Rate My Professor Nicky Dulfer

Dulfer's research agenda is driven by a social justice imperative, aiming to transform how marginalised students experience education by exploring curriculums, institutions, and the interplay between those who work and study within them. Her work emphasizes supporting teachers through collaborative action research to address diverse learning, social, and emotional needs, differentiated instruction, and digital inclusion initiatives. She has been involved in cross-disciplinary projects, including the Understanding Digital Inequality study in Carlton Housing Estate, funded by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and ACCAN, and leads the Social Infrastructure for Digital Skills Development project. Key publications include 'Building belonging in online classrooms: relationships at the core' (2024, with Annie Gowing and Julie Mitchell), 'Differentiated instruction: an investigation into the effect of class compositional factors on teaching processes' (2025, with Tim Saito and Amy McKernan), 'Moving from Feedback to Feedforward in IBDP classrooms' (2021), 'Using collaborative action research to enhance differentiated instruction' (2021, with Jeana Kriewaldt), and industry reports such as 'Fuelling Great Teaching Through Collaborative Mentoring' (with Jeana Kriewaldt and Edith Nicolas) and the International Baccalaureate report 'Different countries, different approaches to teaching and learning?'. She coordinates an online international course fostering a global community aligned with the IB's holistic approach to student development.