WAIER Forum 2025: Awards
These photographs illustrate Award conferrals at the 40th Annual Research Forum, Saturday 16 August 2025, in Boola Katijin at Murdoch University.Please adjust window width to suit your screen size and web reader settings.
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WAIER Forum 2025: Awards
These photographs illustrate Award conferrals at the 40th Annual Research Forum, Saturday 16 August 2025, in Boola Katijin at Murdoch University. |
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WAIER Postgraduate Awards 2025 The Western Australian Institute for Educational Research presents a number of Postgraduate Awards annually. The aim of these Awards is to recognise excellence in postgraduate student research in the field of education. The Faculty, School or Department of Education from participating WA universities selects an outstanding student researcher to whom this prize will be awarded. For WAIER Postgraduate Awards in previous years, see [PG Award recipients] | |
| Dr Stephanie Dryden PhD thesis, Curtin University Understanding the impact of translingual discrimination on migrants' linguistic integration and emotional wellbeing in Australia http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/96146 Conferred in absentia by WAIER President Dr Sian Chapman, accepted on Dr Dryden's behalf by Dr Cindy Ann Smith |
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| Dr Karen Nociti PhD thesis, Edith Cowan University Place literacies emerging from the common worlds of place and children https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2848/ [Presentation abstract] Conferred by WAIER Awards Coordinator Dr Olivia Johnston |
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| Dr Eve Clucas Professional Doctorate, Murdoch University An Investigation of classroom and behaviour management pedagogy in Australian initial teacher education https://researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctoral/An-Investigation-of-Classroom-and-Behaviour/991005701567707891 Conferred in absentia by WAIER President Dr Sian Chapman, accepted on Dr Clucas's behalf by Dr Helen Dempsey |
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| Dr Salvatore Pietro de Luca EdD thesis, The University of Notre Dame Australia The perception of Year 11 students in Catholic secondary schools towards Christian service-learning https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/theses/430/ [Presentation abstract] Conferred by WAIER Awards Coordinator Dr Cindy Ann Smith |
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| Dr Rikki James EdD thesis, The University of Western Australia A study of the history of the curriculum for media studies in secondary schools in Western Australia from 1974 to 2024 https://doi.org/10.26182/awfa-p515 [Presentation abstract] Conferred by WAIER Awards Coordinator Dr Cindy Ann Smith |
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WAIER Research Grant 2025 WAIER's annual Research Grant aims to support early career and established researchers who do not have ready access to funds or resources; and/or require seeding funding for new projects for research directly relevant to early childhood, primary, secondary or tertiary education. | |
| Dr Jian Zhao The University of Western Australia Conferred by WAIER Research Grant Awards Coordinator Dr Olivia Johnston and WAIER President Dr Sian Chapman |
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WAIER Early Career Award 2025 The aim of this award is to recognise excellence early in an academic/research career and to encourage continuing contributions to research. The award is an incentive as well as an acknowledgment of early success and it is hoped that the person receiving the award would proceed to complete further research of excellent quality. The award is open to applicants who:The ECA Award 2025 recipient was announced at the Forum. For information about previous Early Career Award recipients, see [Previous ECA Awards} | |
| Dr Ren-Hao Xu The University of Western Australia Conferred by WAIER Research Grant Awards Coordinator Dr Olivia Johnston and WAIER President Dr Sian Chapman [Presentation abstract] |
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