Reece Mills

Reece Mills is an Associate Professor of Education at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia whose academic work aims to create socially and ecologically sustainable futures through education. He commenced his career in Education as a secondary school science teacher before a ten-year tenure at QUT, Brisbane and later RMIT. Reece has previously been appointed to School and Faculty level leadership roles including Bachelor of Education (Primary) Course/Program Coordinator and Faculty Ethics Chair.

Reece's research expertise spans his discipline area (science and sustainability education) and practice (Initial Teacher Education), and extends broadly to teachers’ work and lives. He presently holds three Australian Research Council grants related to teacher shortages as follows:

• DP260101755 Improving Teacher Retention in High-Turnover Areas: A Geo-Spatial Approach. Dr Babak Dadvand (La Trobe University); Professor Scott Eacott; Professor Theresa Bourke; Associate Professor Reece Mills; Dr Steve Murphy. $434,421
• DP230100041 Teacher attraction and retention in hard-to-staff schools. Professor Martin Mills (QUT); Professor Theresa Bourke; Professor Simone White; Associate Professor Lisa van Leent; Associate Professor Reece Mills. $353,950
• LP210300839 Career change teachers: Addressing teacher shortages in Australia. Professor Martin Mills (QUT); Professor Simone White; Professor Theresa Bourke; Associate Professor Reece Mills; Dr Craig Wood. $403,834

Reece teaches into the Bachelor of Education (Primary) program in the areas of science curriculum and pedagogy and sociology of education.