[Catalist] FW: PhD scholarship opportunities

[John Clarke]

Hi All,
Following is a great opportunity, if not for you it might be for someone in your network so please circulate.

David Treagust, Kok-Sing, and Mihye Won, Curtin University, have received an ARC Discovery Project grant on scientific creativity. They would like to recruit two full-time PhD students to work on the project.

The main tasks for the PhD candidate(s) will be to develop lesson materials in consultation with the research team and local science teachers, collect data from students in Perth metropolitan area schools, run the analysis, and, of course, write a PhD thesis.

Anyone who is interested in pursuing a PhD study full-time is invited to contact Dr Mihye Won on 9266 4074 or by email: mihye.won at curtin.edu.au<mailto:mihye.won at curtin.edu.au>.

The scholarship stipend is $27,000 p.a. and is intended to cover living expenses for someone keen to pursue a PhD study.


Two PhD scholarships, funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grant, are available for the holders to conduct research in a project that investigates students’ interactions in drawing science diagrams and their benefits in enhancing students’ scientific creativity.



Nationally and internationally, there is a growing demand to engage students in scientific thinking and build their creative problem-solving capabilities through evidence-based teaching strategies. This project is addressing the challenge by:

(1) identifying students’ creative thinking from their science diagrams and their interaction with peers;

(2) devising and evaluating teaching strategies to support students’ creative scientific thinking.



The PhD students will work with high school science teachers to develop teaching materials, video-record classroom interactions, conduct interviews, analyse class videos and diagrams, and write peer-reviewed journal articles.



The successful PhD students will be supervised by a team of experienced science education researchers (Dr Mihye Won, Professor David F. Treagust, and Dr Kok-Sing Tang) from the STEM Education Research Group (formerly Science and Mathematics Education Centre—SMEC) at Curtin University.



For more information, please visit:

https://scholarships.curtin.edu.au/scholarships/scholarship.cfm?id=3273.0
Mihye Won’s contact details below.

Regards,
John  Clarke

Mihye Won
BSc  MEd  PhD
Senior Lecturer
STEM Education Research Group
School of Education
Curtin University
Tel | +61 8 9266 4074
Email | mihye.won at curtin.edu.au<mailto:mihye.won at curtin.edu.au>
Web | www.curtin.edu.au<http://www.curtin.edu.au/>

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