Peta White
(she/her)
Associate Professor, Education (Science Education)
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact
Orcid identifier0000-0002-0225-5934 (opens in a new tab)
- Associate Professor, Education (Science Education)Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact
- +61 3 924 46885 (Work)
- +61 444 570 559 (Mobile)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Peta Co-directs the Regenerating Futures Faculty Research Group (see here) with Associate Professor Jo Raphael. Our research foci are to support transdisciplinary collaboration between researchers who are committed to addressing Anthropocene challenges, decolonising knowledges and taking a transformative approach to ecological justice. Our researchers are from the three schools in the Faculty of Arts and Education and the National Indigenous Knowledges Education Research Innovation (NIKERI) Institute. Together we build researcher capacity through collaboration.
I have shown sustained high levels of research initiative and leadership, evident through multiple, innovative research partnerships with various industry partners.
- Climate Change Education
- Environmental and Sustainability Education (including socio-scientific inquiry and socially acute questioning)
- Science Education (Primary, Secondary, and Senior Biology and Environmental Science)
- Inquiry pedagogy
- Contemporary Science Practice in Schools
- Critical Pedagogy; Transformative Education; Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinary Education
- Post-qualitative, Action Orientated, Self-reflective Research Methodologies
- Activism and Action
- Student Engagement, Learning, and Reasoning
- Positive Learning Environments (classroom management)
- Teacher Education and Identity
- ICT and Digital Technology
- Assessment and Evaluation
I have supervised and examined many Masters and PhD graduates and enjoy mentoring and strategic advising colleagues.
RESEARCH WEBSITES (I designed and constructed or manage)
- STEME Research Group now re-invented as the Mathematics, Science, Environment and Technology Education Research Group see here
- Contemporary Science Practice in Schools see here
- Australian Climate Change Education Strategy see here
- ARC Research Project Enacting Climate Change Education see here
- ARC Research Project Interdisciplinary Maths and Science see here
- Hydrogen Energy see here
- Our Climate/Future Teaching & Learning Sequence see here
- Climate Change Education Forum (2019) see here
- 100 Jobs of the Future see here
- Action Learning Group Project see here
GRANTS
- GRANTGeelong's Artefacts of the Future1 Mar 2025 - 1 Mar 2026People funded by this grant:
- Hannigan S,
- White P,
- Bellingham R,
- Raphael J
- CONTRACT RESEARCHDesign and delivery of a Graduate Certificate of Secondary Design and Technologies.15 Feb 2023 - 27 Mar 2026People funded by this grant:
- Clark JC,
- Usma-Mansfield C,
- Aranda G,
- Jennings M,
- White P
- GRANTEnacting Climate Change Education through representing scientists' practice1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2025People funded by this grant:
- Tytler R,
- White P,
- Hsu Y-S,
- Aksela M
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCity of Greater Geelong - Climate Change Professional Development - Research Proposal - Project 110 Jun 2022 - 30 Jun 2024People funded by this grant:
- White P,
- Raphael J,
- Wishart L,
- Marks G,
- Hannigan S
- CONTRACT RESEARCHRefinement and Validation of Science Inquiry Tasks.10 Aug 2021 - 31 Mar 2022People funded by this grant:
- White P,
- Tytler R
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCIRCLS - Support program for Secondary Mathematics and Science Initiative.3 May 2021 - 30 May 2022People funded by this grant:
- CONTRACT RESEARCHScience Teacher Toolkit20 Jul 2020 - 8 Sep 2020People funded by this grant:
- White P,
- Tytler R,
- Ferguson J
- CONTRACT RESEARCHWriter - Advice for Teachers - VCE Biology Research Project.1 Nov 2019 - 28 Feb 2020People funded by this grant:
- Peta White
- CONTRACT RESEARCHPMSS Cohort 5 Research Project1 Oct 2019 - 15 Dec 2019People funded by this grant:
- Tytler R,
- White P,
- Campbell C,
- Hobbs L
- CONTRACT RESEARCHAAEE Curriculum Teaching Package Project - Stand Up for Your Future / Climate: Youth activism is education.7 May 2019 - 5 Aug 2019People funded by this grant:
- Peta White
- CONTRACT RESEARCHVictorian Certificate of Education Biology Study Design.26 Apr 2019 - 20 Sep 2019People funded by this grant:
- Peta White
- CONTRACT RESEARCHNSW Marine Education Strategy.1 Apr 2019 - 16 Aug 2019People funded by this grant:
- Peta White
- CONTRACT RESEARCHVictorian Certificate of Education Biology Benchmarking.4 Jan 2019 - 28 Jan 2019People funded by this grant:
- Peta White
- CONTRACT RESEARCHEIANZ Collaborative Research Research on Environmental Education.3 Jan 2019 - 30 Jun 2022People funded by this grant:
- Peta White
- CONTRACT RESEARCHSustainable Schools NSW Research Brief2 Jul 2018 - 30 Sep 2018People funded by this grant:
- Peta White
- TENDERSecondary STEM Catalysts: professional learning program15 Apr 2016 - 31 Aug 2018People funded by this grant:
- Hubber P,
- Tytler R,
- Campbell C,
- Vale C,
- Clark JC
- CONTRACT RESEARCHAssessment of impact and value: Scientists and Mathematicians in Schools Program13 Apr 2015 - 30 Nov 2015People funded by this grant:
- Tytler R,
- Campbell C,
- Chittleborough G,
- Williams G,
- White P
- CONTRACT RESEARCHPrimary Mathematics and Science Specialist Professional Learning Program February/March 201516 Mar 2015 - 16 Mar 2015People funded by this grant:
- Chittleborough G,
- Tytler R,
- Campbell C,
- Hubber P,
- Xu L