Professor Martin Mills
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Biography
Martin is a Research Professor in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at QUT. He was previously the inaugural Director of the Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research at the Institute of Education, University College London. Prior to that he had been at The University of Queensland for 23 years, where he was Head of School before taking up the position in London. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a former President of the Australian Association for Research in Education. He has held multiple ARC research grants, including an ARC Future Fellowship (2012-2016). His work has principally focused on social justice issues in education. These areas have included: teachers’ work and pedagogical practice, alternative education, and gender and education. He is an editor in chief of Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. He is a former high school teacher.Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Keywords
Social justice, Teachers' work and identities, Alternative education, Gender and education
Research field
Curriculum and pedagogy, Specialist studies in education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Publications
- Heffernan, A. & Mills, M. (2023). Love, care, and solidarity: understanding the emotional and affective labour of school leadership. Cambridge Journal of Education, 53(3), 311–327. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235009
- Bradbury, A., Tereshchenko, A. & Mills, M. (2023). Minoritised teachers' experiences of multiple, intersectional racisms in the school system in England: 'carrying the weight of racism'. Race Ethnicity and Education, 26(3), 335–351. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235449
- McGregor, G., Mills, M., Riddle, S. & Howell, A. (2024). Community solutions for schooling engagement: Two Australian case studies. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 32(3), 657–674. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/230797
- Gandolfi, H. & Mills, M. (2023). Teachers for social justice: exploring the lives and work of teachers committed to social justice in education. Oxford Review of Education, 49(5), 569–587. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235535
- Mills, M., Riddle, S., McGregor, G. & Howell, A. (2022). Towards an understanding of curricular justice and democratic schooling. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 54(3), 345–356. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/213342
- Clarke, M. & Mills, M. (2022). 'We have never been public:' Continuity and change in the policy production of 'the public' in education in England. European Educational Research Journal, 21(1), 13–28 . https://eprints.qut.edu.au/210817
- Mills, M., Mockler, N., Stacey, M. & Taylor, B. (2021). ‘The village and the world’: research with, for and by teachers in an age of data. Teaching Education, 32(1), 1–6. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/210823
- Hayes, D., McGregor, G., Mills, M. & Te Riele, K. (2015). Excluded from school: Getting a second chance at a 'meaningful' education. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 19(6), 608–625. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/210804
- Mills, M. & McGregor, G. (2014). Re-engaging young people in education: Learning from alternative schools. Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/232046
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