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Associate Professor of STEM Education & Professorial Lead for Industry Engagement & Career Development (Education), University of South Australia

Simon Leonard is Associate Professor of STEM Education and the Professorial Lead for Industry Engagement and Career Development at UniSA: Education Futures. His research investigates the use of Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership and expansive models of teacher professional learning to enable the scalable and sustainable application of the science of learning in real-world schools. Simon has been a CI on over 20 industry-linked research projects with a combined budget of over $9 million. His professional roles have included Head of School of Teacher Education, Academic Coordinator for Indigenous Higher Education Pathways, and Head of Senior School at a large regional secondary school.

Simon is a member of C3L — the Centre for Change and Complexity of Learning, which researches human and artificial cognition and knowledge processes.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of STEM Education, University of South Australia
  • 2013–2018
    Associate Director INSPIRE Centre, Univeristy of Canberra
  • 2010–2012
    Head of Teacher Education , Univeristy of Canberra

Education

  • 2002 
    University of Wollongong, Doctor of Philosophy
  • 1997 
    Charles Sturt Univeristy , Graduate Diploma of Education
  • 1997 
    Univeristy of Wollongong, Bachelor of Arts (Hons)
  • 1996 
    Univeristy of Wollongong , Bachelor of Science

Publications

  • 2023
    Self-determined learning in a virtual makerspace: a pathway to improving spatial reasoning for upper primary students, International Journal of Technology and Design Education
  • 2023
    Empowering mathematics teachers to meet evolving educational goals: The role of “epistemic objects” in developing actionable practice knowledge in tumultuous times, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
  • 2023
    Learning Analytics for Lifelong Career Development: A Framework to Support Sustainable Formative Assessment and Self-Reflection in Programs Developing Career Self-Efficacy, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • 2023
    Design-based research in mathematics education: trends, challenges and potential, Mathematics Education Research Journal

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    South Australian Academy of Gender Equity in STEM
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    National Careers Institute
  • 2022
    Careers Compass
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    National Careers Institute
  • 2020
    A multi-level multi-scale model of data informed professional learning
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    Trinity College

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  • International Society of the Learning Sciences
  • Society of Learning Analytics