The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Dr Sharon Cooper
School: School of Education
Commenced with Institution: 04-AUG-1998
Personal URL:

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Dr Sharon Cooper 2006 1 University of Newcastle Project - Early Career Researcher Grant An investigation into secondary mathematics teachers' choices of teaching strategy and factors which influence them   10000  
Dr Sharon Cooper 2005 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference 2005, 27 November - 1 December 2005   496  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
M Philosophy (Education) Co-Supervisor An Exploration of the Effectiveness of a Metalanguage-based Pedagogy on the Reduction of Pre-service Teachers' Alternative Conceptions of Scientific Phenomena
M Philosophy (Education) Co-Supervisor Socialisation of teaching interns and alignment with university studies

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 0.750

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Griffiths Thomas Grant, Cooper Sharon Anne, ’Social and emotional wellbeing in schools: A review of systems' policies’, Education Connect: Occasional Papers about Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Schools, 5-11 (2005) [C3]

Conference Publication

Amosa Wendy Anne, Cooper Sharon Anne, ’Connections among school contexts, teaching contexts and the quality of teaching’, Proceedings of the Australian Association for Research in Education 2006 Annual Conference, Adelaide (2007) [E1]

Cooper Sharon Anne, Amosa Wendy Anne, ’Schools matter, teachers matter: Exploring the link between school context and quality teaching’, AARE 2005 International Education Research Conference. Abstracts, Parramatta, NSW (2006) [E3]

Griffiths Thomas Grant, Cooper Sharon Anne, ’Studnet wellbeing: A review of system's policies’, AARE 2005 International Education Research Conference. Abstracts, Parramatta, NSW (2006) [E3]

Griffiths Thomas Grant, Cooper Sharon Anne, ’Teacher beliefs, pedagogy and student learning’, AARE 2005 International Education Research Conference. Abstracts, Parramatta, NSW (2006) [E3]

Ladwig James Gordon, Gore Jennifer Mary, Lingard B, Griffiths Thomas Grant, Morrison Kellie Anne, Cooper Sharon Anne, ’Educational governance, social inclusion and social exclusion in Australia’, AARE - Conference Papers, Sydney (2001) [E2]

Cooper Sharon Anne, ’Mutual Obligation: The construction of the desired citizen’, AARE 2000 - Conference papers, Sydney (2001) [E2]

Cooper Sharon Anne, ’Youth, work and education: the persistence of meritocracy’, AARE 2000 - Conference papers, Sydney (2001) [E2]

Ladwig James Gordon, Cooper Sharon Anne, ’Mimicry, alchemy and fabricated optimism: on the production of the 'new' educational governance’, AARE-NZARE Sydney 2000 - Education Research: Towards an Optimistic Future- Abstracts, Sydney 4-7 December (2000) [E3]

Cooper Sharon Anne, ’Mutual Obligation: The construction of the desired citizen’, AARE-NZARE Sydney 2000 - Education Research: Towards an Optimistic Future- Abstracts, Sydney 4-7 December (2000) [E3]

Cooper Sharon Anne, ’Youth, work and education: the persistence of meritocracy’, AARE-NZARE Sydney 2000 - Education Research: Towards an Optimistic Future- Abstracts, Sydney 4-7 December (2000) [E3]

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