Fields of Research (FoR)

• Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified ( 130299 )
  
• Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified ( 130399 )
  
• Visual Arts and Crafts not elsewhere classified ( 190599 )
  
• Curriculum And Pedagogy not elsewhere classified ( 390199 )
  
• Curriculum And Pedagogy ( 390100 )
  
• Visual Arts ( 360600 )
  
• Fine Arts ( 360602 )
  
• Crafts ( 360601 )
  
• Culture ( 470208 )
  
• Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  
• Arts And Cultural Policy ( 470201 )
  
• Creative Arts ( 390101 )
  

Research interests

Dr Margaret Baguley is a professor in arts education, curriculum and pedagogy at the University of Southern Queensland. She is currently the Associate Head Research for the School of Education. Her contribution to quality learning, teaching and research has been recognised through a series of awards including Publication Excellence awards, an Early Career Researcher award, a number of Teaching awards including the Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award and the Australian Learning and Teaching Council's National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. She has an extensive teaching background across all facets of education, in addition to maintaining her arts practice. An interest in collaborative practice and creativity underpins her teaching. Her research interests encompass the arts, arts education, leadership, group dynamics and commemoration.

Dr Baguley is also a practising artist who has had 10 solo exhibitions and 47 group exhibitions with forty one of these being invitational. She has received a number of significant awards throughout her career including the Australia Council’s New Media Residency to Banff, Canada, the Martin Hanson Memorial Art award and the National Dame Mary Durack Outback Award. Her work is held in a number of collections including the Bundanon Trust Art Collection, the Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery and the Wesley Hospital Art Collection. She has undertaken residencies at Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon Property, the Australian Tapestry Workshop and Manning Clark House. Dr Baguley has been a recipient of grants from the Ian Potter Foundation, Craft Queensland, Pat Corrigan, Arts Queensland and her work has been selected to tour regional Queensland through the Queensland Arts Council.

During 2015 Dr Baguley was awarded a Australian Government ANZAC Centenary Arts and Culture Public Fund Grant with Dr Martin Kerby from St Joseph's Nudgee College in Brisbane. The grant supported a sound and light show using the heritage listed buildings of the school to 'reveal' the stories of past students and their war time experience. Dr Baguley was also one of the lead artists on a 2014 Queensland ANZAC Centenary Grant and was responsible for the design and creation of a six panel textile artwork. The outcomes of both grants were exhibited at the college on October 24, 2015. Dr Baguley and Dr Kerby were awarded a 2017 Queensland Anzac Centenary Spirit of Service Grant and presented the outcomes in October at the State Library of Queensland.

Recent exhibitions include:
* "The Kangaroo and the Eagle: Allies in War and Peace" - Pentagon, Washington, D.C. (August 15, 2022 - current)
* "Creative Returns: Reformation, Recovery, Renewal" - A Block Gallery, University of Southern Queensland (16 Sept - 14 Oct, 2022)

In January/February 2020 Dr Margaret Baguley and Dr Martin Kerby undertook a month long fully funded residency through the 2019/20 Princeton University Library Research Grant for their project titled 'Encountering the Wind from the East: The artistic voice of Mary Shepard'.

During 2020 Dr Baguley was one of a team awarded a USQ Learning and Teaching Open Educational Practice (OEP) Grant for the project titled 'Exploring social justice, democracy, human rights and citizenship: Engaging tertiary students through an open history textbook initiative'. She is also a team member and mentor on a USQ Capacity Building Research Grant titled 'Counter Memorials/Monuments and the Australian Commemorative Landscape'.

Dr Baguley is currently elected Vice-President of Art Education Australia (AEA), the national peak body for visual arts education, and is also a representative member for visual arts education on the National Advocates for Arts Education (NAAE) group.

Dr Baguley is also a selection panel member for the Queensland Rhodes Scholarship (2020 - current).

Professional memberships

Vice President and Member of Art Education Australia (AEA)
Member of the International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA)
Member of National Art Education Association (NAEA)
Member of National Association of Visual Arts (NAVA)
Member of Queensland Art Gallery (QAG)/Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
Queensland Member of the Community of Associate Deans Research in Education (cADRE)

USQ Research affiliations

• Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  
• Centre for Heritage and Culture (CHC)
  

Currently teaching courses/programs

Sem 3, 2022 - EDM8009: Humanities and the Arts Curriculum and Pedagogy

Teaching experience(Tertiary)

18 Years

Teaching experience(Other)

14 Years

Administrative responsibilities

Associate Head Research - School of Education
USQ Education SIG - Co-Leader

Research supervisor in the area of:

• Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified ( 130299 )
  
• Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified ( 130399 )
  
• Visual Arts and Crafts not elsewhere classified ( 190599 )
  
• Curriculum And Pedagogy not elsewhere classified ( 390199 )
  
• Curriculum And Pedagogy ( 390100 )
  
• Visual Arts ( 360600 )
  
• Fine Arts ( 360602 )
  
• Crafts ( 360601 )
  
• Culture ( 470208 )
  
• Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  
• Arts And Cultural Policy ( 470201 )
  
• Creative Arts ( 390101 )