Andrew Harvey

The Hidden Barrier: How School Streaming Shapes University Participation in Australia

Andrew Harvey, Lucy Campion, Rebecca Wren

In 2023, a major review of Australian higher education (Australian Universities Accord) advocated sectoral equity and growth, including the expanded participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other underserved students. Central to increasing growth through equity is the secondary school …

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Māori and Pasifika perspectives of Australian higher education

Rebecca Wren, Lucy Campion, Vaoiva Natapu-Ponton, Andrew Harvey

There are nearly 500,000 Māori and Pasifika people living in Australia. Despite this substantial population, university attainment rates for Māori and Pasifika students are approximately one third of those of other Australians. Little is known about the causes of this attainment gap, …

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“Communities Need to Lead”: Organizational Social Service Leaders’ Insights on Improving System Outcomes for Children, Young People and Families

Mandy Gibson, Sara Branch, Jaimee Stuart, Michelle Krahe et autres

The disparate outcomes experienced by children, young people, and families within Australia’s social, educational, and health, services are widely reported, with data reflecting that similar populations experience consistently poorer outcomes. As disparities occur across traditional service boundaries, beyond what individual provider or …

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Student leave-taking and attrition in Australian higher education: lessons for equity policy

Andrew Harvey, Wojtek Tomaszewski, Matthias Kubler

Increasing student retention remains a high priority of Australian governments and universities. Central to retention is the process by which students take leave, or stop-out, during their studies. Drawing on longitudinal national data, this paper focusses on the leave-taking behaviour of four …

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Challenges of Equity and Contextual Admissions in Australian Higher Education

Andrew Harvey, Lucy Campion, Rebecca Wren

Australian higher education is characterized by an underrepresentation of people from low socioeconomic and rural backgrounds, as well as Indigenous students and some migrant groups. Unequal access to higher education is closely related to admissions processes, including the dominance of the Australian …

Sox9 in the second heart field and the development of the outflow tract; implications for cardiac septation and valve formation

Jenna R. Drummond, Raymond N. Deepe, Hannah G. Tarolli, Renélyn A. Wolters et autres

BACKGROUND: Previously, we explored the role of Sox9 in the second heart field (SHF) in atrioventricular septation. For that study, we created a SHF-specific Sox9 knockout mouse. In addition to the presence of primary atrial septal defects in half of the offspring, …

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CHAPTER 3 The Australian Student Veteran Experience

Ben Wadham, Lisa Andrewartha, Melanie K. T. Takarangi, Andrew Harvey et autres

The Australian Student Veteran Experience:

Ben Wadham, Lisa Andrewartha, Melanie K. T. Takarangi, Andrew Harvey et autres

Transitioning out of the military can be a disruptive and uncertain time for veterans. Higher education is one pathway to a new sense of identity and alternative career. In this chapter, we harness the professional perspectives of Australian university staff to explore …

Towards inclusive excellence: a survey of diversity on campus

Andrew Harvey, Michael Luckman, Yuan Gao

This paper presents findings from a campus climate survey conducted at an Australian university. Unprecedented compositional diversity now exists in higher education, with students enrolled from different religious, socio-economic, geographic, and cultural backgrounds. Despite this diversity, little research has been conducted into …

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Enhancing equitable inclusion for the Pasifika diaspora in mainstream Australia, using Pasifika methodologies within higher education and community settings

Inez Manu-Sione, Andrew Harvey, Jaimee Stuart, Matt Statham et autres

Purpose This paper identifies the value of Indigenous processes in developing a reciprocal working relationship between a Pasifika grass roots community organisation, Pasifika Church and an Australian university. The focus is on the capacity of Indigenous methodologies to authentically attain equity, diversity …

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Epicardial deletion of Sox9 leads to myxomatous valve degeneration and identifies Cd109 as a novel gene associated with valve development

Andrew Harvey, Renélyn A. Wolters, Raymond N. Deepe, Hannah G. Tarolli et autres

Epicardial-derived cells (EPDCs) are involved in the regulation of myocardial growth and coronary vascularization and are critically important for proper development of the atrioventricular (AV) valves. SOX9 is a transcription factor expressed in a variety of epithelial and mesenchymal cells in the …

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Understanding the identity work and aspirations of Indigenous males navigating elite Australian higher education

James A. Smith, Garth Stahl, Andrew Harvey, Braden Hill et autres

In Australia, there has been increased attention to attracting Indigenous peoples into higher education but, despite a recent growth in enrolment numbers, they remain severely underrepresented. This underrepresentation is particularly notable among Indigenous males, who are the least likely to attend. In …

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