Rate My Professor Alexandra Diamond

Dr Alexandra Diamond is a Lecturer in Early Childhood in the School of Education, College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Adelaide University. As an early childhood lecturer and researcher, her PhD research investigated young children’s language socialisation in a rural Indo-Fijian community at the University of South Australia. Her research interests include young children's language socialisation, families and parenting, and child- and family-friendly communities. She is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students as a co-supervisor.

Diamond has published extensively on topics related to early childhood language, literacy, and development in diverse cultural contexts. Key publications include 'Young children's language socialization to kinship vocatives and some of their indexicalities in an Indo-Fijian community' (Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2025), 'Young children's language socialisation to baby talk and ontology of infancy in a small rural Indo-Fijian community' (Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2025), 'Young children becoming translingual practitioners in their Indo-Fijian community' (Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024), 'Ethics of care: pedagogical encounters from Oceania' (Qualitative Research Journal, 2024, co-authored), 'Co-creating multilingual books with children to foster their literacies' (The Reading Teacher, 2022, co-authored), 'International service-learning: possibilities for developing intercultural competence and culturally responsive pedagogies' (Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2022, co-authored), 'Supporting preschool age children's wellbeing through home-based literacy development in three Fijian communities' (New Zealand International Research in Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021, co-authored), 'Co-constructing culturally sustaining practices for fostering young children's literacy in Fiji' (Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020, co-authored), 'Studying early brain development: Educators' reports about their learning and its applications to early childhood policies and practices' (Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2015, co-authored), 'Pre-service early childhood educators' leadership development through reflective engagement with experiential service learning and leadership literature' (Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2014), 'Family literacy in response to local contexts' (Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2013, co-authored), 'A pathway to enhancing professionalism: building a bridge between TAFE and university early childhood qualifications' (Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2009, co-authored), 'Books R 4 Babies 2: The Lapsit Project' (Australasian Journal of University Community Engagement, 2007, co-authored), and 'Mothers' safety intervention strategies with toddlers and their relationship to child characteristics' (Early Child Development and Care, 2006, co-authored).