Dr Leonie Daws

Dr Leonie Daws is currently Principal Consultant with Kihi Consultancies, a qualitative research consulting service, providing training and consultation in the use of QSR software including NVivo. She has previously held appointments as Director of the Centre for Policy and Leadership Studies and Chair of the Faculty Research Committee in the Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology.

Her recent research interests include investigating the uptake of information and communication technologies in rural communities, focusing on the role these technologies can play in community development and on their application in the provision of government services to rural communities. Working within an interdisciplinary team, Dr Daws’s specific professional interest has been in the education and training aspects of this program of research. She has also engaged in a range of research mapping and critiquing government policy across state and federal jurisdictions including in the areas of curriculum and social justice policies in education.