ECE Awards

2001  Margaret Trembath National Competitive Early Childhood Research Scholarship and a Barbara Creaser National Memorial Lecture Award.

2005  appointed as an International Research Fellow and a member of the Advisory Board of the Sosial Insitut Malaysia (Government of Malaysia ministerial appointment).

2007  Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne Research Excellence Award

2009 CSIE Distinguished Fellow Award for research and leadership contributing to the advancement of critical studies in education from the Faculty of Education, University of Auckland