Adam Ballard
Supervisors: Hoa Nguyen, Jihyun Lee
Adam Ballard is a PhD candidate in the School of Education at UNSW, supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) scholarship. His research focuses on Professional Learning about AI in Australian secondary schools, with teachers and school leaders conceptualised as interacting activity systems. Drawing on Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), his study explores how PL about AI is enacted in school settings, the tensions that arise, and the ways these tensions are negotiated in practice.
Adam has more than 20 years of teaching experience across primary and secondary education in Queensland, New South Wales, and the Northern Territory, as well as internationally in the United Kingdom and Kazakhstan. He has also mentored teachers in a range of educational contexts, which informs his ongoing interest in professional learning, teacher development, and educational change.
- Research area
- Research outputs
AI in professional learning for teachers.