Recent Publications

A Year in Review: The Barker Institute in 2025
Innovation was a theme for the Barker Institute in 2025, with a particular goal to meet the evolving needs of various stakeholders. The first example of this is the birth …
- Dr Matthew Hill
- 2025

The Barker Journey – Year 9 2025 Deepening Student Flourishing through Community, Integrated Experience, and Responsibility
For the seventh consecutive year the Barker Journey has followed a group of students on their educational journey. Reporting on 2025, this article shares the experiences of Year 9 students …
- Dr Timothy Scott, Dr Matthew Hill, Ms Susan Layton
- 2025

The Importance of Indigenous Data Sovereignty to Contemporary Research
Maggie Walter, a Palawa woman from Lutruwita, has contributed seminal research to the academy about Indigenous Data Sovereignty throughout her career. As a founding member of Maiam nayri Wingara (Maiam …
- Susanna Matters
- 2025

Language and Access: Reflections on using AI to Enable Translanguaging for Refugee Students in the History Classroom
Generative AI is a powerful tool in enabling a translanguaging pedagogy in a multilingual History classroom for refugee-background students. One of a pair from this volume that reflects on practice …
- Dr Timothy Scott
- 2025

Can AI do my Trial Marking? Investigating Accuracy, Consistency, and Practical Affordances in School Assessment
Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers compelling efficiencies for marking assessments such as rapid processing, scalable workflows, and the potential to reduce inter‑marker variability. Yet the central question remains: is it accurate? …
- Dr Matthew Hill
- 2025