Professor Barry Down

For Professor Barry Down, secondary school teaching was merely the beginning of a passion for the world of teaching.

Professor Down is a leading national and emerging international researcher in teacher development. His research interests lie in the areas of critical policy ethnography, teachers' work, school reform, critical pedagogy, socially-just schooling and revisionist educational history.

For his tireless efforts, he was recently awarded an Australian Research Council linkage grant for his project 'Enhancing School Retention: School and Community Linkages in Regional/Rural Western Australia'.

Barry holds the City of Rockingham Chair in Education; a unique collaboration between local government and Murdoch University.