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 Teaching and Learning Manager at the Family Action Centre and Convenor of the Master of Family Studies program. She lectures in several online courses in the Master of Family Studies and Master of Educational Studies, boys' education specialisation.

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 doctoral thesis 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, cross-cultural family studies, inclusive practices in schools, and university, and 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 in her previous role as research development manager, led the Family Action Centre research team in developing engaged research and in combining research, teaching, community service and dissemination strategies into 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. and Henderson, J. (eds). (1994). Aboriginal Languages in Education. IAD Press. Alice Springs.

Hartman, D. (1999). I can hardly wait till Monday: Women Teachers talk about what works for them and for boys. Newcastle, Boys in Schools Program, University of Newcastle.

Hartman, D. (ed.), (2006) 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.

Book Chapters

Green, J., Long, N., Lane, D. Brown, A., Lane, Y., Rennie, M., and Martin, B. with Hartman, D. (1994). The Alekarenge Language Program. In Aboriginal Languages in Education. IAD Press. Alice Springs.

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.

Peer Reviewed Journal articles

Hartman, D. (2008). Common, distinct and differing perspectives on the education of boys. Annual Conference of the Association of Australian Research in Education Journal. AARE.
Hartman, D. (2008). "Towards new Approaches to Reviewing Literature in Gender Education." International Journal of Learning Vol. 15(No. 5). 2008.

Hartman, D. (2011). "Crossing Divides: An argument catalogue of submissions to the 2000 Australian government inquiry into the education of boys." Thymos, Journal of Boyhood Studies Vol 5(No 1): 81-98.

Hartman, D. (2011). "Gender policy in Australian Schools - A missed Opportunity?" Thymos, Journal of Boyhood Studies Vol 5(1): 3-19.

Peer Reviewed Conference Publications 

Hartman, D. (2008). Towards new approaches to reviewing literature in gender education. Parallel session: collaborative workshop presentation presented June 2008.
15th International Conference on Learning, June 2008, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.

Clay, V & Hartman, D.  (2008). Using strengths-based approaches with students and communities. 15th International Conference on Learning, June 2008, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.

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. 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 & Clay, V. (2008).  Have male identities been adequately addressed in the policy and practice of boys' education? presented at AARE Conference, QUT, 2008. 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. (2010). Integrating Argument Catalogue, Discourse Analysis, and Field Analysis to understand the History of Boy's Education in Australia. Paper presented as part of symposium, Albright, J., Parkes, V., Hartman, D. and Knezevic, . Field Analysis Methodology in Curriculum Studies. Australian Association for research in Education International Education Research Conference, , Hobart, Nov/Dec 2011.

Journal Articles (professional)

Hartman, D. (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.

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

Commissioned reports

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

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