Current Projects

Teaching Updates

Mar-July 2026 – aiming to renew my Highly Accomplished teacher status with AITSL. TQI in the ACT are super supportive of helping me meet the 5 year renewal, so it’s looking doable at this stage.

Feb-July 2026 – looking forward to progressing my understanding of the GTPA to support secondary MTeach and BEd students with their completion. Also very happily back into casual sessional work across three unis in their education schools.

Current thesis stage: revisions are back! A busy few months ahead now

Furry Friends and Fluent Readers: A Qualitative Exploration of Participant Experiences in Reading-to-Dog Programs

Mar – July 2026; revisions are back after my examination. I have a bit of a process ahead of me to make changes and review several chapters…but a stronger thesis will be the end result!

Oct 2025 – thesis submitted for examination! Now we wait as the next steps are: two external examiners review it over a few months → I make any required changes → final submission → Conferral (Dr title time!) → graduation.

August 2025: sent to uni approved proofreader and also made some final tweaks and edits.

March – August 2025: writing up my findings and discussion. I was also offered a competitive spot in the Thesis Completion Initiative at CQU. This program allows candidates to redirect unused RHD funding to thesis drafting while providing peer support, motivation, and productive writing strategies through structured goal-setting and problem-solving sessions.

Jan 2025 – March 2025: data analysis begins! I moved past the first coding stage in Braun and Clarke’s RTA process and embraced the second, more detailed attempt.

Sept 2024 – Dec 2024: data collection! After much negotiation with various education departments, I was able to interview some teachers, school leaders, librarians and volunteers. Collecting children’s images was much trickier and while I got a few, ethics was an issue. Part of my discussion and recommendations chapters will explore how challenging this was.

July – Sept 2024: AARE ethics approval (required for all school based research). I then had to work my way through many layers of ethics approvals at devote, diocese, school region, school board and principal level! While dealing with all the paperwork, I used my pilot study data for attendance at a Thematic Analysis workshop.

July 2024: CQU ethics approval received

Feb – June 2024: confirmation of candidature submitted to external reviewers, review comments actioned, and final version approved!

Feb – Nov 2023: commenced EdD and began to scope literature review and explore methodology. In the second half of the year I completed a mandatory coursework unit which helped to shape my 10k word confirmation of candidature submission milestone.