News and events

New UniSA study to boost support for early career teachers

A new University of South Australia research project hopes to boost retention of early career teachers by investigating how improved induction programs can better support new teachers in the classroom.

ARC Discovery grants will explore innovations in education, self-healing concrete, machine learning and families at risk

Bourdieu and Educational Research: Book Series and Book Launches

Bourdieu and Educational Research: Book Series and Book Launches

Teachers at breaking point: Why working in S.A. schools is getting tougher

Teachers at breaking point: Why working in South Australian schools is getting tougher

2022 de Lissa Oration - Young children's rights to safe places, and what difference does the digital make?

2022 de Lissa Oration - Young children's rights to safe places, and what difference does the digital make?

Stopping child sexual exploitation

Online grooming, false identities, and broken trust – they’re all a part of one of the fastest growing global crimes: child sexual exploitation. But hidden beneath fear, shame, and betrayal, this horrific abuse continues to devastate Australian families.

Child sexual exploitation: How it's defined, how to identify it and how to respond to it.

Did you know, child sexual exploitation is now one of the fastest growing global crimes?

Aboriginal Education Futures

Dr Tyson Yunkaporta and Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney will participate in a forum on Aboriginal Education Futures to help us to rethink education and shape its future in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and precarity

Beyond the Visual: An Introduction to Researching Multimodal Phenomena

Dr Frank Serafini is UniSA’s visiting research fellow who will be presenting at this seminar as part of the CRESI Methodology and Workshop Series

Shaping a Democracy: South Australian politics and its leaders in the 1860's

In this lecture Professor Alan Reid explores political life in South Australia in the 1860s.

Bi-/multilingualism in education: Inclusion, conflict prevention and pandemic

'Bi-/multilingualism in education: inclusion, conflict prevention & pandemic' presented by Dr Michael B. Paradowski - Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw.

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