Teacher educator
Current focus on everyday practice in behavioural support in primary education. Background of 30 years in early, primary, and secondary education focused on developmental psychology.
Postgraduate supervision
General topics include teaching tensions in science education in middle years; cyberbullying in middle years; teacher practice for behavioural support in secondary schools; professional development for teachers in a boys' school.
Inclusion topics include multiple perspectives on learning difficulties in upper primary classrooms; group-based cultural teacher practice for students with autism; early childhood staff capacity for teaching social-emotional competence in young children with autism; and student voice in postsecondary transition of young people with visual impairment.
Editor and editorial boards
Member of editorial boards of Australian Journal of Special Education, Journal of Multiage Education, and Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist. Background of ten years as editor of Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist (1990s).