Emeritus ProfessorCatherine Beavis

Program Leader: Curriculum, Assessment, Pedagogy and Digital Learning Research
for Educational Impact School of Education

Catherine Beavis is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Arts and Education at
Deakin University, Australia and past Deputy Director of The Centre for
Research for Educational Impact (REDI), Deakin University.

Since 1989, at Griffith and Deakin Universities, she developed, taught and
convened courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and Masters levels, and
undertaken Doctoral Supervision, in areas encompassing English and Literacy
Education, Curriculum Studies, Language and Literature, Research Methodology,
Digital Culture, New Media and New Literacies; Learning and Digital Games. Her
research addresses English and Literature education, English curriculum
history, young people and digital culture, ICT and new media, critical
literacy, in and out of school literacies and computer games. She has
published eight edited books, over forty chapters and more than thirty papers
in highly regarded refereed journals.

She has a successful track record in national competitive grant funding and
has been chief investigator with colleagues on five ARC Projects: two
Discovery and two Linkage projects (Lead CI on both Linkages) and is currently
CI on the ARC Australian Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. Her
research is centrally concerned with young people's engagement with digital
culture and digital games, digital social media and the online world; the role
of this engagement in young people's everyday lives, and the ways in which
immersion and interaction in the online world shapes orientations and
dispositions towards learning, identity and community. This research sits
alongside and is intertwined with a focus on literacy, English and Literature
Education, the changing nature of text, digital literacies and the
implications of digital technologies for pedagogy and curriculum, with a
particular focus on new literacies in digitally mediated communication,
multimodal forms of meaning making and critical perspectives.