Learning in work and life
Research in this stream focuses on the growing importance of learning in work and all domains of social life. Programs of research into professional learning and education, including specific professions such as health; workplace learning, vocational education, organizational learning, online and e-learning are linked by theories of learning in practice, at work, in settings inside and outside formal education.
This research builds on the internationally recognized research in workplace learning undertaken over the past ten years within the Centre and within OVAL, its predecessor centre. A growing focus on professional learning and changing professional practice in a global context has resulted in the development of projects that cross the boundary between workplace practices and higher and professional education, in a critical engagement with processes of major change in work, professional practice and policy. Research in this stream informs, and is directly informed by, new research in the Health practice, communication and innovation stream. This stream supports the Special Interest Group in Higher and Professional Education in the Australian Association for Research in Education. (opens an external site).
Projects in professional and vocational learning
- Working Together: Integrated language, literacy and numeracy support in vocational education and training
- Investigating the crisis: production workers’ literacy and numeracy practices
- Semantic Technologies for the Enhancement of Case-Based Learning
- Beyond training and learning: Integrated development practices in organisations
- Uncovering learning at work in a public sector organisation
- Neighbourhoods: Centres for learning
- Globalising knowledge in the corporate university
- Supporting Vocational Education and Training providers in building capability for the future
- Research and report on the national education program of the ACTU's Education and Campaign Centre
- Sustaining older workers competence: Informing policy and practice
- Context, judgement and informal learning at work: An investigation of factors crucial for enhancing performance
Projects in higher education
- Reshaping Doctoral Education
- Assessment Futures
- Making a Place, an Oral history of Academic Development in Australia
Projects in community settings
Projects in learning and practice innovation in health
Projects in the Health Practice, Communication and Innovation research stream all engage with theories and methodologies of professional and workplace learning.
Research degree opportunities
We invite applications to undertake research degrees in the areas of:
- practice and learning in work;
- organisations and the professions;
- higher and professional education;
- emerging spaces and sites for learning, including digital spaces
Contact for Professional and workplace learning
Donna Rooney
E-mail: Donna.Rooney@uts.edu.au
