Louise has more than 30 years experience working with children across various settings, as an early childhood educator, storyteller, consultant, researcher and tertiary educator. Louise’s research interests include storytelling, children’s rights and citizenship, arts and rights based pedagogies and methodologies, decolonizing methodologies, sensation and place.
She has published more than 30 peer reviewed publications (most as lead author). Her co-authored book Research through, with and as storying (2018) with Wakka Wakka and Ngugi woman Professor Tracey Bunda is a Routledge best research seller in Australia/ New Zealand region. And her just released book Young Children’s Community Building in Action: Embodied, Emplaced and Relational Citizenship is co-authored with Associate Professor Jenny Ritchie, lead NZ CI on Spencer Foundation grant and is co-authored with Indigenous educators from site communities.
Louise is lead chief investigator of Teaching & Learning in COVID-19 times study on the teaching and learning experiences in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore & USA through the pandemic see https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/teaching-and-learning-in-a-pandemic/
Experience
2021–present
Associate professor, Southern Cross University
2019–2021
Associate professor, James Cook University, Singapore
2012–2019
Course coordinator, The University of Queensland
Education
2010
Queensland University of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy
1998
Queensland University of Technology, Bachelor of Education
1990
Macquarie University, Diploma of Teaching
Grants and Contracts
2021
Beyond global discourses of data: Storying learning in marginalised schools
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2014
Civic Action and Learning with Young Children: Comparing Approaches in New Zealand, Australia and the United States
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Spencer Foundation
Professional Memberships
Australian Association for Research in Education
Research Areas
Humanities And Social Sciences Curriculum And Pedagogy (Excl. Economics, Business And Management) (130205)
English And Literacy Curriculum And Pedagogy (Excl. Lote, Esl And Tesol) (130204)
Early Childhood Education (Excl. Maori) (130102)
Sociology Of Education (160809)
Creative Arts, Media And Communication Curriculum And Pedagogy (130201)