We conduct research aimed at improving education policy, quality and equity by generating knowledge, interventions and innovations that improve learning, well-being and the work of practitioners in education organisations and community services.
We promote innovation through Research Themes, Centres and Research Groups:
This theme researches: learning and teaching in the early years including creativity, curriculum, pedagogy, literacy and leadership; and the psychological and socio-cultural underpinnings of child development, parents and families
This theme researches: curriculum theory; learning; analytics and assessment; teacher education and professional learning; development education; and information and communications technology
UNESCO Chair in Regional Education Development and Lifelong Learning
Positive Psychology in Education Research Group
This theme researches: education policy, school leadership and management, comparative education, educational change, and diversity, equity and inclusion.
The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change (APCLC)
Diversity, Equity and Social Inclusion Research Group
This theme researches: clinical and health psychology, cognition, psychometrics and assessment, developmental and educational psychology, and social and cultural psychology
Centre for Psychosocial Health
This theme researches: special physical and intellectual needs to improve the education, well-being and care-services of young people, and to support their teachers and families.
Integrated Centre for Wellbeing