Andrew Simpson

Andrew Simpson is a Lecturer in the School of Education within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education at the University of New England (UNE). He specializes in Primary English and Literacies education and has been teaching at UNE for 22 years.

His research and teaching focus on literacies education, multimodal perspectives in the English curriculum, and the application of appraisal theory to interpret values in educational texts. He has contributed to scholarly works on visual and textual analysis in classrooms.

The available publications, both from 2009, reflect his engagement with critical and multimodal literacies, particularly in how cultural icons and image-text relationships are interpreted in educational settings.

• Australian Literacy Educator’s Association award 1998

Andrew Simpson has extensive experience in school teaching and teacher education, having taught students from Years 2 to 11 in Australia and worked with educators and students in Tuvalu and Nauru. He is a member of the Primary English Teaching Association and the Australian Literacy Educators Association. No information is available about graduate student supervision or research grants.

He has contributed to curriculum-focused academic publications and continues to be an active educator in the field of English and literacies.