Dr Larissa McLean Davies
Board Director
Dr Larissa McLean Davies is Deputy Dean and Professor of Teacher Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Larissa’s research spans the fields of teacher education and professional learning, and literacy and English education. Her scholarship is concerned with the ways in which teacher knowledge is built and developed, particularly in the context of justice, anti-colonial, and sustainability imperatives.
Larissa is known for her strong partnerships with governments and not-for-profit organisations which are mobilised to support large-scale projects to improve educational outcomes for diverse learners. Since 2019, Larissa has co-directed the Literary Education Lab https://literaryeducationlab.org/, which hosts a range of interdisciplinary projects focusing on the role literature plays in shaping national and global narratives and building new disciplinary and pedagogical understandings of major social and environmental challenges.