Dr Abigail Diplock
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (B)
School of Education
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Originally from the UK, Abigail is a white settler teacher and researcher living and working on unceded Kaurna Country. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Culturally Nourishing Schooling project. Her work explores how teachers and schools in so-called Australia engage with the cultural, political and ethical complexities of education. She has contributed to projects on culturally responsive schooling and teacher action research, guided by collaboration with educational practioners and school communities, and valuing the complexity of everyday practices and diverse ways of knowing. Abigail worked as a primary school teacher in England, Portugal, Uganda, Adelaide and the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands.
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | University of South Australia | Australia | PhD |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Schulz, S., & Diplock, A. (2024). Negotiating the structural and personal intensities of gender, affects and whiteness through culturally responsive becoming in mathematics. Critical Studies in Education, online(1), 1-18. Scopus2 WoS3 |
| - | Diplock, A. (2026). Beyond checklists: action research as transformative professional learning for culturally responsive pedagogies. Educational Action Research, 1-18. |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Co-Supervisor | Yarning together: Indigenous students sharing their stories about the impact of the Culturally Nourishing project. | Master of Research | Master | Full Time | Ms Barb Fox |
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Weaving affective awareness and culturally responsive pedagogy: an ethnography of teachers in super diverse Australian classrooms | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Mikayla King |
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Professional learning communities that support social justice through action-research: a critical narrative ethnography of the redesigning pedagogies in the north project | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Mr Yianni Fragos |
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Space to Feel Safe: Exploring Gender Normativity and Inclusive Practice in the Spaces of Schooling | - | Master | Part Time | Ms Rebecca Sykes |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Location | Program | Supervision Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 - ongoing | Co-Supervisor | Space to Feel Safe: Exploring Gender Normativity and Inclusive Practice in the Spaces of Schooling | Adelaide University | - | Master | - | Ms Rebecca Sykes |
| 2024 - ongoing | Co-Supervisor | Professional learning communities that support social justice through action-research: a critical narrative ethnography of the redesigning pedagogies in the north project | Adelaide University | - | Doctorate | - | Mr Yianni Fragos |
| 2023 - ongoing | Co-Supervisor | Weaving affective awareness and culturally responsive pedagogy: an ethnography of teachers in super diverse Australian classrooms | Adelaide University | - | Doctorate | - | Miss Mikayla King |
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