Dr. Sharon McDonough
Associate Professor, Teacher Education
Campus
Biography
Sharon is an internationally recognised researcher in teacher education and teacher development, with a particular focus on teacher wellbeing and teacher resilience. Sharon examines the pedagogy and practice of teacher education, practitioner inquiry as meaningful an authentic professional learning, and how best to prepare teachers for the profession.
She draws on qualitative and creative research methods to examine teacher education, how to develop resilient and mindful educators and educational communities, and how to support and advance a focus on wellbeing across the lifespan in community contexts.
Fields of research
- Teacher and student wellbeing
- Teacher education and professional development of educators
- Continuing and community education
Available for
Professional Comment
HDR Examiner
- Publications
Inside the game of teacher education: seeing and sharing the troublesome and delightful dimensions of the field
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/13540602.2025.2482976
Visualizing data to explore the affective and human dimensions of education research
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/1743727X.2025.2482912
The Making Academic: Perspectives on Expressive Practice and Wellbeing in Higher Education
- Book
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003592556
Making as Wellbeing: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Academic Maker Identities in Higher Education
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003592556-2
Creating Wellbeing: The Role of Making Practices in Academic Contexts
- Book
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003664123
A Call for Change: Creative and Making Practices as Essential Practices to Support Wellbeing and the Transformative Potential of Education Nar
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003664123-2
Creatively conventional: visualising data to represent the individual and collective voices of teacher educators
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1332/30502969Y2025D000000007
