Brian Cambourne

Dr. Brian Cambourne started his career by teaching for fifteen years in a variety of small, mostly one-teacher schools.

He has since become one of Australian's most eminent researchers of literacy and learning. He was a post-doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; a Fulbright Scholar; Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Reading at the University of Illinois and Research Fellow at the Learning Centre at Tucson.

He retired from full-time teaching and governance duties at the University of Wollongong in 2006 and was appointed as "Principal Fellow" in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong. In this role he continues to do applied research into teacher professional learning about literacy education by running Action-Learning projects in local schools.

His major interest is in professional development for literacy education and he is committed to the idea of co-learning and co-researching with teachers.