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Emma Burns is a researcher at Macquarie University, focusing on the socio-motivational factors that impact adolescents' adaptive engagement and achievement, particularly in STEM areas. She examines how high school students' relationships with their teachers influence academic beliefs, values, and goals, and investigates multiple processes that affect student engagement and achievement over time. Utilizing advanced quantitative research methodologies, such as latent growth modeling and multi-level structural equation modeling, her work involves analyzing primary datasets of Australian adolescents and large-scale secondary datasets like PISA and LSAY. Burns is passionate about educational psychology and leads workshops for higher degree research students on quantitative research methods. She teaches various educational psychology units and is involved in supervising students interested in motivation and teacher-student relationships. Her academic qualifications include a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience from Boston University.
Macquarie University • Sydney, NSW
Conducts research on socio-motivational factors affecting student achievement and engagement.
Applied to Department of Business (MBA Program).