Welcome to the NSW Institute for Educational Research
The 2018 NSW IER Committee
Ken Sinclair, Anne Power, Alan Watson, Anne Forbes, David Hastie, Sean Kearny, Chris Grima-Farrell, Natasha Wardman (absent Samantha McMahon, Leah Moore, Michael Cavanagh and Tim Allender)
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The NSW Institute of Educational Research Inc. was founded in 1928. In 2018 the NSW IER celebrated its 90th year dedicated to encouraging study, research and service in education!
Through each year, the NSW IER conducts professional and scholarly meetings, and distributes grants to assist education research students. It also contributes to the publication of a national IER research journal and the NSWIER Newsletter. Membership is open to people with a commitment to education and an interest in educational research. Teachers and new educational researchers are also warmly encouraged to join. For more on the history of the NSWIER, click here |
Apply for a student grant!
Are you an honors or HDR student doing good quality educational research, enrolled at a universities in New South Wales? Then apply for a grant to help with your research!! STOP PRESS 30th April 2019 is the NEW deadline. For details click here
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A great night had by all!
Sir Harold Wyndham Memorial Lecture & NSWIER 90 year celebration Dinner Scientia Professor Andrew Martin Associate Professor Ken Sinclair 28 November 2018 UNSW for further details and great pics click here |
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2018 Beth Southwell Award recipients: Emily Edwards, Maria Maher, Amanda Freeborn, Adel Alamry
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What a Day!
Student Research Showcase Conference was a top opportunity for Education HDR students to present their research, held on 19th November, Macquarie University. Four students had their projects judged worthy of student research grants! further details click here 2019 Student Showcase is on Monday November 18th. Watch this space for registration details! |
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What a day!!
Literacy: What Works and Why Conference 26 June 2018 UNSW to see the videos of great event click here |
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Breaking News: Prof Carmel Cefi to give
2019 Wyndham Address: Education with Heart
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Professor Carmel Cefai is the Director of the European Centre for Educational Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health, Head of the Department of Psychology, and Associate Professor at the University of Malta.He is joint founding honorary chair of the European Network for Social and Emotional Competence (ENSEC), founding co–editor of the International Journal of Emotional Education, and associate editor of the International Journal Emotional Behaviour Difficulties. Carmel’s research interests include educational resilience, mental health, and social, emotional and behaviour difficulties in children and young people. He coordinates various research projects including risk and resilience in Maltese schools and leads two international projects on the promotion of mental health and resilience in schools. The 2020 Wyndham Address will be delivered by Professor Pasi Sahlberg from UNSW. |
Breaking News: Prof Andrew Martin accepts
NSWIER Distinguished Scholar role
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Andrew Martin, BA (Hons), MEd (Hons), PhD, is Scientia Professor, Professor of Educational Psychology, and Co-Chair of the Educational Psychology Research Group in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia specializing in motivation, engagement, achievement, and quantitative research methods. He is also Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, Honorary Professor in the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the (Australian) College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists, Distinguished Scholar for the NSW Institute of Educational Research, and Immediate Past-President of the International Association of Applied Psychology’s Division 5 Educational and School Psychology. For Andrew's full bio click here.
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