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.
Monthly Update: Launching AI, Learning and the Developing Person
One of the most significant questions facing education today is not whether young people will encounter artificial intelligence but how AI is shaping the way they learn, thing, create, and develop.
- Dr Timothy Scott
- 25 June 2026
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
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.
Flourishing in an AI-rich future with Futurist-in-Residence Anders Sörman-Nilsson
- 18 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.