Susan Irvine is an early childhood teacher with diverse work experience across early childhood education and care (ECEC) contexts. This includes senior leadership roles in child and family policy, ECEC service provision and higher education. She is currently a Professor and Head of the School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Prior to starting at QUT, she was the CEO of Lady Gowrie Queensland. Susan has led and contributed to multiple large-scale mixed-methods research projects with policy and practice implications. Recent projects have focused on the ECEC workforce, effective leadership in long day care and family day care and quality improvement in long day care. She was a lead researcher in the Australian Learning Frameworks Update project, which informed the updated Early Years Learning Framework and MY Time Our Place (2.0). Susan applies a range of qualitative research methods, and has extensive experience working in multi-disciplinary teams with education partners on research projects that include the development of professional learning programs and resources to effect practice change.
