DrMandy Cooke
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education
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- Senior LecturerFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Education
- +61 3 522 73882 (Work)
- Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Risk-taking and courage in early childhood education
The theory of practice architectures
Early childhood education and care practices and pedagogy
Early chilhdood education and care workforce professionalism, wellbeing, identity and sustainability
Early childhood education initial teacher education
GRANTS
- INTERNAL GRANTSustaining the early childhood education and care workforce through university-led innovations: The role of the teaching coachDeakin University15 Oct 2025 - 28 Nov 2025People funded by this grant:
- Cooke M
- INTERNAL GRANTAustralian national survey of risk-taking and courage in early childhood education30 Jul 2025 - 28 Nov 2025People funded by this grant:
- Cooke M
- INTERNAL GRANTA cross-country comparison of pedagogical risk taking in early childhood settingDeakin University25 Mar 2025 - 14 Nov 2025People funded by this grant:
- Cooke M
- INTERNAL GRANTTransforming Early Childhood Education and Care with the Theory of Practice ArchitecturesDeakin University12 Mar 2025 - 26 Mar 2026People funded by this grant:
- Gibbs L
- TENDERSupporting access to and retention in early childhood teaching degrees through an employment-based mode1 Jan 2025 - 1 Jan 2028People funded by this grant:
- Robertson N,
- Mooney A,
- Blake D,
- Cooke M,
- Wishart L
- INTERNAL GRANTRelationality, emotions and affect in education and research: Through a theory of practice architectures lensDeakin University25 Sep 2024 - 29 Nov 2024
- INTERNAL GRANTA cross-country comparison of pedagogical risk taking in early childhood settingDeakin University9 Jul 2024 - 29 Nov 2024People funded by this grant:
- Sandseter E
- CONTRACT RESEARCHAustralian Governments Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP)21 Nov 2022 - 22 Nov 2027People funded by this grant:
- Cooke M,
- Phillips F,
- Kilderry A,
- Bennetts S
- CONTRACT RESEARCHDepartment of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Australian Government21 Nov 2022 - 22 Nov 2027People funded by this grant:
- Cooke M,
- Phillips F,
- Downes N,
- Kilderry A,
- Adam M
- INTERNAL GRANTThe relational intensity of risk-taking in early childhood educationDeakin University30 Sep 2022 - 2 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Cooke M
- INTERNAL GRANTDeakin Univsersity1 Aug 2022 - 16 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Kinnear V,
- David N,
- Phillips F,
- Cooke M
- CONTRACT RESEARCHDeakin University Early Childhood Innovative Initial Teacher Education Program: Accelerated Bachelor of Early Childhood Education.14 Jan 2022 - 15 Dec 2025People funded by this grant:
- Robertson N,
- Mooney A,
- Cooke M
- INTERNAL GRANTStrengthening the research agenda relating to risk-taking in early childhood education: A pilot projectDeakin University30 Jul 2021 - 29 Jul 2022People funded by this grant:
- Cooke M
