- Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast
Lecturer (Science Education), School of Education and Tertiary Access, University of the Sunshine Coast.
Experience
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2019–presentLecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast
Education
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2025Queensland University of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy
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2014Queensland University of Technology, Master of Education
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2010University of the Sunshine Coast, Bachelor of Science - Biology
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2010University of the Sunshine Coast, Bachelor of Education - Secondary
Publications
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2026Rethinking recruitment: Using reflexivity to understand career changers' decisions to become STEM teachers, British Educational Research Journal
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2025Examining STEM Education Policy: Gaps Between Rhetoric and Reality in Schools and Initial Teacher Education, Research in Integrated STEM Education
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2025Understanding the reasons why career changers pursue or pass on a STEM teaching career: a Best–Worst Scaling (BWS) approach, Australian Educational Researcher
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2025Questions of teacher quality: problematising myths about education in political discourse, Australian Educational Researcher
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2025Deciding (not) to become a STEM teacher: Career changers’ perspectives on student behaviour, teacher roles, teacher education, and the social value of the profession, Research In Science Education
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2023A scoping review of factors that influence career changers motivations and decisions when considering teaching, Teachers and Teaching
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2020Complexity and contradiction: Disciplinary expert teachers in primary science and mathematics education, Teaching and Teacher Education
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2019Origins of primary specialisation in Australian education policy: what’s the problem represented to be?, Australian Educational Researcher
