Rate My Professor Natalie Natsias

Mrs. Natalie Natsias is a Lecturer in the School of Education, part of the College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Adelaide University. She holds a Bachelor of Early Childhood Education from the University of South Australia, completed between 1990 and 1994, and a Master of Special Education from Flinders University, obtained from 2008 to 2010. Natsias brings extensive professional experience in early childhood education, having worked in childcare centres, preschools, early learning centres, and as a junior school R-2 classroom teacher. She has also served in leadership capacities, including as Teaching and Learning Coordinator and Head of Early Years.

Since 2022, she has held the position of Lecturer at Adelaide University, where her research interests lie in early childhood education, with a focus on early years language and literacy education and supporting children’s home languages, backgrounds, and cultures. Natsias is in the final year of her part-time Doctor of Philosophy, supervised by Dr. Amy Farndale, examining fostering young children’s multilingual literacies through a critical participatory action research study with early childhood educators. She has presented preliminary research findings at national and international conferences, including on Multilingual Early Childhood at the EECERA Multilingual Childhood Conference at the University of Luxembourg in 2025. Her teaching responsibilities include courses such as English Curriculum: Reading (EDUC 2058), Leadership and Advocacy in Early Childhood (EDUC 4193), Honours Educational Research: Theory, Literature and Policy (EDUC 4224), English Education Early Literacy (EDUC 5297), Learning about Reading in Early Years (EDUC 2107), English Curriculum: Text Production (EDUC 3033), and Learning About Language (EDUCX-105). Natsias is actively involved in professional organizations as a member of the Australian Association for Research in Education and the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction since 2024, the Torrens University Course Advisory Committee since 2024, and as a Board Member of Gowrie SA from 2023 to 2024.