Here is a listing of our research group members and their major areas of interest. We are always interested in hearing from anyone with similar interests and anyone seeking partners for projects and consultancies. We have undertaken projects in conjunction with many other university research groups, TAFE Institutes, private and public enterprises, and private consultants.
Cathy Down (Team Leader) <
cadown@csu.edu.au> | Visit my webpage
Cathy has undertaken considerable funded research concerning key issues within vocational education and training including ten different research studies on Key Competencies and Employability Skills, three strategic evaluations for the Australian National Training Authority on aspects of Training Packages and research and development into a number of curriculum issues including the original conceptual development and implementation of Dual Recognition programs (now VET in Schools) and the Victorian Certificates of Applied Learning.
Cathy's main areas of research are:
Ros Brennan Kemmis < rbrennan@csu.edu.auu> | Visit my webpage
Ros' academic background is in the area of economic history. She holds a BA (Hons) from Macquarie University and has a postgraduate Diploma in Language and Literacy and a Masters of Education from Charles Sturt University with specialisations in Assessment & Evaluation and the Online Delivery of VET in Australia.
Ros' recent research has focused on an evaluation of Indigenous students' progress in VET. She has also researched extensively in pedagogy of online delivery of VET in Australia. Her areas of special interest are in communication and language, literacy and numeracy with newly emerging priorities of the Vocational Education and Training sector. Ros has an extensive education career spanning teaching engagements from kindergarten through to university level. She has worked with adults who return to read and write, with prison inmates and with people who have an intellectual disability. Ros is committed to the support of students who return to formal study after many years in the workforce and to the need to provide the best quality teachers and trainers for sectors of education in Australia.
Ros' main areas of research are:
Peter Rushbrook < prushbrook@csu.edu.au > | Visit my webpage
As a historian of education interested in the context that shapes contemporary vocational education and practice, Peter looks at both the large and small historical picture. For example, he is currently working with colleagues at RMIT and the University of New England to unravel the factors that shape what may be called 'the construction of the good worker'. This is being considered from the perspective of both employees and employers. As one can imagine, each group has a diametrically opposed view of the 'ideal' worker.
At a more specific level, Peter is working on a project examining the causes of a training accident that occurred at Kapooka army camp in May 1945, resulting in the death of twenty–six engineers or 'sappers'. The accident remains the largest in Australian army history. The project is of interest in itself as an unexamined piece of our history, and also as an example of the development of Australian training systems.
Within the contemporary VET research environment, Peter is completing a two–year project evaluating the New South Wales Police Service probationary constable practicum program. The project has involved staff from the CSU School of Education, the Police College (Goulburn), and the New South Wales Police Service. The project's outcomes have already contributed to significant changes within the NSWPS constable education program.
Peter's main areas of research are:
Annemaree Lloyd <
anlloyd@csu.edu.au>
Annemaree is a lecturer in the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University. Before joining the School, she worked as a librarian and part–time teacher in TAFE NSW. Her research interests focus on exploring information literacy meaning in workplace contexts, the role of information literacy in embodied learning, information use and transfer of information skills from training to workplace contexts, information affordance and communities of practice, and workplace information seeking as contested practice.
Annemaree's current research focuses on how fire fighters and ambulance officers access, use and engage with information in the development of subjective and intersubjective workplace positions.
Annemaree's main areas of research are:
Annette Green < angreen@csu.edu.au> | Visit my webpage
Annette's research interests began, before joining CSU, with an interest in investigating the disparity between teacher background and expectations and student performance and beliefs in the ATSI (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) context. I have been involved in research with a team of literacy teachers on cross provider collaboration where the interest of students was deemed to be more important than institutional boundaries. I also worked on the introduction and piloting of the National Reporting System for Literacy, Numeracy and Language which was part of the reform agenda in the 1990s.
Annette's current research focus is on teachers from industry as they begin their teaching careers after completing an accelerated teacher training program at CSU. The study explores the attitudes, approaches and values these new teachers bring to their new career during their internship and their first eighteen months of teaching. By using thematic analysis combined with critical discourse analysis, the study will hopefully document some of the changes to the senior secondary system in the rural sector with the shift to offering more vocationally orientated courses in schools. She is also interested in the influence of the teachers on the school and how this shifts over time.
Annette's main areas of research are:
Wendy De Luca <
wdeluca@csu.edu.au> | Visit my webpage
Wendy has a background within Defence and has had experience in industry-based VET. She has also worked extensively in the train-the-trainer field and as an instructional designer/training developer. Wendy originally trained as a secondary teacher and studied VET as part of her MEd. She has recently commenced a professional doctorate program.
Wendy's main areas of research are:
Paul Galloway <
pgalloway@csu.edu.au>
Updated: 4 June 2008
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