Professor Pat Thomson delivered the annual Radford Lecture at The Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) conference at the end of November.
About the Radford Lecture
Since 1978 one of the plenary lectures given at each AARE annual conference has been designated the Radford Lecture, as a memorial to the late, distinguished educationist Dr William (Bill) Radford.
Each year's lecturer is a distinguished figure in an area relevant to educational research, who is especially invited by the association to give the lecture. Each year, the conference makes a presentation to the Radford Lecturer, and since 1984 the lecture has been subsequently published in The Australian Educational Researcher .
Whilst the lecture, which suggests that educational researchers concerned with social justice should be concerned about arts education, is yet to be published, you can view Professor Thompson's reflections in an AARE blog post.
About Pat
Professor Pat Thomson is the Convenor of the Centre for Research in Arts, Creativity and Literacy (CRACL). Her current research focuses on creativity, the arts and change in schools and communities, and postgraduate writing pedagogies. She maintains an interest in the changing work of school administrators and in children and young people who do not get the full benefits of education. All of her research is underpinned by a commitment to social justice and an interest in questions of power, identity, place and agency. She has had extensive involvement in school, family and community programmes and works closely with practitioners and pupils as co-researchers. She has expertise in policy, sociology and cultural geography and has a particular interest in text-based and arts informed research methods. She frequently uses visual research methods in her work.
Posted on Friday 2nd December 2022