Associate Professor
Maryanne Theobald

Biography

Maryanne is Associate Professor in Education at Queensland University of Technology, (QUT). AsPro Maryanne Theobald is pioneering the use of video-stimulated participatory approaches that enable children to contribute their perspectives of their childhood, to research, and teacher-researchers. Maryanne's research applies interactional approaches of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis on to study children’s talk-in-interaction in disputes and friendships in the home, school, playground, with digital technologies and in multilingual contexts. Maryanne’s research identifies the value of friendship and belonging, and the criticality of this childhood interaction for educators. It is her international leadership and commitment to developing high quality educators, who ensure belonging for all children in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, that will create socially responsible and thinking citizens. Maryanne has attracted external and internal research funding funded research projects totalling $700,000; has 69 scholarly outputs including 4 books, one of which is sole-edited; and 80% of her journal articles have been published in Q1 and Q2 ranked journals. Maryanne has increasing visibility internationally and strong research collaborations both nationally and internationally. Maryanne has experience as editor with a special volume on children’s peer cultures within multilingual settings from a range of theoretical and methodological lenses (Emerald, 2017) and has a co-edited ethnomethodological collection, Disputes in everyday life (Emerald, 2012). Maryanne is co-editor of Research on Children’s Social Interaction (ROCSI), Equinox, and Coordinating Editor on the International Journal of Early Childhood (IJEC), Springer. Maryanne was on the Board of Management for Lady Gowrie QLD for 4 years. The Lady Gowrie is a leading organization for early childhood education and care. Maryanne has worked in community and Department of Education run education settings across Queensland including as  as director of a community kindergarten and as teacher at a state preschool. During this time Maryanne co-facilitated teacher workshops on documenting children’s learning and negotiating the curriculum with young children. Address for correspondence: School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove QLD 4059, Australia <m.theobald@qut.edu.au>