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  1. Principals’ perspectives on school–community engagement in hard-to-staff schools

    Article • International Journal of Leadership in Education, June 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Steve Murphy

  2. Attracting and Retaining Teachers in Rural Australia: How Principals Respond to Teacher Shortages

    Article • Education Sciences, June 2026, MDPI AG

    Steve Murphy

  3. Impact of context-tailored rural teaching placements on preservice teachers’ commitment to teach in a rural area

    Article • The Australian Educational Researcher, February 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  4. Between-school inequalities in access to science and mathematics curricula in a marketized education system: The case of Australia

    Article • Research in Comparative and International Education, February 2026, SAGE Publications

    Steve Murphy

  5. Developing and testing indices for identifying workforce sustainability in schools

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Steve Murphy

  6. The Opportunities and Challenges of Rural Contexts for Beginning Teachers

    Article • Improving Schools, December 2025, SAGE Publications

    Steve Murphy

  7. How a rural school leader’s ‘funds of knowledge’ built a culture that helped to attract and retain teachers

    Article • The Australian Educational Researcher, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  8. Exploring the Advantages of Rural Spaces for Teaching and Learning STEM: a Scoping Review of Research Exploring How Rural Social Spaces Enable STEM Education Practices

    Article • Journal for STEM Education Research, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  9. Australian preservice teachers’ reflections on how a group placement model influenced their professional learning

    Article • The Australian Educational Researcher, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  10. Museomics and Salvaged Feathers Piece Together the Evolutionary History and Conservation Genomics of the Elusive, Critically Endangered Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis)

    Article • Molecular Ecology, July 2025, Wiley

    Steve Murphy

  11. Perspectives on graduate teacher ‘readiness’ from principals of ‘hard-to-staff’ Australian schools

    Article • Teaching and Teacher Education, July 2025, Elsevier

    Steve Murphy

  12. Context matters: rethinking graduate teacher readiness for hard-to-staff schools

    Article • Teachers and Teaching, February 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Steve Murphy

  13. Developing quality community connections through a regional preservice teacher placement program

    Article • The Australian Educational Researcher, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  14. Australian teachers’ adoption of critical and creative thinking as curriculum

    Article • The Australian Educational Researcher, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  15. Attracting teacher candidates from regional and rural areas to initial teacher education (ITE) programs: Initiatives and evidence of impact

    Article • Teaching and Teacher Education, April 2024, Elsevier

    Steve Murphy

  16. Simulations for Teacher Transitions to Regional, Rural and Remote (RRR) Australian Schools

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  17. Access to senior secondary science and mathematics: examining the evidence for stratification in an Australian school system

    Article • Asia Pacific Education Review, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  18. A scoping review of research into mathematics classroom practices and affect

    Article • Teaching and Teacher Education, October 2023, Elsevier

    Steve Murphy

  19. Transformative rhetoric and educational technologies: digital technologies for schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Technology Pedagogy and Education, June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Steve Murphy

  20. Parents’ experiences of mathematics learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic: a typology of parental engagement in mathematics education

    Article • Educational Studies in Mathematics, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  21. Leadership practices contributing to STEM education success at three rural Australian schools

    Article • The Australian Educational Researcher, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  22. Mathematics success against the odds: the case of a low socioeconomic status, rural Australian school with sustained high mathematics performance

    Article • Mathematics Education Research Journal, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  23. Young Children's Understandings of Clocks at the Start of School

    Article • International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, September 2020, University of Plymouth

    Dr Amy L MacDonald, Steve Murphy

  24. Achieving STEM education success against the odds

    Article • Curriculum Perspectives, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  25. Science Education Success in a Rural Australian School: Practices and Arrangements Contributing to High Senior Science Enrolments and Achievement in an Isolated Rural School

    Article • Research in Science Education, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  26. Sustaining STEM: A Framework for Effective STEM Education Across the Learning Continuum

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Amy L MacDonald, Steve Murphy

  27. Introduction

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Amy L MacDonald, Steve Murphy

  28. STEM Education Across the Learning Continuum

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Amy L MacDonald, Steve Murphy

  29. Motivating Rural Students in STEM: Practices Contributing to Student Engagement with STEM in Rural Victorian Schools

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  30. Pedagogical Partnerships in Primary and Secondary STEM Education

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  31. Towards an Understanding of STEM Engagement: a Review of the Literature on Motivation and Academic Emotions

    Article • Canadian Journal of Science Mathematics and Technology Education, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Amy L MacDonald, Steve Murphy

  32. Mathematics education for children under four years of age: a systematic review of the literature

    Article • Early Years Journal of International Research and Development, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amy L MacDonald, Steve Murphy

  33. Participation and achievement in technology education: the impact of school location and socioeconomic status on senior secondary technology studies

    Article • International Journal of Technology and Design Education, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  34. School location and socioeconomic status and patterns of participation and achievement in senior secondary mathematics

    Article • Mathematics Education Research Journal, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  35. The Impact of School Disadvantage on Senior Secondary Science: a Study of Patterns of Participation and Achievement in Government Secondary Schools in Victoria, Australia

    Article • Research in Science Education, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Steve Murphy

  36. An analysis of Australian STEM education strategies

    Article • Policy Futures in Education, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Amy L MacDonald, Steve Murphy