College of Arts, Society & Education

Karen Cavu

Doctor of Philosophy (Education)
karen.cavu@jcu.edu.au

Pascal Agbadi

Lecturer, Social Work
pascal.agbadi@jcu.edu.au

Leonard Freeman

Senior Lecturer, English Education (Primary Education)
leonard.freeman@jcu.edu.au

Subhashni Taylor

Adjunct Senior Lecturer
subhashni.taylor@jcu.edu.au

Peta Salter

Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy
peta.salter@jcu.edu.au

Ines Zuchowski

Associate Dean, Research
ines.zuchowski@jcu.edu.au

Jemma Hamley

Lecturer, Social Work
jemma.hamley@jcu.edu.au

Rosita Henry

Adjunct Professor
rosita.henry@jcu.edu.au

Michael Ackland

Adjunct Professor
michael.ackland@jcu.edu.au

Monitoring and Evaluation for JUTE Theatre Company Transport Main Roads Dare 2 Dream Project. (Old ID 27924)

Theresa Petray

01 Aug 2022 - 30 Jun 2026

The purpose of this research is to conduct monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for JUTE Theatre Company’s ‘Remote Road Safety Road Show’. The research will be used to improve future project delivery by JUTE Theatre Company, and to produce scholarly outputs.

Colonial Commemorative Landscapes in Australia

Claire Brennan

11 Aug 2024 - 03 Dec 2024

This project contributes to the team’s research program relating to historical memory and digital mapping. Stevenson and Brennan have complementary strengths and seek to build their collaborative capacity towards a future ARC DP application. Stevenson is a feminist historian of social movements with prior experience in the digital humanities through The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of transatlantic suffrage postcards from the 1910s. As a PI on a current ARC Discovery Project about the history of archiving social movements, she is working on historical memory and digital archiving. Brennan is an environmental historian, specialising in European exploration and digital history. Brennan’s work on the Coral Discovery Project involves digitally mapping all the European scientific voyages to the Pacific between 1768 and 1834. This new research project builds on their co-authored journal article (Minor Revisions) under consideration with a Radical History Review Special Edition: “Memory Over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials and Intangible Heritage.” The team’s new project aligns directly with the Centre for Heritage and Culture theme of “storied landscapes.” Digitally mapping colonial commemorative sites strengthens the CHC’s strategic research about storied landscapes. The team’s previous map of Cook monuments revealed that Captain Cook has become an indelible figure in Australia’s commemorative landscape with little connection between sites of historical significance and commemorative infrastructure. This method of digital historical inquiry enables the team to uncover, interpret, and translate the past to create new stories about the history and legacy of colonial figures. Digital mapping will allow the team to clearly tease out the tensions between historical knowledge and historical memory across these storied landscapes.

Mathematics Curriculum Resources in Queensland

Philemon Chigeza

The study aims to investigate the current landscape of mathematics curriculum resource usage, decision-making processes, and challenges faced by teachers.

Out of Field mathematics teacher project

Philemon Chigeza

The project seeks to advance our understanding of current mathematics teacher shortage facing Australia and many other countries.

Enhancing students’ wellbeing, self-concept of ability, and positivie dispositions towards mathematics and numeracy

Philemon Chigeza

Professional Standards for Teachers – Graduate (APST) Pebblepad ePortfolio templates

Philemon Chigeza

Enhancing teaching of multiplicative and algebraic skills in the middle years

Philemon Chigeza

Education for Cultural Diversity

Philemon Chigeza

Redesign project for the subject ED2990: Education for Cultural Diversity awarded to JCU by National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) in partnership with LH Martin Institute

Research into Best Practice Models for Online Teaching of Mathematics

Philemon Chigeza

The research examines best practice models for online teaching of mathematics in schools, the use of technology platforms and factors that contribute to the success of such platforms, and implementation issues. The research builds upon existing strong models for teaching mathematics online and examines approaches that have been successful in lifting mathematics and numeracy outcomes.

Building Capacity for Frailty management in Regional Queensland Residential Aged Care Facilities

Ines Zuchowski

01 Oct 2024 - 31 Dec 2025

Virtually all older adults living within aged care are at risk of becoming or are currently frail, with increased risk of adverse health outcomes. The core treatments for frailty are good nutrition, medication optimisation, and robust exercise, which was recently evaluated in the novel Frailty Reduction via Implementation of Exercise, Nutrition and Deprescribing (FRIEND) trial. This trial developed comprehensive training resources for the aged care sector. This project aims to build capacity through dissemination of this training to aged care champions across regional Queensland facilities and support them to improve frailty care and client health within their facility. The project has two main project aims: 1. Disseminate FRIEND in an online and in-person, train-the-trainer model to build capacity of aged care champions and key regional, healthcare professionals 2. Support aged care champions to develop local facility training, and an organisational strategy for improving frailty care The study will involve two phases: 1. Pre/post evaluation of a train-the-trainer education intervention (FRIEND website modules and an intensive one-day course on frailty management). Five strategically located RACFs across North-West Queensland will nominate an aged care champion (i.e. senior staff member) by early September to complete website training and travel to Townsville for intensive training in Late October/Early November along with local healthcare professionals (e.g. nurses, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, social workers) working within aged care. 2. Involves evaluation of the champion-led local training implementation development of an organisational strategy to improve frailty care over a six-month period. The champion will identify key implementation/leadership staff and training needs to develop a 1–2-hour training webinar and develop an organisational strategy to improve frailty management in their facility