Welcome to SORTI

The research, publications and other activities of The Centre for the Study of Research Training and Impact are directed toward the understanding and development of research and higher order problem solving skills, and the impact of research training and research outcomes in a wide variety of contexts, but particularly in tertiary and professional learning environments. Further strands of the Centre’s work extend to the history, philosophy and culture of research, histories of research institutions, mapping research activity and identifying research trends. Much of the Centre’s current work, especially that of its doctoral students, falls within the realm of studies of higher education and instructional models in tertiary level learning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SORTI Graduations

SORTI members' grant success

Congratulations to:
    Dr Nerida Ambler
    Kira Husher
    Dr Yanping Lu
    Dr Hing Wa Sit 
SORTI Research Student Members who received  their doctorates at the 2011 Graduation Ceremonies.

SORTI members achieved success with four competitive grants:  an ARCDP, an ARCLP, an ARCDIRDS and an ALT-C. Congratulations to SORTI members Prof. Allyson Holbrook, Prof. Sid Bourke, Dr. Kathleen Butler and Dr. Margaret Kylie. Read about the grants

Other News

Successful Tender

In 2011, Dr Jennifer StGeorge was the recipient of the Callaway Doctoral Award, This is presented on a biennial basis to the best doctoral thesis from an Australian university for conceptual advances in Music Education.
Doctoral student, Janene Budd was awarded the School of Education Travel Scholarship to attend the 2011 European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Conference in Essex. Janene's paper Metacognition and affect in doctoral research persistence was very well received.

In a competitive process, a SORTI team (Prof Sid Bourke, Dr Kathryn Holmes, Mr Greg Preston and Dr Kylie Shaw) submitted a successful bid with Innovative Teaching and Learning Research - Microsoft Partners in Learning.  ITL Research is a multiyear global research program designed to investigate the factors that promote the transformation of teaching practices and the impact those changes have on students’ learning outcomes across a broad range of country contexts.
Read more about the ITL Australia Project

Assistance to Early Career Researchers

Connections

A new book was recently launched:  An Academic Life: A handbook for new academics, by Dr Robert Cantwell and Dr Jill Scevak addresses the key areas of academic work: teaching and leaning; research; research training and publication ; administration and community service; and the social and cultural aspects of academic life.
Find out more

During her Special Studies Program in 2011, Professor Allyson Holbrook spent a proportion of her time exploring the organisational  framework for doctoral training in the UK. In the above photo (left) Prof Holbrook is with Jerone Huisman, Director of International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM), University of Bath. The right hand photo shows University Sussex academics Valerie Hey, Head of Department of Education, Barbara Crossuoard, Lecturer in Education, Pat Drake, Reader in Education, Miriam David, Professor of Education at IOE and visiting Professor at CHEER and Rose Rutagemwa Kiishweko,from Tanzania

Highly successful QSR NVivo Workshops

Journal QScore
Please Note

Dr Jennifer StGeorge continues her very successful training program for QSR NVivo qualitative research software for RHD candidates. Contributing to the success of the workshops is that variations in participant experiences are integrated into the program and opportunities are provided for students to explore their own data. For further details and bookings contact Jennifer StGeorge 

The document containing the Education Journal QScore by area is no longer on this website. This information is now available on a CD. If you are interested in information about education journals, including their quality measure (QScore), please follow the PAJE link on the right hand side of this page.