Australian Government Citation for Dr Penny Van Bergen

Dr Penny Van Bergen, received her award for 'enhancing pre-service teachers' passion for learning by promoting a positive learning community and developing opportunities for research engagement.'

Congratulations to Dr Penny Van Bergen for her Macquarie Research Development Grant:

Title: Memory scaffolding across the lifespan: Does remembering together across generations protect memory?

Congratulations to Dr Neil Harrison in obtaining the following grants:

• Innovation and Scholarship Program 2012: Teaching on Darug country: using a virtual community to increase the participation of Aboriginal knowledge holders in tertiary teaching ($19,746).
• ARC Discovery Indigenous: Trudgett, Dr Michelle (Indigenous Studies); Page, A/Prof Susan J. (Indigenous Studies); Harrison, Dr Neil (Education), Enhancing the quality of academic supervision provided to Indigenous Australian doctoral students ($109, 000).

Congratulations to Michael Cavanagh

Michael has won the Practical Implications Award for his paper submitted to the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) and will present at next month's conference in Singapore. His paper is titled: 'A Learning Community for Pre-service Secondary Mathematics: Learning With and From Each Other'. It documents how pre-service teachers made fortnightly visits to a local secondary school over one year to observe and teach problem-solving lessons for Year 8 classes.