CREEW Postgraduates
Meet our postgraduates who are supervised by CREEW staff
Doctor of Philosophy
Susan Bardy
Supervisors: Peter Willis, Tom Stehlik
Final journey in terminal illness: Role of the hospice nurse as a travelling companion
Sue Bennett
Supervisors: Judith Gill, Alison Mackinnon
Coeducation in the new millennium: Choices, changes and challenges
Marnie Best
Supervisors: Lyn Arnold, Bruce Johnson
Student experiences/perceptions of formal processes of school inclusion following juvenile detention
Chris Boulter
Supervisors: Sue Nichols, Bruce Johnson
Teacher perceptions: Working with learning disabled students in inclusive settings
Leigh Burrows
Supervisors: Philip Slee (Flinders University), Tom Stehlik
Towards an integral teaching and learning approach that has the capacity to integrate body, mind and spirit
Jill Burton
Supervisors: Marie Brennan, Roger Harris
Writing TESOL
Margaret Byrne
Supervisors: Peter Willis, Bob Smith
Illuminating the intangible: Learning to teach caring for the spirit in palliative care
Pam Carden
Supervisors: Peter Willis, Judy Gill
Joining the funeral procession: Learning journeys and the ethnographic task
Jenni Carter
Ssupervisors: Elaine Butler, Marie Brennan
The (im)possibility of political and ethical responsibility in education
policy: a contemporary Australian study
Melanie Cheel
Supervisors: Tony Densley, Michael Trainor
Middle primary students' interpretations of the resurrection narratives and
implications for teaching in Australian Anglican/Catholic schools
Jan Coker
Supervisor: Peter Willis
By whose design? Industrial design education in the University
Jane Connell (Canada)
Supervisors: Roger Harris, Michele Simons
Adult learner barriers in problem-based learning: A holistic approach
Jeannie Daniels
Supervisors: Sue Shore and Elaine Butler
Work (paid and unpaid), women as knowers, and VET
Jennifer Davids
Supervisors: Michele Simons, Roger Harris
Retaining experienced teachers in TAFE by addressing the role of Lead Vocational Teachers in TAFE and their career development needs
Lisa Davies
Supervisors: Tom Stehlik, Roger Harris
Entering the maelstrom: Working with employees with depression
Patricia Feehan
Supervisors: Jenny Barnett, Tony Densley
Children's constructions of religious language
Brenton Fopp
Supervisors: Bruce Johnson, Rodney Fopp
Given up: An investigation of adults adopted in South Australia between
1940-1970
Peter Geyer
Supervisors: Roger Harris, Peter Willis
Differing personalities: Constructions of personality and levels of
understanding of the MBTI by trained professionals
Anne Glover
Supervisors: John Schiller, Judy Gill, Wendy Schiller
The education reform agenda as innovation in education in PNG
Deborah Green
Supervisors: Bruce Johnson, Barbara Spears
A study to expolore the protective mechanisms employed by bullies to maintain their status in the social dynamic
Ian Hamilton
Supervisors: Peter Willis, Marie Brennan
Some ethical and aesthetic implications for visual cutlure: a sustainable framework for visual arts education
Kirsty Hammett
Supervisors: Peter Willis, Robert Hattam
Virulent subjects: PLWHA, injecting drug users and public policy
Steven Hodge
Supervisor: Roger Harris, Michele, Simons, Peter Willis
Transformative learning and competency-based training in the Australian
vocational education and training system
Frida Hristofski
Supervisor: Bruce Johnson
Moving from talking the talk to walking the walk in teaching for social and emotional wellbeing in school settings:
A longitudinal comparative case study with pre-service to early career teachers
Janett Jackson
Supervisors: Peter Willis, John Holmes
Creation, reflection and transformation: A narrative portrayal of drama
pedgogy and the transformative nature of Scaffoled Original Performance (ScOPe)
with adolescent school students
Steven Kelly
Supervisors: Alan Reid, Barbara Comber
Valued knowledge and pedagogical paradigms for adolescents of the risk
society
Sharron King (completed 2007)
Supervisor: Sue Howard
A collaborative research study investigating and supporting the development and implementation of a PBL curriculum
for the School of Medical Radiations
Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier
Supervisors: Phil Cormack, Margaret Freund
Teacher development
Eva Lai
Supervisor: Judith Gill
An investigation of the perceptions of teaching staff and parents of the integration programme for disabled
children in mainstream pre-schools in Hong Kong
Louise Laskey
Supervisor: Bruce Johnson
Teachers' experience of mandatory reporting: Implications for training
Ann Lawless
Supervisors: Peter Willis and Elspeth McInnes
Radical wisdom
Glenna Lear
Supervisors: Tom Stehlik, Peter Willis
The role of third age learning in vulnerable regional communities
John Macumba
Supervisors: Peter Willis, Tom Stehlik
The track to Macumba: Learning journeys in endurance, resistance, community
development and communications
Graham McDonagh
Supervisors: Roger Harris, Chris Provis
The impact of rationalisation and power upon the collision repair industry within Australia
Peter McGuire
Supervisors: Jill Burton, Peter Willis
Aesthetic self-expression of Sudanese people living in Darwin
Suzanne Mitchell
Supervisors: Barbara Spears, Faye McCallum
Bullying and belonging: peer relationships in school settings – the
experiences of children and young people in care
Ruth Mullins
Supervisor: Tony Densley
A quantitative study of the cultural spirituality of current leaders in
catholic schools in South Australia
Dawn Nolan
Supervisors: Peter Willis, Tom Stehlik
Church spires and minarets: Aboriginal catholic ministry and Afghani refugees
what's the link
David O’Brien
Supervisor: Alan Reid
How is the concept of trust understood in a school community?
Lorraine Overton
Supervisor: Bruce Johnson
Teachers' understanding of student resiliency: A study into teachers'
abilities to identify and implement strategies to enhance resilience-promoting
factors in children
Karen Plane
Supervisor: Roger Harris
Contextualising small business/winning partnerships in the Adelaide Hills
Region
Nancy Poole (Canada)
Supervisors: Tom Stehlik, Michele Simons
Coalescing on Women's Substance Use issues in Canada: Linking research,
policy and practice
Jacinta-Marie Poskey
Supervisors: Graeme Hugo, Tom Stehlik
Socio-spatial reproduction: Education advantage and disadvantage in metropolitan Adelaide
Claire Ralfs
Supervisors: Peter Willis, Robert Hattam
Contribution of professional development in the community services
Tim Richter
Supervisors: Tony Densley, Michael O'Donoghue
Are the ideologies of conservative Christianity reconcilable with the principles of public education?
Anthony Roberts
Supervisor: Judith Gill
The effects of R-7 schoolboys perceptions of masculinity on their education
Brendyn Semmens
Supervisors: Robert Hattam, Alan Reid
The dynamic between organisational structures, meaning making and power
relations in an education organisation
Halia Senu
Supervisors: Roger Harris, Peter Willis
Committment as a project risk: An action research
Tom Short (New Zealand)
Supervisors: Roger Harris, Peter Willis
An exploration of strategic alignment and learning in human resource
development
Regina Sliuzas
Supervisors: Judith Gill, Heather Foster
How does gender and disciplinary background affect the identity of learning, academic skills advisers in tertiary education,
how does this contribute the marginalisation of learning support centres?
Hannah Soong
Supervisors: Brenton Prosser, Michele Simons
Developing pre-service teachers cognitive and reasoning skills using the community of inquiry approach:
A longitudinal study Developing pre-service teachers' cognitive and reasoning skills using the community
of inquiry approach: A longitudinal study
Shelley Spencer
Supervisors: Jill Burton, Sue Nichols, Peter Willis
Language teacher as language learner
Elspeth Stephenson
Supervisor: Bruce Johnson
Maintaining resilient wellbeing in young children across transition and change
Robert Steventon
Supervisor: Bruce Johnson
Developing reflectivity in primary school teachers
Nancy Taber (completed 2007)
Susan Taylor
Supervisors: Elaine Butler, John Walsh
Leadership and management: Investigating strategies of leadership and
management in the primary school to asist schools in the future with an
anticipated shortage of teachers and subsequently principals
Christine Thorley
Supervisors: Peter Willis, Tom Stehlik
Resistance learning in rehabilitation: The healing gifts of artistic
reflection and arts based educational service
Deborah Tranter
Supervisors: Judith Gill, Alan Reid
Why University? School culture and student aspirations to higher education in
disadvantaged secondary schools
Jenni Werner
Supervisors: Judith Gill, Margaret Peters
Unequal opportunity: a cross national comparison of gender equity and the experience of senior women in organisations
Gayathri Wijesinghe (completed 2007)
Assoc Supervisor: Peter Willis
Tourism and hospitality reception practice
Tracy Willcock
Supervisors: Ruth Geer, Tangi Steen
The impact of technology mediated distance learning on remote cultures
David Williams
Supervisors: Bruce Johnson, Barbara Spears
Teacher folklore: Classroom management and novice teachers
Ros Yuen
Supervisors: Judith Gill, Greg Yates
How do young women make decisions about careers?
Sharon Zivkovic
Supervisors: Michele Simons, Peter Willis
Increasing the effectiveness of citizen participation in community action and decision making by incorporating
education for sustainable development principles into adult citizenship education program
Doctor of Education
Brian Crossman
Supervisors: Sue Shore, Michele Simons
Transforming leadership and followership - some local and global perspectives
Daphne Lordly (Canada)
Supervisors: Sue Nichols, Sue Shore, Elaine Butler
Dietetic prior learning assessment: A Canadian study about what counts as dietetic knowledge and how that knowledge is valued
Fiona Partridge
Supervisors: Bruce Johnson, John Walsh, David Lloyd
Exploring the construction of knowledge about middle years teaching and
learning in the practice of pre-service teacher education
Trevor Short
Supervisors: Rob Hattam, Tom Stehlik
What about alternative schools? A narrative account by teachers and principals
Jenny Stanley
Supervisors: Faye McCallum, Tom Stehlik
Student retention: Looking for pathways forward
Master of Education
Lydia Richards
Supervisor: Roger Harris
What factors determine the effectiveness of Occupational Health and Safety
training within organisations?
Danny Slater
Supervisor: Peter Willis
Contemplation, meditation, retreat - intentional silence as a point of
leverage in fostering organisational learning