STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Robyn Barnacle
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
Research & Innovation Portfolio
School / Department:
R&I|School of Graduate Research
Phone:
+61399258303
Email:
robyn.barnacle@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Robyn Barnacle is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Graduate Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
She is a research education specialist and coordinates professional development programs for higher degrees by research supervisors and candidates. Robyn's research is in the area of higher education and focuses on doctoral education.Research interests
- Research education
- Researcher development
- PhD supervision
- Higher education policy and practice
- PhD (Philosophy) Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
- BA (Hons) (First-class) Murdoch University, Perth, Australia.
- Barnacle, R.,Cuthbert, D. (2021). A Public and Persuasive PhD: Reforming Doctoral Education in the Outreach Focused University In: The PhD at the End of the World, Springer, Switzerland
- Barnacle, R.,Cuthbert, D.,Schmidt, C.,Batty, C. (2020). HASS PhD graduate careers and knowledge transfer: A conduit for enduring, multi-sector networks In: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 19, 397 - 418
- Barnacle, R.,Cuthbert, D.,Schmidt, C.,Batty, C. (2020). Vectors of knowledge exchange: the value of industry engagement to HASS PhDs In: Higher Education, 80, 973 - 987
- Barnacle, R.,Schmidt, C.,Cuthbert, D. (2019). Expertise and the PhD: Between depth and a flat place In: Higher Education Quarterly, 73, 168 - 181
- Barnacle, R. (2018). Research Education and Care: The Care-Full PhD In: The Thinking University: A Philosophical Examination of Thought and Higher Education, Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland
- Barnacle, R.,Dall'Alba, G. (2017). Committed to learn: student engagement and care in higher education In: Higher Education Research and Development, 36, 1326 - 1338
- Barnacle, R.,Cuthbert, D.,Laurie, R. (2016). Exploring researcher motivation: Implications for PhD education In: Asia Pacific Graduate Education: Comparative Policies and Regional Developments, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, United States
- Dall'Alba, G.,Barnacle, R. (2015). Exploring knowing/being through discordant professional practice In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47, 1452 - 1464
- Mewburn, I.,Tokareva, E.,Cuthbert, D.,Sinclair, J.,Barnacle, R. (2014). 'These are issues that should not be raised in black and white': the culture of progress reporting and the doctorate In: Higher Education Research and Development, 33, 510 - 522
- Sinclair, J.,Cuthbert, D.,Barnacle, R. (2014). The entrepreneurial subjectivity of successful researchers In: Higher Education Research and Development, 33, 1007 - 1019
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
6 PhD Completions
Research practice and knowledge generation; research education: pedagogy, practice and policy; ontology and learning.