Professor Simon Leonard is a Professor of the Learning Sciences. They lead a team who—given all we know from multiple domains of research on learning and development – seek to understand and implement the school and classroom practices and environments that support students to develop the capabilities of tomorrow.

Their research and design projects have been supported by in excess of $10 million in grants, and have been reported through over 50 scholarly publications. A major focus of their current work is on the development of early career researchers in the Learning Sciences. They supervise and/or mentor numerous doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. They were pleased to win their Academic Unit’s award for Higher Degree supervision and are even more pleased when the people they mentor publish their work or secure the funding needed to pursue their research agenda.