Professor Mary Ryan

Professor Mary Ryan is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education and Arts at ACU. She is President of the New South Wales Council of Deans of Education and Chair of the Education Research Council for Australian Independent Schools New South Wales. She is a Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and is the recipient of a national citation for outstanding contributions to student learning. Mary is currently leading Australian Research Council funded projects in classroom writing and preparing reflexive teachers for diverse classrooms. Her research is in the areas of writing pedagogy and assessment, reflective writing, teachers' work and professional learning, the enabling and constraining conditions for graduating students to manage the demands of their profession, and reflexive learning and practice.

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Mary is currently leading Australian Research Council funded projects in classroom writing and preparing reflexive teachers for diverse classrooms. Her research is in the areas of writing pedagogy and assessment, teaching for diversity, teachers&rsquo development and professional learning, critical discourse analysis, and reflexive learning and practice across the lifespan.

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2237-9368

President of the New South Wales Council of Deans of Education

Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy

Chair of the Education Research Council for Australian Independent Schools NSW

Member of the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Policy Advisory Committee