DPU har i 2026 udpeget fem nye adjungerede professorer.
Adjungerede professorer er internationalt anerkendte forskere, som samarbejder med forskningsmiljøer på DPU om forskning, forskningsprojekter og -ansøgninger.
Titlen adjungeret professor tildeles på Faculty of Arts ved Aarhus Universitet for en periode på højst 5 år.
Julie McLeod is Professor of Curriculum, Equity and Social Change in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne.
Drawing on perspectives from history and sociology, McLeod’s scholarship explores the temporalities of educational reform movements and genealogies of educational ideas, with particular attention to the promises and paradoxes inherent in radical and progressive agendas. Her research encompasses youth and futures, feminism and curriculum, citizenship and social differentiation, as well as methodological innovation in biographical, memory-based, archival, and longitudinal approaches.
Current strands of work include: Youth identities and generational change; Progressive movements in education; and Schooling memory. She is co-Lead and Chair of the Steering Committee developing A Decadal Plan for Australian Education Research – a national strategic research initiative. She is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Science Australia, President of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (2026-28), and Senior Faculty Advisor, Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity (2025-26).
McLeod served as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Capability), University of Melbourne (2017-2023), is an invited member of assessment panels for national and international research agencies, and was a Leader-in-Residence, Atlantic Institute, Rhodes Trust, University of Oxford (2022-24) and President of the Australian Association for Research in Education (2022-25).
Alan Reid is a Professor of Education at the School of Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Education, Monash University. He contributes to a range of environmental and sustainability education research networks, locally to internationally, building on participation and mentoring rooted in the wide-ranging activities of the University of Bath’s Centre for Research in Education and the Environment in the mid-1990s, where he completed his PhD.
Key activities since the early 2000s include editing the field’s leading research journal, Environmental Education Research, and supporting the work of the Global Environmental Education Partnership to develop capacity and research-informed policy and practice in the sector.
Alan's programme of research focuses on educators’ thinking and practice in environmental and sustainability education within a variety of settings, alongside traditions, capacities and issues in related theory, research and infrastructures.
Recent projects have developed insights on educational policy and innovation in disaster risk reduction and resilience, how teaching and learning can tackle climate change illiteracy and foster human-nature connectedness in heavily urbanised lifeworlds, and the importance of dialogue between non-secular and secular visions for, and practices of, environmental and sustainability education.
Michalinos Zembylas is appointed Honorary Professor affiliated with the Policy Futures Research Program, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University from September 1, 2026, until August 31, 2031.
Zembylas is Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus, and Honorary Professor, Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. His research examines the role of emotion and affect in education, with particular attention to their intersections with social justice, decolonization, and politics.
He is the author and editor of numerous books and scholarly articles. His upcoming book is entitled Seeking Anticolonial Synergies: The Promises and Paradoxes of Decolonizing Higher Education (Cambridge University Press).
Zembylas has received several distinctions, including the Distinguished Researcher Award in Social Sciences and Humanities from the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Chair in Open and Distance Learning (2023–2026). He has held fellowships at the University of British Columbia, the Unit for Institutional Change and Social Justice at the University of the Free State, and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, and has served as Visiting Professor at the University of South Australia. Since 2021, he has been ranked among the top 2% of the world’s most-cited scholars in Stanford University’s annual citation-based rankings.
