Dr Jane Jarvis

Dr Jane Jarvis PhD University of Virginia; M.Psych.Ed University of Queensland; PG.Dip.EdStudies (Psych) University of Queensland; B.A.(Psych) University of Adelaide is Research Director, Effective Practice in Education at ACER. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Virginia and worked for 13 years as an academic in inclusive education at Flinders University, where she remains an Adjunct Associate Professor. Jane developed and taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses related to designing differentiated learning experiences, multi-tiered systems of support for inclusive education, supporting children with learning difficulties, and teaching academically gifted students, including within the early childhood inclusive education/ disability studies double degree she co-developed. Jane’s research career builds on diverse professional experience as a teacher, specialist educator, counsellor, behaviour support practitioner and school leader, across specialised education, gifted education, and disability services, in Australia and the United States.

• 2018 Australian Awards for University Teaching, Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (as Team Leader)
• 2018 Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) SA Branch award for Distinguished Contribution to Research in Educational Leadership
• 2017 Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence (as Team Leader)
• 2015 Paper of the Year (as co-author) in Journal for the Education of the Gifted
• 2015 Co-authored paper selected for 35th Anniversary Edition of the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, among 'outstanding articles' from 2002-2014.
• 2013 Keynote Speaker, Australian Association for Special Education (AASE) National Conference, Adelaide.
• 2012 Invited Speaker, Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented (AAEGT) National Conference, Adelaide.
• 2010 Invited Speaker, Asia-Pacific Conference on Giftedness, Sydney.
• 2009 Outstanding Doctoral Student award, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia.
• 2007 Most Outstanding Paper, NAGC Graduate Research Gala, Minneapolis, USA.
• 2008 Doctoral Student Award, National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) USA, for 'exemplary work in research, publications, and educational service, and potential for future scholarship.'