as a high school English, History and HPE teacher for 13 years in Western Australia, Associate Professor Thompson completed his PhD at Murdoch University in 2009. From 2009 he worked as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Murdoch’s School of Education teaching into their Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes.   Thompson’s research focuses on philosophy of education, educational theory particularly pertaining to the application of thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault and Francois Laurelle. He is also interested in education policy, and the philosophy/sociology of education assessment and measurement with a focus on large-scale testing and learning analytics/Big Data. He would be interested in syupervising HDR these in these areas.  Associate Professor Thompson is an experienced HDR Supervisor, supervising to completion Masters and Doctoral students in projects around the unintended consequences of high-stakes testing, Indigenous prisoner education, the work of Drama teachers in performative cultures, and programs for peer-led professional accountabilities.

  • Career Highlights:
  • Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow investigating the effects of Australia’s National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) on school communities (2012-2014)
  • 2012 Australian Association for Research in Education Early Career Award
  • 2012 Western Australian Institute of Education Research Early Career Achievement Award
  • Series Editor Local/Global Issues in Education (Routledge)
  • Series Editor Deleuze and Educational Research (Edinburgh University Press)
  • Australasian Editor Journal of Education Policy
  • Associate Editor Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
  • 2006 Finalist Murdoch University Vice Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Awards
  • 2004 Thelma Harley Brown Award for Outstanding Masters in Education Dissertation at Murdoch University

Additional information

Experience

Associate Professor Thompson worked as a high school teacher in Western Australia for 13 years. He taught English, History, Woodwork and Health and Physical Education up to Year 12 level. This included preparing students for WACE Examinations. He has worked in both urbal and rural schools. He has undertaken leadership roles within high school settings.

Awards

Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2019
Details
Australian Educational Researcher / Springer Best Paper Award for 'Private funding in Australian public schools: a problem of equity'.
Type
Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
Reference year
2017
Details
ARC Discovery "The Global Emergence of Commercial Provision of Schooling and its Implications for Australia"
Type
Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
Reference year
2016
Details
DE120101469 The effects of the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy on Australian School Communities.
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2012
Details
Early Career Research Award
Type
Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year
2012
Details
Early Career Research Award

Publications

Research Projects

Title
Time-Use, Time Poverty and Teachers' Work
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
00004318.0
Start year
2021
Keywords
Title
The Commercial Provision of Schooling and its Implications for Australia
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
DP170103647
Start year
2017
Keywords
Title
The effects of the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy on Australian School Communities
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
2016000547
Start year
2012
Keywords
Literacy;Numeracy;Assessment

Completed Supervisions (Doctorate)

Completed Supervisions (Masters by Research)