Dr Wade Naylor
Lecturer
National School of Education
Areas of expertise: physics, mathematics & STEM education; psychometric testing in conceptual physics and mathematics inventories
HDR supervisor accreditation status: Provisional
Email: wade.naylor@acu.edu.au
Location: ACU Brisbane Campus
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2133-7924
Dr Wade Naylor (MInstP) was formerly an Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at Osaka University (2010-201) where he was the physics course coordinator on the Chemistry-Biology Combined Major Program, teaching international students, as well as supervising Masters and PhD students at the Department of Physics. Wade then switched from andragogy to pedagogy and has been a certified Queensland teacher since 2016, where he was also a sessional member at the University of the Sunshine Coast after moving from Japan in 2015. Wade’s interests lie in Physics Education Research (PER) and research into "misconceptions" in physics and mathematics. As well as being a lecturer in Physics, Mathematics & STEM education at ACU, he is a visiting senior researcher at the Physics Dept., University of Johannesburg (UJ). Wade is actively guiding PER at UJ to improve student outcomes.
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- Naylor. W., Chrysostomou. A., Carleschi. E. and Cornell. A. S. (2022). Using technology to understand student 'misconceptions' in classical mechanics. In K. Menon, K. Naidoo, G. Castrillon (Eds.) Teaching innovation for the 21st century - showcasing UJ teaching and learning 2021 (pp. 94-101). Jacana Media: https://www.mydigitalpublication.co.za/uj/teaching-innovation-dte/data/mobile/index.html
- E. Carleschi, A. Chrysostomou, A. S. Cornell and W. Naylor, "Does the transition to online physics classes mid-semester affect conceptual understanding?" Eur. J. Phys. 43 (2022) 035702; https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/ac41d9
- A. L. Alinea, W. Naylor, "Gender gap and polarisation of physics on global courses," Physics Education, IAPT 33 (2017), Issue 2.
- A. L. Alinea, W. Naylor, "Polarization of physics on global courses," Phys. Educ. 50 (2015) 210-217; http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0031-9120/50/2/210
- A. L. Alinea, T. Kubota, W. Naylor, “Logarithmic divergences in the k-inflationary power spectra computed through the uniform approximation,” JCAP 1602 (2016) 28; http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/028
- A. L. Alinea, T. Kubota, Y. Nakanishi, W. Naylor, “Adiabatic regularisation of power spectra in k-inflation,” JCAP 1506 (2015) 019; http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/06/019
- W. Naylor, “Vacuum excited surface plasmon polaritons,” Phys. Rev. A 91 (2015) 053804; http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.91.053804
- H.T. Cho, A.S. Cornell, J. Doukas, T.R. Huang and W. Naylor, "A New Approach to Black Hole Quasinormal Modes: A Review of the Asymptotic Iteration Method," Adv. Math. Phys. 2012 (2012) 281705 http://www.hindawi.com/journals/amp/2012/281705/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/281705
Projects
- 2023 – 2024, ACU Faculty Research Discovery Grant: (PI: Digan, S.), Naylor, W., Geiger, V., Developing initial teacher education students' evidentiary practices in scientific reasoning. $9,900
- 2022 – 2025, ACU Faculty Education Grant (PI: Naylor, W.) Investigation of conceptual physics understanding in international / ethnically diverse cohorts. $5390
- 2007 – 2015, Ministry of Education (Japan) Scholars Fund Investigation of Black Hole Quasinormal Modes using the asymptotic iteration method. $2500 AUD per year (2005 – 2010)
- 2008 – 2010, Ministry of Education (Japan) Kakenhi: Grant no. A20340060: https://nrid.nii.ac.jp/nrid/1000030411028/ (PI: Seishi, M.) Study of the Dynamical Casimir effect. $200,000 AUD
Accolades and awards
- Article selected in Physics Education Highlights of 2015 collection: A. L. Alinea, W. Naylor, "Polarization of physics on global courses," Phys. Educ. 50 (2015) 210-217.
- 2003 – 2005, 21st Century Centre of Excellence Research Fellowship, Kyoto University, Japan
- 2001 – 2003 JSPS Research Fellowship Stipend. $50,000/yr
- 2001 Nominated for Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Royal Society, UK
- 1997 – 2001, Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) UK, PhD Stipend
Appointments and affiliations
- 2022 – present, Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) member
- 2020 – present, Visiting Senior Research Associate, Dep. of Physics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2016 – present, Queensland College of Teachers (QCT) - Full Registration: 893537
- 2010 – 2015, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, International College, Osaka University, Japan
- 2008 – present, full member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP), UK
Editorial roles
- 2020 – present, TeachEngineering Content Reviewer
International journal review panels
- Australian Mathematics Education Journal (2020 - present)
- Physical Society of Japan (2005-2015)
- Canadian Journal of Physics (2005-2015)
Grant agency review panels
- Enhanced Creative Works and Research Grant (ECWRG) Program of the UP System, University of the Philippines (2018)
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