ProfessorNicole Mockler

Project Opportunities

Title: Education Policy and Politics

Summary of opportunity:

Dr Nicole Mockler is Professor of Education within the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, and has a background in secondary school teaching and teacher professional learning. In the past she has held senior leadership roles in secondary schools, and after completing her PhD in Education at the University of Sydney in 2008, she was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle until early 2015. Nicole's research interests are in education policy and politics, professional learning and curriculum and pedagogy, and she also continues to work with teachers and schools in these areas.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

• Teachers’ work and identities
• Teacher professional learning
• Education policy and politics
• Education and the media
• Curriculum and pedagogy

----------Current Research Projects----------

Representations of Education in the Print Media
This project uses innovative research methods (including corpus-assisted discourse analysis) to map print media representations of teachers in Australia since the 1990s. This research is the focus of a recent research monograph and a number of upcoming journal articles.

Time-Use, Time Poverty and Teachers Work (ARC Linkage Project 2020-2024) Professor Greg Thompson (QUT), Associate ProfessorAnna Hogan (QUT), Professor Nicole Mockler (USyd), Associate ProfessorMeghan Stacey (UNSW). This project focuses on the nature and quantity of teachers' and school leaders' work, and is undertaken in partnership with the Queensland Teachers' Union.

Strengthening Teacher Induction through Quality Teaching Rounds (Commonwealth Department of Education 2023-2025) Laureate Professor Jenny Gore, Dr Leanne Fray, Dr Drew Miller, Professor Nicole Mockler, Dr Sally Patfield. This large cross-sectoral project explores the potential for Quality Teaching Rounds, a structured inquiry-based teacher professional learning approach, as a support early career teachers.

Australian Teachers, Educational Data and Evidence-Informed Practice
This project focuses on Australian teachers' use of educational research, data generated both within and beyond their schools, and the enactment of authentic evidence-informed practice. The project has given rise to a number of journal articles and a Special Issue ofTeaching Education,co-edited with Professor Martin Mills (QUT), Dr Meghan Stacey (UNSW) and Dr Becky Taylor (UCL IOE).