Ms Deborah Hartman
Manager Research Development

Deborah Hartman has had an extensive career as an educator in the primary and tertiary education sectors, including many years experience in indigenous education. She has been a university educator/researcher in the field of educating boys since 1999. She is currently Research Development Manager at the Family Action Centre.

As an early career researcher, MS Hartman's work has had a significant impact on the field of educating boys. She has been an invited keynote speaker at many conferences in the field and sat on a federal government advisory committee on the topic in 2003. She was chief investigator for a federal government innovative research grant on boys' literacy in 2004 and she has written, edited and published a number of well respected books, book chapters, articles and practitioner journals in the field. Her research led to the development of a Masters by coursework program specialising in the field of educating boys, which is the first of its kind in the world. She currently supervises masters’ student research in boys’ education.

Ms Hartman is also completing her PhD in the field of gender and education. Her doctoral research investigates the academic, public, policy, and practice discourses in the field of boys' education in Australian schools. Deborah has also conducted many research, evaluation and professional development consultancies with schools and teachers.

Her current research and evaluation interests include strength-based approaches to gender and other differences, inclusive practices in schools, and university, school and community partnerships in engaged research.> She maintains a strong interest in strength-based approaches to positive outcomes for indigenous children and communities. She is committed to community engagement and engaged research by universities and as research development manager, leads the Family Action Centre research team in developing engaged research and in combining research, teaching, community service and dissemination strategies in all Family Action Centre projects.

Deborah has written, edited and produced several practitioner publications grounded in research. For several years she was commissioning editor and chair of the editorial committee of the Boys in Schools Bulletin, building it to be a well respected tri-annual practitioner journal. The Bulletin is currently available as a free web based newsletter.

List of publications

Books

Hartman, D K 2006 (ed.), Educating boys: the good news. Insights from a selection of papers presented at the 4th biennial Working With Boys, Building Fine Men conference, Melbourne, Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle.

Journal articles (refereed)

Hartman, D. (2008) Towards new Approaches to reviewing Literature in gender Education, in International Journal of Learning, vol. 15, no. 5, 2008, Common Ground Publishing.

Journal articles (practice)

Hartman, D. Leading the Way, in Education Quarterly, Spring 2008, Curriculum Corporation.

Hartman, D K & Sheather, G 2007, Kids who read succeed, Pilot Project Evaluation Report, Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle.

Hartman, D K 2006, "And now for the good news: educating boys is no longer a problem:, in Boys in Schools Bulletin, vol. 9, pp. 34-42, Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle.

Tracey, P & Hartman, D K 2006, "Year 7 boys on the highway to success", in Educating boys: the good news. Insights from a selection of papers presented at the 4th biennial Working With Boys, Building Fine Men conference, Melbourne, Family Action Centre, University of Newcastle.

Refereed conference publications

15th International Conference on Learning, June 2008, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. Parallel session: Individual paper presentation accepted and presented June 2008. Hartman, D. (2008) Towards new approaches to reviewing literature in gender education. Parallel session: collaborative workshop presentation accepted and presented June 2008. Clay, V & Hartman, D, "Using strengths-based approaches with students and communities".

Australian Association for research in Education International Education Research Conference, Changing Climates: Education for Sustainable Futures, Nov/Dec 2008, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. Individual paper published in conference proceedings December 2008. Hartman, D, (2008) Common, distinct and differing perspectives on the education of boys - an analysis of contributions to the 2000 Federal Government Inquiry into the Education of Boys. Paper presented at AARE Conference, QUT, 2008.

Abstract accepted for symposium and presented December 2008: Hartman, D & Clay, V, "Have male identities been adequately addressed in the policy and practice of boys' education?"

Commissioned reports

Hartman, D., Cameron, J., Bill, A., Holland, B. (2009) Engaged Research at the University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle.