Associate Professor Wendy Goff

Biography

Wendy's research explores the dynamics of adult relationships and partnerships, including their influence and impact on children's learning, health, well-being, and overall development. She uses four different vehicles to study these relationships and partnerships (mathematics education; technology; early childhood education; and  health and wellbeing). She has disseminated her findings through presentations and publications on both national and international platforms.

Wendy's work in mathematics education has been published in the Evidence Base Component of the Birth to Level 10 Numeracy Guide by the Victorian Department of Education. Findings from her research have been highlighted as part of the evidence base underpinning numeracy in Australia. Wendy's work in mathematics education has also been published in the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia's (MERGA) 4-yearly comprehensive review of mathematics education research in Australasia (RIMEA). 

Throughout her career Wendy has worked as a classroom teacher, ECT, and social welfare worker. She has worked across all stages of schooling and education. Wendy's qualifications include a BEd, MEd, GDPSY, GCULT, GCISM, PhD. In the tertiary sector, Wendy has held various leadership roles. Through this leadership she has successfully led colleagues and teams through new policy directions and change; this has included working closely with internal and external stakeholders, government, and external regulatory bodies. This work has also involved working closely with ITE regulatory authorities across Australia and within the Network of Associate Deans of Professional Experience (NADPE). 

Wendy is a member of the editorial board for BRILLS Global Education in the 21st Century series. A series that address the technological advances that impact on contemporary educational practices during a period of rapid social and technological changes, as well as contemporary cutting-edge teaching, learning and research issues from a global perspective. She is also the Regional Secretary Oceania for IAHPEDS (an international alliance of researchers and professionals interested in children's  Health, Physical Education, Dance, Sport, and Wellbeing from around the world).

Wendy has won several awards during her career. These awards span across teaching and research. They include the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence (Monash University), Lecturer of the Year (MUGSU), Early Career Researcher Award (Swinburne University), and the 2023 Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) Research Recognition Award. Wendy's work in VR Simulation won the ITNews Benchmark Award and was recognised as Australia's Leading IT Project in Education in 2021. Throughout her career, Wendy has been named as the Chief Investigator on a number of sizable federal and state-funded research projects. She has also been the Chief Investigator on several industry funded projects and industry-based seeding grants. 

HDR Supervision
Wendy is keen to supervise Masters and Doctoral students interested in partnerships and relationships that impact children's learning; mathematics; technology; early childhood education; and  health and wellbeing. She is also open to hearing about other proposed research projects, particularly those focused on Initial Teacher Education, Equity or Social Psychology.

Current HDR Supervision/Student Projects
1. Advancing STEM Education via Multimodality and integrating Interactive Visual Communication Tools and Digital Learning Design
2. Financial Literacy for Children
3. Research on the Novice TESOL Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge Change across the First Academic Year
4. Early Year’s Practitioner’s Perceptions of Mindfulness
5. Quality Education in Peruvian Preschool Institutions: An Exploratory Study of Parental and Teachers’ Perceptions
6. Australian Muslim teachers’ use of technology to navigate the Australian education system and support students (tentative)