REDI members win big at AARE’s 2020 awards

REDI had tremendous success at this year’s Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Awards, with three members winning prizes:

Springer/Australian Educational Researcher Award for Best Paper 2020

Dr Emma Rowe (REDI) and Associate Professor Laura B. Perry (Murdoch University) have won the AARE’s Springer Award for Best Paper in the AARE’s ‘Publication Awards’ category, for their paper Private Financing in Urban Public Schools: Inequalities in a Stratified Education Marketplace.

The Springer Award for best paper published in The Australian Educational Researcher was inaugurated in 2011 and recognises the best paper from those published in each calendar year, as selected by the journal’s editorial team.

Congratulations Emma!

Springer/Australian Educational Researcher Award for Best Reviewer 2020

The Springer Award for best reviewer of papers to be published in The Australian Educational Researcher was inaugurated in 2015, and is decided by the editorial team, based not only on the number of reviews completed over the course of the year, but on the quality of the feedback provided to authors. Authentic engagement with the manuscript; attention to detail; constructive critique, and the provision of specific and well justified feedback regardless of the recommendation are all part of this.

We’re thrilled to announce that Dr Eve Mayes has won the AARE’s Springer/AER Award for Best Reviewer in the AARE’s ‘Publication Awards’ category for 2020! Congratulations Eve!

Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research

Dr Katrina MacDonald has won the AARE Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in the AARE’s ‘Distinguished Contribution Awards’ category, for her thesis ‘Socially Just Principals in Unjust Times: Social Justice Leadership in Disadvantaged Victorian Primary Schools’.

The Ray Debus Award recognises excellence in educational research by doctoral students. Normally only one award will be made each year. It is seen by the Association as a way of recognising the high-quality contribution made to educational knowledge by graduate students, and at the same time promoting dissemination of research.

Originally known as the AARE Award for Doctoral Research in Education, the first award was made in 1989. In 2014 the Award was renamed in honour of Dr Ray Debus, AARE founding member and Honorary Life Member, who passed away early that year. Ray had the distinction of having attended all 44 AARE annual conferences held from the association’s founding up to 2013. During his many years at the University of Sydney, Ray mentored many doctoral students and early career researchers.

Congratulations Katrina!

Pictured (L-R) are Professor Jane Wilkinson, Katrina’s PhD supervisor from Monash University, Dr Katrina MacDonald, winner of the AARE Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education, and Professor Amanda Keddie.