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.
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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 Monash University Australia Bachelor of Arts
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Journals
Year Citation 2025 Rowe, E., & Di Gregorio, E. (2025). Grant chaser and revenue raiser: public school principals and the limitations of philanthropic funding. Australian Educational Researcher, 52(2), 997-1016.
Scopus4 WoS42025 Di Gregorio, E., Mulcahy, D., & Gerrard, J. (2025). Quantifying, measuring, and enacting equity: Assembling ‘who gets what’ in a federal system of education. Australian Educational Researcher, 52(4), 2957-2975.
Scopus1 WoS22025 Di Gregorio, E., Rowe, E., Langman, S., & Corcoran, T. (2025). Marketising disability: public school principals competing for inclusion funding. Australian Educational Researcher, 20 pages.
WoS12025 O'Connor, K., Roberts, P., & Di Gregorio, E. (2025). Equity, curriculum form and state differences in Australian senior secondary education. AUSTRALIAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER, 52(2), 1041-1063.
WoS22023 Hogan, A., Gerrard, J., & Di Gregorio, E. (2023). Philanthropy, marketing disadvantage and the enterprising public school. Australian Educational Researcher, 50(3), 763-780.
Scopus10 WoS92023 Di Gregorio, E. (2023). Imagining “National” Funding in the Australian Federation: The Gonski Review and the Schooling Resource Standard. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 31, 23 pages.
Scopus3 WoS42022 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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Book Chapters
Year Citation - Di Gregorio, E., & Savage, G. C. (2020). Global School Funding Debates and Reforms. Oxford University Press.
DOI
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
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Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2024 - ongoing Convener Australian Association for Research in Education - Politics and Policy Special Interest Group Australia
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