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DrLynette Longaretti

Senior Lecturer In Education (Pedagogy And Curriculum)

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education

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  • Senior Lecturer In Education (Pedagogy And Curriculum)
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education
  • +61 3 522 71493 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Initial teacher education

Professional experience and teacher preparation

Classroom management and learning environments

Student voice, wellbeing and engagement

Equity, inclusion and educational disadvantage

School transitions

Trauma-informed practice

Teacher resilience and development

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

Is There a Need for a University-Wide Approach to Trauma Awareness? (2026, ongoing)
Research team: Powe, G., Bennetts, S., Downes, N., Fiolet, R., Miller, P., Cameron, G., Longaretti, L., & Granland, R.

 

Perspectives of Leadership: Impact of co-designed student led innovations on ITE Course Design (2025 - ongoing)
Research team: Longaretti, L. Hyde, E & El Hachem, E.
 
A Systematic Review of Trauma-Aware Initial Teacher Training (2026 - ongoing) 
Research team: Longaretti, L., Avery, J. C., Angborchi, A., Sirca, K., Gronowrajek, K., & Southall, A.

 

Building Empathic Capacity in Initial Teacher Education: An Action Research Investigation of Trauma-Informed Approaches (2026–ongoing)
Cross-university collaboration involving Deakin University, La Trobe University, Victoria University and Monash University.
Principal Investigator: Dr Lynette Longaretti.
 
Manuscripts under review

(in press) M/other. Book chapter in N. Rao, A, Hosein and L. Light. Narratives of Academic Mothers’ Lived Experiences: Contradictions, Complexities and Challenges'  Bloomsbury Academic

 

Pedagogical Reasoning and the Development of Classroom Management: A Self-Study (ongoing research project; manuscript under review, Teaching and Teacher Education).

 

"You stay": Mentoring as relational work in rural pofessional experience (ongoing research project; manuscript under review, Australian Journal of Teacher Education. 

 

Manuscripts in Preparation
Relational Ecological Framework of Pre-Service Teacher Experience (manuscript in preparation arising from Student as Partners Project, 2023 & 2024 Strengthening Course Delivery for Authentic Employment-Based Learning, and Bridging the Gap) 

GRANTS

  • TENDER
    Isolation, placement poverty and learning to teach in the Bush
    29 May 2024 - 27 Mar 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Education - $249,901.09
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Implementing a Multi-Provider Professional Practice Model in Victorian Regional Communities.
    28 Jun 2023 - 30 Aug 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - $208,330.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Access Quality Teaching
    9 Sep 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - $257,500.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    National Exceptional Teaching for Disadvantaged Schools 2021.
    22 Apr 2021 - 10 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - $83,430.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Developing the National Exceptional teaching for Disadvantaged Schools Program.
    4 May 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - CONTR2020/00758 - $106,250.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Aboriginal Teacher Workforce Pilot Literature Review and Analysis.
    25 Jun 2018 - 15 Dec 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Education and Training Victoria - $40,820.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    National Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools program (NETDS)
    2 Nov 2017 - 30 Jun 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Toe D,
    • Longaretti L,
    • Arnold J,
    • Davies K
    Department of Education and Training Victoria - $71,000.00
  • GRANT
    National Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools program (NETDS)
    1 Oct 2014 - 31 Dec 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Toe D,
    • Longaretti L
    Origin Foundation Pty Ltd - $142,604.00