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DrKatrina MacDonald

Senior Lecturer, Education Leadership

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

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  • Senior Lecturer, Education Leadership
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact
  • +61 3 924 68743 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Co-Convenor, Transforming Professional Lives, Learning and Leadership
    1 Jan 2026 - 30 Jun 2026
    Research Group in the School of Education
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Standing Committee, Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education, Australian Association of Research in Education
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2027
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Convenor, Pedagogy Education and Praxis International, Australia node
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2026
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Pedaogogy, Education and Praxis International
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2026
    International research group with a committee drawn from Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Netherlands. This research group brings together an international team of researchers focused investigating the nature, traditions and conditions of pedagogy, education and praxis and how they might be developed in different national contexts across different educational settings. The international website is here.
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Executive Committee, Strategic Research and Innovation Centre in Education, the Centre for Research for Educational Impact (REDI)
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
    As a convenor of two REDI committees/ Research Groups, I sit on the REDI executive
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Co-Convenor, Education, Governance and Policy for Sustainable Societies, REDI
    1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2026
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Co-Convenor, Engagement and Impact Committee, REDI
    1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2026
  • JOURNAL EDITORIAL ROLE
    International Journal of Leadership in Education (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Dec 2019 - 31 Dec 2025
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  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    ARC Detailed Assessor
    1 May 2020 - 31 Dec 2026
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Ongoing Reviewer
    1 May 2019 - 31 Dec 2026
    Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives, International Journal of Leadership in Education, Australian Educational Researcher, Australian Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Administration and History, Journal of Education Policy, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Education Inquiry, Oxford Review of Education, Globalisation Education and Society, School Leadership and Management, Educational Review, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, Asia-Pacific Journal of Education, Critical Studies in Education, Studies in Continuing Education, The Geographical Journal, Professional Development in Education, The Education Review, Journal of Educational Change, Springer Books, Routledge Books, Bloomsbury Books, Emerald Books
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    Building educational leadership skills with online learning pathways.
    11 Jul 2023
    Education Matters. July 11, 2023. Interviewed by K. Felton
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    Dan Tehan and the myth of school autonomy
    10 Nov 2019
    The Age, November 10, 2019, Keddie, A., Blackmore, J., Mahoney, C., and MacDonald, K. (2019)
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Submission to the Senate Education Committee’s inquiry into the ‘Better and Fairer Schools’,
    1 May 2024 - 1 May 2024
    Senate Inquiry, Australian Government. MacDonald, K., Keddie A., and Blackmore J. (2024)
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Invited comments to the Victorian Ombudman’s Investigation of protected disclosure complaints regarding the former Principal of a Victorian public school
    1 May 2020 - 1 May 2020
    Victorian Ombudman’s Investigation of protected disclosure complaints regarding the former Principal of a Victorian public school, Keddie, A., Blackmore, J. & MacDonald, K. (2020)
  • EXPERT WITNESS
    Submission to the Disability Royal Commission, Australian Government
    Disability Royal Commission, Australian Government, Keddie, A., Wilkinson, J., MacDonald, K., Blackmore, J.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Faculty of Arts and Education Research Excellence (Student and Alumni Engagement) Award
    31 Dec 2025
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Team Leadership Award, Australian Council of Educational Leaders New South Wales Branch
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2025
    Team Leadership Award, Australian Council of Educational Leaders New South Wales Branch. UNSW - Housing Affordability and the Teacher Shortage (HATS) team - Professor Scott Eacott, Dr Catherine Gilbert, Dr Katrina MacDonald, Professor Chris Pettit, Professor Hoon Han.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Australian Association of Research in Education Ray Debus award for Doctoral Research in Education
    1 Dec 2020
    2020 - Winner of the Australian Association of Research in Education Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education. This award recognises excellence in educational research by doctoral students, and is seen by the Association as a way of recognising the high-quality contribution made to educational knowledge by graduate students.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Mollie Holman Medal, Monash University
    1 Oct 2019
    2020 - Winner 2019 Monash University Mollie Holman medal. The Mollie Holman Medal is one of the highest academic honours bestowed by Monash University, and marks the recipient as a researcher of the higher order.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    First Prize, International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice [IJLE] Emerging Scholar Competition
    1 Oct 2019
    2020 - First Prize, International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice [IJLE] Emerging Scholar Competition
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Australian Council of Educational Leadership New Voice in Educational Leadership Research Scholarship
    2018 - 2019 - Australian Council of Educational Leadership New Voice in Educational Leadership Research Scholarship
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Monash University Doctoral School Student Exchange Award
    2017 - University of Goteburg - Monash University Doctoral School Exchange award
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    AARE Educational Leadership SIG Postgraduate Award
    2016 - AARE Educational Leadership SIG Award
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    School Autonomy Reform and Social Justice international conference
    15 Sep 2021 - 17 Sep 2021
    Online international mini-conference
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Invited lecture. Socially just public education in Australia and school reform.
    26 Aug 2025 - 25 Aug 2025
    Invited Public Lecture- Uppsala Universitet, Sweden