Trevor Cairney
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Trevor H. Cairney AM is and adjunct professor of education and Master of New College, University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. As an author, he has been collected by libraries.[1]
Early life
Cairney was born in Newcastle, New South Wales Australia. He is the son of a Scottish coalminer, who was also one of nine sons of a Scottish coalminer, from Caldercruix near Glasgow. He commenced a mechanical engineering trainee-ship at the BHP[clarification needed] in Newcastle in 1971 but left in his first year to begin training as a teacher.
Teaching career
Cairney worked as a primary school teacher in New South Wales, Australia in 1972. He taught for 10 years in three schools across all primary grades. For the last 3 years of his teaching career he was employed as the Teacher-in-Charge of a one room rural school.
Cairney worked for three years as a Curriculum Consultant for the NSW Department of Education. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s he was enrolled in higher education, undertaking varied degrees, full-time, part-time or by external studies at the University of New England and the University of Newcastle. He completed an arts degree, a master's degree and then a PhD in Cognitive Psychology). Following his completion of his PhD in 1984 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University.
Postgraduate career
In 1981 he was employed at Charles Sturt University teaching English Language and special education. He has worked at several other Universities conducting research, teaching and filling other posts. These have included positions in universities as Professor, Head of various research centers, Dean of an Education faculty and Pro Vice-chancellor (Research) at the University of Western Sydney (1989-2002).[2]
In 2015 he is the Master of New College, an independent Anglican residential college at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. In 2006 he initiated the development of a postgraduate building, which opened in January 2009. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship in the School of Education at UNSW , where he conducts research and scholarship and where he supervises postgraduate students.
Academic Research & Publications
Cairney's first research area was early language development with a particular interest in how children become literate, how families support this development, and how language and literacy is shaped within social settings and as an extension of relationships.[3][4]
His second research area is regional development and began with undergraduate and postgraduate studies in urban, regional and economic geography. In the 1990s, whil in management positions at the University of Western Sydney, he advocated for the University’s involvement in the regional development of Greater Western Sydney (GWS). During this time he continued his language research situated primarily in families and their needs on the urban fringe of Sydney.[5]
Cairney is a member of the Order of Australia.[6][7]
References
- ^ "Cairney, Trevor". worldcat.org. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
- ^ "Parramatta North". University of Western Sydney. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ^ Geoff Dean (23 October 2013). Teaching English in the Key Stage 3 Literacy Strategy. Taylor & Francis. pp. 32–. ISBN 978-1-134-14457-0.
- ^ "One in five Australian children starting school 'developmentally vulnerable'". Sydney Morning Herald, January 17 2016. Tom Joyner
- ^ Google Scholar report
- ^ "School of Education Staff Awarded Medal of the Order of Australia". UNSW. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ^ "Honourable mentions". UNSW Newsroom. 13 June 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2016.