Faculty Member

Miriam Ham is the Dean of Education and Humanities, and the Dean of Business at Christian Heritage College. After teaching in Special and Secondary schools for 16 years, she has over a decade of experience in Initial Teacher Education. Her passion is to equip teachers with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to act agentically in their sphere and make an impact in their lives of their students and communities. Beyond ITE, she has worked with the coordination of postgraduate programs developing teachers doctoral, research and publishing skills through mentorship and support. She is an active and keen researcher with a focus to empower teachers to 'be the change' that they want to see in their context - be that private or public, Australian or International, secular or religious. Her purpose in all that she does is to be and help others to flourish in the space they are called to serve.

Miriam enjoys bushwalking and Rogaining, but also loves to read and spend time with her husband, three adult children, their partners and her fur babies. She travels internationally as often as their budget allows.

1996 Bachelor of Special Education

2001 Masters of Education

2013 Masters of International Relations and Community Development

2018 Doctorate of Education

2025 Diploma of Counselling

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Teacher Wellbeing

Teacher Agency

Research Supervisor approaches

Fostering Global Competence

Developing Dispositions

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1997-1998 - Integration teacher at Pine Rivers State Highschool

1998-2012 - Teacher at Caloundra Christian College - roles including Special Education, subject teacher (English, Drama, Art, SOSE), Head of Department English and Humanities, Student Leadership coordinator.

2013-2015 - Sessional Lecturer CQUniversity

2016 - 2025 - Senior Lecturer CQUniversity including Head of Course DoSST and Postgraduate Research Coordinator (2021-2025)

2026- Dean of Education and Humanities, Dean of Business Christian Heritage College

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Jones, S. L., Ham, M., & Menzie-Ballantyne, K. (2025). Operationalising Global Education in Teacher Education and Training: A Model for Contextualising Terminology. British Educational Research Journal.

Coelho, D. P., Ham, M., & Jones, S. L. (2025). Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal. British Educational Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4155

Mead, N., & Ham, M. (2025) Transitioning to tertiary: a collaborative autoethnography exploring the transition from a teacher identity to an academic identity. Journal of Autoethnography. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2025.6.2.281

Ham, M., Ritchie, N., & Menzie-Ballantyne, K. (2025). The impact of secondment on the development of teacher agency. Teachers and Teaching, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2025.2489391

Ham, M., & Menzie-Ballantyne, K. (2024). Using teachers’ prior knowledge as the foundation for collaborative policy development: an Australian case study. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2024.2342568

Menzie-Ballantyne, K., Ham, M. (2023) Transforming a global competence agenda into pedagogies of intercultural understanding and student voice: An Australian Case Study. Pedagogy of Hope for Global Social Justice: Sustainable Futures for People and the Planet. Bloomsbury.

Menzie-Ballantyne, K., Ham, M. (2022) Strike 4 Climate Change: the intersection ofeducation for sustainable development (ESD), education for global citizenship (EGC) and the Australian Curriculum (AC). Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 38(1), 85-95. doi:10.1017/aee.2021.14

Ham, M., Menzie-Ballantyne, K. (2021) Nepali teachers’ perceptions of and responses to the impacts of globalisation on their context. International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives. 20(3)

Deagon, J., Ham, M., Hilman, W. (2021) Complex factors and educational tools for social change and empowerment for severely marginalized Nepalese women working in hospitality and tourism. Empirical Research and Vocational Education and Training, 13(21).

Di Biase, R., Mesiti, C., Ham, M., Clarke D. (2021) The (in)visibility of pedagogical practices: Illustrations from three Asian-Pacific countries. Asia Pacific Journal of Education. 10.1080/02188791.2021.1935214

Ham, M. (2020) Nepali primary school teachers’ response to national Educational reform. Prospects. (1-21)

Ham, M., Richardson, S., Richardson, C. (2020) Engaging students in a digital space: Emulating the face to face experience to increase learning outcomes. HERDSA, 42(1).

Britton, A., Redman-Maclaren, M., Ham, M., Bainbridge, R. (2020) What attributes make an alternative model of education for remote Indigenous adolescents: A systematic literature review. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 30(3). https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v30i3.279

Ham, M., Dekkers, J. (2019) What role do teachers’ beliefs play in the implementation of educational reform?: Nepali teachers’ voice. Teaching andteacher education. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2019.102917

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Global Cities Conference invited panelist, Washington DC – 2024

Ethics Reviewer, CQU – Low Ethics Applications – 2023 – ongoing

Oceania Comparative and International Education Society, Treasurer – 2019 - 2024

AARE - SIG Coordinator – Global contexts in Education - 2017- 2022

CQU Leadership conference guest speaker – 2017, 2019 -2020

Co-Coordinator TeachMeets Cairns – 2016-2018

Christian Outreach International Academy, Thailand - Teacher mentor, with input on curriculum and process development, 2010-2015

New Hope International teacher training and mentoring, Nepal 2013-2018