Rate My Professor Bev Rogers

Dr Bev Rogers holds the position of Lecturer in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work at Flinders University, having joined the institution in February 2014. Prior to academia, she enjoyed a distinguished career in South Australian education, employed by the Department for Education and Child Development. She served as a classroom teacher for many years before advancing to principalships in Whyalla and metropolitan Adelaide, totaling 13 years in school leadership. Later roles included Director in Curriculum Services and consultant positions in Human Resources and Workforce Development within the state education department. Rogers possesses extensive academic credentials: BSc, BEd, and Dip Ed from the University of Adelaide; Grad Dip Ed Admin from Deakin University; MLMan Ed from the University of Newcastle; Grad Cert Ed (Higher Education) from Flinders University; and a Doctor of Education from the University of South Australia (2013), with her doctoral thesis titled "Educational Leadership: Cultivating plurality in a dialogic teacher 'public space'." She is a Member of the Australian College of Educators (MACE), Member of the Australian Council of Educational Leaders (MACEL), and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), recognized under the UK Professional Standards Framework.

In her academic role, Dr Rogers coordinates the Master of Education (Leadership and Management) program and leads topics including Leadership and Management in Education, Planning Change in Organisations, and Educational Governance. Her research specializations encompass educational leadership and management, critical education, and education policy, with a particular emphasis on challenging dominant Western models of leadership, exploring practices that support teachers through narrative inquiry and auto-ethnography, and addressing leadership in mathematics education, change management, and pedagogy. Key publications include "Reclaiming the Ontological Over the Epistemological: A Case Study into a New Zealand Primary School Disclosing an Embodied Culture of Teacher Inquiry" (2023, with A. Bills and D. Giles, New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work); "Teaching academics in higher education: resisting teaching at the expense of research" (2022, with K. Swain, Australian Educational Researcher); "The Rise and Fall of Evidence-Based Research" and "The Social Construction of Leadership Power" (both 2022, chapters in The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse); and "Democracy in Decline? Developing Democratic Re-Orientations Through Plurality and Deliberation" (2021, chapter in New Perspectives on Education for Democracy). Dr Rogers has successfully supervised multiple PhD, EdD, and MEd candidates to completion, contributing significantly to the field through her mentorship in educational leadership and management.