Helen Askell-Williams

Helen Askell-Williams is the Associate Dean of Research in the School of Education at Flinders University, the Director of the Flinders Educational Futures Research Institute, and a member of the Flinders Centre for Student Wellbeing and Prevention of Violence. She has worked on collaborative research projects that have investigated teachers' and learners' knowledge and wellbeing. She has conducted focused interviews with teachers and learners in Primary, Secondary, TAFE, and University settings and has undertaken large-scale surveys to assess components of students' academic, social, and emotional wellbeing. This has included being Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, and KidsMatter consultancies to beyondblue. Helen was a successful recipient of a South Australian Premier’s Award for Lifelong Learning and an ANZ Bank prize for Teacher Education. View her full profile at www.flinders.edu.au/people/helen.askell-williams.

Publications

Exploring Three Measures of Student Wellbeing
Exploring Three Measures of Student Wellbeing
Grace Skrzypiec, Helen Askell-Williams, Phillip Slee. © 2016. 18 pages.
There has been limited consensus on how young people's wellbeing should be measured (O'Hare & Gutierrez, 2012). One approach, suggested by Lau and Bradshaw (2010), is...
Transforming the Future of Learning with Educational Research
Transforming the Future of Learning with Educational Research
Helen Askell-Williams. © 2015. 381 pages.
The field of education is a vital component of today’s society, enriching and facilitating the attainment of new knowledge. Progress continues to be achieved in this area as new...
Changes in Students' Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategy Use over Five Years of Secondary Schooling
Changes in Students' Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategy Use over Five Years of Secondary Schooling
Helen Askell-Williams, Michael J. Lawson. © 2015. 19 pages.
As students progress through school, we expect that their knowledge about the various subject matters, such as biology or maths, becomes more extensive, well structured, and...
Exploring Three Measures of Student Wellbeing
Exploring Three Measures of Student Wellbeing
Grace Skrzypiec, Helen Askell-Williams, Phillip Slee. © 2015. 17 pages.
There has been limited consensus on how young people's wellbeing should be measured (O'Hare & Gutierrez, 2012). One approach, suggested by Lau and Bradshaw (2010), is...