Prof. Georgina Barton | Education | Best Researcher Award

• MBA in Arts Innovation, The Global Leaders Institute, 2023
  – Completed Harvard Adaptive Leadership program (avg. score: 98%)

• Principal Fellow (PFHEA), Higher Education Academy, 2020
  – Highest recognition under UK Professional Standards Framework

• Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Griffith University, 2016
  – Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Bursary Award

• Ph.D. in Education and Musicology, Queensland University of Technology, 2004
  – Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) recipient

• Bachelor of Arts, University of Queensland, 1993
  – Majors: English Literature and Music

• Diploma of Teaching, Brisbane College of Advanced Education, 1989
  – Qualified in Secondary English and Music

• AMEB Certifications: AMusA (Violin), 7th Grade Piano, 6th Grade Theory of Music

Professional Experience

Prof. Georgina Barton is a Professor (Level E) at the University of Southern Queensland’s School of Education. She has served in various leadership roles, including Acting Head of School, Deputy Head, and Associate Head of Research. Previously, she was an Associate Professor and Program Director at USQ and a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer at Griffith University, where she led English and Literacy Education programs. She also held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Queensland and has over two decades of teaching experience across primary and secondary schools in Queensland.

Her leadership extends to large-scale academic administration, accreditation of teacher education programs (serving over 4,000 students), curriculum development, and mentoring early and mid-career researchers. She has led numerous research groups, including the Phoenix Writers and Learning Innovation and Excellence cluster. Her contributions include literacy consultancy in school systems and professional development in arts education.

Research Interests

• Literacy Education & Multimodal Literacies

• Arts and Arts-Based Research

• Reflective Practice and Teacher Professional Learning

• Curriculum Innovation & Pedagogy in Teacher Education

• Compassion in Education & Social Justice

• Interdisciplinary Approaches in Education Research

Author Metrics 

• Publications: 100+ scholarly outputs (journal articles, book chapters, edited volumes)

• Top Journals: Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Literacy Learning: The Middle Years, and others

• h-index: ~15–20 (Google Scholar estimated)

• Citations: 1,000+

• Supervision: Multiple Ph.D. and M.Ed. candidates

• Leadership: Led writing groups producing over 70 Q1 articles in 4 years