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Prof Bridie Raban

Position:

Senior Research Fellow - Early Childhood 

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Division:

Teaching, Learning & Transitions 

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Location:

Melbourne 

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Qualifications:

CertEd(HandicappedChildren), Dip Ed(SpecialEducation), BA, MEd, PhD

 

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Professor Bridie Raban conducts research and development in the field of Early Childhood Education. Bridie is a Senior Research Fellow in the Australian Council for Educational Research’s (ACER) Teaching, Learning and Leadership research program and a Professorial Research Fellow (Early Childhood) at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education.

Originally based in the UK, where she was Professor of Primary Education (Early Years) at Warwick University, Bridie arrived in Australia in 1995 to take up the inaugural Mooroolbeek Chair of Early Education Childhood Studies at the University of Melbourne. This appointment saw Bridie become the first early childhood professor in Victoria and only the second in Australia.

While in Australia, Bridie was seconded (1999-2000) to the federal government department of education (then DETYA) as their first Research Fellow for a year. During this time Bridie worked with the OECD, completing the Country Note for Denmark, which involved travelling throughout that country visiting services provided for children before they entered school.

Bridie has raised in excess of $4 million in research funds while at the University of Melbourne, and is currently a Chief Investigator there of an ARC Linkage Grant “The Young Learners’ Project”, following the early literacy development of 350 children aged 4, 5, and 6 years-old as they move into school.

Bridie has published in excess of 150 publications including books and monographs, journal articles, research reports, chapters to books and international encyclopaedias.

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