Associate ProfessorLucinda McKnight

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact
  • +61 3 925 17428 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

English teaching (please note I do not generally supervise doctoral research in English as an Additional/Foreign Language, or Languages education)

Curriculum design

Visual, creative and multimodal research

Gender

Knowledge Areas
Curriculum design

Pedagogy

English teaching

Writing

Creative writing

Multimodal writing

Literacy

Digital literacies

Metaphor

Discourse analysis

Gender studies

Feminism

Inclusive education

Projects
Funded Projects

Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Project 2022-2025,
Teaching Digital Writing in Secondary English $423,652
Literature International Benchmarking Research Report 2019-2020
$6000 Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) funding

Teaching Writing Today: A Collaborative Study 2018-2019
$2920 Victorian Association for the Teaching of English Competitive Research
Grant with Professor Julian Sefton-Green; teachers Helen Billet (Woodleigh
School); Mandy Goff (Tallangatta Secondary College); Andrea Hayes (Brighton
Grammar); Tim Mannix (Brentwood Secondary College) and Elisse Hay (Pakenham
Secondary College).

The Posts and Beyond: Event Series feat. Professor Bronwyn Davies 2019
$5000 Australian Association for Research in Education Competitive Major Grant
with Professor Bronwyn Davies and Dr Melissa Wolfe

Poststructural Theory Special Interest Group Bursary Program 2019
$1500 Australian Association for Research in Education Competitive Minor Grant
with Dr Melissa Wolfe
Diversity Matters: A Sequence of Conference Events with Visiting Professor
Emma Renold 2018
$10000 Australian Association for Research in Education Competitive Major
Grant with Professor Emma Renold (University of Cardiff); Drs Melissa Wolfe
(Monash University); Leanne Coll (Deakin University); Annette Bromdal (USQ);
Lisa van Leent (QUT).

Poststructural Theory Special Interest Group Bursary Program 2018
$1500 Australian Association for Research in Education Competitive Minor Grant
with Dr Melissa Wolfe (Monash University)

The Digital Teacher: Planning for Learning in Cyber-assemblages
$3000 Deakin University Faculty of Arts and Education Competitive Research
Support Grant with Professor Julian Sefton-Green (Deakin University) and Dr
Gary Levy (Deakin University)

GRANTS

  • FELLOWSHIP
    Teaching digital writing in secondary English
    1 Feb 2022 - 31 May 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lucinda McKnight
    ARC DECRA - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - DE220100515 - $423,652.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    VCE literature benchmarking research and report.
    2 Dec 2019 - 7 Feb 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lucinda McKnight
    VCAA Grant - Research - Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority - CONTR2019/02587 - $5,455.00
  • GRANT
    Teaching writing today: A collaborative study
    16 Jul 2018 - 31 Dec 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • McKnight L,
    • Mannix T,
    • Goff M,
    • Hayes A,
    • Billet H
    Victorian Association for the Teaching of English Collaborative Research Grant - $2,920.00