Professor Greg Thompson

PhD (Murdoch University)

After working as a high school English, History and HPE teacher for 13 years in Western Australia, 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 the philosophy of education and educational theory. 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 supervising HDR these in these areas. 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