Jamie is a Research Associate/Lecturer at the University of South Australia, and a member of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion. Jamie's research program is concentrated on educational issues across two primary areas, a) the platformisation and datafication of education, and b) school discipline, including in particular, school exclusionary practices. His program focuses on the implications of contemporary developments in these two areas, or what they may lead to, in education. His research is critical in orientation and therefore concentrates on examining how education is mediated by power, including in ways that produce disadvantage and inequality. His current research is focussed on examining issues of policy and practice, and the relationships between them, to develop understandings about: a) the ways digital education platforms and datafication are shaping, or re-shaping, education, b) the ways disciplinary exclusions are being used to manage student behaviour, the impacts these exclusions have on students and their families, and less harmful educative alternatives to exclusion. Theoretically, he draws on critical, sociological, and Foucauldian concepts and ideas as sites of knowledge to make sense of these issues.  

Jamie is a Research Associate/Lecturer at the University of South Australia, and a member of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion. Jamie's research program is concentrated on educational issues across two primary areas, a) the platformisation and datafication of education, and b) school discipline, including in particular, school exclusionary practices. His program focuses on the implications of contemporary developments in these two areas, or what they may lead to, in education. His research is critical in orientation and therefore concentrates on examining how education is mediated by power, including in ways that produce disadvantage and inequality. His current research is focussed on examining issues of policy and practice, and the relationships between them, to develop understandings about: a) the ways digital education platforms and datafication are shaping, or re-shaping, education, b) the ways disciplinary exclusions are being used to manage student behaviour, the impacts these exclusions have on students and their families, and less harmful educative alternatives to exclusion. Theoretically, he draws on critical, sociological, and Foucauldian concepts and ideas as sites of knowledge to make sense of these issues. He recently worked as a postdoc on an ARC Discovery project titled School Exclusionary Policies and Practices and their Impact. His PhD research investigated the ways ClassDojo (an education platform) is influencing contemporary edu...