Prof Maureen Ryan
		Phone: 9919 4179 Mobile: 0412218974 Fax: 9919 4646 Email: maureen.ryan@vu.edu.au Office: C406, Footscray Park

• Professor Maureen Ryan has been based for over twenty years at Victoria University and prior to that at Footscray Institute of Technology in Melbourne's west. These twenty years have seen Maureen immersed in education at all levels, building strong links through schools and community organizations across the west and beyond, initiating, shaping and implementing a broad range of research and practice endeavours, developing and displaying significant leadership and management skills.
• Maureen is a Professor in the School of Education at Victoria University where she has research supervision and teaching responsibilities and oversight of research projects in the youth, education and community area.
• Maureen is also Director, Gallery Sunshine Everywhere which has as its aim the engagement of schools, families, business and the broader community with the art of pre-primary, primary and secondary school students.
• Her career has included a lengthy period as Head, School of Education at Victoria University and stints as Deputy Dean, Faculty of Human Development; Head, School of Health Sciences and Acting Pro Vice Chancellor (Community Engagement). Maureen is an experienced teacher educator and in 1998 was awarded the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) distinguished teacher educator award; is a former President Australian Teacher Education Association; Chair, Victorian Council of Deans of Education; Chair, Victorian Industry Education Partnerships and a member of the inaugural Council of the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
• Additionally Maureen has joined various advisory and management committees and working groups associated with neighbourhood renewal, police community consultation, drugs strategies and youth homelessness.
• Maureen has had considerable involvement with schools across the western region beyond student teacher supervision and has worked in innovative ways with several schools in the Brimbank area including school mural and youth leadership programs, is a former member of the Marian College Horizons Committee and currently chairs the Advisory Committee for the alternative setting, Oasis, based at Sunshine Secondary College.
  
• At Victoria University Maureen has been instrumental in the establishment of the Institute for Youth, Education and Community (IYEC), the University's Social Diversity and Community Wellbeing Key Research Area: the Institute for Community Engagement and Policy Alternatives and the Office for Industry and Community Engagement, of which she was Foundation Director.
• Maureen is Chair of Western Edge Youth Arts Program and a former member of the Footscray Community Arts Centre Board where she was awarded life membership. Maureen has worked closely with Western Chances over the last few years especially in the coordination of the annual Siemens Science Experience for one hundred students drawn from western suburban secondary colleges.

Qualifications

• B.A (Melb) B.Ed (Mon) M.Ed (Mon) PhD (Melb) TPTC (Toorak)
  

• She has supervised many research students across a very wide range of research topics and delights in the opportunity this brings to become familiar with current research and knowledge in these areas while supporting students in shaping their professional journeys.
• Maureen's research supervision has included arts based research and in 2006 she gave a presentation prepared with one of her PhD students (Artful Connections: Exploring the Community in Community Arts in School, Family and Community Partnerships (Flossie Peitsch and Maureen Ryan) at the 13th International Roundtable on School, Family and Community Partnerships in San Francisco. This focused around an exhibition Flossie held at the Living Museum of the West in 2006 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Caroline Chisholm shakedowns (small safe structures built for women and children on their way to the goldfields).
• This year, Maureen will be presenting at the Roundtable on the work she has done on scenario based teaching to familiarise student teachers with interprofessional collaboration and community partnerships.
• Her research interests have ranged across youth, education and community including most recently the evaluation of the statewide implementation of the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning for the Victorian Qualifications Authority (2004); the understanding that teachers have about the Local Learning and Employment Networks for the Australian Education Union (2003), the evaluation of the partnerships grants program for the Foundation for Young Australians (2003-7) and the Evaluation of the VCAL Link program (2007).
• Maureen's Masters and PhD theses included Exposure to English in the Home and Performance on Selected Cognitive Tests (Monash University, 1979) and Children's Perceptions of Changes in Families (The University of Melbourne, 1991) respectively.
• Maureen worked with colleagues in preparing the reports for DEET and for the Office for Youth respectively, Building Scaffolds of Support: Case Management in Schools: A Report for the Victorian Full Service Schools Program (O'Dowd, Broadbent and Ryan, 2001) and FreeZA Program: Policy, Program and Service Delivery Evaluation (Broadbent, Keating and Ryan, 2000).
• Other relevant publications include Teaching and Vocational Learning (Ryan, 2002, Unicorn, Vol.28, No.3) and The Transformative Capacity of New Learning: Discussion Paper, Australian Council of Deans of Education (Arnold and Ryan, 2003).