Sally Baker

About

Dr Sally Baker is CEO and founder of Refugee Education Australia and an Adjunct Associate Professor (Migration and Education) at the University of New South Wales. Sally's research interests centre on policy and practice related to equity in higher education, with a specific focus on academic language and literacies/ oracy, transitions, and support. Sally has received over $2.5m of competitive funding to undertake studies exploring students' cultural and language transitions into and through undergraduate study. Sally is particularly interested in students from forced migration backgrounds and other Culturally and Linguistically Marginalised migrant groups. Her work seeks to bring together teaching and research to challenge the dominant deficit discourses that proliferate in neoliberal institutions, which serve to position students as ‘lacking’ vital ‘skills’, which in turn serves to hide the institutional responsibility to better support the diversified and growing student body. Within the current market logics that frame and drive global higher education policies and practice, this focus is arguably more necessary than ever. Join the Refugee Education Australia (http://www.refugee-education.org.au).

Work

The Australian National University

Australia

University of New South Wales
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Adjunct Associate Professor

Australia

Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Migration and Education

Australia

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University of New South Wales
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Senior Lecturer

Australia

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University of New South Wales
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Lecturer

Australia

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University of Newcastle
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Research Associate

Australia

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University of Newcastle
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English Language Support Teacher

Australia

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Education

Open University
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Doctor of Philosophy

Open University
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Master of Educational Research Methodology

Cardiff University
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Master of Applied Linguistics

Open University
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Open Degree BA (Hons)

Publications

A national audit of academic literacies provision in enabling courses in Australian Higher Education (HE)

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University of Newcastle

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A national audit of academic literacies provision in enabling courses in Australian Higher Education (HE)

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University of Newcastle

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Enabling Education Typology Digital Resource

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NAEEA

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website

Equity in Higher Education Annotated Bibliography Series

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The Gonski Institute

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research-tool

Awareness, understandings, and teaching practices surrounding academic oracy in university preparation pathways

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Higher Education Research & Development

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Experiences of discomfort in social justice education with pre-service teachers: understanding and responding to student resistance

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Critical Studies in Education

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Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education

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Higher Education Research & Development

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Decolonising solidarity in higher education: navigating barriers and enablers in advocacy with people from displaced backgrounds

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International Journal of Inclusive Education

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First Nations students’ perceptions of the enablers of and barriers to success in Australian higher education: a systematic review

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The Australian Educational Researcher

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Refugees and the Right to Education: Reflections on International Frameworks and the Australian Context

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Current Issues in Comparative Education

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Refugees and the Right to Education:

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Current Issues in Comparative Education

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“If we can grow them here it just makes sense”: Disrupting higher education narratives through Country University Centres in regional and rural Australia

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International Journal of Educational Research

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“If we can grow them here it just makes sense”

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International Journal of Educational Research

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On widening participation in higher education: A national examination of equity initiatives in Australian secondary schools

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Australian Journal of Education

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On Widening Participation in Higher Education: A National Examination of Equity Initiatives in Australian Secondary Schools

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Australian Journal of Education

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Harnessing Possibilities and Synergies to Refugee Complementary Migration Pathways in Australia: A Multiple Streams Analysis

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Journal of International Migration and Integration

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Teaching social justice education: the nature, role and future of discomfort

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Critical Studies in Education

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Rethinking student engagement for ‘hyflex’ teaching and learning in post-compulsory settings: acknowledging flexibility and agency needed for unplanned events

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International Journal of Lifelong Education

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Developing trauma-informed university supports for refugee background students in Australia: Refocusing through an ethics of care lens

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The Australian Educational Researcher

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How do higher degree research students and supervisors navigate ethics‐in‐practice for educational research in sensitive or ‘fragile’ contexts?

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British Educational Research Journal

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Supporting Those Who Provide Support: What Do University Student-Facing Staff Say About Training for Working with Diverse Cohorts?

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Student Success

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Teaching for diversity: university educators’ accounts of care work and emotional labour with CALD students

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Teaching in Higher Education

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Conflicting Demands of Settlement and Tertiary Education in Australia for Refugee Background Students? A Critical Metaphor Analysis

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Disrupting binary thinking about sanctuary initiatives in the UK and Australia

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Critical Studies in Education

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Disrupting binary thinking about sanctuary initiatives in the UK and Australia: insights from a Derridean analysis of hostipitality

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Critical Studies in Education

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What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis

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Learning, Media and Technology

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Reexamining engagement in Australian higher education

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Research Handbook on Student Engagement in Higher Education

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Reexamining engagement in Australian higher education: insights from students with Culturally and Linguistically Marginalised Migrant andor Refugee (CALMMR) backgrounds

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Navigating institutional ethics processes: Insights from higher degree by research students and supervisors doing research in fragile contexts

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Qualitative Research

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Durable supports for refugees in higher education through resisting short-termism and organisational memory loss: illustrative cases from Australia and Germany

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Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management

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Equity and STEM in elite contexts: challenging institutional assumptions and critiquing student support

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International Journal of Inclusive Education

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Modifying an integration framework to enhance refugee student engagement in settlement higher education contexts: the case of Australia

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Refugees as Skilled Migrants: Insights from Australia’s 2018 Employer-Sponsored Refugee Migration Pilot

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Social Indicators Research

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Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care

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Women's Studies International Forum

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What do we know about how women with forced migration experiences access tertiary education in resettlement contexts? A scoping study

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Gender and Education

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Disrupting assumptions about graduate employability: exploring culturally and linguistically diverse university students’ graduate capitals in Australia

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Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management

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The Australian Research on Refugee Integration Database (ARRID): a Platform and Conceptual Framework to Map, Connect and Share Knowledge

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Journal of International Migration and Integration

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Scoping academic oracy in higher education: knotting together forgotten connections to equity and academic literacies

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Higher Education Research & Development

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Equitable teaching for cultural and linguistic diversity: exploring the possibilities for engaged pedagogy in post-COVID-19 higher education

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Educational Review

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Lessons from the pandemic on fairer and more caring uni teaching and learning

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The Conversation

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People from Refugee and Asylum Seeking Backgrounds: An open access annotated bibliography

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Refugee Education Special Interest Group

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Scoping academic oracy in higher education: knotting together forgotten connections to equity and academic literacies (forthcoming)

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Higher Education Research & Development

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The Australian Research on Refugee Integration Database (ARRID): A platform and conceptual framework to map, connect and share knowledge (forthcoming)

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Journal of International Migration and Integration

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What do we know about enabling education as an alternative pathway into Australian higher education, and what more do we need to know? A meta-scoping study

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Research Papers in Education

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Refugees are a Valuable but Overlooked Economic Resource, and it is Time to Update Our Approach to Migration

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Australian Economic Review

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Supporting (or not) the career development of culturally and linguistically diverse migrants and refugees in universities: insights from Australia

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International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance

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Expanding durable solutions for refugees: possibilities for developing education pathways in Australia

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Australian Journal of Human Rights

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Disrupting the dominance of ‘linear pathways’: how institutional assumptions create ‘stuck places’ for refugee students’ transitions into higher education

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Research Papers in Education

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Transitions from education to employment for culturally and linguistically diverse migrants and refugees in settlement contexts: what do we know?

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Studies in Continuing Education

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Supporting students' academic literacies in post-COVID-19 times: Developing digital videos to develop students' critical academic reading practices

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Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice

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Discursive constructions of equity in Australian higher education: Imagined worlds and the case of people seeking asylum

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British Educational Research Journal

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A viable equity mechanism for all? Exploring the diversity of entry requirements and supports in Australian enabling education

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Higher Education Research & Development

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A viable equity mechanism for all? Exploring the diversity of entry requirements and supports in Australian enabling education

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Higher Education Research & Development

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Ethics‐in‐practice in fragile contexts: Research in education for displaced persons, refugees and asylum seekers

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British Educational Research Journal

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Facilitating Access to Higher Education for People Seeking Asylum in Australia: Institutional and Community Responses

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Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees

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Reflections on COVID-19 and impacts on equitable participation: the case of culturally and linguistically diverse migrant and/or refugee (CALDM/R) students in Australian higher education

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Higher Education Research & Development

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Wasted, manipulated and compressed time: adult refugee students’ experiences of transitioning into Australian higher education

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Journal of Further and Higher Education

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Editorial: Defending the human right to quality education in a time of disruption

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Human Rights Defender

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Ethics and consent in settlement service delivery

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Forced Migration Review

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Students from Refugee and Asylum Seeker Backgrounds and Meaningful Participation in Higher Education: From Peripheral to Fundamental Concern

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Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning

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Higher Education and Students from Refugee Backgrounds: A Meta-Scoping Study

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Refugee Survey Quarterly

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Methodological diversity as an asset for transition-focused higher education research with students from refugee backgrounds

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Review of Education

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Is there any appetite for “linguistic hospitality” in monolingual educational spaces? The case for translanguaging in Australian higher education

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Migration, Education & Translation

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My study is the purpose of continuing my life': The experience of accessing university for people seeking asylum in Australia

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Australian Universities Review

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Systemic Policy Barriers to Meaningful Participation of Students from Refugee and Asylum Seeking Backgrounds in Australian Higher Education

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Exploring Educational Policies and Practices in English-Speaking Countries of Refugee Resettlement

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Literacy autobiographies in pre-service teacher education: opportunities for therapeutic writing in widening participation contexts

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Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning

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The invisibility of academic reading as social practice and its implications for equity in higher education: a scoping study

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Higher Education Research & Development

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Higher English entry standards for international students won’t necessarily translate to success

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The Conversation

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Alternative Pathways into Higher Education Open Access Annotated Bibliography: Enabling, Foundation, Access & Bridging Education

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Three issues language proficiency can hide for students from non-English speaking backgrounds

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The Conversation

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Universities need to do more to support refugee students

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The Conversation

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’Hot’, ’Cold’ and ’Warm’ supports

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Teaching in Higher Education

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he weaponisation of language: English proficiency, citizenship and the politics of belonging in Australia

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Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis

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REFUGEES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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'Transitions in students’ reading and writing: the case of A-levels to university in the UK’

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Transitions in Writing

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People Seeking Asylum in Australia: Access and Support in Higher Education

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National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education

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Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice

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Emerald Publishing Group

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Research with former refugees: Moving towards an ethics in practice

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Australian Universities’ Review

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How people seeking asylum in Australia access higher education, and the enormous barriers they face

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The Conversation

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Shifts in the treatment of knowledge in academic reading and writing: Adding complexity to students’ transitions between A-levels and university in the UK

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Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

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Transition in students' reading and writing

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Transitions in Writing

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Shifts in the treatment of knowledge in academic reading and writing

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Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

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English language bar for citizenship likely to further disadvantage refugees

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The Conversation

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‘Hot’, ‘Cold’ and ‘Warm’ supports: towards theorising where refugee students go for assistance at university

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Teaching in Higher Education

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Students’ writing ‘in transition’ from A-levels to university: how assessment drives students’ understandings, practices and discourses

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Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

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Students’ writing ‘in transition’ from A-levels to university

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Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

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Students’ writing ‘in transition’ from A-levels to university: how assessment drives students’ understandings, practices and discourses

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Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

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Teachers' identities as writers

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Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing

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Teachers' identities as writers: Teacher, support staff and pupil accounts of the role of emotion in the writing classroom

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Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing

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Reimagining support models for students from refugee backgrounds: Understandings, spaces and empowerment

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Research and Development in Higher Education: The Shape of Higher Education

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Liminal spaces, resources and networks: Facebook as a shaping force for students' transitions into higher education

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Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences

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Core or periphery? The positioning of language and literacies in enabling programs in Australia

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Australian Educational Researcher

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Core or periphery? The positioning of language and literacies in enabling programs in Australia

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The Australian Educational Researcher

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A national audit of academic literacies provision in enabling courses in Australian Higher Education (HE)

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University of Newcastle

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How students from non-English-speaking backgrounds learn to read and write in different ways

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The Conversation

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Teachers as Writers: Implications for Identity

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Primary English Teaching Association Australia

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Exploring the discursively constructed identities of a teacher-writer teaching writing

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English Teaching

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Exploring the discursively constructed identities of a teacher-writer teaching writing

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English Teaching

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Transitions and shifting understandings of writing: building rich pictures of how moving from school to university is experienced through exploration of students’ discourses of writing

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Journal of Academic Language and Learning

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Conceptualising the use of Facebook in ethnographic research: As tool, as data and as context

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Ethnography and Education

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Conceptualising the use of Facebook in ethnographic research

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Ethnography and Education

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Exploring teacher-writer identities in the classroom: Conceptualising the struggle

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English Teaching

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Exploring teacher-writer identities in the classroom

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English Teaching

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