| 9.00-9.30 | Registration on Level 3 - collect name badge, Program Booklet, etc. | Level 3 |
9.30-11.20
Plenary
session | Opening: President of WAIER, Associate Professor Sian Chapman
Acknowledgment of Country
Keynote address: Hon Sabine Winton, Minister for Education
Panel Presentation: Chaired by A/P Sian Chapman. Panellists: Professor Laura Perry (Murdoch University); Dr Cindy Smith (Curtin University); Dr Garth Stahl (University of Queensland); Dr Libby Jackson Barrett (Edith Cowan University); Rachael Lehr (President ACEL WA) [ Details and photos ]
| Level 4, Room 4.031 |
| 11.20-11.50 | Morning tea | Foyer |
| Time | Session presenters | Title | Room |
11.50-12.15
Parallel 1 | Jennifer Achari | Reframing disengagement: A trauma-informed systems framework for alternative education | Room 3.002 |
| Maria Outtrim | Navigating challenges in school leadership: Experiences of female principals | Room 3.028 |
| Pravin Kumar Shaw, Susannah Soon and Ramesh Narayanaswamy | From complex platforms to low cognitive designs: Digital course delivery in vocational education and training | Room 3.030 |
| Bobby Victoria Cooper, Cindy Ann Smith and Sonja Kuzich | How do lecturers really feel about teaching online in higher education? | Room 3.032 |
| Nila Tanzil | Rural school libraries as an enabling place and a place of belonging for students, teachers, and parents in the Nagekeo district, Indonesia | Room 3.034 |
12.15-12.40
Parallel 2 | Suzanne Stewart | Embedding a therapeutic approach into 3-D animated serious games to reduce worry, anxiety, and loneliness in early aged adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders | Room 3.002 |
| Gemma Thomson | Perceptions of principals and faith leaders regarding the transmission of Presentation charism in Australian Presentation schools | Room 3.028 |
| Stephen C Mulholland | Mindfulness in vocational education: Exploring students' lived experiences | Room 3.030 |
| Paul Murphy | Effective blended learning: Understanding institutional adaptation through complex adaptive system | Room 3.032 |
| Dwi Suatman | Impact of professional learning and development on trainers' efficacy | Room 3.034 |
12.40-1.05
Parallel 3 | Leisa Hanson | From escalation to engagement: Exploring the impact of a sensory dog on learning participation for SEN students in a mainstream secondary school | Room 3.002 |
| Jette Oksis | The role of education consultants: An appreciative inquiry lens | Room 3.028 |
| Bich Nguyen | Smile in the mirror. You look amazing! Pre-service teachers' revelations about their tendencies for harsh self-reflections | Room 3.030 |
| Dien Bui, Elaine Chapman and Stephen Houghton | Teacher feedback in practice: What teachers are doing and the challenges they face | Room 3.032 |
| Wei Zhang and Tanya Fitzgerald | The politics of visibility: Gender, authority and women university leaders in Chinese higher education | Room 3.034 |
1.05-1.30
Parallel 4 | Sarah Gaudieri | Understanding difference and sustaining wellbeing: Lived experiences of neurodiversity in the classroom" | Room 3.002 |
| Nina Rovis-Hermann | When quality conceals harm: Student experience, education reality, and the limits of measurement | Room 3.028 |
| Kirsten Lambert and Christina Gray | Frontier masculinities, gender, power and teacher attrition in regional, remote and rural Australian schools | Room 3.030 |
| Brandon Davids | Development of a framework for understanding creative self-efficacy | Room 3.032 |
| Monika Sidabutar | How do Indonesian science teachers conceptualise independent learning? Preliminary findings from a qualitative study | Room 3.034 |
| 1.30-2.15 | Lunch | Foyer |
2.15-2.40
Parallel 5 | Roisin Glasgow-Collins, Sharyn Burns and Jacqui Hendriks | Beyond the secular assumption: Scoping the evidence base for relationships and sexuality education delivery in faith-based schools | Room 3.002 |
| Thanh Huy Nguyen, Karen Murcia and Craig Sims | From policy to practice: Integrating AI into pre-service early childhood teacher education in Vietnam | Room 3.028 |
| Una Donnelly | Using autoethnography to facilitate an empathetic approach to the teaching of Aboriginal texts in the secondary English classroom | Room 3.030 |
| Shoshanna Allnutt, Sally Lamping and Darren Bryant | Working mothers and the ethics of educational institutions | Room 3.032 |
| Arifur Rahman, Wendy Cumming-Potvin and Stephen Johnson | Digital citizenship in Bangladesh: Culture, policies and secondary school teachers' perceptions | Room 3.034 |
2.40-3.05
Parallel 6 | Cindy Ann Smith, Jasmin Fyfe and Neha Shukla | Developing effective classroom teachers for students with autism through supervised, research-based, classroom training | Room 3.002 |
| Simranjeet Kaur, Karen Murcia and Madeleine Dobson | Educators' digital self-efficacy for fostering young children's digital play and learning in early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres in Western Australia | Room 3.028 |
| Allison Bell | Present but peripheral: Ancient Aboriginal art in ACARA and SCSA curriculum and the knowledge translation gap | Room 3.030 |
| Jen Featch | Daddy wouldn't let me drive the BMW: Privilege, capitals and the elite schooling experience | Room 3.032 |
| Bolormaa Shinjee | Linguistic creativity and criticality: English as double-edged catalyst in post-socialist Mongolia | Room 3.034 |
3.05-3.30
Parallel 7 | Kim Andreassen, Cindy Smith and Jacqueline Hendriks | "Nothing about us without us": Co-designing consent education for young people with disability | Room 3.002 |
| Madlen Griffiths, Karen Murcia and Sarsha Mennell | "How did you do that so quickly?" Fostering children's critical thinking about AI | Room 3.028 |
| Natasha Rosky | From understanding to possibility: Reimagining educational research through narrative inquiry and Utopia as method | Room 3.030 |
| Victoria Evans, Dawn Penney, David Aldous and Christine Cunningham | Maintaining cultural histories in health and physical education teacher education through contextual rules | Room 3.032 |
| Anamaria Isticioaia-Budura | Reflection on practice: Perspectives of experienced EAL teachers | Room 3.034 |
3.30-3.55
Parallel 8 | John Shenton, Cindy Ann Smith and James Churchman | Examining the relationship between prison education attendance and incidents of harm and instability | Room 3.002 |
| Katherine Stevens and Allison Bell | Reframing literacy and arts education: A new integrated approach to motivate, engage and connect students | Room 3.030 |
| Tamara Reads, Sally Murphy and Sonja Kuzich | Premier's Reading Challenge and student engagement: A reflection on student perspectives? | Room 3.032 |
4.00 onward
Sundowner | [WAIER Postgraduate Awards], [Inaugural 2026 Prize for Best Thesis in Education] [Early Career Award], [2026 WAIER Research Grant], [WAIER Life Member Award]
All 2026 Awards will be presented by Mr Liam Staltari, MLA, Shadow Minister for Education, Early Childhood and Disability Services | Foyer |
