Rate My Professor Suzanne Macqueen

Macqueen’s research interests encompass equity in education, widening participation, student grouping practices, global education, initial teacher education, primary education, narrative inquiry, and behaviour management. She is a member of the Global Education Research and Teaching (GERT) team and participates in international collaborations on preservice teachers’ global competencies and school grouping strategies. In teaching, she covers social studies curriculum, literacy, quality teaching, and professional preparation, including classroom management. Among her accolades are the Women in Research Fellowship (2022, University of Newcastle), British Educational Research Conference Early Career Researcher Presentation Award (2019), Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2010), Award for Teaching Excellence (2010 and 2014, Faculty of Education), and Research Higher Degree Student Publication Award (2010). Her scholarly output includes 20 journal articles and 6 book chapters, with notable works such as “Family and social capital for the success of non-traditional students in Higher Education” (2018), “Grouping for inequity” (2013, International Journal of Inclusive Education), “Academic outcomes from between-class achievement grouping: The Australian primary context” (2012, Australian Educational Researcher), and the book chapter “Contesting and Constructing International Perspectives in Global Education” (2015). Additionally, she has presented at international conferences including BERA and ECER.