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Associate Professor Nicola Johnson

Nicola is the Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA) Academic Coordinator in the School of Education and is an Associate Professor of Digital Technologies in Education.

Current teaching

  • TCH6050 - Primary technologies
  • TPA4100 - Teaching Performance Assessment
  • TPA6120 - Teaching Performance Assessment
  • TPA6130 - Teaching Performance assessment

Background

Nicola researches the intersections of sociology, technology and education within both social and formal settings. Her previous leadership roles in teacher education include being Deputy Head, School of Education at Federation University, and the Associate Dean (Research) in the School of Education at ECU.

Nicola is known as a successful and supportive supervisor enabling the completion of five masters by research and 16 PhD students since beginning as an academic in 2007. With fellow researchers, Nicola has obtained almost $1 million AUD of external competitive funding during her career.

Books that Nicola has authored include The multiplicities of internet addiction (2009), Publishing from your PhD (2011), Everyday schooling in the digital age: High school, high tech? (with Selwyn, Nemorin & Bulfin, 2018). Nicola has also co-edited Educational researchers and the regional university (with Green & Plowright, 2019), Critical perspectives on technology and education (with Bulfin & Bigum, 2015) and Children’s images of identity (with Brown, 2015). Nicola has contributed to notable teacher education textbooks, namely, Teaching: Making a Difference (John Wiley & Sons), Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences (Cengage), and Teaching and Digital Technologies: Big Issues and Critical Questions (Cambridge University Press).

Professional associations

  • 2023 -  Member, Western Australian Institute for Educational Research
  • 2019 – present, Chair, Roseworth Primary School Board
  • 2016 - 2021 -  Editorial Review Board member for the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education

Awards and recognition

University and National Research Awards

  • 2024 - Top Downloaded Article for the duration of 1/1/22 – 31/12/22, Children & Society, Wiley Publishing (Positive family relationships in a digital age: Hearing the voice of young people).
  • 2023 - Winner, Best in Broadcast Media Award, Edith Cowan University
  • 2021 - Winner, Engagement Australia Excellence Awards in the category of Outstanding Engagement for Research Impact. Citation: ‘Better Beginnings’: The development and impact of a State library and University partnership on a family literacy program
  • 2014 - Best Paper Award: Redefining Education Strand, Australian Computers in Education Conference (ACEC). “Ethics of Teaching with Social Media” By Michael Henderson, Glenn Auld and Nicola Johnson, 2014.

Research areas and interests

  • Cyber Security Education, curriculum, skills and taxonomies
  • The sociology of digital technologies in education
  • Temporalities
  • Critical theories
  • Internet addiction.
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