Visiting Scholars
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26 June 2026
Vishal Kumar – Visiting Scholar from India
Vishal Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Manipal University Jaipur. His research lies at the intersection of science education, scientific literacy,…
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12 May 2026
Martin Grunfeld – Visiting Scholar from Denmark
Martin Grünfeld is an independent scholar and external lecturer in European Ethnology at the University of Copenhagen. He holds a PhD in continental philosophy from University College Dublin but often…
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18 May 2026
Franziska Messenbeock – Visiting Scholar from Austria
Franziska Massenboeck holds a degree in Environmental Education from the University College for Agricultural and Environmental Education in Vienna, Austria. In recent years, she has worked as a project coordinator…
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20 April 2026
Amanda Glob Nielsen – Visiting Scholar from Denmark
Amanda Glob Nielsen completed her teacher education at Denmark’s first women’s teacher training college. There, she developed a sustained interest in critical pedagogy and anti-racist education. She later pursued graduate…
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8 July 2025
Magdalena Kersting – Visiting Scholar from Denmark
Magdalena’s bio (from website https://www.magdalenakersting.com/) I came to this work sideways – or rather, from multiple directions at once. I studied mathematical physics, captivated by elegant abstractions of our world,…
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26 November 2018
Professor Maija Aksela visits the STEME Team from Finland
Professor Aksela was a keynote at the 2018 CAR symposium and 2018 STEM Education conference, and presented a seminar on school-industry links called Science Education Through Industry Collaboration.
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16 November 2018
Professor Per-Olof Wickman
Per-Olof Wickman is Professor of Science Didactics at that University of Stockholm. Professor Wickman was a keynote at the 2018 CAR Symposium. He presented on aesthetics in science education and…
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4 October 2019
STEME Team Welcomes Brazilian Visiting Scholar
Fernanda Rezende arrived in Melbourne in October 2018, with her daughter, Petala, and son, Ben. Fernanda is conducting a research project with Dr. Peta White in Sustainable Schools with a…
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9 March 2019
Professor Kathy Nolan
Professor Kathy Nolan, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada visited us early in 2018. Kathy teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in mathematics curriculum, qualitative research, and contemporary issues in education. Her…
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23 December 2016
Professor Julian Williams
Professor Williams has a long association with STEM Education researchers at Deakin. He has visited Deakin a number of times over 2016-2018, presenting on topics such as interdisciplinary in STEM,…
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26 November 2016
Professor Rich Lehrer
Professor Lehrer was a Deakin ‘Thinker in Residence’, working with STEME researchers for 3 months in 2016. He has been a critical friend on Australian Research Council projects led by…