Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Education


   Prof. Terry Evans

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Position Personal Chair
Email terry.evans@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Education
Phone +61 3 522 71164
Campus Geelong
Location ic3.302
Role and profile Terry Evans (BEd (Hons) Sussex, UK; MEd, PhD Monash) is a professor in the School of Education and is located at the Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus.


He has had a wide range of teaching experience in the school, College of Advanced Education and University sectors and he has been a visiting scholar interstate and overseas. He was the Deakin University foundation director of the joint Master of Distance Education program with the University of South Australia and continues to teach on that program.

Terry Evans has conducted research in all educational settings from pre-schools through to universities. His recent research and scholarship is in the field of doctoral policy and practice. He has also research and published widely in the fields of open, flexible and distance education including work on professional and vocational education and training, and new educational technologies. He is a member of several editorial boards and has consultancy experience in various fields. He is a member of the Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies. He is the convenor of the six Research in Distance Education conferences held at Deakin University since 1989.


He is the author of A Gender Agenda (Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1988), Understanding Learners in Open and Distance Education. (London, Kogan Page, 1994) and the co-editor of ten books including Opening Education: policies and practices from open and distance education (with D Nation, London, Routledge, 1996), Shifting Borders: globalisation, localisation and open and distance education (with L Rowan & Bartlett, Geelong, Deakin University Press, 1997) and Research in Distance Education 6 (with P Smith & E Stacey, Geelong, in press).
Teaching responsibilities Supervisor of several PhD candidates
Facilitator of online doctoral seminars
Unit co-adviser EEE715 Research Supervision
Research interests Doctoral education practice and policy
Distance education, flexible learning, online education.
Education and development
Current research projects 2010-11 Classifying Australian PhD Theses by ANZSRC Field of Research Codes. Australian Research Council Research Excellence Branch(with P Macauley (1st CI) & M Pearson)

2009–11 AusAID Australian Development Research Award Identifying strategies to sustain professional learning communities for teachers in remote primary schools in Papua New Guinea ($338,419) (with Honan (1st CI), Muspratt, Paraide & Reta)

2008–10 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. Australian doctoral graduates’ publication, professional and community outcomes (with P Macauley)
Service to the University,
discipline or community  		 Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal for Practice-Focused Doctoral Research 2009–

Member of the Editorial Board of Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development 2004–

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Open, Flexible & Distance Learning 2004-

Member of the International Advisory Board Malaysian Journal of Distance Education 2000–

Member of the editorial board of Open Learning, 1991 –

Member of the Editorial Board of Distance Education, 1989 –

Member of the UNESCO National Education Network (Australia) 2004–
Awards Open & Distance Learning Association of Australia Research Award, 1995, for excellence in a book production
Qualifications BEd (Hons) Sussex, UK; MEd, PhD Monash
Memberships Open & Distance Learning Association of Australia
International Doctoral Education Research Network
Professional and practice-focused doctoral research special interest group (UK)
Conferences Invited Prestige Lecture entitled, ‘International trends in doctoral education’ University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 16th August 2010

Invited presentation, entitled ‘The serious business of part-time candidature’, at the Council of Postgraduate Association’s Postgraduate Roadshow, Melbourne, 1st December 2009

Invited presentation entitled, ‘A brief overview of PhD outcomes in Australia’ to The State of the Industry: the future for cultural research in the university ARC Cultural Research Network conference, Sydney, 26–27 November 2009

Keynote presentation at the International Conference on Professional Doctorates entitled Professional Doctorates from an International Perspective London, 8–9 November 2009

Invited presentation entitled, ‘Trends in Australian PhDs and implications for Education in universities’ at the University of Southern Queensland, 27th May 2009
Research link View Deakin associated research data

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22nd April 2013