Associate ProfessorAlexandra McCormick
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Associate ProfessorFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Title: Comparative and International Education
Summary of opportunity:
Alex is Associate Professor in Comparative and International Education in the Sydney School of Education and Social work.
Alex explores issues of equity and social justice in education and international development policy and discourse in her research. She investigates global social policies and education through collaborative and discourse analytic approaches, having conducted research into 'post-2015' education and the Sustainable Development Goals in the South Pacific, building on prior work on Education for All (EFA) in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.
Opportunity synopsis:
Research interests
Educational systems: administration, management and leadership
- International and comparative education
Social structures, inequalities and social justice
- Social change
Social work and social policy
- Third sector research
Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals; Education for All, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, global social policy, norm transfer, multi-level partnerships; decolonial approaches; critical discourse analysis
----------Current Research Projects----------
2025-2026 Sydney Policy LAb Node: International Education
2024 Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) Collaborative Research Grant: Equity and Learning on the Thai/ Myanmar borders: Generating Lessons from civil societies' work with Myanmar refugees and migrants on education policy and practice for democracy, peace and reconciliation
2019 International Professional Experiences for Teacher Education Students, DFAT New Colombo Plan Grant
2018-2019 Listening to the Partners - the impact of a demand-driven support, Ritesh Shah, A. McCormick, E. Maber and C. Brandt, Eschborn, Germany, Deitsche Gesellshaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION“When I was Traversing Australian Schooling”: Lived Experiences in Understanding Refugee Education
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONColonial Educational Crossroads: Government and Missionary Contests and the Subjugation of Kenyan-Africans (1895-1936)
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONExamining Policy Reform of a Teacher Continuing Professional Development Programme Among Primary School Teachers in Indonesia
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONGender Inequality In Higher Education: The Landscape of Bangladesh
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONHigher education sans frontières: Understanding the role of universities in addressing the protracted refugee situation in Kenya
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONIndonesian Pesantren: Creating 'Good' Citizens for Indonesia's Multicultural Society
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPathway Reflections: Intercultural Understanding in NSW Preparatory Programs to Higher Education
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPrecarious places, precarious knowledges: Interrogating epistemic inclusion and integration in Disaster Risk Reduction education
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONReligion, Politics and Education in Afghanistan, 1950s -1980s: The Case of Habibia High School
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Education of Empire: Government and Missionary Contests in East and Southern Africa (1815-1940)
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe exploration of schooling experiences in regular primary schools of girls with disabilities within an inclusive education framework in Papua New Guinea. A transcendental phenomenological study
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Influences of Schools and Communities on the Identities and Pathways of the Subaltern Students Who Experience War in the Southern Philippines’ Mindanao
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe role of higher education in social change in Saudi Arabia in terms of the role of family and the role of women