News and events

Who you know can make or break employment opportunities for African migrants

Racial hierarchies and a lack of the ‘right sort’ of social connections are hindering African-born migrants from securing meaningful employment in South Australia, according to new research by the University of South Australia.

Prioritise children’s wellbeing amid a COVID return to school

As a split return to school remains on the cards for South Australian families, early childhood experts are encouraging parents to focus on their child’s wellbeing, especially in the face of another potentially difficult year.

New UniSA study helps keep kids safe online

New research from the University of South Australia is helping protect children from potential paedophiles by investigating the language and behaviours that online predators use to gain unacquainted children’s trust during opening chat sequences.

Education and Social Justice Across Borders: Celebrating 100 years of Paulo Freire

Education and Social Justice Across Borders: Celebrating 100 years of Paulo Freire

Creative and Body Based Learning (CBL) Workshop

Creative and Body Based Learning (CBL) Workshop

Critical Policy Analysis: What's the Problem Represented to be?'

Critical Policy Analysis: What's the Problem Represented to be?

Implementing Trauma Informed Pedagogy through Student Centred Practice in Schools

Implementing Trauma Informed Pedagogy through Student Centred Practice in Schools

International refugees

A better knowledge of the Australian schooling system and a clear understanding of how parents can support their child’s education could ensure the academic success of thousands of refugee children, according to new research from University of South Australia.

Unlocking the learning potential of incarcerated and low SES Young People’

Unlocking the learning potential of incarcerated and low SES Young People

International Collaboration for Culturally Inclusive Early Childhood Pedagogies Symposium

International Collaboration for Culturally Inclusive Early Childhood Pedagogies Symposium

Disability Studies In Education: A framework for designing inclusive curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practices

Disability Studies in Education: A framework for designing inclusive curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practices

Commemorating the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante

Commemorating the 700th Anniversary of the Death of Dante

Book launch - World-Centred Education: A View for the Present

Please join us as Gert Biesta provides an introduction  to the key ideas and concepts in this  new book that argues that education should be world-centred rather than child-centred or curriculum-centred.

Producing policy evidence: cases of big and little ‘e’ exclusion

In this seminar, Professor Pat Thomson and Professor Martin Mills will present their research on conducting a Rapid Evidence Review on school exclusion in England and the difficulties of retaining a broad definition of exclusion in a narrow policy context.

Understanding Scotland’s policy frameworks and how they contributed to lowering school exclusions

In this seminar, Professor Gillean McCluskey will present her research on Scotland’s policy frameworks and how they contributed to lowering school exclusions.

Experiences of School Exclusions: The impact on families and students

In this seminar, Associate Professor Ian Thompson will present research from a very large UK study, titled ‘Excluded Lives: The Political Economies of School Exclusion’. 

Mem Fox and friends make literacy research magic happen at UniSA

It’s a different kind of magic that renowned Australian children’s author, Mem Fox and the Australian Literacy and Education Association (ALEA), will make happen at the University of South Australia, when they sign up to bring some of the best international researchers in children’s literature and literacy to SA over the next five years.

Schools unfairly targeting vulnerable children with exclusion policies

Australian schools are unfairly suspending and excluding students – particularly boys, Indigenous students, and students with a disability – according to new research from the University of South Australia.

Bullying will only be addressed once we look beyond the school gate

It is a mistake to see bullying as just a school-based problem for teachers to tackle, rather than a whole-of-society issue, one that needs to be addressed at a community level, if we are to successfully reduce its prevalence, says University of South Australia bullying expert, Professor Barbara Spears.

Weird Science

White lab coats and dangerous experiments all epitomise the ‘mad scientist’ from many a Hollywood blockbuster but, even beyond the silver screen, the stereotype lives on, and according to new research, it could mar the next generation of potential scientists.

Government program fails to boost literacy in remote schools

A $30-million Federal Government program designed to improve literacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in very remote schools has failed to meet its goal, according to a new study by the University of South Australia and the Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education (BIITE).