Dr Sally Baker
Senior Lecturer
PhD
MRes (Education)
MA, Applied Linguistics
PGCE (Post-Compulsory)
BA
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Education
Sally Baker is a Senior听Lecturer of Language and听Literacies in the School of Education. She is the Education focal point in听the Forced Migration Research Network (FMRN@国民彩票) and is the Chair of the Refugee Education Special Interest Group (http://refugee-education.org).
Sally's听research听explores听issues of equity in higher education, with her research and advocacy听interests including refugee education higher education equity and language policy,听the educational experiences of students from culturally and linguistically diverse migrant and refugee (CALDMR)听backgrounds,听academic language and literacies (ALL), transitions, methodological + ethical听issues with research in 'fragile contexts',听and qualitative longitudinal research.
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Location
G30 Morven Brown
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Recent grants
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(2021) NSW Department of Education: NSW Equity Consortium: Imagined Futures (a whole-of-cohort outreach program with Years 7鈥10 including post-school transition)
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(2020) National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education: University responses to enhancing equity in the post-Covid landscape (CI: Mary Teague, 国民彩票 + UTS, WSU, MQ)
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(2020) National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education: COVID-19 Online Learning Landscapes and CALDMR students: Opportunities and Challenges (CI: Sally Baker, 国民彩票 + ACU, CQU, Curtin, Deakin, MQ, UAdelaide, VU, UQ, UON, WSU)
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(2019) National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education: Careers guidance for CALDM/R students (CI: Alex Newman, Deakin + 国民彩票, UAdelaide)
- Invited speaker in 鈥楩uturing Education for a Changing World: Challenges, Innovation and Opportunities鈥 panel at the inaugural Refugee Alternatives conference at 国民彩票 (), February 23 2017.听
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- Recipient of Visiting Fellowship at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (funded by the South African National Research Foundation): February 2017: As recognition of my expertise in the areas of academic literacies, equity and alternative entry education, I was invited to be a visiting researcher at Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa in February 2017. This visit was funded by a National Research Foundation (South Africa) 鈥楰nowledge Interchange and Collaboration Programme鈥 grant for the purpose of vising the Fundani Centre for Higher Education and working with Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) teachers. During this visit, I drew on my experiences of English language teaching to develop a workshop for ECP teachers on issues related to transition and academic literacies, and suggest pedagogical practices and strategies to help foreground language, reading and writing in their classes.
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- Selected Featured Symposium to represent the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) conference, 5-7 September in Brighton, UK. Baker, S.; Irwin, E.; Ramsay, G.; Fagan, S.; Taiwo, M.; Gower, S. (2017). Researching pathways into higher education with students from refugee backgrounds: Exploring the conceptual, methodological and ethical challenges.
Sally's current projects include:
- Chief investigator on a project exploring parents' expectations and aspirations for their children's futures in low-resourced and multilingual areas of Sydney
- Chief investigator on a project exploring oracy and equity in Australian high schools
- Chief investigator听on a National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE)-funded project, titled听COVID-19 Online Learning Landscapes and CALDMR students: Opportunities and Challenges (2020-2021)
- Lead researcher on a National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE)-funded project, titled听University responses to enhancing equity in the post-Covid landscape
- Chief investigator on a project听examining HyFlex teaching and learning and the impact on equity and student听engagement
- Collaborator on the Australian Refugee Integration Research Database (ARRID), with Social Equity Institute at University of Melbourne
- A book project, asking whether universities are caring institutions
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Forced Migration Research Network, 国民彩票
Kaldor Centre Emerging Scholars Network, 国民彩票
Chair of the Refugee Education Special Interest Group