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NEWS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Professor David Lubans and Ms Kristen Cohen
Professor Jenny Gore
Professor Catharine Coleborne
$1.3M NHMRC Partnership Grant
Education researcher appointed to prestigious journal
Faculty welcomes new Head of Humanities and Social Science
Professor Jenny Gore has been appointed Chief Editor of the prestigious Teaching and Teacher Education journal.
After 16 years at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, Professor Catharine Coleborne returned to Australia this year to take up a new appointment as Head of School in the School of Humanities and Social Science.
Professor David Lubans from the Priority Research Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition in collaboration with Associate Professor Chris Lonsdale from the Institute for Positive Psychology & Education at the Australian Catholic University have been awarded a $1.3M National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) partnership grant, titled Evidence-Based Physical Activity in Primary Schools: Improving Children’s Health Through Sustainable Partnerships. This NHMRC grant includes partnership funding from the NSW Department of Education to deliver a multi-component professional learning intervention targeting primary school teachers in NSW. The project, known as iPLAY, aims to promote children’s physical activity in up to 200 schools across NSW over the next five years. FEDUA Fellows Congratulations to our 2016 FEDUA Fellows: Dr Tamara Blakemore, Dr Debra Donnelly and Dr Narelle Eather. The FEDUA (Faculty of Education and Arts) Fellowship Scheme is an important element of the Faculty’s Research and Innovation Action Plan that seeks to accelerate the research capacity of the Faculty through the professional development of its staff and support for their research. Our 2016 Fellows join previous recipients of the FEDUA Fellowship: Dr Sally Hewat, Dr Philip Matthias and Dr Kylie Shaw (2015); Dr Brooke Collins-Gearing, Associate Professor Alistair Rolls, Dr Steven Threadgold, Dr Christine Hatton (2014); Dr Gillian Arrighi and Associate Professor Marguerite Johnson (2013); Associate Professor Tom Griffiths, Dr Jo Ailwood (2012); and Professor Philip Morgan (2011).
This highly regarded international journal is ranked 2nd in the world among journals in teacher education and 26th of 230 journals in education. Gore has been on the Editorial Board of the journal since 1998 and served as Associate Editor for many years. Taking over as joint Chief Editor with colleagues Professor Max Smith and Dr Kathryn Holmes (WSU), the Faculty are delighted that this prestigious Elsevier journal is now based in Australia at the University of Newcastle. The journal's disciplinary and methodological breadth means that editorial work is at once challenging and stimulating and is a measure of the international esteem for the editors, the Teachers and Teaching Research Centre and the School of Education. 2016 Radford Lecture Since 1978, the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) annual conference has chosen a distinguished figure in educational research to give the Radford Lecture. Professor Jenny Gore, Director of the Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, has been asked to present the Radford Lecture at the AARE Conference in November 2016. To date, Professor Gore has been awarded more than AUD$5.1 million in research funding including nine grants from the Australian Research Council – seven as lead investigator.
Professor Coleborne is an internationally recognised historian of health and medicine with an extensive portfolio of research, teaching, administration and academic leadership. Her research and publishing in the histories of mental health, families, illness, colonial worlds and medical institutions, as well as in law and history has attracted world-wide attention. ARC Linkage-Project to assist Australian music industry Music researcher Professor Richard Vella has been awarded an Australian Research Council Linkage-Project for the first methodical study on how Australian performing artists are developed internationally through government and industry programs. This interdisciplinary project includes Professor Stephen Chen from Newcastle Business School, music policy researcher Associate Professor Shane Homan from Monash University, and Ms Millie Millgate Executive Producer at the Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA).