Since beginning work at James Cook University (JCU) in 2010 - initially in Singapore and currently, Australia - my relentless motivation and challenge has been leading and sustaining meaningful blended learning environments that enhance student learning and experiences within higher education.  I have intentionally intertwined my research, teaching and community engagement, to form an assemblage to deeply explore each domain whilst simultaneously enhancing the collective. This process has led to me being awarded a 2017 national citation for outstanding contribution to student learning for leading a transformative and ethical community of inquiry approach in the guidance and counselling program.

My scholarly work with higher degree research candidates – locally and globally - focuses on leading socially sustainable change. My research informed consultancy has required sustained leadership and collaborative partnerships with colleagues, field workers, education organisations, students and professionals. Outcomes include: action research projects of inclusive teaching and learning environments where diversity and differences are responded to and adjustments are made.

My scholarship and research in cyber safety and mental health is grounded in my understanding that mental health is everyone’s business.  Currently I am leading an internal LTSE - Learning, Teaching and Student Engagement - project rethinking how curriculum can better support guidance, counselling and career development students’ mental health and how promotion, prevention and early intervention strategies can be integrated into the culture of higher education institutions.

My main areas of research and educational consultancy include -

• Professional teacher and student
• Preventing cyber bullying 
• Mental health and wellness
• Young children's social behaviour
• Character education
• Third culture kids

Interests

Professional

• Journal Reviewer: Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities
• Designing, leading, managing, and monitoring the development of the Indooroopilly Montessori Children’s House ‘Guided Choices’ program (1999 – 2010).
• Behaviour Management, Training and Development - sponsored by the Queensland Government Department of Families through Lifeline delivered by Crèche and Kindergarten (2002-2004).
• Senior consultant to the Wilcannia – Forbes Diocese (NSW) leading the major initiative of a contemporary approach to behaviour development and management for Indigenous and non-Indigenous children (2002 – 2006). In towns such as Wilcannia and Broome cultural change with educators developing skills and competencies to significantly improve Indigenous education was a successful project outcome.
• Sage companion for Brisbane Catholic Education Learning Support Teacher Renewal Program (2002 - 2006). School based learning support teachers were mentored in a change of mindset - the inclusive paradigm. Staff learnt new ways of working with children, teachers, and families, supporting the inclusion of children with special needs within the pre, primary and secondary school settings.
• Bond University Guiding Children’s Behaviour consultancy project. This project was a Commonwealth government research grant awarded through FACSIA to Professional Support Network Queensland (2007-2009).
• Archdiocese Commission for Schools Singapore Character Education Program $70,000 (2012-2017)
• Singapore Gurkhas Police Regiment Paraprofessional counselors (2013)

Research

• Guest editor of the special edition of The International Journal of Innovation, Creativity, and Change (2017)
• Journal Reviewer: International Journal of Disability, Development and Education
• Journal Reviewer: Journal of Global Mobility
• Editorial board Australian Counselling Research Journal (2016- current)
• Guest editor of the special edition of eTropics HDR symposium (2014)

Research Disciplines

• Specialist studies in education (3904)

Awards

• 2017 - James Cook University Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning JCU
• 2016 - TropEco Highly Commended Learning and Teaching Award James Cook University
• 2015 - TropEco Learning and Teaching Award James Cook University
• 2012 - Mom’s Choice Gold Award USA: excellence in family-friendly products for "Friendly Facts"
• 2012 - Best Academic of the Year JCU Singapore
• 2011 - Employee of the Year JCU Singapore
• 2017 - National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
• 2017 - TropEco Highly Commended Learning and Teaching Award James Cook University

Memberships

• Australian Psychology and School Counsellor Association
• 2017 - Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
• 2013 - Membership Singapore Association for Counselling Clinical Supervision Subcommittee
• 2011 - Singapore Association for Counselling
• 2011 - Australian Counselling Association
• 2011 - Career Development Association of Australia
• 2000 - Early Childhood Australia
• 2013 - Singapore Association for Counselling Ethics Subcommittee 2013

Other

• 2016 to 2017 - Scholarship National Excellence in School Leadership Institute
• 2012 - Chairperson of the JCUS Pearls committee, championing women’s voices in the community

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Heyeres M, Carter M, Lui S, Low-Lim A, Teo S and Tsey K (2021) Cyberbullying prevention and treatment interventions targeting young people: an umbrella review. Pastoral Care in Education, 39 (2). pp. 125-151
• Namusonga S and Carter M (2020) Reducing and recycling waste in Zambian schools: an exploratory study. Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management, 46 (3). pp. 342-349
• Carter M, Lundberg A, Geerlings L and Bhati A (2019) Shifting landscapes in higher education: a case study of transferable skills and a networked classroom in South-East Asia. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 39 (4). pp. 436-450
• Svane D, Evans N and Carter M (2019) Wicked wellbeing: examining the disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of wellbeing interventions in schools. Australian Journal of Education, 63 (2). pp. 209-231
• Veles N, Carter M and Boon H (2019) Complex collaboration champions: university third space professionals working together across borders. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 23 (2-3). pp. 75-85
• Carter M and Goldie D (2018) Potential enablers of mental health and wellness for those teaching in tertiary education. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 4 (3). pp. 3-20
• Carter M and Goldie D (2017) Educational media: potential impacts on tertiary students’ mental health. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 3 (3). pp. 61-88
• Carter M, Pagliano P, Francis A and Thorne M (2017) Australian university students and mental health: viewpoints from the literature. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 3 (3). pp. 1-25
• Carter M and Dasson M (2017) What school leaders are doing to support a culture of character: an exploratory study with preschools in Singapore. Childhood Education, 93 (1). pp. 29-38

Book Chapters

• Chong M, Francis A, Carter M and Baffour F (2022) Employing humanistic teaching approaches to promote student wellbeing in higher education. In: Mental Health and Higher Education in Australia. Springer, Singapore, pp. 87-101
• McNulty Y and Carter M (2018) Do international school staff receive professional development training about third culture kids (TCKs)? Perspectives from faculty and parents. In: Routledge International Handbook of Schools and Schooling in Asia. Routledge International Handbooks. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 280-292

Conference Papers

• Siddins E, Daniel R, Carter M and Buckby B (2020) How to foster resilience in higher visual art education: viewpoints from the students. Proceedings of the ACUADS 2020 Conference. In: ACUADS 2020 Conference: crisis & resilience, 5-26 November 2020, Online

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 79+ research outputs authored by Prof Margaret Anne Carter from 1999 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• The Search for Counsellor's Professional Identity: A Singapore Study (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Familial suicides; learnings from families and kinship about the healing journey. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• The Art of Wellbeing in the Classroom (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Young peoples' disengagement from education: hearing parent voices (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• The new English language curriculum in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: intentions and tensions in curriculum design and enactment (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Understanding Orientation and Mobility learning and teaching for primary students with vision impairment: a qualitative inquiry (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Teaching academics and their approach for the engagement of their students: an Australian regional university qualitative case study (2021, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Using a transformative paradigm research approach to investigate guidance and counselling services in Papua New Guinea schools (2017, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• The visual arts wellbeing project: a wellbeing needs assessment of visual art students in Australian universities (2021, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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