Professor Patrick Danaher has worked continuously as an education academic since early 1991 – most recently in the School of Education at Excelsia University College since July 2023, and previously at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, and before that at Central Queensland University in Rockhampton – prior to which he taught for nine years in secondary schools in Queensland and Victoria. He has been privileged to co-supervise several doctoral and research masters Australian and international students to completion. Patrick’s research interests include the education of occupationally mobile communities such as fairground or show and circus families; education research ethics, methods, politics and theories; and academics’, educators’ and researchers’ work and identities.
