Evidence-based learning.
Close-to-practice research.
Using the rich intellectual resources of the Barker College to facilitate learning and growth through the School and wider community.
Training Up a Child: Learning, Character & Formation
Proverbs 22:6 presents a vision of intentional, relational formation: “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
- Joelene Augustine
- 07 May 2026
Event: Year 7 Study Habits 2026
Notes from an interactive workshop to help Year 7 students and their parents develop good study habits
- Dr Matthew Hill
- 22 April 2026
Exploring the Impact of AI on Student Cognitive Processes: Year 10 History Research Project
This term, the Barker Institute has been working with the History Department on a classroom embedded research project investigating the impact of generative artificial intelligence on student thinking, research skills, and students’ perceptions of their own learning.
- Claire Butler
- 31 March 2026
Assessing literature on the impact of generative AI on young minds – watch this space!
Each week someone in our research team posts a new article about the impact of AI in education for review and discussion. Academia is catching up to this new phenomenon that’s revolutionising schools, and rewiring the modern brain.
- Dr Matthew Hill
- 31 March 2026
The Confident Parent Course - Cohort 4
- Term 3 2026 - 3, 10, 17 and 24 August
- 7:00 - 8:30pm
- The Piazza, Kurrajong Building, Barker College Junior School
The flagship offering of the Parent Institute. A free, four-week course where parents grow, discuss and connect around parenthood.
Fourishing in an AI-rich future with Futurist-in-Residence Anders Sörman-Nilsson
- 17 August 2026
- 6:30 - 7:45 pm
- Barker College
Increasingly students (and families) are uncertain about the world that young people today will be inhabiting and shaping. The Barker Institute and Barker Careers are proud to be partnering with Barker Futurist-in-Residence Anders Sörman-Nilsson to ensure students and families are prepared for whatever is to come.
Research Agenda 2026-2027
Our annually published document identifies high-level priority domains bringing together our rich intellectual resources to facilitate learning and growth throughout the school, and the local and global community.