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DrDeb Brosseuk

Senior Lecturer in Primary English

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Senior Lecturer in Primary English
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

2026–2028 | Constructing Reading Teacher Identities: Insights from Artefacts and Practice
In collaboration with Dr Lynn Downes (Queensland University of Technology), this project explores teachers’ identities as reading educators, drawing insights from artefacts that reveal how they perceive and enact their roles in supporting students’ reading development.

 

2025–2027 | AI and Literacy: Developing Reading Identities in Tweens and Teens
In collaboration with the Griff LinC (Literacy in Context) Team (Assoc. Professor Jennifer Alford, Assoc. Professor Katherine Main, Dr Frances Hoyte, Dr Kylie Bradfield, Dr Danielle Heinrichs-Henry), this project explores the emerging reading identities and confidence of tweens and teens who are not yet fluent independent readers.

 

2025–2027 | Teachers’ Curriculum-Making Capabilities in English
This longitudinal study, in partnership with RMIT and collaborators Dr Phil Poulton and Dr Kellie Picker, examines how teachers engage with  centralised curriculum materials in New South Wales and Victoria.

 

2024–2026 | Is It Quality Writing?
Conducted with Dr Phil Poulton (RMIT), this study investigates the quality of writing instruction in centralised curriculum units from New South Wales and Victoria for Kindergarten–Year 6 teachers.

 

 

2024–2025 | Preservice Teachers’ Use of Children’s Literature in Curriculum-Making
This project, with Dr Phil Poulton (RMIT), explores how preservice teachers translate the formal curriculum into meaningful lesson sequences using children’s literature, focusing on interpretation, judgment, and transformation.

 

2023–2025 | Preparing Preservice Teachers in Early Literacy Teaching: Trial of the Non-Scripted Intentional Teaching (N-SIT) Pedagogic Tool
In collaboration with Dr Stacey Campbell (Southern Cross University) and Associate Professor Michelle Neumann (Sheffield University), this funded project develops the N-SIT tool to support young children’s literacy, including phonics and phonemic awareness.

 

2022–2024 | What Do Quality Teachers Do to Build Capacity for Writing and the Teaching of Writing?
This funded study, with Dr Stacey Campbell (Southern Cross University), uses the ELLCO K–3 toolkit to examine writing environments, instruction, and products in two early years classrooms to understand how teachers enhance children’s writing capacity.

 

2022–2024 | Teacher Preparedness for Teaching
This funded study investigates classroom preparedness and the role of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programs in equipping preservice teachers to teach effectively and support children’s learning and development.

 

2020–2023 | Teachers’ Conceptions of Multimodality and Multimodal Texts
In collaboration with Dr Lynn Downes (Queensland University of Technology), this funded project explores early and primary teachers’ conceptions of multimodal texts and their use in the classroom.

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • PROJECT
    Constructing Reading Teacher Identities: Insights from Artefacts and Practice
    Queensland University of Technology2026 - 2028
    Project leaders:
    • Brosseuk D
    Collaborators:
    • Downes L
    In collaboration with Dr Lynn Downes (Queensland University of Technology), this project explores teachers’ identities as reading educators, drawing insights from artefacts that reveal how they perceive and enact their roles in supporting students’ reading development.
  • PROJECT
    AI and Literacy: Developing Reading Identities in Tweens and Teens
    Griffith UniversityMonash UniversityUniversity of RegensburgUniversity of Wyoming2025 - 2027
    Project leaders:
    • Brosseuk D
    Collaborators:
    • Bradfield K,
    • Heinrichs D,
    • Main K
    In collaboration with the Griff LinC (Literacy in Context) Team (Assoc. Professor Jennifer Alford, Assoc. Professor Katherine Main, Dr Frances Hoyte, Dr Kylie Bradfield, Dr Danielle Heinrichs-Henry), this project explores the emerging reading identities and confidence of tweens and teens who are not yet fluent independent readers.
  • PROJECT
    Teachers’ Curriculum-Making Capabilities in English
    RMIT University2025 - 2027
    Project leaders:
    • Brosseuk D,
    • Poulton P,
    • Picker K
    This longitudinal study, in partnership with RMIT and collaborators Dr Phil Poulton and Dr Kellie Picker, examines how teachers engage with centralised curriculum materials in New South Wales and Victoria.
  • PROJECT
    Is It Quality Writing?
    2024 - 2026
    Project leaders:
    • Brosseuk D,
    • Poulton P
    Conducted with Dr Phil Poulton (RMIT), this study investigates the quality of writing instruction in centralised curriculum units from New South Wales and Victoria for Kindergarten–Year 6 teachers.
  • PROJECT
    Preservice Teachers’ Use of Children’s Literature in Curriculum-Making
    2024 - 2025
    Project leaders:
    • Brosseuk D,
    • Poulton P
    This project, with Dr Phil Poulton (RMIT), explores how preservice teachers translate the formal curriculum into meaningful lesson sequences using children’s literature, focusing on interpretation, judgment, and transformation.
  • PROJECT
    Preparing Preservice Teachers in Early Literacy Teaching: Trial of the Non-Scripted Intentional Teaching (N-SIT) Pedagogic Tool
    2023 - 2025
    Project leaders:
    • Brosseuk D,
    • Campbell S,
    • Neumann M
    In collaboration with Dr Stacey Campbell (Southern Cross University) and Professor Michelle Neumann (Sheffield University), this funded project develops the N-SIT tool to support young children’s literacy, including phonics and phonemic awareness.
  • PROJECT
    What Do Quality Teachers Do to Build Capacity for Writing and the Teaching of Writing?
    2022 - 2024
    Project leaders:
    • Brosseuk D,
    • Campbell S
    This funded study, with Dr Stacey Campbell (Southern Cross University), uses the ELLCO K–3 toolkit to examine writing environments, instruction, and products in two early years classrooms to understand how teachers enhance children’s writing capacity.
  • PROJECT
    Teachers’ Conceptions of Multimodality and Multimodal Texts
    2020 - 2023
    Project leaders:
    • Brosseuk D,
    • Downes L
    In collaboration with Dr Lynn Downes (Queensland University of Technology), this funded project explores early and primary teachers’ conceptions of multimodal texts and their use in the classroom.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Achievement gaps in literacy as a wicked problem : Meeting diverse learning needs with a Year 3 support initiative
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Cognitive Load Refutation and Retro-Cues: Supporting Students with Atypical Neurological Development (AtND) to Construct Meaning from Age-relevant Curriculum-aligned Texts
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Curriculum making in high school English: teachers' perspectives and practice in a time of curriculum reform
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Providing cognitive accessibility to grade appropriate texts for students with disabilities
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    What else might this be called : Exploring educators' experiences with the Early Years Toolbox Vocab Task in culturally and linguistically diverse early childhood education and care settings