Professor Len Unsworth is a Program Director of the Educational Semiotics in English and Literacy Pedagogy research program for the Institute of Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE), Australian Catholic University.

For more information on ILSTE, please visit: https://www.acu.edu.au/research/our-research-institutes/institute-for-learning-sciences-and-teacher-education

For Len Unsworth&rsquos profile, please visit: https://www.acu.edu.au/research/our-research-institutes/institute-for-learning-sciences-and-teacher-education/our-people/professor-len-unsworth

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Martin, J. R. and L. Unsworth (2024). Reading Images for Knowledge Building: Analyzing Infographics in School Science. New York (US) and Abingdon (UK), Routledge.

Unsworth, L., Tytler, R., Fenwick, L., Humphrey, S., Chandler, P., Herrington, M., & Lam, P. (2022). Multimodal Literacy in School Science: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory, Research and Pedagogy: Routledge.

Mills, K., Unsworth, L., & Scholes, L. (2023). Literacy for Digital Futures: Mind, Body, Text. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003137368

Macken-Horarik, M., Love, K., Unsworth, L. & Sandiford, C. (2017). Functional Grammatics: Re- conceptualizing knowledge about language and image for school English. London: Routledge.

Painter, C., Martin, J. R., & Unsworth, L. (2013). Reading visual narratives: Image analysis of children&rsquos picture books. London, UK: Equinox.

Edited Books

Unsworth, L. (Ed.). (2020). Learning from Animations in Science Education: Innovating in Semiotic and Educational Research. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Unsworth, L., & Thomas, A. (2014). English teaching and new literacies pedagogy: Interpreting and authoring digital multimedia narratives. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.

Book chapters

Unsworth, L., Tytler, R., & Fenwick, L. (2021). Methodological Challenges for Collaborative Research in Senior Science Classrooms. In P. White, R. Tytler, J. Cripps Clark & J. Ferguson (Eds.), Methodological Approaches to STEM Education Research (Vol. 2). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars (pp 66-84).

Martin, J. R., Unsworth, L., & Rose, D. (in press). Condensing meaning: Imagic aggregations in secondary school science. In G. Parodi (Ed.), Multimodality: From corpus to cognition. London: Bloomsbury

Unsworth, L. (2020). A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Animation Design and Use in Science Education. In L. Unsworth (Ed.), Learning from Animations in Science Education: Innovating in Semiotic and Educational Research (pp. 3-24). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Yu, M., Feng, D., & Unsworth, L. (2020). Infusing pro-environmental values in science education: A multimodal analysis of attitudinal meaning in ecology animations for children. In L. Unsworth (Ed.), Learning from Viewing and Creating Animations in School Science: Innovative Developments in Semiotic and Educational Research (pp. 55-74). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Unsworth, L. (2020). Intermodal relations, mass and presence in school science explanation genres. In Michele Zappavigna & S. Dreyfus (Eds.), Discourses of hope and reconciliation: J. R. Martin&rsquos contributions to Systemic Functional Linguistics (pp. 131-152). London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Mills, K. A., Unsworth, L., & Barton, G. (2019). The digital mediation of emotions in late modernity. In R. Putulny, A. Bellocchi, R. Olson, S. Khorana, J. McKenzie, & M. Peterie (Eds.), Emotions in late modernity (pp.190-208). Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Emotions. London, UK: Routledge/ CRC Press. [LP150100030, 2015&ndash18]

Ge, Y., Unsworth, L. & Wang, K., Chang, H. (2018). Image design for enhancing science learning: Helping students build taxonomic meanings with salient tree structure images. In K. Tang & K. Danielsson (Eds.), Global Developments in Literacy Research for Science Education (pp. 237-258). Switzerland: Springer.

Articles

Unsworth, L., & Herrington, M. (2022). Visualization Type and Frequency in Final Year High School Science Examinations. Research in Science Education, 1-19.

Ngo, T., Unsworth, L., & Herrington, M. (2022). Teacher Orchestration of Language and Gesture in Explaining Science Concepts in Images. Research in Science Education. (52): 1013-1030

Unsworth, L. (2021). High School Science Infographics: Multimodal Meaning Complexes in Composite Image-Language Ensembles. Pensamiento Educativo, Revista de Investigación Educacional Latinoamericana (PEL), 58(2).

Mills, K. A., Stone, B. G., Unsworth, L., & Friend, L. (2020). Multimodal Language of Attitude in Digital Composition. Written Communication, 37(2), 135-166.

Unsworth, L., & Mills, K. A. (2020). English language teaching of attitude and emotion in digital multimodal composition. Journal of Second Language Writing, 47, 100712. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2020.100712

Unsworth, L., Cope, J., & Nicholls, L. (2019). Multimodal literacy and large-scale literacy tests: Curriculum relevance and responsibility, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 42(2),128-139.

Mills, K.A. & Unsworth, L. (2018). iPad animations: Powerful multimodal practices for adolescent literacy and emotional language. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 61(6), 609-62.

Recent Competitive Research Funding

Literacy education from pre-school to matriculation; children's and adolescents' literature and literacy development; e-literature for children and adolescents; information and communication technology and literacies; multiliteracies; visual literacies; critical social literacies; language and literacy in curriculum area learning and teaching; systemic Functional Linguistics in literary and literacy research and education; functional grammar, discourse and genre in the school curriculum.

2014 -                     Professor in Education (English and Literacies Education), Australian Catholic University, Sydney

2012 - 2013        Professor in Education (English and Literacies Education), Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

                                    Deputy Director, Griffith Institute for Educational Research.

2011 - 2012        Adjunct Professor, English and Literacies Education, School of Education, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia

2008-2011          Head, School of Education,

                                    University of New England,

                                    Armidale, NSW, 2351.

July 2004-08   Professor in English and Literacies Education, School of Education,

University of New England,

Director of the Centre for Research in English and Multiliteracies Education (CREME).

2001- 2004         Associate Professor, Head, School of Development and Learning

                                    Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney.