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Dr Nicole Mockler is an Associate Professor of Education, and has a background in secondary school teaching and teacher professional learning. In the past she has held senior leadership roles in secondary schools, and after completing her PhD in Education at the University of Sydney in 2008, she was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle until early 2015. Nicole’s research interests are in education policy and politics, professional learning and curriculum and pedagogy, and she also continues to work with teachers and schools in these areas. Nicole has co-authored and edited 14 books, including Questioning the Language of Improvement and Reform in Education: Reclaiming Meaning (Routledge, 2018) andTeacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap (Springer, 2009). Her new monograph, Constructing Teacher Identities: How the Print Media Defines and Represents Teachers’ Work, is currently in press, to be published by Bloomsbury in early 2022. Nicole is currently the Editor in Chief of The Australian Educational Researcher, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the British Educational Research Journaland Educational Action Research. She was the Communications Co-ordinator for the Australian Association for Research in Education from 2011 until 2016, and until December 2016 was Associate Editor for both Critical Studies in Education and Teaching and Teacher Education. She was the recipient of a University of Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) Fellowship for 2018 and 2019.
