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Dr Meghan Stacey

Dr Meghan Stacey

Senior Lecturer

PhD, BEd (Hons 1), BA - The University of Sydney

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Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Education

Dr Meghan Stacey is a Senior Lecturer in the UNSW School of Education, researching in the fields of the Sociology of Education and Education Policy and with a particular interest in teachers' work.ĚýMeghan completed her PhD with the University of Sydney in 2018, before which she worked as an English and Drama teacher in public secondary schools in NSW.Ěý

Many of Meghan's publications are available Open Access via .

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Phone
+61-2-9065 3651
E-mail
m.stacey@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2022
    Bagnall N; Burns K; Cuervo H; Foley D; Groundwater-Smith ; Harwood V; Low R; Mockler N; Proctor H; Rawlings V; Stacey M; Wilson B; Wood J, 2022, Education, Change and Society
    Books | 2020
    Stacey M, 2020, The Business of Teaching Becoming a Teacher in a Market of Schools, Springer Nature
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Mockler N; Stacey M, 2024, 'Document and text analysis in critical education policy studies', in Stacey M; Mockler N (ed.), Analysing education policy: theory and method, Routledge
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Stacey M; Mockler N, 2024, 'Analysing education policy: an introduction', in Stacey M; Mockler N (ed.), Analysing education policy: theory and method, Routledge
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Stacey M; Mockler N, 2024, 'Analysing education policy: now and into the future', in Stacey M; Mockler N (ed.), Analysing education policy: Theory and method, Routledge
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Stacey M; Mockler N, 2024, 'Participant analysis in critical education policy studies', in Stacey M; Mockler N (ed.), Analysing education policy: theory and method, Routledge
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Stacey M, 2024, 'Deficit discourses and teachers’ work: the case of an early career teacher in a remote Indigenous school', in Critical Studies and the International Field of Indigenous Education Research, Routledge
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Mills M; Mockler N; Stacey M; Taylor B, 2023, 'Introduction', in ‘The Village and the World’, Routledge, pp. 1 - 6,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Mills M; Mockler N; Stacey M; Taylor B, 2023, 'Teachers' orientations to educational research and data in England and Australia: implications for teacher professionalism', in ‘The Village and the World’, Routledge, pp. 77 - 98,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Stacey M; Fitzgerald S; Wilson R; McGrath-Champ S; Gavin M, 2023, 'Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops', in Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity, Routledge, pp. 54 - 68,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Stacey M; Mockler N, 2023, 'Purposes of education: freedom of the individual or ‘collective good’?', in Policy Foundations of Education, Bloomsbury, pp. 33 - 58
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Mockler N; Stacey M, 2022, 'Teachers' work amid global education reform: “the greatest challenge”?', in International Encyclopedia of Education: Fourth Edition, pp. 29 - 38,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Mockler N; Stacey M, 2022, 'Teachers', in Education, Change and Society, Oxford University Press
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Stacey M; Mockler N, 2022, 'School systems and school choice', in Education, Change and Society, Oxford University Press
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Gavin M; McGrath-Champ S; Wilson R; Fitzgerald S; Stacey M, 2021, 'Teacher workload in Australia: National reports of intensification and its threats to democracy', in Riddle S; Heffernan A; Bright D (ed.), New Perspectives on Education for Democracy: Creative Responses to Local and Global Challenges, Routledge, London, pp. 110 - 123,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    2021, 'Teacher Workload in Australia', in New Perspectives on Education for Democracy, Routledge, pp. 110 - 123,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    McGrath-Champ S; Gavin M; Stacey M, 2020, 'Strategy and policy: the 'professionalisation' of teaching and the work of an Australian teachers' union', in Lansbury RD; Johnson A; van den Broek D (ed.), Contemporary issues in work and organisations: actors and institutions, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 110 - 126,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Hayes D; Stacey M, 2018, 'Ethnographies in education: Misunderstandings and new developments', in Gannon S; Hattam R; Sawyer W (ed.), Resisting Educational Inequality Reframing Policy and Practice in Schools Serving Vulnerable Communities, pp. 203 - 213
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Forsey M; Proctor H; Stacey M, 2017, 'A most poisonous debate: Legitimizing support for Australian private schools', in Koinzer T; Nikolai R; Waldow F (ed.), Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education Global Change and National Challenge, Springer, pp. 49 - 66
  • Edited Books | 2024
    Stacey M; Mockler N, (ed.), 2024, Analysing education policy: theory and method, Routledge
    Edited Books | 2023
    Mills M; Mockler N; Stacey M; Taylor B, (eds.), 2023, ‘The Village and the World’ Research with, for and by Teachers in an Age of Data, Routledge
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Lee JS; Stacey M, 2024, 'Fairness perceptions of income-based educational inequality: The impact of social class and ideological orientations', Australian Journal of Social Issues,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Stacey M; Gavin M; Fitzgerald S; McGrath-Champ S; Wilson R, 2024, 'Reducing teachers’ workload or deskilling ‘core’ work? Analysis of a policy response to teacher workload demands', Discourse, 45, pp. 187 - 199,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Stacey M; Mockler N, 2024, 'Recruiting the ‘quality teacher’: equity, faith, and passion', Discourse, 45, pp. 1 - 13,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Stacey M, 2024, 'Pre-service teachers’ views of schools as workplaces in a system of social, cultural and religious division: to be “selfish” or to be a “hero”?', Educational Review, 76, pp. 259 - 276,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Thompson G; Creagh S; Stacey M; Hogan A; Mockler N, 2024, 'Researching teachers’ time use: Complexity, challenges and a possible way forward', Australian Educational Researcher, 51, pp. 1647 - 1670,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Creagh S; Thompson G; Mockler N; Stacey M; Hogan A, 2023, 'Workload, work intensification and time poverty for teachers and school leaders: a systematic research synthesis', Educational Review, ahead-of-print, pp. 1 - 20,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Gavin M; Stacey M, 2023, 'Enacting autonomy reform in schools: The re-shaping of roles and relationships under Local Schools, Local Decisions', Journal of Educational Change, 24, pp. 501 - 523,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Keddie A; MacDonald K; Blackmore J; Boyask R; Fitzgerald S; Gavin M; Heffernan A; Hursh D; McGrath-Champ S; Møller J; O’Neill J; Parding K; Salokangas M; Skerritt C; Stacey M; Thomson P; Wilkins A; Wilson R; Wylie C; Yoon ES, 2023, 'What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education?', Australian Educational Researcher, 50, pp. 1571 - 1597,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Lee J-S; Stacey M, 2023, 'Fairness perceptions of educational inequality: the effects of self-interest and neoliberal orientations', The Australian Educational Researcher, 51, pp. 1215 - 1237,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Lee JS; Lee J; Stacey M, 2023, 'Attributions for underachievement among students experiencing disadvantage and support for public assistance to them', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 58, pp. 573 - 591,
    Journal articles | 2023
    McMahon S; Stacey M; Harwood V; Labib N; Wong A; Daniels-Mayes S, 2023, 'Exploring students’ metaphors for learning in Western Sydney schools', Critical Studies in Education, 64, pp. 1 - 18,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Stacey M; McGrath-Champ S; Wilson R, 2023, 'Teacher attributions of workload increase in public sector schools: Reflections on change and policy development', Journal of Educational Change, 24, pp. 971 - 993,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Gavin M; McGrath-Champ S; Stacey M; Wilson R, 2022, 'Women’s participation in teacher unions: Implications of a ‘triple burden’ for union gender equality strategies', Economic and Industrial Democracy, 43, pp. 830 - 852,
    Journal articles | 2022
    McGrath-Champ S; Fitzgerald S; Gavin M; Stacey M; Wilson R, 2022, 'Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers’ Temporary Work', Work, Employment and Society, 37, pp. 1165 - 1185,
    Journal articles | 2022
    McGrath-Champ S; Gavin M; Stacey M; Wilson R, 2022, 'Collaborating for policy impact: Academic-practitioner collaboration in industrial relations research', Journal of Industrial Relations, 64, pp. 759 - 784,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Stacey M; Fitzgerald S; Wilson R; McGrath-Champ S; Gavin M, 2022, 'Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 54, pp. 54 - 68,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Stacey M; Gavin M; Gerrard J; Hogan A; Holloway J, 2022, 'Teachers and Educational Policy: Markets, Populism, and Im/Possibilities for Resistance', Education Policy Analysis Archives, 30,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Stacey M, 2022, 'Deficit discourses and teachers’ work: the case of an early career teacher in a remote Indigenous school', Critical Studies in Education, 63, pp. 64 - 79,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Mills M; Mockler N; Stacey M; Taylor B, 2021, 'Teachers’ orientations to educational research and data in England and Australia: implications for teacher professionalism', Teaching Education, 32, pp. 77 - 98,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Mills M; Mockler N; Stacey M; Taylor B, 2021, '‘The village and the world’: research with, for and by teachers in an age of data', Teaching Education,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Mockler N; Stacey M, 2021, 'Evidence of teaching practice in an age of accountability: when what can be counted isn’t all that counts', Oxford Review of Education, 47, pp. 170 - 188,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Parding K; McGrath-Champ S; Stacey M, 2020, 'Governance reform in context: Welfare sector professionals’ working and employment conditions', Current Sociology, 69, pp. 001139212090985 - 001139212090985,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Stacey M; Talbot D; Buchanan J; Mayer D, 2020, 'The development of an Australian teacher performance assessment: lessons from the international literature', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 48, pp. 508 - 519,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Stacey M; Wilson R; McGrath-Champ S, 2020, 'Triage in teaching: the nature and impact of workload in schools', Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 42, pp. 1 - 14,
    Journal articles | 2019
    McGrath-Champ S; Stacey M; Wilson R; Fitzgerald S; Rainnie A; Parding K, 2019, 'Principals’ support for teachers’ working conditions in devolved school settings: Insights from two Australian States', Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 47, pp. 590 - 605,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Stacey M, 2019, '‘If you’re wrong for the place you just don’t survive’: examining the work of early career teachers in context', Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 25, pp. 404 - 417,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Fitzgerald S; McGrath-Champ S; Stacey M; Wilson R; Gavin M, 2018, 'Intensification of teachers’ work under devolution: A ‘tsunami’ of paperwork', Journal of Industrial Relations, 61, pp. 613 - 636,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Fitzgerald S; Stacey M; McGrath-Champ S; Parding K; Rainnie A, 2018, 'Devolution, market dynamics and the Independent Public School initiative in Western Australia: ‘winning back’ what has been lost?', Journal of Education Policy, 33, pp. 662 - 681,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Parding K; McGrath-Champ S; Stacey M, 2017, 'Teachers, school choice and competition: Lock-in effects within and between sectors', Policy Futures in Education, 15, pp. 113 - 128,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Stacey M, 2017, 'The teacher "problem': an analysis of the NSW education policy Great Teaching, Inspired Learning', DISCOURSE-STUDIES IN THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF EDUCATION, 38, pp. 782 - 793,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Stacey M, 2016, 'Middle-class parents' educational work in an academically selective public high school', CRITICAL STUDIES IN EDUCATION, 57, pp. 209 - 223,
  • Other | 2023
    Fitzgerald S; Gavin M; McGrath-Champ S; Stacey M; Wilson R, 2023, The impact of devolutionary reform on teachers and principals, NSW Teachers Federation, ,
    Other | 2023
    Gavin M; Fitzgerald S; McGrath-Champ S; Stacey M; Wilson R, 2023, Teachers' voices and their unions, NSW Teachers Federation, ,
    Other | 2023
    McGrath-Champ S; Stacey M; Fitzgerald S; Gavin M; Wilson R, 2023, Teachers’ work and working conditions: Collaborating to drive change, NSW Teachers Federation, ,
    Other | 2023
    Stacey M; Thompson G; Hogan A; Mockler N; Creagh S, 2023, 63 minutes in half an hour: the intensity of time in teaching, ,
    Other | 2023
    Stacey M; Wilson R; Fitzgerald S; Gavin M; McGrath-Champ S, 2023, Temporary teachers and precarious work, ,
    Other | 2023
    Thompson G; Hogan A; Stacey M, 2023, Getting inside the 'heavy hours': Understanding why teachers' work has become so demanding, ,
    Other | 2023
    Wilson R; McGrath-Champ S; Fitzgerald S; Gavin M; Stacey M, 2023, Teacher workload and intensifying demands, NSW Teachers Federation, ,
    Other | 2021
    Stacey M, 2021, Perspectives - Meghan Stacey, ,
    Other | 2020
    McGrath-Champ S; Wilson R; Stacey M; Fitzgerald S; Gavin M, 2020, Valuing the Teaching Profession Inquiry - Submission from the Teachers’ Work in Schools Research Team, ,
    Other | 2020
    Wilson R; Stacey M; McGrath-Champ S, 2020, Teachers’ work during the COVID-19 pandemic: Shifts, challenges and opportunities, Centre for Strategic Education, Melbourne, Victoria, ,
    Reports | 2019
    Fitzgerald S; McGrath-Champ S; Wilson R; Stacey M, 2019, Understanding Work in WA Public Schools: 2019 Report to the State School Teachers Union of WA
    Other | 2019
    McGrath-Champ S; Wilson R; Fitzgerald S; Stacey M; Gavin M; Parding K, 2019, Submission to: Valuing Australia’s teachers: Parliamentary Inquiry into the status of the teaching profession, ,
    Reports | 2018
    McGrath-Champ S; Wilson R; Stacey M; Fitzgerald S, 2018, Understanding work in schools: The foundation for teaching and learning,
    Reports | 2017
    McGrath-Champ S; Wilson R; Stacey M, 2017, Teaching and learning: Review of workload,
    Other | 2016
    Fitzgerald S; McGrath-Champ S; Wilson R; Stacey M; Rainnie A; Parding K, 2016, Submission to: Education and Health Standing Committee Inquiry into the Department of Education's Independent Public Schools Initiative, ,

Competitive

Australian Research Council Linkage Project, 2021-2024, $232,347 - Co-Chief Investigator

'Time use, time poverty and teachers' work', Associate Professor Greg Thompson, Dr Anna Hogan, Associate Professor Nicole Mockler and Dr Meghan Stacey

UNSW School of Education Research Grants funding, 2021, $8327Ěý- Chief Investigator

'Teachers and religion in NSW schools', Dr Meghan Stacey

UNSW School of Education Research Grants funding, 2019, $5000 - Chief Investigator

'Graduate school choice and initial teacher education', Dr Meghan Stacey

Commissioned

NSW Teachers Federation, 2018, $120 000 - Co-Chief Investigator

'Understanding work in schools: the foundation for teaching and learning', Associate Professor Susan McGrath-Champ, Dr Rachel Wilson, Dr Meghan Stacey, Dr Scott Fitzgerald

NSW Teachers Federation, 2017, $50 000 - Co-Chief Investigator

'Teaching and learning: review of workload', Associate Professor Susan McGrath-Champ, Dr Rachel Wilson, Meghan Stacey

Early Career Researcher Award, Australian Association for Research in Education,Ěý2020

New Voice Scholar in Educational Leadership Research, ACEL, 2020

Excellence in Teaching Award,ĚýUniversity of Sydney, 2016

Institute for Educational Research (IER) grant to attend the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) in Dublin, Ireland, 2016

Best Research Paper Award, University of Sydney Research Students' Forum, Faculty of Education and Social Work, 2015

Postgraduate scholarship for attendance at the Association of Industrial Relations Academics Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) conference in Auckland, New Zealand, 2015

Australian Postgraduate Award, 2014-2017

G. S. Caird Scholarship for Most Proficient Student in Bachelor of Education II,ĚýUniversity of Sydney, 2007

NSW Department of Education and Training Teacher Education Scholarship, 2005-2010

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Blog Posts

  • Stacey, M. (2019, July 22).ĚýTeachers also are affected by the ‘school choice’ policies dividing Australia [blog post]. Retrieved fromĚýhttps://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=4224&fbclid=IwAR0Mskuhanjyne1HN7EihhimQDUlgVl8uDSuMnxWqqhB5dmg6YI_paq9hu8
  • Mockler, N. & Stacey, M. (2019, March 18).ĚýWhat’s good ‘evidence-based’ practice for classrooms? We asked the teachers, here’s what they said [blog post]. Retrieved fromĚýhttps://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=3844
  • Sattin-Bajaj, C., Stacey, M. & Thomas, M. (2019, February 27).ĚýHow do school choice and funding work in Australia? [blog post] Retrieved fromĚýhttps://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rick_hess_straight_up/2019/02/how_do_school_choice_and_funding_work_in_australia.html

Podcasts

  • Teachers Education Review (TER Podcast):

Editorial Work

Meghan currently serves as the Coordinating Associate Editor for the (AER).Ěý

Reviewing

Meghan regularly reviews for academic journals including:

  • Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
  • Critical Studies in Education
  • Journal of Education Policy
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Education
  • Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
  • Compare
  • Policy Futures in EducationĚý
  • Journal of Curriculum Studies

My Research Supervision

  • Therese Gawthorne (joint), 'An investigation into factors facilitating and inhibiting workplace satisfaction and the mental wellbeing of staff in New South Wales (NSW) public schools'
  • Matthew Leeds (secondary), 'Evaluating individual contributing elements in the return on Australian University based preparation and development Educational Leadership programmes'
  • Pascale Drever (secondary), 'Evaluating the effectiveness of a whole-school approach to student wellbeing on teacher wellbeing'
  • Caitlin Senior (secondary), 'Equity in education in Australia and Canada: Comparative analysis of two jurisdictions'

My Teaching

Convenor:

  • EDST1104 - Social Perspectives in Education
  • EDST5451 - Educational Policy: Theory and Practice
  • EDST5457 - Literature Review