Professor Kitty te Riele leads the research portfolio in the Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment at the University of Tasmania. The Centre is a partnership between the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian State Government, in association with the Office of the Governor of Tasmania.
Kitty's research aims to enhance young people’s opportunities to access and succeed in education. Emphasis is placed on working with those in marginalised communities. Kitty is internationally respected as a leading expert on alternative educational provision. Much of her research examines and supports the work of flexible learning programs to enable marginalised young people to have better life opportunities through education and training. She is co-chair of the board of the Australian Association for Flexible and Inclusive Education aafie.org.au
Kitty's additional research interest is in research ethics.
Key Books:
"Harnessing the Transformative Power of Education" (with Becky Shelley, Natalie Brown, Tess Crellin, Brill, 2020) https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004417311
"Reimagining schooling for education. Socially just alternatives" (with Glenda McGregor, Martin Mills, Aspa Baroutsis & Deb Hayes, Palgrave, 2017). http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137595508
"Ethics and Education Research" (with Rachel Brooks and Meg Maguire, SAGE, 2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473909762
"Negotiating ethical challenges in youth research" (with Rachel Brooks, Routledge, 2013)
"Making Schools Different: Alternative approaches to educating young people" (SAGE, 2009)
Key research reports:
Supporting Expecting and Parenting Teens (SEPT) Trial - https://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/1466603/UTAS-2021-SEPT-ReportWithAppendix-final-03082021.pdf
Learning at home during COVID-19 - https://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/1411012/Brown-et-al-2020.pdf
Literacy Teaching in Tasmania: Teaching Practice and Teacher Learning - https://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/1411019/Stewart,-te-Riele-and-Stratford-2019b.pdf
Improving educational connection for young people in custody - https://www.vu.edu.au/sites/default/files/Improving-educational-connection-for-young-people-in-custody.pdf
Flexible learning programs in Australia - http://dusseldorp.org.au/priorities/alternative-learning/jigsaw/
Fact sheets - see https://www.utas.edu.au/underwood-centre/publications-and-resources/fact-sheets