Affiliations / Alliances

RIPPLE's strategic research program aims to have strong connections with international research centres.

Memorandums of Understanding

  • University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
  • Stockholm University (Sweden) 
  • Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands)
  • Troms?? University (Norway)
  • University of Jyv??skyl?? (Finland) 
  • ??bo Akademi University (Finland)
  • University of Sheffield  (United Kingdom) 
  • Iceland University of Education (Iceland)
  • University of London (United Kingdom)
  • University of British Columbia (Canada)
  • Institute of Education (United Kingdom)
  • Manchester Metropolitan University (United Kingdom) 
  • The Interdisciplinary Network for Scholarship in Professions' Research in Education (INSPiRE)at the University of Western Ontario (Canada). ">Read more

Global Alliances

Title: To continue development of the Global Alliance formed with our co-researchers from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Tromsø University (Norway), Stockholm University (Sweden), Åbo Akademi University (Finland), Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands) and the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom).

  • CSU Researchers: Stephen Kemmis, Ros Brennan Kemmis, Christine Edwards-Groves, Ian Hardy and Tracey J Smith and Jane Wilkinson.

Title: International Interdisciplinary Scholarship of Professional Education

  • CSU Researchers: Professor Tom Lowrie, Professor Bill Green, Professor Joy Higgs, Professor Stephen Kemmis, Associate Professor Rob Macklin and Professor Gail Whiteford.
  • Global Alliance Researchers: Dr Anne Kinsella, and Dr Allan Pitman, Co-Directors, INSPiRE at UWO (University of Western Ontario).
  • Global Alliance Institution: The Interdisciplinary network for Scholarship in Professionals' Research in Education (INSPiRE) at UWO.

Title: Practice, Education and Work

  • CSU Researchers: Professor Joy Higgs, Associate Professor Rob Macklin, Associate Professor Lindy McAllister and Dr Franziska Trede.
  • Global Alliance Researchers: Dr Steve Hutchinson, Professor Pam Shakespeare, Professor Mary Thorpe and Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy.
  • Global Alliance Institution: The Practice-based Professional Learning Centre (PBPL), at the Open University, UK.

Title: Pedagogies of Educational Transition (POET)

  • CSU Researchers: Professor Sue Dockett and Professor Bob Perry, RIPPLE.
  • Global Alliance Researchers: Professor Aline-Wendy Dunlop, University of Strathclyde and Professor Johanna Einarsdottir, University of Iceland.
  • Global Alliance Institution: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland and the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Title: Leadership and expertise in the Health Professions

  • CSU Researchers: Associate Professor Lindy McAllister, Professor Joy Higgs, Professor Gail Whiteford, Dr Stephen Loftus, Dr Megan Smith, Dr Rola Ajjawi and Dr Franziska Trede.
  • Global Alliance Researchers: Professor Della Fish, Professor Melanie Jasper and Dr Linda de Cossart.
  • Global Alliance Institution: School of Health Science, University of Swansea, United Kingdom.

Letters of Intent

A Letter of Intent between RIPPLE and the Faculty of Education at the University of Gothenburg was signed on the 12th September 2011.