Associate ProfessorLiz Rouse

Dr Elizabeth Rouse is an Associate Professor in Education, Early Childhood and has worked in the field of education for over thirty years.
She has taught in both early childhood settings as well as in schools. Additionally she has also worked in special education settings, community
based family support programs and as a policy advisor at both state and local government level. She has worked in initial teacher education since 2010, in the area of curriculum and pedagogy.
Dr. Rouse has developed a strong research profile in the area of family-school-community partnerships, which was the focus of her doctoral dissertation. Her publication 'Partnerships in the Early Years (2019, Oxford University Press), framed by her doctoral research, is now a prescribed text in a number ofAustralian Universities as well as in Europe and North America. More recently her research has focused on partnerships during transitions within and across education settings.
Additional to undertaking research in the area of education partnerships, Dr Rouse is currently engaged in a number of research projects which focus on young children's wellbeing, particularly in relation to spiritual wellbeing as it is enhanced though engaging in play in blue spaces (coastal areas, lakes, ponds, rivers and beaches), and has a number of publications arising from this research. She has also published in the area of infant and toddler language and literacy as well as literacy acquisition in the early years of schooling.

Research Groups
Victorian Early Childhood Research Consortium

European Early Childhood Education Research Association

Australian Association of Research in Education