Paula Joyce
 | I'm in my second year as a full-time PhD student at SMEC. Last year I spent a lot of time out at schools initiating my project and seeing what emerged and unfolded as I facilitated the question, what happens when teachers are given a greater say about the work that they do? What happens is now the focus of my time as I begin the business of representing my research in a way that allows many voices to speak and be heard. My research is informed by a number of referents; complexity and network theory, integral theory, and spiral dynamics have each played a part in helping me to understand the diverse and unpredictable nature of human systems and to assist my research participants in finding ways to transform the organisational structure and sustain improved collegial practices. In my other life, I have 3 children and 3 grandsons, a bike, a kayak and a mission to find the absence of thought in a mind that thinks constantly. I'm following the Benedictine rule and the Christian Meditation tradition which uses the mantra, Maranatha. I'm hopelessly unskilled but remain hopeful that one day I'll discover the why of it all
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