| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Arantes, J., & Vicars, M. (241231). Queering Deepfakes. Encyclopedia of Queer Studies, (1-1). |
| 2024 | O brien, S., Vicars, M., & Gonzalez, J. (240920). Investigating Problems that Matter for Young People: Reauthoring Possibilities for Social-Emotional Learning in English Language Education. Anglica, 33(1), (89-107). |
| 2024 | Vicars, M. (240314). Narrating Trans disciplinarity: Kinship, Care, Love and Loss in the entangled more than human-animal relations. Societas, Expert Studies in Social Wellbeing Vol 3, (21-32). |
Key details
Areas of expertise
- Literacy
- Critical pedagogy
- Gender and sexuality
- Narrative approaches in qualitative Inquiry
- Qualitative and post-qualitative research
Available to supervise research students
Available for media queries
About Mark Vicars
Following 24 years of working in education in several countries in Primary, Secondary, Post-16 contexts with 15 of those in higher education, Mark has extensive international, multi-sector experience of teaching and learning in Australia and Asia.
Mark has generated international opportunities for collaborative partnerships focused on the teaching/research nexus. He has developed research affiliations and education partnerships internationally to deliver educational workplace training and research.
Mark’s philosophy of praxis is underpinned by principles of social justice. His research draws upon critical poststructuralist/post colonial and queer theory to interrogate the discourses and pedagogies of social and educational inclusion in and across international educational systems.
Mark's multidisciplinary approach focuses on students’ cultural identities as learners and how shifting identity practices in educational domains coalesce around the intersections of class, race, gender and sexuality.
His recent research has been focused on developing innovative teaching and learning partnerships in international contexts. This on-going Australian government funded research is developing teacher education literacy curricula, professional learning networks and intercultural learning communities between schools and universities in Australia and Thailand.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Sheffield, UK
- MA, University of Sheffield, UK
- MA, University of Sheffield, UK
- MEd, University of Sheffield, UK
- BA (Hons)University of Leicester, UK
Key publications
Mark has over 119 publications, with a selection listed here.
A more comprehensive list of Mark's publications is available in the VU Research Repository.
Book (showing 1 of 6)
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Vicars, M., Muscat, A., Seely, Fint., Cacciattolo, M., Tartakover, S., Sesta, J., Mahon, L., Iorio, J., & Hamm, C. (Eds.). (240224). Rethinking literacy paradigms and practices for the 21st Century in Vicars, M (Ed) Literacy in Australia: pedagogies for engagement 4TH edition (4th). Australia: Wiley. |
Book chapter (showing 6)
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Arantes, J., & Vicars, M. (251130). AI Against I: Crisis, Continuity and Change In Vicars, M. (Ed.) (pp. 1-12). TBC: TBC. |
| 2024 | Arantes, J., Vicars, M., & Muscat, A. (241231). Porous Texts: Re/searching palimpsest play with/in the methodological affordances of gaming for re/searching gender and sexuality in children s worlds. In Huuki, T. ;. (Ed.) (pp. 1-12). Oulo: Routledge. |
| 2024 | Arantes, J., Vicars, M., Giakoumakis, E., & Arantes, J. (241231). Investigating, Mastering or Becoming enslaved in Doctoral Supervision In Cacciattolo, M. ;. (Ed.) (pp. 1-12). Australia: Brill. |
| 2024 | Vicars, M., & Arantes, J. (241101). Invisible Data: Exploring the impact of missing LGBTQI+ data in educational algorithmic decision-making (DIPR (2022)) (pp. 1-12). DIPR: DIPR. |
| 2024 | Vicars, M., & Arantes, J. (240312). Girls will be boys and boys will be girls. It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world In Mitra, B. ;. (Ed.) (pp. 21-40). New York: Rowman & Littlefield. |
| 2024 | Vicars, M., & Sesta, J. (240124). heories, models and processes of literacy development In Vicars, M. (Ed.) (pp. 1-464). Milton, Queensland: Wiley & Sons publishers.. |
Journal article (showing 3 of 53)
Research funding for the past 5 years
Funding details for this researcher are currently unavailable.
Supervision of research students at VU
Available to supervise research students
Available for media queries
Currently supervised research students at VU
| No. of students | Study level | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | PhD | Associate supervisor |
| 4 | PhD | Principal supervisor |
| 1 | PhD Integrated | Associate supervisor |
| 3 | PhD Integrated | Principal supervisor |
Currently supervised research students at VU
| Students & level | Role |
|---|---|
| PhD (1) | Associate supervisor |
| PhD (4) | Principal supervisor |
| PhD Integrated (1) | Associate supervisor |
| PhD Integrated (3) | Principal supervisor |
Completed supervision of research students at VU
| No. of students | Study level | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | PhD | Principal supervisor |
| 1 | PhD | Associate supervisor |
| 1 | PhD by Publication | Principal supervisor |
| 1 | Doctor of Education | Associate supervisor |
| 2 | PhD Integrated | Principal supervisor |
| 1 | Masters by Research | Associate supervisor |
| 1 | PhD by Creative Work | Principal supervisor |
| 1 | Master of Research | Principal supervisor |
Completed supervision of research students at VU
| Students & level | Role |
|---|---|
| PhD (9) | Principal supervisor |
| PhD (1) | Associate supervisor |
| PhD by Publication (1) | Principal supervisor |
| Doctor of Education (1) | Associate supervisor |
| PhD Integrated (2) | Principal supervisor |
| Masters by Research (1) | Associate supervisor |
| PhD by Creative Work (1) | Principal supervisor |
| Master of Research (1) | Principal supervisor |
Teaching activities & experience
Mark is the Course Chair of the Master Teaching Primary and is the Unit Chair for Education Research Design and Methodology and the Literacy units in the Master of Teaching Primary.
He has previously been the Course Coordinator of the EdD, Course Coordinator for the International MTESOL programme. He is also a research integrity officer for Victoria University.
He is also:
- on the Editorial Board for The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies
- Lead Editor Qualitative Research Journal
- Co- convener Qualitative Research Methodologies SIG, Australian Association for Research in Education
- Series Editor of the Praxis of English Language, Brill/Sense, Teaching
- Editorial Board member, International Perspectives on Adolescence and Education Series. Springer Publishers
- Editorial Advisory Board member, Gaming Ecologies and Pedagogies Series
- International Editorial Board member, International Journal of Research and Method in Education
- International Editorial Board, Research in the Theory and Practice of Education
- Editorial Board member Global Studies of Childhood Journal, Editorial Boardmember Taboo.
Key academic roles
| Dates | Role | Department / Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 2018 - Present |
Course Chair Master of Teaching Primary
|
Victoria University |
| Dates | Role & Department/Organisation |
|---|---|
| Jan 2018 -
Present
|
Course Chair Master of Teaching Primary
Victoria University |
Key industry, community & government roles
| Dates | Role | Department/Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 2016 - Mar 2017 |
President
|
International Association of Qualitative Research. |
| Dates | Role & Department/Organisation |
|---|---|
| Mar 2016 - Mar 2017 |
President
International Association of Qualitative Research. |
Awards
| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| 2018 |
Vice Chancellor Citation for Excellence in Research and Research Training (Supervision) - Victoria University |
| 2010 |
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, Excellence in Teaching for pedagogical approaches that motivate, inspire and support socially disadvantaged and culturally diverse students to overcome ba - ALTC |
Keynote and invited speeches
| Year | Title/Description |
|---|---|
| 2015 |
What a difference a gay makes: homonormativity, inclusion and LGBTQ youth University of Western Scotland, UK, Critical Encounters Symposium |
| 2015 |
Don’t look now: situated ethics and the participatory gaze. Northumbria University, UK. Rethinking Ethics Symposium. |
| 2015 |
Putting the queer/in as a methodological project; in Other words: critical ontology and dialectical knowing in post qualitative research. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Psicologia Social, Alumna. Queering Methodology Conference |
| 2013 |
ReSearching Inclusion University of Malta, October 2013, Social Change and Inclusion Conference |
| 2012 |
Call it Queer!, Talkin’ Bout Their Generation’ Empowered youth in an Era of Chaos and Indecision Conference, University of Calgary, Canada. |
| 2011 |
Queering Criticality 1The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy Congress ,University of Athens, Korinthos. |
| 2010 |
Implementing Pedagogical approaches that motivate, inspire and support socially disadvantaged and culturally diverse students to overcome barriers to learning and to experience and attain suc The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy Congress ,University of Barcelona, and The University of Granada. |
| 2009 |
Teachers’ Requirements and Learners’ Needs: Can Action Research Help Language Teachers Overcome This Conundrum? KAPEE International Conference . The National University of Education, Busan, Korea. |
Professional memberships
- Academic Member, PETTA
- Academic Member, AERA
- Academic Member, AREA
