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ProfessorRussell Tytler

Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Science Education

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education

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  • Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Science Education
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education
  • +61 3 522 72376 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Guided inquiry pedagogies representing contemporary scientific practices
The multimodal languages of sciences including material and embodied practices
Sociosemiotic perspectives on student reasoning and learning
Socioscientific issues, and climate change education
Aesthetics and learning in science
Interdisciplinary STEM Education
Methodological innovation in STEM Education

Knowledge Areas


Science Education
Teacher learning, school change and leadership
STEM Education
Climate Change Education

Curriculum and pedagogy

Projects


Australian Research Council DP230101533
Enacting Climate Change Education: Building student and teacher agency through
representing scientists' practices in classrooms. Russell Tytler, Peta White,
Ying-Shao Hsu, Maija Aksela. 2023-2025

Victorian Department of Education and Training
Design and delivery of SMSI with opt-in CIRCLS support.
R. Tytler, Jill Brown, Peta White, Linda Hobbs, Seamus Delaney, John Cripps
Clark, Wanty Widjaja, Carly Sawatzki, Julianne Lynch, Jo Raphael 2021-5

Australian Research Council DP180102333:
Enriching mathematics and science learning: An interdisciplinary approach.
Russell Tytler; Joanne Mulligan; Lihua Xu; Peta White; Leona Schauble; Richard
Lehrer; Vaughan Prain. 2018-2021

Ford Australia: 100 Jobs of the future
Russell Tytler, Peta White, Ruth Bridgstock (Griffith), Dineli Mather, Trevor
McAndless. 2018

Australian Research Council LP160100263
Multiliteracies for addressing disadvantage in senior school science.
Len Unsworth (ACU), Russell Tytler, Kay O'Halloran (Curtin), Sally Humphrey,
Kristina Love, Anne Lynzaat, Sarah Moss-Holland, Emmaleen Oakley, Robert
Dullard. 2016-2019

Australian Research Council (LP150100558)
Improving Regional Low SES Students' Learning and Wellbeing
Prof Vaughan Prain et al., La Trobe University, Prof Bruce Waldrip et al.,
UTas and Prof Russell Tytler, Damian Blake, Amanda Mooney, Deakin U. 2015-2018

Australian Research Council (DP150102089)
Out-of-field Teaching: Sustaining Quality Practices Across Subjects
Linda Hobbs, Robert Whannell, Russell Tytler, Colleen Vale, Frances Quinn,
Coral Campbell, Terry Lyons. 2015-2017.

Australian DIICCSRTE: Office of Learning and Teaching (MS13-3181)
Reconceptualising mathematics and science teacher education programs through
collaborative partnerships between scientists and educators
Stephen Dinham, David Clarke, Russell Tytler, Stuart Palmer and others. Led by
University of Melbourne. 2013-2017

 

Australian Research Council (SR120300015)
Science of Learning Research Centre.
Ottmar Lipp, John Hattie, Michael Timms, Pankaj Sah, and others including
Russell Tytler, 2013-2017. Led by University of Queensland.

 

Australian Research Council (LP130100233)
Developing digital pedagogies in inquiry science through a cloud based
teaching and learning environment.
Peter Hubber, Russell Tytler, Alan Finkel, Peter Laver, with partners The
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and STILE, 2013-2015

 

Australian Research Council (DP120101763)
Enhancing the Quality of Science Learning through a Representation-intensive Pedagogy
Russell Tytler, Peter Hubber, Gail Chittleborough (Deakin University), Vaughan Prain, Latrobe University, Garry Hoban, University of Wollongong, Peter Aubusson, University of Technology, Sydney. 2012-2014

 

Australian Research Council 2011-2013: Exploring quality primary education in
different cultures: A cross-national study of teaching and learning in primary
science classrooms. Russell Tytler, Peter Hubber, Dr Gail Chittleborough
(Deakin University), Prof Mark Hackling, Dr Karen Murcia (Edith Cowan
University), Professor Chao-Ti Hsiung Taipei University of Education, Prof
Sharon Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Prof Joerg Ramseger, Free
University Berlin

 

Australian Research Council 2008-2001: An investigation of causal relations
between complex classroom practices and science learning using high capacity
new research technologies and multiple theory testing, David Clarke, Russell
Tytler

 

Australian Research Council 2007-2009: The role of representation in learning
science, Russell Tytler, Vaughan Prain, Bruce Waldrip, Peter Hubber

 

Australian Research Council & Victorian Department of Education and Training
Improving Middle Years Mathematics and Science
Russell Tytler, Susie Groves, Annette Gough: 2003-6

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Enacting Climate Change Education through representing scientists' practice
    1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Tytler R,
    • White P,
    • Hsu Y-S,
    • Aksela M
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP230101533 - $379,100.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Girls' Future - Our Future second update: Impact of the COVID-10 pandemic on girls and STEM.
    4 Aug 2022 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    The Invergowrie Foundation - $85,653.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Refinement and Validation of Science Inquiry Tasks.
    10 Aug 2021 - 31 Mar 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - $45,424.32
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    CIRCLS - Support program for Secondary Mathematics and Science Initiative.
    3 May 2021 - 30 May 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - $171,368.97
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Secondary Mathematics and Science initiative for out-of-field teachers.
    28 Aug 2020 - 28 Apr 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - $6,037,606.31
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Science Teacher Toolkit
    20 Jul 2020 - 8 Sep 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - $41,409.37
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    PMSS Cohort 5 Research Project 2020
    26 May 2020 - 1 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    Edpartnerships International Pty Ltd - CONTR2020/01040 - $40,243.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    PMSS Cohort 5 Research Project
    1 Oct 2019 - 15 Dec 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Edpartnerships International Pty Ltd - CONTR2019/02210 - $64,390.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Tech Schools Evaluation
    21 Jun 2019 - 30 Sep 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - CONTR2019/01101 - $435,161.27
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    '' Updating and Elaborating on Girls' Future - Our Future''.
    17 May 2019 - 30 Sep 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    The Invergowrie Foundation - CONTR2019/01793 - $66,930.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    100 Jobs of the Future Research Extension: Online Aptitude Test
    7 Sep 2018 - 31 Mar 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Ford Australia - CONTR2018/02505 - $36,200.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Top 100 Jobs of the Future
    1 Jul 2018 - 28 Oct 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    Ford Australia - $73,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Birth to Level 10 Numeracy Guide
    10 Jun 2018 - 30 Sep 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bragg L,
    • Tytler R,
    • Potter M,
    • Mousley J,
    • Walsh C
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - $208,700.00
  • GRANT
    Enriching mathematics and science learning: an interdisciplinary approach
    5 Apr 2018 - 5 Apr 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC - Discovery Projects - DP180102333 - $446,724.23
  • GRANT
    The Invergowrie Foundation STEM Report
    22 Feb 2017 - 30 Dec 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    The Invergowrie Foundation - $35,800.00
  • GRANT
    Multiliteracies for addressing disadvantage in senior school science
    3 Nov 2016 - 30 Jun 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Unsworth L,
    • Tytler R,
    • Humphrey S,
    • Oakley E,
    • Dullard R
    ARC Linkage - Projects - LP160100263 - $57,510.00
  • GRANT
    Improving Regional Low SES Students Learning and Wellbeing
    29 Jul 2016 - 31 Dec 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Linkage - Projects - LP150100558 - $444,779.05
  • GRANT
    Improving Regional Low SES Students Learning and Wellbeing
    29 Jul 2016 - 31 Dec 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    La Trobe University - $7,000.00
  • GRANT
    Improving Regional Low SES Students Learning and Wellbeing
    29 Jul 2016 - 30 Sep 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Education and Training Victoria - $56,000.00
  • GRANT
    Improving Regional Low SES Students Learning and Wellbeing
    29 Jul 2016 - 30 Sep 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Anglicare Tasmania Inc. - $70,000.00
  • GRANT
    Improving Regional Low SES Students Learning and Wellbeing
    29 Jul 2016 - 30 Sep 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Bendigo South East Secondary School - $3,500.00
  • GRANT
    Improving Regional Low SES Students Learning and Wellbeing
    29 Jul 2016 - 30 Sep 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Crusoe 7-10 Secondary College - $2,500.00
  • GRANT
    Improving Regional Low SES Students Learning and Wellbeing
    29 Jul 2016 - 30 Sep 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Eaglehawk Secondary College - $3,500.00
  • GRANT
    Improving Regional Low SES Students Learning and Wellbeing
    29 Jul 2016 - 30 Sep 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Northern Bay P-12 College - $7,000.00
  • GRANT
    Improving Regional Low SES Students Learning and Wellbeing
    29 Jul 2016 - 30 Sep 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    Weeroona College Bendigo - $3,500.00