Dr Satine Winter - Research Portfolio

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About

Dr Satine Winter is a Lecturer in Inclusive Education and Educational Psychology at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Disability/Diversity

Dr Winter is proactive about realising the rights of children and adults with disability and those from diverse backgrounds in society. Satine’s experience with disability and diversity spans raising children who identify as having autism, multiple disabilities or as gifted/twice-exceptional, teaching in special and inclusive education including mainstream settings and teaching in the higher education sector in Initial Teacher Education undergraduate and postgraduate courses including inclusive education, special education, indigenous education and disability/diversity.

Expertise

Dr Winter's expertise is specifically in Autism Spectrum Disorders, families of children with ASD, collaborating with parents and professionals and the rights of children with disabilities. Satine's experience includes teaching autism postgraduate courses in the Autism Centre of Excellence, Griffith University. Satine's expertise also covers:

Quality Education & Sustainable Educators,
Universal Design for Learning,
Differentiation & Adjustments
Disability & Diversity across multiple educational settings
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD)

Research

Dr Winter is a Fellow with The Cairns Institute, James Cook University and an Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University.

Satine actively researches in the field of autism, disability, inclusive education, policy/legislation and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and is passionate about translating research into practice. For example, please see the Autism CRC Knowledge Centre - Structured Teaching for some examples of an eLearning package developed by Dr Satine Winter for teachers on how to help students with autism (& others) in the mainstream classroom with executive functioning skills. The page is still being updated by the Autism CRC.

Partnerships - Catholic Education

Dr Satine Winter was a member of the Catholic Education Community Consultative Committee in the development of Newman Catholic College being built (in stages) and co-located on the JCU Cairns campus. Dr Winter is now a board member for Newman Catholic College.

Teaching

ED1481: Educational Psychology: Learners and Learning (Level 1; CNS, ONL & TSV)
ED3442: Inclusive Education: Differentiated Learning for Students with Special Needs and Abilities (Level 3; CNS, ONL & TSV)
ED4621: Leading Wellbeing and Sustainability in Learning Communities (Level 4; CNS)
ED4991: Independent Study 1 (Level 4; TSV)
ED5960: Teaching for Learning in Diverse Primary School Contexts (Level 5; CNS & TSV)
ED5965: Teaching for Learning in Diverse Secondary School Contexts (Level 5; CNS & TSV)

Interests

Research

Autism Spectrum Disorders Autism Policy & Legislation Disability & Human Rights Disability Sociology Inclusive/Special Education Differentiation Universal Design for Learning Parent/Professional Advocacy, Training and Collaboration

Experience

2020 to present - First Year Exp Coordinator, CASE - Education (Cairns)
2019 to present - Fellow, The Cairns Institute, JCU (Cairns)
2018 to present - Adjunct Research Fellow, GIER, Griffith University (Brisbane)

Research Disciplines

Socio-Economic Objectives

Honours

Awards

2010 - Australian Association for Special Education Brisbane Branch Award
2009 - National Innovative Curriculum Award ~ Australian Curriculum Studies Association

Memberships

2007 - Golden Key International Honour Society

Other

2023 - Newman Catholic College Board Member, Cairns Catholic Education
2013 to 2015 - University Council (Board) Member, Griffith University
2007 to 2009 - University Council (Board) Member, Griffith University

Publications

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Journal Articles

Reitano P and Winter S (2017) Negotiating the teaching of history in times of curriculum reform: the narrative accounts of four Australian primary teachers. The Curriculum Journal, 28 (3). pp. 403-420

Book Chapters

Winter S and Hay S (2021) Global social policy and inequality. In: Reduced Inequalities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham, Switzerland
Winter S and de Bruin K (2021) The educational rights of children with disability in Australia. In: Children's Rights from International Educational Perspectives: wicked problems for children's education rights. Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research, 2. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 39-55
Winter S (2020) Special Education: from disability to exceptionality. In: Encyclopaedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Quality Education. Springer, Cham, Switzerland
Winter S (2020) Inclusive and exclusive education for diverse learning needs. In: Quality Education. Encyclopaedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham, Switzerland
Garrick B, Winter S, Sani M and Buxton L (2015) Managing the barriers in diversity education that we create: an examination of the production of university courses about diversity. In: Disability Studies: educating for inclusion. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 117-136

Other research outputs

Winter S, Ashburner J, Callaghan S and Bobir N (2018) The Development of an eLearning Package for Teachers to Help Students Stay on Task and Transition between Tasks. Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism, Brisbane, QLD, Australia [Report]
Dixon M, Green N, Reitano P, Senior K, Taylor T, Winter S and Sahr R (2015) Moments in time: investigating a national history curriculum in primary classrooms - final report 2015. Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC [Report]

Supervision

Advisory Accreditation: I can be on your Advisory Panel as a Secondary Advisor.

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.

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