Leanne Higham, PhD

Congratulations to Dr Leanne Higham on their Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education Winner
#AARE2025
#NewConnectionNewDirections

Though we made the decision not to post about the conference sessions live, you can read a short summary of the GSCS SIG's showing at #AARE2025 here, prepared by co-conveners @leannehigham.bsky.social and @barrieshannon.com 🌈🎓

We have arrived on Bluesky! 🎉 We'll be posting about SIG events, education news, and publications by our members who are at the forefront of research on gender, sexuality and cultural studies in education. 🌈

“AARE members strongly oppose the amendment to the Youth Justice Act 1992 to include adult time for adult crimes. Education research provides evidence that punitive and exclusionary approaches should not be supported because of the immediate and longer term impact on children, with vulnerable and marginalised children disproportionately affected by zero tolerance policies. The research also indicates that effective early intervention supports positive pathways for young people at risk of offending. Association member Professor Andrew Hickey and colleagues’ (2024) Queensland Government funded research into young peoples’ pathways shows how setting the right conditions for young peoples’ success represents a more feasible way of circumventing youth crime and anti-social behaviour. As Professor Ross Homel (2024) identifies ‘expensive, punitive youth crime policies do not make the community safer’.

Today Qld Parliament passed a law to incarcerate children using adult sentencing.

While we are disappointed with this result we are heartened to see members' dissent recorded in the report.

Thank you to the team that had the capacity to respond in a ridiculously short amount of time.

Really enjoying Prof Julie McLeod’s Presidential Address this morning at #AARE2024 - such an important body of work being woven together masterfully

#AARE2024 symposium: Socially just education, climate justice and curriculum reform. What if teachers could take risks with curriculum, pedagogy, assessment? Why is it so hard to teach climate justice in schools? strikingvoices.deakin.edu.au

Has been so good to hang out with you @barrieshannon.com!

Super interesting discussion of the ‘sonically cacophonous’ nature of schools from @leannehigham.bsky.social, Eve Mayes, and Melissa Wolfe #AARE2024

Congrats! 🥂

I’m also loving the vibe here, and surprise mushrooms 🍄

Thank you! 🤩

Australian Education Researchers on Bluesky starter pack. Let me know if you want to be added.

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Yes please! 😊

Hi blue sky, first post for me here! Curious to see what this place is like! Used to love academic Twitter but haven’t been active there in years for obvious reasons 🫠 have been with other academic Twitter leavers on LinkedIn but that hasn’t quite hit the spot either 🙃