ProfessorCoral Campbell

Coral's research interests include:
* Science Education
* STEM Education, including technologies and creativity
* Qualitative research methodologies
* Constructivist methodologies
* Educator Professional learning and support

Knowledge Areas
Key knowledge areas;
1. Science/STEM education,
2. Design technology education,
3. Early childhood, Primary and secondary teaching,
4. Professional learning of teachers.
5. Qualitative research methodologies
6. Constructivist methodologies
Principal or co-supervision of PhD students

Recent completions:
1. STEM teaching and learning in bush kinders: an ethnographic study(2023)
2. Intentionally teaching or planning for play: Examining educators' perceptions and perspectives of early science pedagogy. (2021)
3. Non-residential Alternative Year 9 programs in Victorian schools (2021)
4. How is the teaching of science supported in primary schools in South West Victoria? (2021)
5. Conceptuatlising and exploring the potential of Critical co-design methodology to empower Indigenous young women to privilege knowledge and biocultural diversity, in Australia and Mexico (2020)
6. Creating a Green culture in TVET: A New Zealand Perspective (2018)
7. A whole-school approach to mentoring students: An Australian secondary school case study (2017)

Projects
Current and past projects
1. 2022-2023 Invergowrie 'Girls' Future-Our Future' COVID perspectives
2. 2019-2023 Girls as Leaders in STEM (GALS) Invergowrie
3. STEM HUB Website (2021-2024)
4. Grad. Cert Secondary Mathematics and Science (2020-2021)
5. 2020 - Defining and mapping out-of-field teaching
6. 2019-2020 Invergowrie 'Girls' Future-Our Future' Update report
7. 2019-2020 Interactive Online Professional Learning Program Pilot
8. 2018-2022 Girls as Leaders in STEM (GALS)
9. 2018 ARDOCH Youth Foundation - Early childhood STEM. Development of materials and evaluation of program
10. 2018 STEM and Entrepreneurship in Primary Schools SEPS Project. Dep of Industry, Innovation and Science
11. 2017-2018 DET PMSS Science Specialist
12. 2016 DET STEM Catalyst Program: professional learning program.
13. Bush kinders in Australia: locating the science 2015-2020
14. 2015 CSIRO Evaluation of CSIRO SMiS program
15. 2015-2017 ARC-Out-of-field teaching: Sustaining quality practices across subject boundaries
16. 2014 CREFI - Sustainability of science teaching in primary schools relating to the Primary Science Specialist Learning Program
17. 2013-2014 OLT - Science Teacher Education Partnerships in Schools (STEPS)
18. 2013-2014 Primary Science Specialist Professional Learning Program research
19. 2013-2014 The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP) NAP-Science Literacy in Australia
20. 2013 CRG - TOPAT - Teaching Out-of-field: Preparing Adaptable Teachers

Publications 2021 (not in DRO)
1. Campbell, C., Jobling, W., & Howitt, C (2021) Eds Science in Early Childhood 4th Edition. Cambridge University Press
2. Campbell, C. & Speldewinde. C (2022) Bush Kinders in Australia: a creative place for outdoor STEM learning. In Murcia, K, Joubert, M, Campbell, C & Wilson, S. Children's Creative Inquiry in STEM, Springer
3. Murcia, K, Joubert, M, Campbell, C & Wilson. S. (2022) Children's Creative Inquiry in STEM, Springer
4. Campbell, C (2022) Play, Science and Engineering in the Early Years in Australia. In Ed S. Tunnicliffe and T. Kennedy. International Policies and Practices in Early STEM Education. Springer
5. Campbell, C. Backman, K. Eeckhout, T. Speldewinde, C. Johansson, A-M. & Arnqvist A (2022) Sweden, Australia and Belgium: STEM comparisons in Early Childhood In Ed S. Tunnicliffe and T. Kennedy. International Policies and Practices in Early STEM Education. Springer
6. Campbell, C. & Speldewinde. C (2021) Early childhood STEM Education - an international perspective of a developing field. Encyclopedia of Teacher Education Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_437-1