Professor Merrilyn Goos has won an Honorary appointment to the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. This scheme provides opportunity and financial support for esteemed international researchers to collaborate with UTS academics for a period of between one and six months. Merrilyn will be in residence at UTS for the whole of March 2019, working in the STEM Education Futures Research Centre. The Centre embraces research of the disciplines within the STEM umbrella, and adopts a cross-disciplinary approach to increase STEM capacity and capability of the future workforce. Aligned with the UTS inclusive model of social justice and diversity, the Centre research also focuses on STEM education equality in gender, Indigenous education and students from disadvantaged backgrounds. One of the goals of Merrilyn’s visit will be to strengthen relationships between her research team in EPI•STEM and the STEM education researchers at UTS. There will also be opportunity to explore Faculty-level collaborations around joint PhD programs and internationalisation.
