Carmel holds a PhD in Education, a Master of Educational Computing, Bachelor of Education, and Diploma of Teaching. She is the director of CMT Accessible Research and a senior lecturer at the University of South Australia. Carmel has over three decades of experience as an educator, researcher, and change analyst across the education sector and with multidisciplinary teams. She has extensive expertise with a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and methods, including survey design, path modelling, codesign workshops, and web analysis.
Carmel’s research has directly informed policy, legislation, and organisational policies and practices. She has published and presented widely on her key areas of research focus and is an invited reviewer for a number of high impact journals. Carmel strongly advocates for, and brings together, research, policy, and practice, together with stakeholders, to enable positive, ethical, sustainable change and to improve processes and outcomes for organisations and individuals.