Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI)

Welcome to the Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI). CLI is the organisational unit within the Faculty of Education responsible for the management and support of research, and the training of research students. It is led by the Assistant Dean (Research).

The Faculty has three research and innovation goals:

• To build research capacity in staff and higher degree students,
• To achieve excellence in research, and
• To create impact from our research.  

Our Faculty has built an excellent research profile. Our particular research strengths are the Early Years; Mathematics Education and Curriculum; Literacies, Curriculum and Pedagogies; and Learning for Professional Futures. We also have researchers undertaking excellent work in science education, ICTs, learning disabilities, gifted education, indigenous education, education in developing countries, English as an additional language, citizenship education, sustainability in education, higher education, the education and professional development of teachers, educational assessment, the sociology of education, children’s and young people’s fiction, cyberbullying, and education policy.

Information about Faculty researchers’ expertise can be found under their Faculty-wide Portfolios or the following four Schools:

• Early Childhood,
• Cultural and Language Studies in Education,
• Learning and Professional Studies and
• Mathematics, Science and Technology Education

The quality of staff research has been recognised by:

• Outstanding success in winning Australian Research Council grants and other competitive grants
• The publication of research monographs, book chapters and journal articles and
• Awards and prizes for research and scholarship.

The Faculty also offers high quality research training to over 200 higher degree research students from Australia and many other countries. These students are enrolled in our 3 research training programs – the Doctor of Philosophy, the Doctor of Education and the Masters of Education (Research). Our postgraduate research students typically achieve high quality examination reports and have been the recipients of scholarships and awards for doctoral and Masters research.

The impact of research by staff and postgraduate research students is widespread. QUT is committed to providing the community with access to researcher’s publications through QUT ePrints which is a web-accessible repository of scholarly outputs. This repository can be searched by author or topic.

If you would like to know more about our research or research training please contact us.