Michael Leonard Furtado

Doctor, The University of Queensland

I am an education policy sociologist, with qualifications from the Universities of London, Oxford, Strathclyde, Western Australia, Edith Cowan University and Queensland (Cert Ed, Dip Soc Stds, BA Hons, MA (Politics), Grad Dip RE, and PhD, respectively). I have taught in all three school systems in the UK and Australia.

I was Education Officer (Social Justice), Brisbane Catholic Education and have held education lectureships at the Universities of Newcastle (NSW) and Southern Queensland. I currently work in social inclusion research to support a professional development project across Queensland called Discovering Disability & Diversity.

I am an Honorary Research Advisor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. My main research contributions relate to diverse global denominational public school systems and their comparative educational outcomes.

Experience

1998–2000

Lecturer, Education Studies, The University of Southern Queensland
1993–1996

Lecturer, Education Studies, The University of Newcastle, NSW

Education

2001

The University of Queensland, PhD (Education)

Publications

2009

Historical Construction and Australian Catholic Education: some lessons for school funding ......, Discourse, International Journal of the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol 30, No 2
2005

The End of Modernist Approaches to School-funding Policy in Australia: a new rationale.............., International Journal of Inclusive Education, Vol 9, No 4

Research Areas

Education Policy (160506)
Education Systems (1301)

Honours

Catenian Scholar, University of Oxford, 1972-74