Rate My Professor Kylie Shaw

Professor Kylie Shaw is the Dean of Graduate Research in the Research and Innovation Division at the University of Newcastle, associated with Graduate Research (Education) and the School of Education. She holds a PhD from the University of Newcastle, completed part-time while teaching full-time, with her thesis focusing on student engagement with honours degrees and research preparedness. Her research specializations include doctoral education and learner development, the contributions of doctorate holders to industry particularly in teaching, nursing, and health sciences, innovative teaching and learning, 21st-century skills such as knowledge construction, collaboration, communication, and self-regulation, equity in higher degrees by research for first-in-family, female, and diverse background students, teacher professional development through PhD pursuit, and mixed-methods explorations of learning journeys and student transitions in higher education.

Shaw's career history began as a primary school teacher and progressed through leadership roles including Stage 3 Coordinator, Academic Coordinator of Years 5-8 at Bishop Tyrrell Anglican College, and Head of International House at the University of Sydney. Since 2010, while continuing as a classroom teacher with the NSW Department of Education and Communities, she has held appointments at the University of Newcastle in the School of Education, Faculty of Education and Arts: Lecturer (2010-2013), Senior Lecturer (2013-2018), Program Convenor for Primary Education programs (2014-2015), Deputy Head of School – Research & Research Training (2016-2019), Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Research Training, Impact & Innovation (SORTI) since 2015, Assistant Dean Research Training (Acting) since 2019, Interim Dean of Graduate Research (2019-2021), and Dean of Graduate Research since 2021. Awards include the 2017 Women in Research Fellowship, 2017 Outstanding Service Award from the Australian College of Educators, 2018 Best Presentation Award at Clutes Education, 2011 Beth Southwell Award for Most Outstanding Thesis, 2014 Australian Educational Publications Award, and 2008 Most Outstanding Publication Award from the Faculty of Education and Arts. Key publications feature books such as The Future of Schooling in a GenAI World (2025, with Fischetti, Imig, Vo), Literacy in Australia: Pedagogies for Engagement (4th ed. 2024, 3rd ed. 2019, with Flint et al.), Teaching: Making a Difference (2018, with Shaw et al.), and journal articles including Wellbeing and doctoral candidature: the background and development of the importance to doctoral wellbeing questionnaire (2024, with Holbrook et al.) and PhD Candidate Expectations: Exploring Mismatch with Experience (2014, with Holbrook et al.). She has secured $1,084,587 in funding across 21 grants, including ARC Discovery projects, contributed to the DocLearn online program for doctoral students, chaired organising committees for Doctoral Education, Assessment & Learning conferences, and served as Convenor of the Research into the Doctorate Special Interest Group for the Australian Association for Research in Education.