Books
Education and Historical Justice: Redress, Reparations and Reconciliation in the Classroom (Bloomsbury 2025) with J. Miles.
Historical Justice and History Education (Palgrave McMillan), 2021, edited with H. Åström Elmersjö, D. Lindmark & B. Norlin.
Peer-reviewed articles
“Don’t Take the Bait in ‘88: Let’s Educate!” Protest, Celebration and Education in Australia, On_Education, 2025.
The Engaged Parent: Schooling and Motherhood in the Contemporary Economy, Journal of Education Policy, 2025.
An Ethics of Repair? Towards Reparative Principles in the History of Education, Encounters in Theory and History of Education, 2024.
Towards Responsible Narratives in a More-than-Human World: ReStorying Histories of Education, Encounters in Theory and History of Education, 2024.
Truth Commissions and Teacher Education in Australia and the Northern Nordics, Genealogy, 2024.
From apology to truth? Settler colonial injustice and curricular reform in Australia since 2008, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024.
Does Curriculum Fail Indigenous Political Aspirations? Sovereignty and Australian History and Social Studies Curriculum, Nordic Journal of Educational History, 2024.
Rhetoric of Redress: Australian Political Speeches and Settler Citizens’ Historical Consciousness, Journal of Australian Studies, 2024.
Schools as public things: Parents and the affective relations of schooling, The Sociological Review, 2024.
The Problem of Teleological History Education and the Possibilities of a Multispecies, Multiscalar, and Non-continuous History, Rethinking History, 2023.
Engaging transitional justice in Australian history curriculum: Times, temporalities and historical thinking, Curriculum Inquiry, 2021.
To empower or oppress: approaching duality in educational histories, History of Education Review, 2021.
Ontology, Sovereignty, Legitimacy: two key moments when history curriculum was challenged in public discourse and the curricular effects, Australia 1950s and 2000s, History of Education Review, 2021.
History Education for Transitional Justice? Challenges, Limitations and Possibilities for Settler Colonial Australia, International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2019.
Chapters
Truth commissions, transitional justice, and history education in Decolonising Australian History Education: Fresh Perspectives from Beyond the ‘History Wars’, 2024.
Connecting Historical Justice and History Education in Historical Justice and History Education, 2021.
History Education, Citizenship, and State Formation in Handbook of Historical Studies in Education, 2020.
Commentaries / Reports
We have always been here, Pursuit, commentary for Sámi National Day, 2025
The School Exclusion Project Research Report, National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition, 2023.
School Exclusion 101 Youth Guide, National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition, 2023.
Submission in response to Issues Paper on Education-Schooling, Yoorrook Justice Commission, 2024.
School exclusion: what this work tells us, EduResearchMatters, 2024.
For the first time, the curriculum in Australian classrooms has a focus on truth-telling, Pursuit, commentary for special series on truth-telling, 2024.
3 key moments in Indigenous political history Victorian school students didn’t learn about, The Conversation, 2023.
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