Dr Da Eul Jeong
As a Research Fellow, Dr Da Eul Jeong will assist Indigenous scholars to design and improve education to be more culturally inclusive and equitable, particularly for Indigenous children. Da Eul would like to contribute to making schools a place where children from all backgrounds feel safe, can [...]View
Dr Filip Birčanin
Dr Filip Birčanin’s research work has been driven by an unwavering passion to construct technology that is inclusive and within the reach of all individuals, including those with intellectual disabilities. Filip’s work in the industry has provided him with a wealth of knowledge and expe [...]View
Dr Sarah Matthews
Dr Sarah Matthews’ project explores the intersections between play, computational thinking, and design in open ended technologies with young children. Sarah’s role is to translate multi-disciplinary theories and insights into technology design opportunities. Through her work in the Centr [...]View
Dr Nicole Hayes
Dr Nicole Hayes’ research focusses on the role that children’s early life experiences and exposures play in shaping their future health and developmental outcomes. Nicole has experience in evidence-based clinical practice guideline development, quantitative research methodologies, including [...]View
Dr Kellie Vella
Dr Kellie Vella researches human-computer interactions with a focus on social, wellbeing, and sustainable contexts. She draws upon theories and methods across the humanities (social and motivational psychology, ethnography, participatory research, and co-design) to design and evaluate technologies, [...]View
Dr Janelle MacKenzie
Dr Janelle MacKenzie completed her PhD at QUT investigating maternal sleepiness and the impacts of sleepiness on driving. In particular, she focused on the assessment of maternal sleep and infant sleep, as well as the psychological and social factors that contribute to sleepiness in the postpartum p [...]View
Dr Amanda Levido
Dr Amanda Levido’s research focusses on what media literacy looks like in the early years, in both school and care settings, particularly as children engage creatively with new media digital technologies. Amanda will consider what critical understandings of the media children develop as they p [...]View
Dr Aleesha Rodriguez
Dr Aleesha Rodriguez is a ‘tech-sociologist’ who explores the ways in which people and technology shape each other. Their background is in digital media communication and Science and Technology Studies (STS), and they are currently a Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council Cen [...]View
Dr Sandy Houen
Dr Sandy Houen’s research focusses on early childhood education quality and its impact on children’s lifelong trajectories. Sandy’s expertise is in qualitative research approaches, such as conversation analysis, with a key focus on data collection methods that include interviews with child [...]View