Associate ProfessorMichiko Weinmann

I am regularly invited to provide media comment, and to contribute to education blogs and industry publications. Recent examples include:

Why aren't more Victorians learning a second language? (ABC Radio Melbourne, 22 September 2023)

Mandarin secures spot as most popular language to learn at Victorian schools (The Age, 7 November 2021)

Concerns Asian experts 'dispensable' as Australian universities cut Asian programs due to COVID-19 (ABC News, 28 July 2021)

Just a few minutes daily learning a language can boost your brain power (The Sydney Morning Herald,13 June 2021)

Too foreign, difficult and suspicious: Discourses of Chinese language learning in Australia (Asian Studies Association of Australia,19 March 2021)

Looking to Languages: New opportunities right on our doorstep (Asia Education Foundation/Asialink, 26 Feb 2021)

Transforming Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy (TCAP)

Research for Educational Impact (REDI)

Modern Language Teachers' Association of Victoria (MLTAV)

VicTESOL

Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Deakin School of Education Research Awards 2018: Sustained achievement in Higher Degree by Research Supervision.

DAAD Bridges Network: Strategic transitional network of universities 2020 travel grant, 2019 (University of Bamberg, Germany).

DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service Award for Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists 2016 (Karlsruhe University of Education, University of Regensburg, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich).

RUIS (RMIT University International Student) scholarship for PhD research (2007).

Conferences and invited presentations of the last five years include:

International conferences

Charbonneau, N., Weinmann, M. & Arber, R. (2019). Decolonising language education policy: Beyond the imagination of Francophone identities. Paper presented at Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Murray Edwards College University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1113 September 2019.

Weinmann, M., Neilsen, R. & Martin, I., (2019). Juggling Selves: Navigating Pre-service Teaching Experiences in Overseas Contexts. Paper presented at Educating the Global Citizen: International Perspectives on Foreign Language Teaching in the Digital Age, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, 2528 March 2019.

Invited presentations

Weinmann M. & Neilsen R. (2021). Reorientating mobility and study abroad programs: We are crossing bordersor are we?. Asia Education Foundation AEF Clubhouse International network, Second Meeting, 27 May 2021.

Weinmann, M. (2019). Traversing multilingualism and the monolingual mindset: A critical perspective on Languages education in Australian schools. Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg,18 November 2019.

Weinmann, M. & Cairns, R. (2019). El campo curricular en Australia: La prioridad transversal Capacidades de Asia Contexto, debates, y limitaciones. Il seminario internacional Curriculum, conocimiento y experiencia educacional, Facultad de Sciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, 24 October 2019.