Associate ProfessorEve Mayes
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact
Orcid identifier0000-0001-6741-2489 (opens in a new tab)
- Associate ProfessorFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact
- +61 3 524 79551 (Work)
- Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Climate justice education
Student activism
Student voice/ agency/ student experience of teaching
Participatory research
Critical affect theories
Knowledge Areas
Young people's political participation and citizenship
Student climate justice activism
Student voice in school reform
Sociology of childhood and young people
Inequalities in education
Petro-pedagogies
Affective and participatory methodologies
Current Projects
2026-2028: Making histories: Young people as visual historians of changing cities (ARC Discovery Project DP260104284)
2022-2026: Striking Voices: Australian school-aged climate justice activism (ARC DECRA DE220100103)
GRANTS
- COLLABORATIVE GRANTMapping the spectrum of petro-pedagogical influence in Australian schooling: A pilot studyFaculty of Arts and Education3 Aug 2026 - 30 Nov 2026People funded by this grant:
- Rowe E,
- Fricker A,
- Richards I,
- Rahimi M,
- Gulliver R
- INTERNAL GRANTTowards impactful and intersectional Climate Justice Education: Developing accessible resourcesFaculty of Arts and Education1 Aug 2026 - 30 Nov 2026People funded by this grant:
- Rodriguez Castro L,
- de Rivera L,
- Vegesana G
- GRANTMaking histories: Young people as visual historians of changing cities27 Feb 2026 - 26 Feb 2029People funded by this grant:
- Rousell D,
- Mayes E,
- Hussey-Smith S,
- Moss J,
- Boadu G
- COMPETITIVE GRANTMaking histories: Young people as visual historians of changing cities ARC Discovery Grant $572,916Australian Research Council19 Jan 2026 - 30 Dec 2028People funded by this grant:
- Roussell D,
- Hussey-Smith K,
- Mayes E,
- Moss J,
- Kelly M
- COMPETITIVE GRANTFaculty of Business and Law Research Grant Scheme 2026 (FRGS)1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026People funded by this grant:
- Taska L,
- Molineux J,
- Wu F,
- Mayes E,
- Elizabeth W
- INTERNAL GRANTTowards multimodal youth histories of Australian cities:REDI4 Mar 2024 - 19 Dec 2025People funded by this grant:
- Kelly M,
- Mayes E,
- Mccandless T,
- Moss J,
- Rousell D
- CONTRACT RESEARCHHands-on Heritage at the National Wool Museum.30 Oct 2023 - 30 May 2024People funded by this grant:
- Kelly M,
- Mccandless T,
- Mayes E,
- Moss J,
- Chandir H
- FELLOWSHIPStriking voices: Australian school-aged students' climate justice activism24 Feb 2022 - 24 Nov 2025People funded by this grant:
- Eve Mayes
- INTERNAL GRANTREDI Research for Educational Impact3 May 2021 - 30 Nov 2021People funded by this grant:
- Mayes E,
- Kelly M,
- Moss J
- INTERNAL GRANT2019: Major Grant Development funding (Deakin Faculty of Education) - Deindustralisation, schooling and inequalities in the city of Geelong (with Merinda Kelly) - $10 000 over 2019)School of Education7 Jan 2019 - 22 Nov 2019People funded by this grant:
- Mayes E,
- Kelly M
- CONTRACT RESEARCHTeach the Teacher: Ignite and Primary School Engagement Evaluations 2017-202015 Nov 2017 - 31 May 2020People funded by this grant:
- Mayes E,
- Black R
- CONTRACT RESEARCHStudent Voice in School Decision Making: Student Representation on School Councils Project16 May 2016 - 13 Sep 2016People funded by this grant:
- Eve Mayes
