Rate My Professor Jennifer Gore

Laureate Professor Jennifer Gore is a Distinguished Laureate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Director of the Teachers and Teaching Research Centre. She commenced her career as a secondary physical education teacher in South Australia, followed by a Diploma of Teaching and Bachelor of Education from Adelaide College of the Arts and Education, a Master of Physical Education from the University of British Columbia in 1983, and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. After lecturing at the University of Queensland from 1989 to 1990, she joined the University of Newcastle in 1991, progressing through positions including Senior Lecturer (1995-1997), Associate Professor (1997-2000), Professor (2000-present), and Dean of Education and Head of the School of Education from 2008 to 2013. She also holds a Visiting Professor appointment at the University of Oxford since 2016.

Professor Gore's research focuses on quality and equity in education, including teacher socialisation, power relations in teaching, pedagogical reform, teacher education reform, and teacher development. She has secured more than $23 million in external research funding since 1992 and contributed to numerous large grants. Widely published with over 10,400 citations, her key works include books such as 'The Struggle for Pedagogies: Critical and Feminist Discourses as Regimes of Truth' (1993), 'Prepared to Teach: An Investigation into the Preparation of Teachers to Teach Literacy and Numeracy' (2005), and 'Community Matters' (2023), as well as influential articles like 'Towards better teaching: productive pedagogy as a framework for teacher education' (2004, Teaching and Teacher Education) and 'Effects of professional development on the quality of teaching: Results from a randomised controlled trial of Quality Teaching Rounds' (2017, Teaching and Teacher Education). Her research has impacted school systems through consultancies in NSW and the ACT. Awards include Member of the Order of Australia (2024), ACEL Educational Leadership Award (2023), Excellence Award for Outstanding Engagement for Research Impact (2022), Dr Paul Brock Memorial Medal (2018), and ACDE Award for Outstanding Service to Education (2017). She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2023), Royal Society of NSW (2021), and American Educational Research Association (2020), and has served as Associate Editor for Teaching and Teacher Education (2003-2010).