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Social work, stress, trauma, resilience, workplace support

Masters and Doctoral

Sexuality education, masculinities and schooling, feminist post-structuralism, embodiment and education.

Masters and Doctoral

Practitioner Research

Social work, Values and Ethics, Professional Supervision, Child protection, Continuing professional education, Student learning, Practicum & Fieldwork, Management, Leadership Collaboration

Masters

Higher education policy; student engagement and achievement; academic and pastoral support; Equity; Equity policy and discourse; Pacific/Pasifika education; Pacific regionalism (policy).

Masters

Migration policy and practice, migrant settlement and adaptation; 1.5 generation adolescents; issues dealing with biculturalism/ multiculturalism; immigration and social work; multicultural social work.

Masters and Doctoral

Social Work Profession, Clinical Supervision, Workforce Issues, Professional Development, Workplace Learning, Critical Reflection, Social Work in Health Care.

Masters and Doctoral

Levels of education/professional practice: secondary, community, high performance
Subject knowledge: sport coaching, physical education, martial arts, Japanese secondary school
Key issues – contemporary coaching pedagogies, socio-cultural studies, leadership
Theoretical approaches – Socio-cultural theory, hermenutics
Key theorists or researchers – Vygotsky, Gadamer, Piaget

Masters and Doctoral

Levels of education - early childhood, primary, secondary and higher education.

Subject knowledge - science education and education for sustainability/environmental education.

Key issues - socioscientific issues, pedagogical content knowledge, identity, conceptual development.

Theoretical approaches - (social) constructivism; transformative learning theory; identity theories.

Key theorists - Mezirow, Stevenson.

Masters and Doctoral

Quantitative data analysis (esp. multivariate data analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, longitudinal curve modeling, testing, surveys, quasi-experimental methods)

Mixed-method data collection and analysis techniques

Assessment (including test & item writing, classical and modern test theory analysis, standardised & classroom testing, formative assessment, peer- and self-assessment, standard setting, effectiveness evaluation, higher education assessment)

Teacher and student attitudes, values, & beliefs (esp. validity and reliability studies of instruments focusing on effects of attitudes on outcomes and behaviour and related beliefs, such as teaching, learning, and curriculum)

Cross-cultural comparative research (esp. interest in Chinese/East Asian studies)

Masters and Doctoral

Theoretical traditions include cultural studies, feminism, interpretive interactionism, postmodernism.

Masters and Doctoral

Specific areas of interest include: mentoring and programme evaluation, extracurricular activities, education and employment transitions, health literacy, motivation, achievement, engagement, identity, cultural identity, youth participation, positive psychology, subjective well-being and adjustment.

Masters and Doctoral

Early childhood education, sociology of childhood, immigration and education, parenting, learning and teaching within Chinese contexts, transnationalism, identity theories, critical multiculturalism, critical pedagogy.

Masters and Doctoral

Primary mathematics, science and technology education, digital technologies and pedagogy.

Honours and Masters 

Qualitative methodologies including in-depth interviewing and focus group interviews

Quantitative methodologies including surveys and analysis of data sets

Narrative methodologies including: biographical research, collective biographical research, auto-ethnography, story-telling methodology, life histories
 

Levels of education/professional practice: Higher Education; Secondary teaching; Mental Health
Subject knowledge: Maori education, social practice, Gender, feminism, Maori feminism, Peace education, Women and HIV, research on Mothering, identity politics
Key issues – cultural identity, marginalised experiences, mana wahine Maori, transcultural social practice, refugee and migrant communities, social justice, diaspora, transnational, spirituality
Theoretical approaches: kaupapa Maori, Postmodern, narrative, critical theory
Key theorists or researchers: Graham Smith, Linda Smith, Alison Jones, Kuni Jenkins, Leonie Pihama, Mason Durie, Fiona Cram, Elaine Ginsberg, Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Chris Weedon

Masters and Doctoral

Early childhood education: educational leadership / teacher leadership / assessment / infant-toddler pedagogy and curriculum / pedagogies of care / children's interests and inquiries / culturally responsive pedagogy / equity and empowerment in early childhood / Pasifika children in mainstream settings / teacher-family partnerships / teacher beliefs, knowledge and understandings. 

Sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, Rogoff)

Cultural-historical activity theory (Vygotsky, Engestrom, Edwards).

Lisa Darragh

l.darragh@auckland.ac.nz

Mathematics education, identity, socio-political issues in mathematics education, neo-liberalism, professional learning and development in mathematics education.

Masters and Doctoral

Secondary education, adolescent cognition, critical thinking, critical thinking discourse analysis, surface to deep learning, pedagogy suitable for adolescent learners, motivation and engagement of adolescent learners, teaching adolescent learners, issues with NCEA, and learning incorporating digital technologies, dialogical discussions, dialogic teaching, neurological changes in adolescents, neuroscience and learning

Honours, Masters and Doctoral

Youth development, Youth programming, Programme evaluation, Social psychology, Community psychology,

Masters and Doctoral

Masters and Doctoral

Mathematics education, specifically primary.

Masters and Doctoral

Community, health agencies, early childhood, secondary, primary, higher education, physical education, social work, counselling, Māori education, Pacific education, ICT, technology, media, maths education, science education, dance, curriculum policy, cultural identity, school leadership, higher education philosophy, marginalised experiences, Social realism, postmodernism, symbolic interactionism, kaupapa Māori.

Masters and Doctoral

Dr Esther Fitzpatrick
+64 9 623 8899
ext 48518
e.fitzpatrick@auckland.ac.nz

Ethnic and cultural identity constructions, embodiment, Postcolonial and immigration experiences and tensions, primary and higher education, pedagogical knowledge: Arts based pedagogy, Hauntology, Decolonisation.

Masters and Doctoral

Health education, physical education: issues of culture, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in health and physical education, and critical ethnography.

Masters and Doctoral

Annaline Flint

+64 9 623 8899
ext 48237

a.flint@auckland.ac.nz

Teacher beliefs – expectations, self-efficacy, goal orientation, motivation, relatedness to students, passion for teaching; engagement Values education; Beginning teacher induction and mentoring

Masters and Honours

Social Services,
Workforce development, Practice Research

Masters and Doctoral

Literacy learning and leading focused on merging the development of innovative and collaborative teacher leaders, who design and implement oral and written language interventions for children and youth with and without disabilities, in order to transform literacy outcomes of students and facilitate sustainable processes for system (districts, schools, classrooms) revitalization.

Masters and Doctoral

Higher education - critical and post critical (including feminist) theories of higher education. Academic identities, discourses of higher education; academic writing; supervision of graduate students; equity in higher education.

Masters and Doctoral

Research related to new teacher professional learning and development including initial teacher education, the practicum, beginning teachers, teacher inquiry, induction and mentoring.

Masters and Doctoral

Early childhood curriculum, early childhood pedagogy, young children's learning and cognition, research with young children as participants, teacher beliefs and knowledge, teacher professional development, student teaching practicum experiences.

Masters and Doctoral

Drama in Education, Critical reflection, the Moral and Political nature of teaching, Boys underachievement.

Masters

School and middle leadership, teacher professional learning and development, facilitation, schooling improvement, assessment, measurement of student outcomes, primary and secondary contexts.

Subject knowledge: the Arts, secondary school assessment, government policy.

Masters and doctoral

Māori Education

Masters and Doctoral

Qualitative study - in depth interviews, focus groups and theoretically informed data analysis.

Have some limited experience in the analysis of narrative accounts of lived experience.

Research related to social work, service recipients, and the lived experience of relative poverty.

Effectiveness of current approaches to the delivery of social work services form the perspective of social workers and service recipients.

Critcal realism and marxist dialectics.

Relevant theorists include Bhaskar and Callinicos.

Doctoral

Mixed- methods school-based research combining student achievement data with qualitative data sources, including case studies, classroom observation, student and teacher interview data. 

Literacy acquisition and literacy education, Writing and pedagogy of writing, transfer and application of textual knowledge, Intertextuality and dialogism in literacy learning, cognitive and socio-cultural theories of literacy acquisition and development, culturally responsive approaches to literacy pedagogy.

Masters and Doctoral
 

Māori language and education

Masters and Doctoral

Higher education; doctoral education and supervision; history of education; discourses of education (including education in popular culture); academic writing.

Masters and Doctoral

The environmental and sociospatial dimensions of social work practice
Community-and place-based social interventions
Ecological and community-centered approaches to child, youth, and family services
Social responses to environmental change/climate change
Public child welfare
Social work history and theory
Women and gender

Masters and Doctoral

Mathematics education, Professional development, Mentoring, Cultural issues, Secondary and tertiary education in mathematics, higher education, academic identities, threshold concepts.

Masters and Doctoral

Parenting and family relationships. Fathers' influence on development. Cultural influences on parenting and child development. Parenting interventions using the Triple P Parenting Program.

Developmental Psychology, especially temperament, social and emotional development. Atypical behavioural development including ADHD, preschool behaviour problems and hyperactivity.

Masters and Doctoral

Schooling improvement and school change; research-development interventions to improve teaching and learning; sustainability of school reforms; professional learning communities.

Masters and Doctoral

ICT in education, instructional design and technology, e-learning, m-learning, problem-based learning, alternative pedagogy

Masters and Doctoral

Interventions in education including Pasifika involvement, digital learning, ICT in education, e-learning, m-learning,Technology Education, Enterprise Education, and nutritional changes in primary settings.

Masters and Doctoral

Teacher learning, professional development, school change and improvement initiatives, leadership, pre-service pedagogy, beginning teacher development, literacy and arts education.

Masters and Doctoral

Refugees, resettlement, trauma, loss and grief, cross cultural practice, social work practice, social work education, working with youth and youth deemed ‘at risk’

Masters and Doctoral

Pasifika research, Early Childhood Education (pedagogy and leadership), arts-based education practice, Pasifika pedagogy, online learning (blended learning approaches).

Masters

Counsellor education and higher education including pedagogy and curriculum issues, educator personal teaching philosophies and developing of students’ theoretical frameworks. Clinical and professional supervision in health and social services including evaluation of supervision.  Additional interests include counselling in primary health care.  

Masters

Learning design/instructional design, digital technologies/ICT in education, higher education, digital pedagogies, game studies, gamification, digital cultures, social media, interactive media, narratology.

Masters and Doctoral

Language policy, language rights, language education, multicultural education, multiculturalism, the politics of ethnicity and nationalism

Masters and Doctoral

Mentoring of students and teachers, student teacher learning on practicum, the role of the visiting lecturer or professional supervisor in student teacher learning, the role of associate teachers, professional learning, links in learning between the university and schools, teacher expectations

Honours, Masters and Doctoral

Subject knowledge: music education, curriculum design, one-to-one music pedagogy
Key issues: knowledge in the curriculum, curriculum design, pedagogy
Theoretical approaches: sociology of education, social realism
Key theorists or researchers: Basil Bernstein

Masters and Doctoral

Technology acceptance, computer assisted learning, digital pedagogy, ICT, teacher education

Doctoral

Educational Psychology, with a particular interest in supervising students utilising advanced quantitative methodologies to address equity-related questions within the Educational sector. As the Education Domain lead for the major longitudinal study, Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ), I am especially interested in hearing from prospective doctoral students interested in working with GUiNZ data.

Masters and Doctoral

Educational leadership including leadership interventions, school improvement, problem-solving in educational contexts, school leaders' conversations and feedback, goal-setting in educational contexts; literacy practices, teacher judgment and bias

Masters and Doctoral

Qualitative methodologies including in-depth interviewing

Ethnographic methodologies including classroom observations

Surveys

Language teaching methodology, bilingualism, bilingual education, language policy, teacher professional development, development of writing skills, teacher feedback

Doctoral

Previous doctoral supervisions in social studies and citizenship in Taiwan, Steiner Education and Geography Teaching, citizenship and neoliberalism, free and open software in Turkey

Masters' supervisions in new media, educational policy, geography education

Masters and Doctoral

Disability studies in education, inclusive education, and the sociology of special education

Structures and practices that support teachers and schools to welcome all children, young people and their families and provide a quality education for all students

Disability Studies and social constructionism

Doctoral

Mixed methods – qualitative plus document analysis, survey and single case design

Curriculum development and implementation

Education policy and history

Masters and Doctoral

Applied theatre, community based arts, theatre and drama education (early childhood through to adult education), youth theatre.
Economic, organisational and management issues in applied theatre, ecology and sustainability, arts and social justice /social change.
Feminism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, performance theories.

Masters and Doctoral

Teacher education with a particular interest in the practicum. Physical education with an emphasis in areas such as: learning in through and about games; the sociology of the body; and the concept and nature of good teaching in PE.

Masters and Doctoral

Health education; physical education; primary, intermediate and secondary schooling; critical obesity studies; childhood obesity; children's (un)healthy lifestyles; fat studies; critical ethnography; advertising and marketing to children; the privatisation, corporatisation and commercialisation of education; health promotion in schools; food and nutrition education; body image; sexuality education; sociology of the body; corporate philanthropy; children and young people's understanding of health, fitness, fatness, sport, physical activity, exercise and play.

Masters and Doctoral

Curriculum theory and practice, Knowledge and epistemology, Politics of knowledge, Cultural Politics; History of Education; Sociology of Education; Public Policy; Political Studies; Māori Education; Indigeneity, ethnicity and identity studies; Socio-economic class, Higher Education and International Education.

Masters and Doctoral

Counselling and psychotherapy, the use of technology, mind-body work, criminality, suicide, gender and sexuality, social anxiety, workplace and leadership, and spirituality. 

Masters and Doctoral

Teacher expectations, teacher beliefs, teacher bias, under-privileged students, minority group students, Māori, the instructional and socio-emotional climate of the classroom

Masters and Doctoral

Masters

Key research issues/interests: Education and international development, comparative and international education, education in conflict-affected/fragile state environments, education in Oceania (including the Pacific); education and globalisation; educational policy studies; teachers' work and identity; evaluation approaches and methodologies. Theoretical approaches: critical realism, complexity theory, post-colonial theory.

Masters

Educational leadership - including leadership interventions, school improvement, principal and teacher evaluation/appraisal, problem-solving in educational contexts and educational leaders¹ interpersonal capabilities, conversations and feedback

Curriculum - including national and local curriculum policy, implementation and evaluation and comparative studies

Inquiry oriented practice ­ including practitioner inquiry, Teaching as Inquiry, inquiry-oriented teaching standards, student voice

Masters and Doctoral

Citizenship and Identity as well as Social Studies Education

Masters and Doctoral

Clinical social work, working in the areas of treatment for depression, grief and loss, anxiety disorders and personality disorders, cognitive behavioural theory, dialectical behaviour therapy and mindfulness practice, professional social work identity, history of social work and social workers, mental health, counselling in social work and biculturalism.

Masters and Doctoral

Educational psychology--academic motivation, self-regulation, moral development and functioning, character education, cheating behaviour, blended learning, and learning analytics.

Masters and Doctoral

Masters and Doctoral

Qualitative:

Surveys
Interviews
Discourse analysis
Focus groups
Classroom observations

Primary, secondary, higher education
Subject knowledge: Social Sciences curriculum, higher education
Key issues: Social justice and equity in education, Disadvantage/privilege, Social class and poverty, Initial Teacher Education, Priority learners
Theoretical approaches: Critical theory

Masters and Doctoral

Qualitative methodologies including in-depth interviewing and focus group interviews.

Quantitative methodologies including surveys, analysis of data sets.

Levels of education/professional practice: Primary, Secondary, Higher Education, Maori bilingual units, Maori immersion units, Kura Kaupapa Maori, Wharekura.

Subject knowledge: Transacquisition pedagogy, Maori medium education, Bilingual education, Second language acquisition, Language learning and teaching, Bilingualism and Biliteracy.

Key issues - indigenous language loss, language change, language revitalisation, language evolution, flexible bilingualism, language fluidity.

Theoretical approaches - Kaupapa Maori, Conceptual progression, Social realism.

Key theorists or researchers - Lev Vygotsky, Jim Cummins, Nancy Hornberger, Elizabeth Rata, Basil Bernstein.

Masters

Posthumanism, New Materialism, Post-Qualitative research. Early childhood education, childhood studies, children's literature. Philosophy of education and history of education. International Education.

Masters and Doctoral

Teaching of languages in schools, Language teacher education, Teachers’ beliefs, Use of technology in language teaching.

Masters and Doctoral

Development of Māori medium curriculum. Māori medium mathematical discourse. The teaching and learning of mathematics in Māori medium contexts.

Masters

Angela Tsai
+64 9 623 8899 ext 81552
a.tsai@auckland.ac.nz

Higher education; science education; undergraduate; educational technologies; assessment; constructive alignment; metacognition of learning

Masters

Educational leadership; educational change; professional learning

Masters and Doctoral

Educational administration, science and chemistry education, secondary teacher education, learning and work environment studies.

Masters and Doctoral

Gifted education – any area

Masters and Doctoral

Gender issues, gender stereotypes and stereotype threat, teacher expectations and their influence on student outcomes, the relationship between student ethnicity and gender, and the social psychology of the classroom.

Masters and Doctoral

Identity, Ethnicity, and/or Hybridity studies. Teaching, Learning and Māori students.

Masters and Doctoral

Subect knowledge: Child development, cognitive and conceptual development, language and literacy development and learning.
Key issues:  transition to school; socio-cultural perspectives on development and learning; communicative/dialogic practices and writing genres; biological thinking; development of children’s theories and causal explanations in adult-child conversations
Key theorists/researchers - Lev Vygotsky, Barbara Rogoff, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ann Hass Dyson, W Hanks, Maureen Callanan

Masters and Doctoral

Dr Aaron Wilson
+64 9 373 7599
ext 48574
aj.wilson@auckland.ac.nz

Main research interests are related to improving outcomes for Maori and Pasifika students and students in low socio-economic communitities. I have a particular interest in secondary schooling but have supervised and conducted research in primary schools as well. Particular areas of interest are:
Disciplinary literacy,Literacy in mathematics and the sciences,NCEA,Subject English,Teacher professional learning and development,Reading comprehension,Writing,Promoting productive classroom talk/dialogue apoproaches.

Masters and Doctoral

Pasifika Education, Emergent Literacy, Student Retention and Achievement, Leadership Skills. Any topics on Early Childhood Education especially with Pasifika communities.

Masters and Doctoral

Bilingual-biliteracy acquisition/learning, metacognition in literacy learning, school-based intervention on literacy development (reading and writing), home-school literacy practices, TESOL, teacher development, teacher identity, teacher cognition and change.

Masters and Doctoral