Elisa Di Gregorio

Dr Elisa Di Gregorio

Lecturer

School of Education

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Dr Elisa Di Gregorio is a Lecturer in the School of Education in the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics (ABLE) at the University of Adelaide. Elisa completed her PhD in 2024 at the University of Melbourne, where she undertook both her Master of Teaching and Initial Teacher Education.
 
As a former secondary school teacher, Elisa is passionate about creating supportive and capacity-building learning environments for students and challenging structural disadvantage that can create barriers for student learning and access to schooling.
 
Elisa’s work as a critical policy researcher has allowed her to pursue these interests, examining schooling systems and the politics of educational inequality, particularly as it pertains to school funding policies in Australia. She holds expertise in Australian school funding architectures and formulas, school choice, and equity funding for marginalised groups, including students with a disability. Her work has been recognised nationally, receiving the Post-Graduate Researcher Award from the Australian Association for Educational Research (AARE) in 2024 for her paper titled ‘Marketising Disability: Public school principals competing for inclusion funding.’ Prior to joining the University of Adelaide, she has held roles as a Research Fellow and Academic Tutor across various Australian Universities.

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    2017 - 2024 University of Melbourne Australia Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    2013 - 2015 University of Melbourne Australia Master of Teaching
    2008 - 2012 University of Melbourne Australia Bachelor of Arts

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2025 O’Connor, K., Roberts, P., & Di Gregorio, E. (2025). Equity, curriculum form and state differences in Australian senior secondary education. The Australian Educational Researcher, 52(2), 1041-1063.
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    2025 Rowe, E., & Di Gregorio, E. (2025). Grant chaser and revenue raiser: public school principals and the limitations of philanthropic funding. The Australian Educational Researcher, 52(2), 997-1016.
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    2025 Di Gregorio, E., Mulcahy, D., & Gerrard, J. (2025). Quantifying, measuring, and enacting equity: Assembling ‘who gets what’ in a federal system of education. The Australian Educational Researcher, 52(4), 2957-2975.
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    2023 Hogan, A., Gerrard, J., & Di Gregorio, E. (2023). Philanthropy, marketing disadvantage and the enterprising public school. The Australian Educational Researcher, 50(3), 763-780.
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    2022 Savage, G. C., Di Gregorio, E., & Lingard, B. (2022). Practices of scalecraft and the reassembling of political boundaries: the contested nature of national schooling reform in the Australian federation. Policy Studies, 43(5), 962-983.
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    - Di Gregorio, E., Rowe, E., Langman, S., & Corcoran, T. (2025). Marketising disability: public school principals competing for inclusion funding. The Australian Educational Researcher.
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    - Di Gregorio, E. (2023). Imagining “national” funding in the Australian federation: The Gonski Review and the Schooling Resource Standard. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 31.
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School Choice in Australia for Parents of a Child with a Disability

Funding: Deakin University, ARTSED Faculty Research Support Scheme

Investigators: Emma Rowe; Tim Corcoran; Andrew Skourdoumbis; Joel Windle; Ben Whitburn

  • Memberships
    Date Role Membership Country
    2024 - ongoing Convener Australian Association for Research in Education - Politics and Policy Special Interest Group Australia
  • Position: Lecturer
  • Phone: 83135944
  • Email: elisa.digregorio@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: 10 Pulteney Street - Nexus 10 Tower, floor Eighth Floor
  • Room: 832
  • Org Unit: School of Education
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