Emma Rowe is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University, and her research focuses on public education, policy and practice. Emma's research has held a long-term interest in the reform of public education, school segregation and marketisation. In 2021, Emma received an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) to study philanthropy in public education and how this impacts policy, practice and governance (2021-2024). She is a Fulbright Scholar (2020) and completed a residency at Indiana University, hosted by Professor Christopher Lubienski in 2022. She continues to serve as a Research Fellow at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University. She was an invited guest lecturer to Yale University USA September 2022, and Aarhus University Copenhagen, August 2023. Emma’s work is regularly featured in leading Australian media, including newspaper and television. She has written Opinion Pieces for The Age and ABC News. She publishes in Q1 journals including Journal of Education Policy, Comparative Education, the International Journal of Educational Research, amongst others. She currently serves as a lead editor for Journal of Education Policy and previously an Associate Editor for Critical Studies in Education, highly ranked journals in education research. She is on the editorial board for the International Studies in Sociology of Education. Emma’s work has won numerous awards including the Best Paper Award (2020) by Springer. She has presented within featured symposiums at conferences in Australia, Britain, US and Japan.

See her profile: https://experts.deakin.edu.au/31545-emma-rowe

Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3747-8070

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University
  • 2022–2024
    Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
  • 2018–2021
    Senior Lecturer in Education, Deakin University
  • 2015–2017
    Lecturer in Education, Deakin University

Education

  • 2015 
    PhD in Education, Monash University

Grants and Contracts

  • 2021
    Venture philanthropy in public education: governance, policy and practice
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council

Research Areas

  • Education (13)
  • Education Systems (1301)
  • Secondary Education (130106)
  • Comparative And Cross Cultural Education (130302)

Honours

Fulbright Scholar 2020

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