Multiliteracies for addressing disadvantage in senior school science (In 2017, this scholarship will only be open to domestic candidates)

The Educational Semiotics in English and Literacy Pedagogy research concentration has one full-time scholarship linked to its Australian Research Council funded Linkage Project.

This project develops discipline-specific literacies in senior high school physics, chemistry and biology, which aim to improve students’ critical comprehension and creation of verbal and visual representations, enabling them to actively build understanding of progressively more complex scientific concepts and demonstrate this understanding in examinations.

The successful candidate will be located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Scholarship criteria:
- Completed an Honours or research Masters-degree with major studies in systemic functional linguistics and/or multimodal semiotics, or equivalent;
- Academic excellence, including, but not limited to, academic awards and grants;
- Ability to contribute to a team;
- Management and organisational skills;
- High level verbal and written English proficiency;
- Prior qualitative or quantitative research experience and publication of research findings are desirable; and
- Experience in educational research would be an advantage;
- In 2017, this scholarship will only be open to domestic candidates.