The Community of Associate Deans Research in Education (cADRE) helps to facilitate and guide collaborative research on shared issues and promote a culture of research cooperation.
cADRE was established by ACDE in 2013 to:
- Provide advice and make recommendations to ACDE on policies and matters relating to Educational Research.
- Provide advice on processes to assist ACDE in achieving and maintaining excellence in Educational Research.
- Extend the links and enhance collaboration between educational researchers, policy makers and the wider community to advance Educational Research.
- Provide a collegial forum for discussion, debate and recommendations on Educational Research, including the role of Associate Deans (Research).
Convenor: Professor Catherine Manathunga on 07 5459 4669 or cmanathu@usc.edu.au
Australian Education Research Leaders' Summit, 2022
Assessing ARC Grant Applications
Did you know that many Australian Education researchers provide feedback in ARC assessment reports, which is putting applications at risk of not being funded?
At the recent Australian Education Research Leaders’ Summit, the assessment of ARC applications was discussed. Informal advice from previous ARC College of Experts indicates that, in Education we could do better in the way we provide assessments.
Australian Education Research Leaders' Summit, 2022
National Education Research Leaders’ Summit: 29-30 June 2022
Professor Catherine Manathunga, Chair of cADRE, USC; Professor Elke Stracke, Deputy Chair cADRE, University of Canberra and Professor Anna Sullivan, Research Development Coordinator AARE; Professor Allyson Holbrook, President AARE organised a National Education Research Leaders’ Summit in Adelaide on 29 and 30 June 2022.
The event was hosted by UniSA and included Education research leaders representing all states; the AARE professoriate; Associate Deans of Research in Education; Deans of Education and Directors of Education research centres. The focus of the summit was on the challenges facing the education research sector and national, sector-wide strategies to address them. An action plan was developed, and plans were put in place to establish working parties on the following issues:
- Research partnership initiatives
- Grant and other research assessment development
- LIEF grant application to build research infrastructure for the Education field
- Formation of a coalition of Education Research Leaders
- Work with peak bodies such as Learned Academies
- Communicating with government and bureaucracies
- Supporting HDR, ECR and MCR Education researchers
- Working with First Nations researchers to facilitate Indigenous Education research.
Read Professor Catherine Manathunga’s opening address ‘Why we must take the pulse of education research in Australia now‘ on AARE’s EduResearch Matters blog.
cADRE WEBINARS
cADRE webinar held on 15 June 2023 on Supporting Education Mid-Career Researchers.
Facilitated by Professor Catherine Manathunga (Chair of cADRE, USC)
This webinar is designed to be the first step conducted by the cADRE Working Party on Supporting Education HDR, ECR and MCR researchers from the National Summit held in June 2022.
The 2022 National Summit of Education Research Leaders organised by AARE and cADRE (Community of Associate Deans Research in Education) identified a need for national action on strategies to support the professional development of HDR, ECR and MCR researchers in education. Given the urgency of succession planning in education, we are beginning with MCR researchers. This interactive cADRE/ACDE webinar presented some of the existing research on the needs of education MCR researchers and then gathered the perspectives of education MCR researchers from around Australia. These issues will then be presented to the ACDE Board for discussion and action.
cADRE held a joint cADRE/ACDE webinar on 27 May 2022 on Reimagining education research in a post-election world
Professor Catherine Manathunga (Chair of cADRE, USC) facilitated and introduced the event. The web chat was facilitated by Professor Elke Stracke (Deputy Chair cADRE, UniCan)
Short presentations were delivered by:
- Professor Stephen Billett (Griffith) – Reimagining the Educational project through research
- Emeritus Professor Marie Brennan – Contexts for (Rise of) Privatised Organisations in Education research
- Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles (SCU) – Grass-roots research agenda setting project of NSW Deans of Education
- Professor Tom Lowrie (UniCan) – Commercialising Education research
Deputy Chair of ACDE, Professor Donna Pendergast (Griffith) provided a short ACDE welcome and vote of thanks
2024 cADRE Seed Grant
Educational researchers were invited to apply for an ACDE-funded Seed Grant of $3,000 to seed a project on a ‘hot’ education topic with national significance with a view to enable educational research that promotes evidence-based practices and policies.
We are pleased to announce the successful recipient of the grant is: Dr Rebecca English from the School of Teacher Education & Leadership at QUT.
The alignment between ‘school can’t’ (refusal) and the rise in homeschooling: A case study of submissions to a 2024 Queensland parliamentary inquiry
In March 2024, the Queensland government introduced an amendment bill to the Education (General Provisions) Act that would have increased the compliance measures to which homeschoolers were subject. These compliance measures included the removal of provisional (or fast approval) registration and the use of ACARA curriculum. The community, in particular the large numbers of accidental homeschoolers who are largely from the ‘school can’t’ (refusal) community, galvanised and fought the amendments through the 2,000 submissions objecting to the bill. This study examines the ways that these ‘school can’t’ homeschoolers described their homeschooling in the submissions.
cADRE and ACDE wish Rebecca all the very best for her research project.
