Professor Greg Thompson
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Biography
After working as a high school English, History and HPE teacher for 13 years in Western Australia, Professor Thompson completed his PhD at Murdoch University in 2009. From 2009 he worked as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Murdoch's School of Education teaching into their Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes. Thompson's research focuses on the philosophy of education and educational theory. He is also interested in education policy, and the philosophy/sociology of education assessment and measurement with a focus on large-scale testing and learning analytics/Big Data. He would be interested in supervising HDR these in these areas. Professor Thompson is an experienced HDR Supervisor, supervising to completion Masters and Doctoral students in projects around the unintended consequences of high-stakes testing, Indigenous prisoner education, the work of Drama teachers in performative cultures, and programs for peer-led professional accountabilities.- Career Highlights:
- Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow investigating the effects of Australia’s National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) on school communities (2012-2014)
- 2012 Australian Association for Research in Education Early Career Award
- 2012 Western Australian Institute of Education Research Early Career Achievement Award
- Series Editor Local/Global Issues in Education (Routledge)
- Series Editor Deleuze and Educational Research (Edinburgh University Press)
- Australasian Editor Journal of Education Policy
- Associate Editor Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
- 2006 Finalist Murdoch University Vice Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Awards
- 2004 Thelma Harley Brown Award for Outstanding Masters in Education Dissertation at Murdoch University
Personal details
Positions
- Professor of Education Research
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Keywords
Education Policy, Education Theory, Large Scale Assessment Systems, NAPLAN, Datafication, Validity theory, Technical democracy, Teachers' time poverty
Research field
Education Systems, Specialist Studies in Education, Policy and Administration
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Murdoch University)
Professional memberships and associations
Experience
Professor Thompson worked as a high school teacher in Western Australia for 13 years. He taught English, History, Woodwork and Health and Physical Education up to Year 12 level. This included preparing students for WACE Examinations. He has worked in both urbal and rural schools. He has undertaken leadership roles within high school settings.
Publications
- Lingard, R., Thompson, G. & Sellar, S. (2016). National testing in schools: An Australian assessment [Local/Global Issues in Education series]. Routledge. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/93748
- Thompson, G., (2011). Who is the good high school student? Cambria Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86494
- Thompson, G. & Cook, I. (2017). The logic of data-sense: thinking through Learning Personalisation. Discourse, 38(5), 740–754. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/93743
- Thompson, G. & Cook, I. (2015). Becoming-topologies of education: deformations, networks and the database effect. Discourse, 36(5), 732–748. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86148
- Thompson, G., (2010). Acting, accidents and performativity: challenging the hegemonic good student in secondary schools. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31(4), 413–430. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86163
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Australian Educational Researcher / Springer Best Paper Award for 'Private funding in Australian public schools: a problem of equity'.
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- ARC Discovery "The Global Emergence of Commercial Provision of Schooling and its Implications for Australia"
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- DE120101469 The effects of the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy on Australian School Communities.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Early Career Research Award
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Early Career Research Award
Selected research projects
- Title
- Time-Use, Time Poverty and Teachers' Work
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP190101301
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
- Title
- The Commercial Provision of Schooling and its Implications for Australia
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP170103647
- Start year
- 2017
- Keywords
- Title
- The effects of the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy on Australian School Communities
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE120101469
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- Literacy; Numeracy; Assessment
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.