Jill Willis, PhD

Jill Willis is an Associate Professor of Education at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia. Her research investigates how reflexivity can lead to greater agency in the context of school structures like classroom assessment, learning spaces, and evaluation processes. She currently leads research on accessibility in assessment, and student evaluations of vertical schools and is a member of theCentre for Inclusive Education. 

 

Jill is strongly committed to collaborative research with industry partners to address real world problems and generate research evidence that informs practice, policy and theory. Her research acknowledges the sociocultural contexts of assessment as exemplified in the highly cited assessment literacies definition (2013) she and her colleagues generated from collaborations with teachers. 

 

Jill has a strong track record in collaborating in international and multi-disciplinary teams. She is proud to be part of the international research team led by Professor Christopher DeLuca to propose four assessment capacities for assessment education in the 2023 book “Learning to Assess: Cultivating Assessment Capacity in Teacher Education”.

 

Jill’s strengths include innovative participatory methodologies based around digital and visual tools to highlight the complexity of teacher and student interactions. She has supervised 11 higher degree research students to completion and currently supervises 11 Phd candidates. Her publications can be accessed https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Willis,_Jill.html