Susan Danby

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Susan Danby
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Scientific career
FieldsEducation systems, linguistics, sociology
Institutions Queensland University of Technology
Thesis Interaction and social order in a preschool classroom. [1]

Susan Danby is an Australian researcher and Distinguished Professor at the Queensland University of Technology. [2] She is currently the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. From 2012-2017, Danby was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. [3] From 2016-2018, she was a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts. Danby specialises in early years language and social interaction, childhood studies, and young children's engagement with digital technologies. [4]

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Danby was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2021 in recognition of the international impact of her research into early childhoods and digital technologies. [5]

Education

Danby worked as an early years educator and teacher in Australia and in the United States of America. [6]

Her qualifications include:

Academic career

Susan Danby's doctoral thesis was titled Interaction and social order in a preschool classroom. [7] Her thesis won the 1999 Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Doctoral Thesis Award. [8]

Danby's research has focused on children in palliative care, [9] the rights of children within research, [10] children's use of digital technology, [11] and helplines for children [12]

Danby is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, a research centre concerned with young children and digital technologies; [13] The research centre is dedicated to the study of children's experiences of digital technology. [14] She is an Editorial board Member for the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly [15] and the journal on Research on Children and Social Interaction. [16]

She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Uppsala University in recognition of her international leadership in early childhood language use and children's interaction with digital media. [17] Danby delivered the 2023 Cunningham Lecture, a flagpship public lecture that is delivered each year by an esteemed social scientist. [18]

Notable publications

Danby has published over 200 scholarly works. [19] Her most cited journal article on young children as active participants in educational research was published in the Australian Educational Researcher. [20] [21] Danby also edited a book, published by Springer Nature, on children's digital childhoods. According to the publisher, the work has been accessed over 49,000 times and achieved 121 citations. [22]

References

  1. ↑ Danby, Susan J. (1998). Interaction and social order in a preschool classroom (Thesis). University of Queensland. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  2. ↑ Queensland University of Technology (QUT). "Two QUT researchers appointed Distinguished Professor". QUT. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  3. ↑ "Grant - Grants Data Portal". dataportal.arc.gov.au. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Queensland University of Technology (QUT). "Distinguished Professor Susan Danby". QUT. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  5. ↑ Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (8 November 2021). "37 Leading Social Scientists elected as Academy Fellows". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  6. ↑ Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (6 November 2023). "Risks and opportunities: Building social contexts for young children's digital interactions". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  7. ↑ The University of Queensland (26 November 1999). "Child's play is serious business". UQ News. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  8. ↑ AARE. "Ray Debus Award for Doctoral Research in Education". AARE. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  9. ↑ "Grant - Grants Data Portal". dataportal.arc.gov.au. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
  10. ↑ Danby, Susan; Farrell, Ann (2004-12-01). "Accounting for young children's competence in educational research: New perspectives on research ethics" . The Australian Educational Researcher. 31 (3): 35–49. doi:10.1007/BF03249527. ISSN   2210-5328.
  11. ↑ "Digital Childhoods" . SpringerLink. International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development. 22. 2018. doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6484-5. ISBN   978-981-10-6483-8.
  12. ↑ Danby, Susan; Butler, Carly W.; Emmison, Michael (2011). "'Have You Talked with a Teacher Yet?': How Helpline Counsellors Support Young Callers Being Bullied at School" . Children & Society. 25 (4): 328–339. doi:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00379.x. ISSN   1099-0860.
  13. ↑ ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. "Susan Danby". Digital Child. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  14. ↑ Stone, Lucy (2019-09-22). "Digital lives of Australian children put under the microscope". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
  15. ↑ "Editorial board - Early Childhood Research Quarterly | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
  16. ↑ "Editorial Board | Research on Children and Social Interaction | University of Toronto Press". Research on Children and Social Interaction. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
  17. ↑ Uppsala University (31 October 2018). "New honorary doctors at Uppsala University - Uppsala University". www.uu.se.
  18. ↑ "Cunningham Lectures". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
  19. ↑ Technology, Queensland University of. "Statistics OverviewDanby, Susan". eprints.qut.edu.au. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
  20. ↑ Danby, Susan; Farrell, Ann (2004-12-01). "Accounting for young children's competence in educational research: New perspectives on research ethics" . The Australian Educational Researcher. 31 (3): 35–49. doi:10.1007/BF03249527. ISSN   2210-5328.
  21. ↑ "Susan Danby". scholar.google.nl. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
  22. ↑ Danby, Susan J.; Fleer, Marilyn; Davidson, Christina; Hatzigianni, Maria, eds. (2018). "Digital Childhoods" . International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development. 22. doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6484-5. ISBN   978-981-10-6483-8. ISSN   2468-8746.
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