Rate My Professor Angela Page

Associate Professor Angela Page serves as Associate Professor in Inclusive Education and Academic Pacific Program Lead in the School of Education, College of Human and Social Futures, at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She earned her Doctor of Education from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Psychology from Massey University, New Zealand. Her professional journey includes serving as Lecturer in Inclusive Education and Psychology at the University of New England from 2015 to 2018, Inclusive Education Advisor for the Ministry of Education in the Cook Islands from 2014 to 2015, and as a Teacher and Educational Psychologist in Nelson Schools, New Zealand, from 1999 to 2013. Additionally, she holds an Adjunct Professor position at the University of Fiji since 2023. Page teaches in the Master of Special and Inclusive Education program, employing contemporary pedagogies such as inquiry learning and authentic assessment.

Angela Page's research focuses on inclusive education (40%), special education and disability (30%), and Pacific Peoples student engagement and teaching (30%), alongside classroom management, innovative learning environments, Pacific education, and relational aggression. She has published extensively, including the book Inclusive Education: Global Issues and Controversies (2020), chapters like Classroom Behavior Management in the Pacific: Developing an Approach to Create Meaningful Shifts in Teacher Thinking (2022) and Creating inclusive classrooms in the Pacific region (2022), and journal articles such as Principals’ perspectives on socio-spatial affordances for classroom management in flexible learning spaces (2026), Evaluation of in-service inclusive education teacher mindsets (2025), and Innovative Learning Environments and spaces of belonging for students with disability in mainstream settings (2024). She has attracted $470,452 in research funding across 24 grants, leading projects like Women in Leadership: Developing capacity within disability inclusive education in Vanuatu ($58,448, 2023) and Evaluating the impact of implementing Innovative Learning Environments for Inclusive Practices in Pacific Schools ($50,000, 2024). In 2022, she received the Advance HE Teaching Fellow Award. Her contributions extend to enhancing inclusive education in Pacific nations through professional development workshops, policy development, and PhD supervision in countries including Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Tuvalu, and Samoa.