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Overview

Susan Edwards is affiliated with the Australian Catholic University in Australia and conducts research primarily within the Social Sciences. Their work notably intersects with Education, having produced 32 publications in this subfield, alongside contributions to Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Gender Studies, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The research topics that Edwards focuses on include Child Development and Digital Technology, Early Childhood Education and Development, Gender and Technology in Education, Literacy, Media, and Education, ICT in Developing Communities, Impact of Technology on Adolescents, and Education Systems and Policy.

Edwards has coauthored works with several frequent collaborators including Helen Skouteris, Karen McLean, Susan Grieshaber, Andrea Nolan, and Joce Nuttall.

Their published papers explore various aspects of education, technology, and pedagogy, with notable recent papers including:

  • Converged play characteristics for early childhood education: multi-modal, global-local, and traditional-digital (2020), published in Oxford Review of Education
  • Methods and Ethics in Qualitative Research Exploring Young Children's Voice: A Systematic Review (2023), appearing in International Journal of Qualitative Methods
  • Process quality, curriculum and pedagogy in early childhood education and care (2021), featured in OECD education working papers
  • Digital play and technical code: what new knowledge formations are possible? (2021), published in Learning Media and Technology
  • Young children's agency with digital technologies (2021), published in Children & Society, coauthored with Andrea Nolan

Edwards has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently appearing in the Journal of Early Childhood Research, with other outputs in International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Oxford Review of Education, Learning Media and Technology, and Postdigital Science and Education.

In addition to journal articles, Edwards has a book published through Australian Catholic University entitled Young children's digital play in early childhood settings: Curriculum, pedagogy and teachers' knowledge (2020).

Best Publications

  • Valsartan, Captopril, or Both in Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Heart Failure, Left Ventricular Dysfunction, or Both

    Marc A. Pfeffer;John J.V. McMurray;Eric J. Velazquez;Jean-Lucien Rouleau

  • Direct thrombin inhibitors in acute coronary syndromes: principal results of a meta-analysis based on individual patients'data

    S Yusuf;C Granger;J Eikelboom;S Mehta

  • Monocarboxylate transporter MCT1 is a target for immunosuppression

    Clare M Murray;Raymond Hutchinson;John R Bantick;Graham P Belfield

  • Selective receptor blockade during phagocytosis does not alter the survival and growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in human macrophages.

    Stefan Zimmerli;Susan Edwards;Joel D. Ernst

  • Adoption of sustainable agriculture practices: Evidence from a semi‐arid region of Ethiopia

    Menale Kassie;Precious Zikhali;Kebede Manjur;Sue Edwards

  • Digital play in the early years: a contextual response to the problem of integrating technologies and play-based pedagogies in the early childhood curriculum

    Susan Edwards

  • Policing ‘Domestic Violence’

    Susan Edwards

  • Early Childhood Curriculum: Planning, Assessment, and Implementation

    Claire McLachlan;Marilyn Fleer;Susan Elizabeth Edwards

  • The clinical management of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis: strategies for improving clinical effectiveness.

    D. L. Scott;M. Shipley;A. Dawson;S. Edwards

  • Toward a Model for Early Childhood Environmental Education: Foregrounding, Developing, and Connecting Knowledge Through Play-Based Learning

    Amy N Cutter-Mackenzie;Susan Edwards

  • Children Learning to Use Technologies through Play: A Digital Play Framework.

    Joanne Bird;Susan Edwards

  • The system of crop intensification: reports from the field on improving agricultural production, food security, and resilience to climate change for multiple crops

    Binju Abraham;Hailu Araya;Tareke Berhe;Sue Edwards

  • Conflicting Guidelines on Young Children's Screen Time and Use of Digital Technology Create Policy and Practice Dilemmas.

    Leon Straker;Juliana Zabatiero;Susan Danby;Karen Thorpe

  • Environmentalising Early Childhood Education Curriculum through Pedagogies of Play

    Susan Elizabeth Edwards;Amy Cutter-Mackenzie

  • New concepts of play and the problem of technology, digital media and popular-culture integration with play-based learning in early childhood education

    Susan Elizabeth Edwards

  • Young Children's Play and Environmental Education in Early Childhood Education

    Amy Cutter-Mackenzie;Susan Edwards;Deborah Moore;Wendy Boyd

  • The SAGE handbook of play and learning in early childhood

    Liz Brooker;Mindy Blaise;Susan Edwards

  • VALsartan In Acute myocardial iNfarcTion (VALIANT) trial: baseline characteristics in context

    Eric J. Velazquez;Marc A. Pfeffer;John V. McMurray;Aldo P. Maggioni

  • Mycobacterium bovis infection in human beings in contact with elk (Cervus elaphus) in Alberta, Canada

    A. Fanning;S. Edwards

  • What factors are important for deprescribing in Australian long-term care facilities? Perspectives of residents and health professionals

    Justin P Turner;Justin P Turner;Susan Edwards;Melinda Stanners;Sepehr Shakib;Sepehr Shakib

Frequent Co-Authors

Marilyn Fleer
Marilyn Fleer Monash University
Helen Skouteris
Helen Skouteris Monash University
Menale Kassie
Menale Kassie International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
Karen Thorpe
Karen Thorpe University of Queensland
Lydia Plowman
Lydia Plowman University of Edinburgh
Ayelet Kuper
Ayelet Kuper University of Toronto
Joel D. Ernst
Joel D. Ernst University of California, San Francisco
Sheryl A. Hemphill
Sheryl A. Hemphill University of Melbourne
Sonia S. Anand
Sonia S. Anand McMaster University
Deborah P. M. Symmons
Deborah P. M. Symmons University of Manchester

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