Dr. Bea Staley

Biography

Bea Staley is a lecturer in Special Education and Inclusion, and teaches a variety of classes in the School of Education. Bea has her PhD in Multicultural Equity Studies in Education from The Ohio State University. Her research interests broadly relate to diversity and difference; she studies children and youth in context of their families and communities. Her dissertation research involved rural teenagers and digital storytelling as a classroom practice. Bea’s work uses qualitative methodologies, such as narrative inquiry, to explicate the more nuanced features of lived experiences. Bea is currently running two Darwin based research projects in conjunction with the Early Intervention team at Carpentaria Disability Services. The first one is called "Caregiver Experiences of ‘Disability’ in an Early Intervention Setting" and involves caregiver interviews. The second is called "The Impact of Parent Coaching in an Early Intervention Setting" and uses videos and the Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes (PICCOLO) to track changes in caregiver behaviour in play with their child. Bea is a member of the Australian Literacy Educator’s Association (ALEA), Speech Pathology Australia, and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She is also on the executive committee of Early Childhood Intervention Australia – NT. Along with Dr. Linda Mahony, Bea is a co-editor of ALEA’s Practical Literacy: the Early and Primary Years.

Research Interest

Her research interests broadly relate to diversity and difference; she studies children and youth in context of their families and communities. Her dissertation research involved rural teenagers and digital storytelling as a classroom practice. Bea’s work uses qualitative methodologies, such as narrative inquiry, to explicate the more nuanced features of lived experiences. Bea is currently running two Darwin based research projects in conjunction with the Early Intervention team at Carpentaria Disability Services.