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GRANT RODWELL
Grant Rodwell is a senior research fellow at the University of Newcastle and Charles Sturt University in Australia, holding seven postgraduate research degrees, including five PhDs and having authored or co-authored 16 scholarly monographs, 67 refereed journal articles, conference papers or chapters in scholarly publications. He spent 20 years with the Tasmanian Department of Education before being an academic in four Australian universities.
Born in Oberon. New South Wales, Grant began his working life at 15 years of age as an unskilled labourer in the timber industry in the New South Wales bush. Following dramatic twists and turns in his adolescence, he gained his university entrance qualifications through correspondence/distance education, resulting in a passion for independent learning and later his research degrees.
Grant has been a teacher, system-wide Science consultant, vice principal, school principal and university academic. Fascinated by the vagaries of educational policy, especially in a political and ideological context, and in other areas diverse as the history and the politics of schooling, educational curriculum, pedagogy and English literature. He has been either the author or co-author of internationally published scholarly monographs, including ten with Routledge. Additionally, he has published six novels. And now a memoir. He is currently retired and living in the New South Wales Hunter Valley
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A highly effective and well-regarded motivational speaker, Grant’s enduring passion is working in schools, colleges and universities, engaging with academics, student teachers, teachers and school communities in disseminating his cutting-edge research, particularly in respect to political influences on educational policy. His research is supported by his many internationally published and peer-reviewed journal articles
The 2026 publication of his memoirs, A pedagogist’s memoir: Some boys are born twice, London/New York: Anthem Press, is receiving a profound reception in schools, colleges and teacher training and professional development (PD) programs encompassing biographical learning through memoirs.
Grant strongly welcomes invitations from academics, student teachers, teachers and school communities to speak to their group through the platform(s) of his books and their relevance to schools, colleges teacher preparation and professional development (PD).
Living in proximity to some of Australia’s most magnificent trout-fishing streams and lakes, it is not surprising to learn where he spends his spare time away from his research and family
Grant Rodwell is a senior research fellow at the University of Newcastle and Charles Sturt University in Australia, holding seven postgraduate research degrees, including five PhDs and having authored or co-authored 16 scholarly monographs, 67 refereed journal articles, conference papers or chapters in scholarly publications. He spent 20 years with the Tasmanian Department of Education before being an academic in four Australian universities.
Born in Oberon. New South Wales, Grant began his working life at 15 years of age as an unskilled labourer in the timber industry in the New South Wales bush. Following dramatic twists and turns in his adolescence, he gained his university entrance qualifications through correspondence/distance education, resulting in a passion for independent learning and later his research degrees
Grant has been a teacher, system-wide Science consultant, vice principal, school principal and university academic. Fascinated by the vagaries of educational policy, especially in a political and ideological context, and in other areas diverse as the history and the politics of schooling, educational curriculum, pedagogy and English literature. He has been either the author or co-author of internationally published scholarly monographs, including ten with Routledge. Additionally, he has published six novels. And now a memoir. He is currently retired and living in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.
A highly effective and well-regarded motivational speaker, Grant’s enduring passion is working in schools, colleges and universities, engaging with academics, student teachers, teachers and school communities in disseminating his cutting-edge research, particularly in respect to political influences on educational policy. His research is supported by his many internationally published and peer-reviewed journal articles
The 2026 publication of his memoirs, A pedagogist’s memoir: Some boys are born twice, London/New York: Anthem Press, is receiving a profound reception in schools, colleges and teacher training and professional development (PD) programs encompassing biographical learning through memoirs.
Grant strongly welcomes invitations from academics, student teachers, teachers and school communities to speak to their group through the platform(s) of his books and their relevance to schools, colleges teacher preparation and professional development (PD).
Living in proximity to some of Australia’s most magnificent trout-fishing streams and lakes, it is not surprising to learn where he spends his spare time away from his research and family.
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