 Professor Emeritus Alan Reid
Alan Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of South Australia. His research and publications focus on the broad themes of education policy, curriculum, the history and politics of public education, social justice and education, teachers’ work, and citizenship education. Professor Reid is ACEL’s 2009 Gold Medallist.
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 Professor Bob Lingard
Professor Bob Lingard is a Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Education at The University of Queensland. Until recently he was the Andrew Bell Professor of Education at The University of Edinburgh. His research interests include globalization and education policy, sociology of education, school reform and critical pedagogies and gender and schooling. His most recent book (2007), co-edited with Jenny Ozga is The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Education Policy and Politics. He has in press two books, Transforming Learning in Schools and Communities (Continuum), co-edited with Jon Nixon and Stewart Ranson and Educating Boys : beyond structural reform (Palgrave) co-authored with Wayne Martino and Martin Mills. He is currently completing a book with Fazal Rizvi for Routledge, entitled Globalizing Education Policy.
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 Dr Paul Brock
Dr Paul Brock AM is the Director of Learning and Development Research in the Office of the Director- General, NSW Department of Education and Training and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney.
An educator for four decades, he was a secondary school English / History teacher for 14 years; an academic for 11 years; an Adviser to the Hawke and Keating Governments in Canberra for 6 years, and he has been a Senior Executive in the NSW Department of Education and Training since 1996.
A Fellow of both ACEL and ACE, Dr Brock has delivered around 150 academic and professional papers to international and Australian conferences. He has published extensively. His most recent books are his autobiography, A Passion for Life (ABC Books, 2004); co-author with Dr John Hughes, Reform and Resistance in NSW Public Education: Six Attempts at Major Reform, 1905 – 1995 (SUP, 2008); and, co-editor with Jacqueline Manuel, Wayne Sawyer and Don Carter, Imagination, Innovation, Creativity: Re-Visioning English in Education (Phoenix Education, 2009).
In 2006 Dr Brock was inducted as a General Member into the Order of Australia “for service to public education, particularly as an adviser and author in the areas of strategic policy development, to maintaining high standards of teaching and professionalism, and to people with Motor Neurone Disease”.
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 Dr Deidre Butler
Deirdre Butler’s passion in life is exploring what being digital in learning can mean. She is interested in ways that using digital technologies could revolutionise learning by challenging us to examine how we learn and to question our assumptions about “traditional” models of schooling.
Deirdre is a senior lecturer in St. Patrick’s College (a constituent College of Dublin City University) with chief responsibility for designing and coordinating learning programs for undergraduate and postgraduate students using a broad range of digital technologies, to facilitate their understand of what being digital in learning can be.
Deirdre has consulted to and participated in educational development work using expressive computational materials in Mexico, Costa Rica, many European countries, as well as in rural and urban areas of Ireland. Prior to St. Patrick’s College, Deirdre worked in primary schools for nearly twenty years. Her many guises included classroom teacher, deputy head and teacher for the travelling community.
Deirdre is currently co-chair of Microsoft’s Partners in Learning International Advisory Council.
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Dr Chris SarraChris is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Education Leadership Institute which is pursuing improved educational outcomes for Indigenous children through engagement with principals, teachers, community leaders and Government.
The Institute’s work is based on the Strong and Smart philosophy which espouses a strong and positive sense of what it means to be Aboriginal in today’s Australian society and that Indigenous students can achieve outcomes comparable to other students. |
