Professor Stephen Crump

Stephen Crump is the Pro Vice-Chancellor (External Relations) and a Professor in Education at the University of Newcastle. Professor Crump leads the University's strategic relationships with community, industry and business on all UON campuses, and with NSW TAFE at Ourimbah on the Central Coast and at Port Macquarie.

Professor Crump's discipline expertise is in education and public policy, leadership/ organisational development, philosophy of education and curriculum reform. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Education, the University of London [2010/11], working with senior professors on a number of projects around policy enactments, higher education reform and global change.

Professor Crump has recently completed an Australian Research Council project on interactive distance e-learning in which he was the Chief Investigator. He has led two major reports and an ARC project on Vocational Education and Training for the NSW and Commonwealth governments as well as a Taskforce into NSW matriculation certificate reforms. He has over 200 publications.

Prior to joining the University of Newcastle in 2006, he held senior positions at the University of Sydney reporting to the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, as well as for the Faculty of Education and Social Work.

He has been involved at grassroots level advocacy and is currently on the Regional Development Australia - Central Coast Board and the Central Coast Grammar School Board, and the Board for the World Association for Cooperative Education.

National and International Activities

Stephen has presented to a wide range of audiences for over 25 years including keynote addresses at national conferences, individual and symposium presentations to academic and professional conferences in Australia, the United States of America, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Vietnam, England, Austria, Canada and Sweden. He has presented invited colloquia and professional development seminars at, for example, Cambridge University, Boston University, Uppsala University - Sweden and Kings College London and the University of London 's Institute of Education. Stephen has acted as an advocate and researcher at numerous school-level meetings for both staff and parents, and presented to government departments and curriculum authorities about research and educational policy issues.

Research Grants and Awards 1989 - 2010

$2,117,979 (as first named Chief Investigator)
(more than $2,400,000 including project costs)

Research Background and Interests

Stephen's key research contributions have been in education policy and practice, across various issues and contexts, focusing on curriculum, policy and leadership in a way that is a particularly relevant to social, political and cultural issues in education.

In 2003-04 , he published a major report (40,000) on outcomes-based assessment and reporting in NSW with Professor Ken Eltis. This report was called Time to Teach - Time to Learn (2003), from which the NSW Government adopted all 29 recommendations.

Between 2000 and 2004 , as first named Chief Investigator, Stephen successfully completed a $501,111 ARC SPIRT, with Bob Connell, Gordon Stanley and David Saltmarsh, on VET and equity in senior schooling based on VET in Schools reforms to the Higher School Certificate in NSW.

Stephen also led a team that trialled the McGaw Green Paper recommendations for reforming Higher School Certificate in NSW (Shaping their Future). The Team's report to the HSC Taskforce was instrumental in shaping the Government's final report, Securing their Future (Aquilina, 1997), that became the driving force for improving secondary matriculation in NSW.

In the 1990s, he led two major reports on Vocational Education and Training (Key Competencies) for the NSW and Commonwealth governments.

Other research projects compared school-based and private industry organisational change (with an emphasis on management and leadership - supported by an ARC Institutional Grant), and multi-sector educational initiatives in Australia and internationally.

Stephen has also worked on home-school partnerships funding by an ARC Institutional Grant, and worked with the USA League of Schools Reaching Out.

He is a member of a number of international research networks, a reviewer for journals of high standing, an examiner of research theses, and an 'Ozreader' for the Australian Research Council.

Recent and Significant Publications

Books

1993 CRUMP, S.J. School-Centred Leadership: putting educational policy into practice, Melbourne, Thomas Nelson. [316 pages, 35% author & 100% editor]

Major Reports/Monographs

2010 CRUMP, S.J., DEVLIN, B., TWYFORD, K.A., ANDERSON, A., Opening Our Eyes: Full Project Report, ARC Linkage project on Interactive Distance Elearning, 32 pages + DVD

2010 CRUMP, S.J., DEVLIN, B., TWYFORD, K.A., ANDERSON, A., Opening Our Eyes: Participant Report, ARC Linkage project on Interactive Distance Elearning, 16 pages

2010 CRUMP, S.J., DEVLIN, B., TWYFORD, K.A., ANDERSON, A., Interactive Distance E-Learning: Project publications, ARC Linkage project 'Opening Our Eyes', 224 pages

2010 CRUMP, S.J., DEVLIN, B., TWYFORD, K.A., ANDERSON, A., Opening Our Eyes: Project Reference Guide, ARC Linkage project on Interactive Distance Elearning, 4 pages + DVD

2010 CRUMP, S.J., DEVLIN, B., TWYFORD, K.A., ANDERSON, A., IDL Noteworthy Practices, Opening Our Eyes Project, ARC Linkage, Interactive Distance Elearning.

2008 CRUMP, S.J. Campus Direction Statement, 2009-2020, Discussion Paper, University of Newcastle.

2008 CRUMP, S.J., FITZGERALD, M. & McCONKEY, K. Work-Integrated Learning, Report of the Work Integrated Learning Working Group, University of Newcastle.

2007 EDITOR: SPECIAL EDITION Australian Educational Researcher Changing Identities and Performance of Post-Compulsory Educational Providers Special Issue of The Australian Educational Researcher Volume 34. Number 3, December 2007.

2005 CRUMP, S.J., TUOVINEN, & SIMONS, L., WIDeLy and RapIDeLy: Report into Interactive Distance e-Learning in NSW and the Northern Territory. (38,000 wds, 200 pages, 70% author)

2003 ELTIS, K.J., and CRUMP, S.J., Time to Teach - Time to Learn, commissioned report on outcomes assessment and reporting in NSW government schools (40,000 words, 115 pages, 50% author).

2003 CRUMP, S.J. AND CONNELL. R.W., Vocational Education and Equity in the Senior School, ARC Project Report, (50% author, 20,000, 45 pages).

2001 CRUMP, S.J., Possibilities for an integrated, multi-sector educational partnership based at Orange, NSW. (15,000 words, authored 60% and editor).

Chapters in Books

2011 CRUMP, S.J. & JOHNSSON, M., 'Benefits of Cooperative and Work-integrated for Education for Educational Institutions', Chapter 31 in R.K. Coll & K.E. Zegwaard (Eds.), International Handbook for Cooperative & Work-integrated Education (2nd ed. pp. 23- 28). © World Association for Cooperative Education Inc. DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3939-2. (in press)

2010 CRUMP, S.J. and TWYFORD, K. Opening Their Eyes: E-Learning for Rural and Isolated Australians, in Jackson, A. and Schafft, K.A. (Eds) Rural Education for the Twenty-first Century: Identity, Place and Community in a Globalising World, Penn State University Press: Pennsylvania. pp. 210-231

2010 CRUMP, S.J. Academic Administration: Becoming Involved, in Cantwell, R. & Scevak, J. (Eds) An Academic Life: A Handbook for New Academics ACER: Melbourne pp. 140-149.

2009 CRUMP, S. "E-Learning Technologies and Remote Students: Doing it Differently and Better, in te Riele, (Ed), Changing Schools. Educating young people differently, SAGE Books: London pp. 105-115.

2009 TWYFORD, K. & CRUMP, S.J., Case Study: Interactive e-Learning for Vocational Education and Training and Indigenous Australians, in te Riele, (Ed), Changing Schools. Educating young people differently, SAGE Books: London pp. 126-135.

2006 CRUMP, S.J. and te RIELE, K. "Ongoing Inequality in a 'Knowledge Economy': Perceptions and Actions", in N. Janardhan Rao (Ed), Knowledge- Based Economy, An Introduction, The ICFAI University Press, Punjagutta.

Refereed Articles in Journals

2009 TWYFORD, K., ANDERSON, A. & CRUMP, S., Satellite Lessons: Vocational Education and Training for Isolated Communities:, accepted for the special edition of the Journal of Rural Society, Vol 19 (2) Pp 127-135.

2008 CRUMP, S.J., TWYFORD, K and LITTLER, M. Interactive Distance e- Learning for Isolated Communities: The Policy Footprint, The Journal of Education in Rural Australia, Vol 18 (2), pp.39-52.

2008 CRUMP, S.J. & BOYLAN, C. Interactive Distance e-Learning for Isolated Communities: Finishing the Jigsaw, The Journal of Education in Rural Australia, Vol 18 (2), pp.1-26.

2008 CRUMP, S.J., LARKINGS, M. KIRKBY, D. & JOHNSON, J. "TVET on a Multi-Sector Campus: Connecting, Collaborating and Capacity Building on the Central Coast", in VOCAL: The Australian Journal of Education and Training in Schools, Vol. 7, 2008-2009, pp. 122-129.

2006 CRUMP, S.J. "Reforming Curriculum v. Reforming Schools: Accountability and Reporting School Student Outcomes", The Journal of Education, 185(3), pp. 61-71.

2005 CRUMP, S.J. "Changing Times in the Classroom: Teaching as a 'crowded profession'", International Studies in the Sociology of Education, 15(1), pp. 31-47.

2005 CRUMP, S.J. "Reforming Curriculum Versus Reforming Schools: Accountability and Reporting School Student Outcomes" (Boston University) Journal of Education, 185 (3), 61-71..

2005 CRUMP S.J. and SLEE, R. "Robbing Public to Pay Private: Two case studies of refinancing education infrastructure in Australia", Journal of Education Policy, 20(2), March, pp. 243-258. (70% author)

2004 CRUMP, S.J. & STANLEY, G. "The Development of Vocational Education and Training in a Senior Secondary Certificate of Education, Journal of Vocational Education and Training,, 57(2) (in press). (60% author)

2005 CRUMP, S.J. "VET In A NSW Senior School", The Australia Journal of Vocational Education and Training in Schools, November , Volume 5, pp 57-60.

2003 Te RIELE, K & CRUMP, S.J. "Ongoing inequality in a 'Knowledge Economy'": perceptions and actions, International Studies in the Sociology of Education, (13)1, 2003, pp. 57-77. (45% author)

2002 Te RIELE, K. and CRUMP, S.J. "Young people, education and hope: bringing VET in from the margins", International Journal of Inclusive Education, 6(3), pp. 251- 266. (45% author)

2002 CRUMP, S.J. "Being 16+: completing school, getting a job, and overcoming disadvantage", Education and Social Justice, 4 (1), Winter, pp. 26-32.

2001 CRUMP, S.J. "Education in the Continuous Present", Educational Philosophy and Theory, 33(3&4), pp. 279-292.

2001 CRUMP, S.J. & RYAN, C. "Managing Educational Change: issues, actions and example", Change: Transformations in Education, 4(2). pp. 1-12. (60% author)

1999 CRUMP, S.J. "e-ducation: electronic, emotionless and efficient", Journal of Education Policy, 14(6), pp. 631-637.

Published Edited/Refereed Conference Papers

2011 CRUMP, S.J., Interactive Distance E-Learning for Isolated Communities in Australia; 90 Minute Worksho, Rome, 1-4 February 2011 (based on ARC project: Opening their eyes: Interactive distance e-learning for rural and regional Australia).

2011 CRUMP, S.J., Engaged Learning: Beyond work-integrated to university-integrated, NZACE 2011 National Conference , Napier 18-19 April, 2011.

2011 CRUMP, S.J., Chair, International Symposium on Engaged Learning, WACE International Conference, Drexel University, Philadelphia, June 17-21, USA.

2011 CRUMP, S.J., 'Keynote address: Crossing borders, shifting boundaries: Interactive distance education in Australia', AADES 2011 National Conference, Hobart, 15-17 July 2011.

2008 CRUMP, S.J. "Work, Education and Knowledge: A case study of educational partnerships, ACEN / WACE Asia Pacific Conference, 30th September - 3rd October, Manly, Australia.

2008 CRUMP, S.J. & BOYLAN, C. Interactive Distance e-Learning for Isolated Communities: Finishing the Jigsaw, In Boylan, C. (Ed.) The Face of Learning Generation M, 24th national SPERA conference, Melbourne 27-29, pp. 8-31.

2008 CRUMP, S.J. "Opening Their Eyes": E-Learning for Isolated Australian, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and tele- communications, Vienna, Austria, June.

2007 CRUMP, S.J. "Work, education and validated knowledge: Australian policy and experience" Rethinking the 'Centre' and the 'Margins' in Researching Work and Learning, International Conference on Researching Work and Learning (RWL5) Cape Town, South Africa, December 2007

2006 CRUMP, S.J., TUOVINEN, J, and SIMONS, L. "Effects of satellite communication in the World's Largest Classroom". In T. Reeves and S. Yamashita (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher education 2006, (pp. 192-199. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

2005 CRUMP, S.J. & STANLEY, G. "Integrating VET into the Senior School: research findings on linear and non-linear pathways as policy paradox", paper accepted by the International Annual Meeting of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Sydney, November / December 2005. (65% author)

2005 CRUMP, S.J. & GOODYEAR, P. "Interactive Distance e-Learning in Australia: replacing radio with satellite technology for 'Schools of the Air', ICT Trust Online Conference, "International Networking for EducationalTransformation", June 6-12. (75% author)

2006 CRUMP, S.J. "Redefining Vocational Education and Training: Advancing the middle class?" 3rd International Conference on Lifelong Learning, Lifelong Learning: Whose responsibility and what is your contribution?, University of Central Queensland, Yeppoon, 13-16 June, pp. 94-99.

2004. CRUMP, S.J. "Providing Access to Further and Higher Education in Regional Communities: The cart before the horse?", 3rd International Conference on Lifelong Learning, Lifelong Learning: Whose responsibility and what is your contribution? University of Central Queensland, 13-16 June, pp. 100-106.

2003 CRUMP, S.J. "Learning and Leadership: Enriching Post-Compulsory Curriculum through VET", Enriching Learning Cultures Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Post-Compulsory Education and Training, Gold Coast, 1-3 December, pp. 133-139.

2003 CRUMP, S.J. & te RIELE, K., "Diversity in Post-Compulsory Education: Problems and Prospects for Multi-Sector Partnerships", Enriching Learning Cultures Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Post-Compulsory Education and Training, Gold Coast, 1-3 December, pp. 140-147. (89% author)

2002 CRUMP, S.J. "Organisational Change and Virtual Students". Paper prepared for the Technology Colleges Trust On-Line Conference, What Future - What Learning - What Teachers - What Schools?, 13-October - 7 December.

2001 CRUMP, S.J. "School Leadership and the Home-School Links", The TC Trust (UK) Online Conference, Vision 20:20, June.

2001 CRUMP, S.J. & STANLEY, G. "ICT and Learning: Engineering knowledge for the D generation", The TC Trust (UK) On-line Conference, Vision 20:20, June. (60% author)

2000 CRUMP, S.J. "Transformative Policy: 'stepping into the fighting line'". The International Philosophers of Education Network Conference Sub-theme: Change, Social Transformation and Education, University of Sydney, August. Proceedings pp. 88-99.

Invited Colloquia/Symposia

2011 CRUMP, S.J., '(Dis)Enactment Down Under: the Policy Panopticon in Australia', Seminar to be presented at the University of London, Tuesday 18th October.

2011 CRUMP, S.J., 'WIL in Australia: Engaging student in and beyond the curriculum', seminar to be presented to the Swedish national higher education professional development program, Kristianstad University, Monday 24th October.

2008 CRUMP, S.J., LARKINGS, M. KIRKBY, D. & JOHNSON, J. Researching TVET: DIY!, AVETRA October VET Research Forum, The Muse, Sydney Institute of TAFE, Sydney, 30th September.

2007 CRUMP, S.J. and WILLIAMS, A., "Regional campuses and Regional Development" Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit, Melbourne, 2-3 April.

2004 CRUMP, S.J. and SLEE, R. "Robbing Public to pay Private? Two case studies of public-private-partnerships In Australia", International Seminar Series, ESRC, Institute of Education, University of London, 2nd July. (70% author).

2001 CRUMP, S.J. "Education Policy: Common Wealth and Choice", invited keynote paper for the International Conference, "Promoting Social Inclusion in the Common- wealth". A CHOGM Sponsored project, University of Queensland, 4-5 October.

1999 CRUMP, S.J. "Policy Adhocery or Creating Sustainable Practice?" Keynote address, national conference on Managing and Sustaining Health Promotion in School. Launceston Tasmania, July.

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