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Dr Michelle Striepe

Senior Lecturer (Educational Leadership)

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 5494
Email: m.striepe@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML17.107  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0216-5805

Michelle is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education.

Current teaching

  • EPA6155 Leading in Challenging Contexts
  • EPA6340 Leading Community Engagement.

Background

Dr Striepe’s experience in Higher Education started in 2010. Michelle has coordinated and taught a range of units in Initial Teacher Education and Master of Education programs and served as a program coordinator in Initial Teacher Education. Prior to working in Higher Education, Michelle has worked as a Primary and Middle School teacher in New Zealand, Japan and the United States.

Her research activities include participation in the international ‘Carpe Vitam Leadership for Learning project’, coordinated by the University of Cambridge. Michelle's research has focused on how teachers and management teams' perspectives of teacher leadership and educational leadership respectively. More broadly, Michelle has an interest in how contextual factors influence the work of school leaders. In addition to her work on educational leadership Michelle has completed research on the qualitative visual method of concept mapping, academic integrity and the use of mobile devices in schools. Michelle supervises several research students in area of educational leadership.

Research Interests

  • Educational leadership
  • Teacher leadership
  • Leadership and contexts
  • Visual methodology.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Education, The University of Western Australia, 2010.

Research Outputs

2024

Book Chapters

  • Striepe, M. (2024). Navigating Uncertainty During Crisis: Insights into the Experiences of Three Western Australian Principals. Leading Schools Through and Beyond the Pandemic (33-49). Information Age Publishing.

Journal Articles

  • Ajith, M., Lux, A., Bentley, T., Striepe, M. (2024). Adaptive crisis management at the operational level: Responses to COVID-19 in the Australian resources sector. Journal of Management and Organization, 2024(article in press), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2024.62.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Fogarty, S., Cunningham, C., Striepe, M., Rhodes, D. (2023). The provision of vocational education and training within contemporary political socio-economic conditions: a review of the literature. International Journal of Training Research, 2023(Article in press), 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1080/14480220.2023.2263671.
  • Striepe, M., Thompson, P., Robertson, S., Devi, M., Gurr, D., Longmuir, F., Taylor, A., Cunningham, C. (2023). Responsive, adaptive, and future-centred leadership in response to crisis: Findings from Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand. School Leadership and Management, 43(2), 104-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/13632434.2023.2171005.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Striepe, M., Cunningham, C. (2022). Gatekeepers, guides and ghosts: intermediaries impacting access to schools during COVID-19. Ethnography and Education, 2022(Article in Press), 18p. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2022.2049332.
  • Cunningham, C., Zhang, W., Striepe, M., Rhodes, D. (2022). Dual leadership in Chinese schools challenges executive principalships as best fit for 21st century educational development. International Journal of Educational Development, 89(March 2022), Article number 102531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102531.
  • Striepe, M., Cunningham, C. (2022). Understanding educational leadership during times of crises: A scoping review. Journal of Educational Administration, 60(2), 133-147. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEA-03-2021-0057.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Harvankova, L., Cunningham, C., Striepe, M. (2021). “Mummy is meeting a teacher, play on the iPad”: Reflecting on educational leadership during COVID-19 lockdown in Australia. Management in Education, 2021(Article in Press), 5p.. https://doi.org/10.1177/08920206211054645.
  • Striepe, M. (2021). Combining concept mapping with semi-structured interviews: adding another dimension to the research process. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 44(5), 519-532. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2020.1841746.
  • Zhang, W., Striepe, M., Cunningham, C. (2021). School leadership during the COVID-19 Crisis: A preliminary case study from China. Alternation: international journal for the study of Southern African literature and languages, 28(1), 225-250. https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a9.
  • Fittock, S., Cunningham, C., Striepe, M. (2021). System leadership in Australian and Swedish education: What’s social justice got to do with it?. Access: critical perspectives on communication, cultural and policy studies, 41(2), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.46786/ac21.5999.
  • Striepe, M., Thomson, S., Sefcik, L. (2021). Understanding Academic Integrity Education: Case Studies from Two Australian Universities. Journal of Academic Ethics, 2021(Article in press), 1-17 pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-021-09429-x.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Sefcik, L., Striepe, M., Yorke, J. (2020). Mapping the landscape of academic integrity education programs: what approaches are effective?. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 45(1), 30-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2019.1604942.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Experiences of ELICOS leaders during COVID-19 in Victoria
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Getting ready right. Impact and influence of the professional experience supervisor.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Providing vocational education and training in Western Australian secondary schools
  • Master of Education, Understanding Educational Leadership in a Type C International School in China
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Problematising national education goals
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Impact of COVID-19 on the leadership of operational leaders in the oil, gas and mining sector of Australia

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Master of Education, Narratives of families who speak English as an additional language or dialect on engaging with their children’s education during COVID-19

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The role of text type in the reading development of beginning readers with English as an additional language
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