Dr Leigh Burrows

Leigh has a background in teaching, counselling, advising, consultancy and research in primary, secondary, special, inclusive and higher education. A link between all her roles in various organisations has been her passion for teacher, leader and student wellbeing. Her main areas of research and teaching have been focused on wellbeing, mindfulness, relational teaching and learning trauma sensitive practice, inclusion and autism.

Leigh has conducted research and provided professional learning and advice to teachers and leaders in variety of research, policy,  teaching  and leadership roles and  contexts, within South Australia, nationally and internationally including the Brooklyn Waldorf School,  New Hampshire Community College, the Inter-University Institute of  Macau, China, Willunga High School, Willunga Waldorf School, UniSA, Flinders  and the SA Department for Education. In addition she has a small private practice in counselling and art therapy.

In her teaching, research, professional learning provision, consultancy and counselling she has in recent years been particularly interested in bringing together her learning and experience gathered in all her roles and trainings. 

Leigh has coordinated the Graduate Certificate and Masters in Wellbeing and Positive Mental Health  courses and the Graduate Certificate in Counselling Vulnerable Children and Young People since 2019.  She has coordinated and taught in a number of  of undergraduate and post graduate topics in wellbeing, mindfulness, and relational and trauma sensitive teaching and learning. She has held the position of Academic Integrity Officer for EPSW in 2019.

• mindfulness in school and higher education
• teacher professional learning
• wellbeing
• inclusion
• holistic, creative and expressive pedagogies  
• trauma
• counselling
• spirituality and education

• Mar 2019 Gaylene Denford- Wood - Vice Chancellors Award for Thesis Excellence

• Creativivity in Teacher Professional Learning (PhD)
• Mindfulness and Teacher Wellbeing (PhD)
• Mindfulness in Classrooms (PhD)
• Empowerment of Parents of Children with Special Needs in Nepal (PhD)
• Integral Theory in Leadership (Ed.D)
• Inclusion of children with special needs in Bangladesh (Masters by Coursework Dissertation)
• Religious Instruction (Masters by Coursework Dissertation)

• Students at risk (PhD)

Dr Nicole Albrecht

Dr Judith Foggett

 Dr Kamal Pokrel

Dr Gaylene Denford Wood

Dr Desiree Gilbert