Abstracts have been extended to 8 December for the Relation-Centered Education Network Conference at Griffith University (Gold Coast) in June 2026.

rcen.wildapricot.org/event-6323716

If you find yourself close to Stirling (UK) on 19 Jan 2026, come along to this free research event on curricular justice in a complex world!

www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

Anyone know a maths teacher who is looking for some part-time teaching in Term 4, Years 7 - 9? Please get in touch (principal@omniacademies.qld.edu.au)!

The Relation-Centred Education Network Conference is going to be at the Gold Coast next year (15–17 June 2026). This is a really great, dare I say 'relational' conference! Call for papers now open =)

rcen.wildapricot.org/event-6323716

Who wants to take over running The Australian Educational Researcher from me at the end of the year? It's a great journal, with a wonderful team, which publishes high-quality education research.

Info here: aare.edu.au/.../expressi...

New paper on teachers as double agents with Michelle McCarthy and Andrew Hickey.

Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Love ending the week with a new paper! This one is a collaboration with Charlie Thomson and Andrew Hickey on hip-hop pedagogy and affinity groups, drawn from Charlie's really interesting doctoral study.

Dear English teaching pals,

Come and teach future English teachers with me!

usq.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...

Really pleased to see Part II of the 'New Perspectives on Curriculum and Democracy' special issue out in the world!

link.springer.com/journal/4129...

Very sad to hear about John Marsden.

Inviting him to be a keynote at the 2015 English Teachers Association of Queensland conference was a real privilege.

He wrote many good words and helped to show us that schools really could be different. RIP.

We have a new paper out from our Youth Community Futures project, which is very exciting! This one is about the 'spatial' young person in regional Queensland.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is the book:

Educating the 'right' way: Markets, standards, God and inequality.

With the @australianare.bsky.social conference just over a week away, I thought I'd start planning my schedule and immediately realised there are so many things I want to get to that are programmed at the same time!

Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh