Previous awardees
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2016
Professor Jenny Gore
Reconciling educational research traditions
Link to Jenny's article
2015
Professor Barbara Comber
Poverty, place and pedagogy in education: research stories from front-line workers
2014
Professor Terri Seddon
Navigating 21st Century Contexts: Reflections on education and knowledge-authority orders
2013
Professor Jill Blackmore
Cultural and gender politics in Australian education and the 'fragile project' of critical educational research
2012
Professor Alan Reid
Renewing the public The role of research in education
2011
Professor Lyn Yates
My School, My University, My Country, My World, My Google, Myself ...
2010
2009
Professor Bill Green
The (im)possibility of the Project
2008
Professor Bernadette Baker
The Globe, the Unconscious and the Child
2007
Professor Jane Kenway
Ghosts of School Curricula: Past Present and Future
2006
Professor Fazal Rizv
Educational Research and its Publics
2005
Professor Mary Kalantzis
Elements of a Science of Education
2004
Professor Richard Teese
Class War and a War on Class: The Two faces of Neo-conservative research in the Australian medi
2003
Dr Simon Marginson
National and global competition in higher education
2002
Professor Alan Luke
After the marketplace: Evidence, social science and educational research
2001
Professor Sue Willis
Crossing borders: Learning to count
2000
Professor Stephen Kemmis
Educational research and evaluation: Opening communicative space
1999
Ms Lyndsay Connors
Schools in Australia: A hard act to follow
1998
Dr Marjorie Theobald
Teaching and its discontents: In search of a golden past
1997
Professor Pam Gilbert
Gender and schooling in new times: The challenge of boys and literacy
1996
Professor Paige Porter
Educational research in Australia: Indigenous or exotic? The case for the Indigenous
1995
Dr Bob Bessan
Lessons from the past. Lessons for the future
1994
Professor Michael Dunkin
Synthesising research in education: A case study of getting it wrong