Dr Abigail Diplock
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (B)
Centre for Cancer Biology
College of Health
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 |
| 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 |