Sue Ollerhead

Sue is a senior lecturer in Languages and Literacy Education and the Director of the Secondary Education Program at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her expertise lies in English language and literacy learning and teaching in multicultural and multilingual education contexts. Her research interests include translanguaging, multilingual pedagogies, literacy across the curriculum and oracy development in schools. Sue is a founding member of Macquarie University's Multilingualism Research Centre, which fosters research on multilingualism across Macquarie University, collaborates with researchers in Australia and overseas on multilingualism research, and provides research-based support on multilingual policies and practices to community organizations in New South Wales.