Third Wave Lab Melbourne research seminar

For those of you who are physically in Melbourne, the Third Wave Lab is thrilled to invite you to join us in a research seminar featuring one of our researchers, Dr Emily Sum. Her talk will examine the relevance (or not) of Neo-Confucian values in mathematics education in our society today. You are also welcomed […]


Fatma in Melbourne for 2025

Assoc Prof Fatma Nur Aktas (Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Türkiye) is conducting a postdoc research related to Values Alignment in Mathematics Education at Monash University, Australia. She is working with Dr Penelope Kalogeropoulos and Dr James Russo there. She will be in Melbourne till Voc 2025.Folks who are in Melbourne, or who are visiting Melbourne […]


Seminar on Mathematical Wellbeing

At the invitation of Utah State University (USA), Dr Julia Hill (Australia) will be presenting a seminar on mathematical wellbeing on 19 Feb at 3.30pm local time, 20 Feb (Thu) at 9.30am Melbourne/Sydney time. All are welcomed – attend face-to-face if you are in Utah, or via ZOOM otherwise (see flyer for the ZOOM QR […]


A review of our latest ‘values book’

This review of our latest ‘values book, edited by Yüksel Dede, Gosia Marschall, and Phil Clarkson, was published in a recent issue of ‘Educational Studies in Mathematics’. We would like to congratulate the three editors for a review which concludes with the sentence: “as claimed in its title, this book focuses on practice and, thus, […]


A study involving student happiness in maths learning …

… which would be different from Julia Hill’s conception of mathematical wellbeing (MWB) and also different from Juan Zhong’s notion of maths education well-being (MEW). This is a study conducted in Nepal examining how effective pedagogy, internal assessment, student happiness in maths learning relate to students’ sense of empowerment. Joshi, D. R., Belbase, S., Khanal, […]


New paper on the MWB of New Zealand students

Congrats on a new paper recently published by Jodie Hunter and Julia Hill! This paper examines the mathematical wellbeing among 12,000+ diverse primary and secondary students in New Zealand. The standout finding? The highest proportion of students across all cultural groups reported peer support and collaboration as crucial to their mathematical wellbeing – mentioning it […]


Values presentations at PME Conference this year

Not counting those values presentations based on the EVT, there are 8 values presentations at the PME Conference this year (2 Research Reports, 5 Oral Communications, 1 poster). In addition, Prof JeongSuk Pang’s plenary speech also related the Korean team’s findings in the VAS Study. These 9 pieces of writings can be accessed here.


Melbourne Symposium 2024

Come (in-person or via ZOOM) join us in a half-day symposium to be held on 2 Jul (Tues)! As the program below suggests, this event will not only provide us with a chance to listen to team progress / achievement, but also to share common issues that we encounter in our respective researching work. It […]


The latest ‘values book’ is out!

Our next collection of some of the latest findings in values/valuing research is now published! Editted by three of our colleagues in this area of mathematics educational research, Yüksel Dede, Gosia Marschall, and Philip Clarkson, “Values and valuing in mathematics education: Moving forward into practice” promises to be the go-to guide for designing and implementing […]


Message from Dr Ralf Erens

Dear friends in values research, For the upcoming 30th MAVI conference in September 2024, participantswho want a guaranteed admission to the conference need to pre-registerby February 16th in the pre-registration phase. Due to theextraordinary resonance of MAVI 30 in the community, the conferenceorganisers must have the opportunity to estimate the capacity ofconference rooms and accommodation. […]


Miho’s cross-cultural analysis

Miho Yamazaki spent some time in Melbourne to collect and analyse local data, before conducting a cross-cultural comparative study between Japanese and Australian students. The paper, written in Japanese, is accessible at:https://thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/files/2024/01/Yamazaki-2023-138e67e795723903.pdf


Postdoc opportunity at Uni of Melbourne

The 2025 McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme is now open for applications, with EOIs due on 8 Mar 2024. This represents an excellent opportunity for early career researchers to conduct a research project here in Melbourne, Australia. If you have a values-related research idea, let me know and we might be able to work out a […]


Latest from our Portuguese team

Our Portuguese team, led by Ana Silvestre, has just published their latest findings on the last day of 2023 re the values embraced by secondary school teachers there. Congrats to the large team researching values in Portugal!Check out the paper by clicking on the ‘publications’ tab, or via the DOI: https://doi.org/10.48489/quadrante.32632


CONGRATULATIONS, Olivia and Anni!

Congratulations to Olivia Zhang and Anni E, who had both been successful in their 2024 PhD application for The University of Melbourne to conduct research in our Third Wave Lab. Not only did they do well in the very competitive selection process, they had both also been awarded full scholarships from the Australian government: Melbourne […]

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