Venesser Fernandes

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Venesser Fernandes

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3907-7673
20152024

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Dr. Venesser Fernandes is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership Studies in the School of Education, Culture and Society in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Venesser is the Associate Head of the School of Education, Culture and Society within the Faculty of Education. She currently teaches courses in the Master of Educational Leadership and Masters in Education offered through Monash Education and supervises Doctoral students in Education. 

Her areas of teaching and research interest include: School Improvement and Effectiveness, Educational Leadership Studies, Data-improved Decision making in Schools, Evidence-based Organisational Change and Development in Education, Measurement and Evaluation in Education, Social and Emotional Learning in Education and Issues of Social Justice in Education.

Venesser has been involved in a research project in partnership with Independent Schools Victoria that looked at the agility and adaptability of 42 early-career, mid-career and experienced principals in Victoria over the COVID-19 pandemic. The study highlighted the importance of emotional intelligence in school leadership as schools move themselves from a crisis mode to adaptive and agile ways of improvement. This study's findings were timely and highlighted some important lessons and recommendations for principal preparation and development. A number of reports and articles are available in open access on this project with more underway.

In an earlier research project funded through the Dean’s Early Career Award, Dr Fernandes engaged in qualitative case-study research within Victorian schools investigating data-informed decision-making processes that were being used in Victoria across public, independent and Catholic school systems and focusing upon the leadership function of senior and middle-level school leaders who facilitate these processes. A number of articles and book chapters have been written up on this study and are available for further use. More articles are underway as well.

Dr. Fernandes works as an educational consultant with schools and school systems in Australia and overseas focusing on the evaluation and development of whole school continuous improvement systems through the use of data-informed decision-making and evidence use in practice.

Dr. Fernandes has been involved in the Principal Preparation Program that was run in partnership with Monash University, the Department of Education & Training, Victoria and Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership, Victoria. This program focused on the leadership development of aspiring principals within state schools across Victoria, Australia.

Dr. Fernandes has also worked as a School Reviewer for the Department of Education & Training schools in Victoria and actively researches in this space as well.

Currently Dr Fernandes serves as a Youth Leadership Chair in the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management. She also has been serving in the Generational Renewal, Inclusion and Diversity Steering Committee for the International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement.

More information on Dr Venesser Fernandes can be accessed from Research Gate by following this link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Venesser_Fernandes

Research interests

 

  1. Educational Leadership Studies using an Equity and/or Equality Lens
  2. Educational Organisation Studies with emphasis on workplace wellbeing and its associated psychosocial factors
  3. Educational Management Systems that draws on both improving science and interpretative science research
  4. Educational Policy and Development - Nested Systems of Local, National, Regional and Global
  5. School Improvement and School Effectiveness with deeper understandings on agility and adaptability.

 

Supervision interests

Supervision interests include the following: School Improvement and Effectiveness, Educational Leadership Studies, Data-improved Decision making in Schools, Evidence-based Organisational Change and Development in Education, Measurement and Evaluation in Education, Social and Emotional Learning in Education and Issues of Social Justice in Education.

 

Monash teaching commitment

 

Teaching Commitments in 2013:

EDF5635: Leading Capable Organisations

EDF5636: Leading Organisational Decision-making

EDF5637: Inner Leadership - Understanding Self and Others

EDF6828: Resource Management

 

Teaching Commitments in 2014:

EDF6901: Inner Leadership - Understanding Self and Others

EDF6902: Leading Learning Communities

EDF5635: Leading Capable Organisations

EDF5636: Leading Organisational Decision-making

EDF5637: Inner Leadership - Understanding Self and Others

EDF6828: Resource Management

 

Teaching Commitments in 2015:

EDF5636: Leading Organisational Decision-making

EDF5637: Inner Leadership - Understanding Self and Others

EDF5670: Leadership Studies

EDF5678: Leading Learning Communities

EDF1303: Learning and Educational Inquiry 1

EDF1304: Learning and Educational Inquiry 2

EDF4611: Investigating Education Issues in Global Contexts

 

Teaching Commitments in 2016:

EDF5636: Leading Organisational Decision-making

EDF5637: Inner Leadership - Understanding Self and Others

EDF5670: Leadership Studies

EDF5678: Leading Learning Communities

EDF5693: Using and Evaluating Research Evidence

 

Teaching Commitments in 2017:

EDF5636: Leading Organisational Decision-making

EDF5637: Inner Leadership - Understanding Self and Others

EDF5670: Leadership Studies

EDF5678: Leading Learning Communities

EDF5691: Professional Project (Research-based projects)

 

Teaching Commitments in 2018:

EDF5636: Leading Organisational Decision-making

EDF5637: Inner Leadership - Understanding Self and Others

EDF5308: Leading Schools

EDF5309: Educational Leadership Project

 

Teaching Commitments in 2019:

EDF5635: Leading Capable Organisations

EDF5636: Leading Organisational Decision-making

EDF5308: Leading Schools

EDF5309: Educational Leadership Project

 

Teaching Commitments in 2020:

EDF5625: Educational Organisations, Culture and Change

EDF5635: Leading Capable Organisations

EDF5636: Leading Organisational Decision-making

 

Teaching Commitments in 2021:

EDF5625: Educational Organisations, Culture and Change

EDF5635: Leading Capable Organisations

EDF5636: Leading Organisational Decision-making

EDF5763: Promoting & Sustaining Social and Emotional Learning in Educational Contexts

EDF5764: Assessment in Education

 

Teaching Commitments in 2022:

EDF1061: Working in education: An introduction to the profession

EDF5625: Educational Organisations, Culture and Change

EDF5763: Promoting & Sustaining Social and Emotional Learning in Educational Contexts

EDF5764: Assessment in Education

 

Teaching Commitments in 2023:

EDF5625: Educational Organisations, Culture and Change

EDF5763: Promoting & Sustaining Social and Emotional Learning in Educational Contexts

EDF5764: Assessment in Education

 

Teaching Commitments in 2024:

EDF5625: Educational Organisations, Culture and Change

EDF5625: Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education

EDF5763: Promoting & Sustaining Social and Emotional Learning in Educational Contexts

EDF5764: Assessment in Education

 

 

Community service

2014

  1. Working on the Principal Preparation Program with the Monash team in partnership with the Department of Education and Training, Victoria and Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership.

2015

  1. Working on the Principal Preparation Program with the Monash team in partnership with the DEandT, VIC and Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership.
  2. Accredited School Reviewer, Monash University for Department of Education and Training, Victoria.

2016

  1. Working on the Principal Preparation Program with the Monash team in partnership with the Department of Education and Training, Victoria and Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership.
  2. Accredited School Reviewer, Monash University for Department of Education and Training, Victoria.

2017

  1. Working on the Principal Preparation Program with the Monash team in partnership with the Department of Education and Training, Victoria and Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership.
  2. Accredited School Reviewer, Monash University for Department of Education and Training, Victoria.

2018:

  1. Working on the Principal Preparation Program with the Monash team in partnership with the Department of Education and Training, Victoria and Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership leading to a Graduate Certificate in Principal Preparation from Monash University.

2019:

  1. Working on the Principal Preparation Program with the Monash team in partnership with the Department of Education and Training, Victoria and Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership leading to a Graduate Certificate in Principal Preparation from Monash University.
  2. Fellow Australian College of Educators

2020:

1. Fellow Australian College of Educators

2021:

1. Fellow Australian College of Educators

2022:

1. Fellow Australian College of Educators

2. Fellow Royal Society of Arts

2023:

1. Fellow Australian College of Educators

2. Fellow Royal Society of Arts

2024:

1. Fellow Higher Education Academy, UK

2. Fellow Royal Society of Arts

 

 

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action

External positions

External PhD Thesis Examiner, University of Sydney

2024 → …

Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK

2024 → …

Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, UK

2022 → …

Honorary Visiting Professor, O.P. Jindal Global University

2022 → …

Fellow of Australian College of Educators, Australian College of Educators

2019 → 2023

External PhD Thesis Examiner, University of the South Pacific

2016 → 2023

External Masters Thesis Examiner, Victoria University

2015 → 2018

External PhD Thesis Examiner, Hamdard University

2014 → 2018

Research area keywords

  • School Improvement & Effectiveness
  • Educational Leadership Studies
  • Data-informed Decision making in Schools
  • Evidence-based Organisational Change and Development
  • Organisational Theory and Behavior
  • Social Justice Leadership in Education
  • Measurement and Evaluation in Education
  • Social and Emotional Learning in Education

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