AARE Conference 2021 — Call For Papers NOW OPEN!

Submit your conference abstract proposal by clicking on the button below.  Submissions will remain open until 18 June 2021. 

Conference theme: Reimagining Education Research

Education and education research are at a critical moment. Many of the taken-for-granted ways of thinking and working in early learning settings, schools, universities and other sites of formal and informal education have become untenable in the context of widespread disruption from the global COVID-19 pandemic, an increasingly urgent climate catastrophe and increasing social and economic inequality.

This year’s conference theme invites education researchers to reimagine their ways of thinking and working in complex and uncertain times. We invite papers to consider different ways to engage with the conference theme of Reimagining Education Research. There is an urgent need for research that moves our thinking forward, responds to rapidly changing conditions and emerging challenges, and which recognises the effects and implications of the social, policy and political conditions that are shaping education and education research. 

This reimagining of education research is not limited to research. We recognise the need to rethink the traditional conference model, and are continuing to reimagine AARE’s annual conference in ways that keep equity and access at the forefront of our work as a conference committee. Co-hosted in partnership with RMIT School of Education in 2021, this year’s event will bring together researchers virtually and physically in an innovative hybrid conference to connect, network, collaborate and share.

Submissions will remain open until 18 June 2021. We look forward to receiving your proposal soon.

AARE2021 Conference Co-Chairs
A/Prof Stewart Riddle and Dr Amanda Heffernan

For any queries, please contact events@aare.edu.au.

For more information on the call for abstracts you can also visit the Call For Proposals page.

Co- hosted by RMIT School of Education

2021 Conference Standing Committee

Conference Co-Chairs—Dr Amanda Heffernan and A/Prof Stewart Riddle

Special Interest Group (SIG) Coordinator—A/Prof Ilektra Spandagou

RMIT Co-Host Representative—Dr Jason Wong

Indigenous Research and Engagement—Ms Kathryn Coff and Dr Sophie Rudolph

EMT Representative/Treasurer—Prof Michele Simons

Postgraduate Student Member—Ms Natalie Downes

Early Career Researcher Member—Dr Angelique Howell 

Awards Coordinator—Dr lisahunter

Communications Coordinator—A/Prof Robert Parkes

AARE Executive Officer—Mrs Deborah Cracknell