ProfessorJulian Sefton-Green

Professor

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

RESEARCH INTERESTS

* The political economy and pedagogy of out-of-school learning
* Critical digital literacies
* Young People's entry into work in the creative industries
* Multiliteracies and school reform
* Comparative educational research
* Digital Youth Identities
* Social inequality and diversity

Knowledge Areas
* Digital culture/digital technologies
* Informal learning
* Creative learning
* Media education
* New literacies
* Media production
* Researching the cultures of youth and childhood
* Learning/learner identities

Projects
My current projects include:
* [Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child](https://www.digitalchild.org.au/) - dedicated to research intersecting across fields of health, education and technology to offer a holistic view of young children and their digital experiences
* [Tracing the Enduring Effects of Community Arts Programs](https://www.deakin.edu.au/redi/our-research/tracing-the-enduring-effects-of-community-arts-programs-teecaps) - exploring the long-term effects of participating in out-of-school (OST) arts education programs serving young people from marginalised communities
* [Young people's learning in digital worlds: the alienation and re-imagining of education](https://www.uu.nl/onderzoek/education-for-learning-societies/projecten-resultaten/young-peoples-learning-in-digital-worlds-the-alienation-and-re-imagining-of-education) in association with the University of Utrecht
* [Platform Pedagogies](https://platformpedagogies.com)

My past projects include:
* Researching the creative biographies of young people as they enter work in the creative industries as part of ['The Connected Learning Research Network'.](https://clrn.dmlhub.net/)
* Studying the political economcy of the Non-Formal learning sector in London, Toronto and Vancouver as it as developed over the last 30 years as part of a Canadian Research Council project, called [YouthSites.](http://youthsites.org/)
* Monilukutaitoa Opitaan Ilolla, MOI (in English; Let's learn multiliteracy with joy) is a research and development project funded by the Finnish National Ministry of Education.

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Promoting low-income parents' digital media literacies.
    9 Apr 2026 - 8 Apr 2029
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dezuanni M,
    • Foth M,
    • Mitchell P,
    • Notley T,
    • Sefton-Green J
    ARC Linkage - Projects - LP240200695 - $66,447.00
  • GRANT
    Tracing the Effects of Community Arts Programs (TEECAP)
    1 Mar 2021 - 28 Feb 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Michalchik V,
    • Sefton-Green J,
    • DiGiacomo D,
    • Nelligan P,
    • Mejias S
    Wallace Foundation Grant - $661,012.24
  • GRANT
    ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child
    12 Feb 2021 - 11 Feb 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Danby S,
    • Green L,
    • Kervin L,
    • Sefton-Green J,
    • Straker L
    ARC CRE - Centres of Excellence - CE200100022 - $3,658,743.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    National education change agenda in Armenia.
    1 Jun 2018 - 31 Aug 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Julian Sefton-Green
    TUMO Centre for Creative Technologies - $16,146.00