Amanda Keddie

Amanda Keddie is an Associate Professor within the School of Education at The University of Queensland. Her research interests and publications are in the broad field of social justice and schooling. She began her career as a primary school teacher in 1998 while studying for her PhD in Education at Deakin University. After being awarded her doctorate in 2002, she worked in various lecturing roles in the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland before taking up a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Queensland in 2005. Since 2005, she has pursued a research-intensive trajectory with Research Fellowships at Roehampton University (London), Griffith University (Brisbane) and The University of Queensland (Brisbane). Her recent ARC Future Fellowship involved a cross-cultural analysis of socially just schooling in Australia and the UK. She currently pursues research in the areas of diversity, equity, social justice and schooling as well as teaching within the masters and undergraduate programmes within the School of Education.