The GSE Faculty Members

Professor Tom O'Donoghue  BA (NCEA), M.Ed (Dub), MA, PhD (NUI).
Teaching field: Curriculum context, design, development, implementation, evaluation, management, history of education.
Research interests: Curriculum policy and practice, parental involvement in schooling (including home schooling), teachers' understandings of curriculum change, history of teachers lives, teacher education in developed and developing countries, curriculum history.
[FULL CV]  e-mail: tom.odonoghue@uwa.edu.au, Home Page.

Professor Marnie O'Neill  MA MEd (W.Aust.), PhD(Murdoch). (Dean & Senior Lecturer)
Teaching field: English education; language literacy and learning; teaching and learning
Research interests: English curriculum studies; curriculum policy and practice; language in education; teaching and learning; classroom studies; gender studies; gifted and talented education.
[FULL CV] e-mail: marnie.oneill@uwa.edu.au

Professor Keith Punch  BA BEd (W.Aust.), PhD (Tor.).
Teaching field: Sociology of education; research methods, educational administration
Research interests: Education and the wider society (education-occupation, social stratification); sociological factors in schools and schooling; the school as a social institution, organisational behaviour (leadership, change, organisational development); measuring school quality, community perceptions of schools; research methods.  
[FULL CV] e-mail: keith.punch@uwa.edu.au    Home Page.

Associate Professor Lesley Vidovich  BSc. BEdHons(W.Aust.), MEd PhD (Murd.) (Senior Lecturer)
Teaching field: Education policy and administration; sociology of education; qualitative research methodology.
Research interests: Education policy analysis, with a particular focus on restructuring, accountability and quality policy processes, with implications of macro level policies for micro (local) level practices.
[FULL CV] e-mail: lesley.vidovich@uwa.edu.au

Professor Tania Aspland Dip T. (KPTC), CertSpEd(MGCAE), BA BEdStud (UQ), MEd (Deakin), PhD (UQ) (Affiliated Lecturer)
Teaching field: Curriculum theory, curriculum leadership, inclusive curriculum and padagogies, assessment and reporting, middle years of schooling, action research.
Research interests: Teacher education, changing nature of teachers' work, curriculum reform and pedagogy, professional development, graduate supervision, students of difference, middle years of schooling.
[FULL CV] e-mail: tania.aspland@uwa.edu.au