Professor Ednie-Brown’s leadership in Graduate Research Education is in the maturing area of Creative Research Practice. Her role as Practice Research Symposia Director since 2016 supports her schools HDR culture and intellectual community. Two major symposia each year run for 5 days each and bring together candidates, supervisors, external supervisors and industry stakeholders, hosting up to 12 examinations and presentations and 90 + progress or milestone presentations, a keynote, workshops and a conference dinner. Through an OLT grant, she coordinated the 2016 and 2017 symposia which involved candidates and supervisors from 13 other universities.​

Professor Ednie-Brown has also initiated discursive sessions, workshops on supervisor techniques, candidates involved in international research collaborations and many more activities that have benefited candidates and the wider creative practice research community.

Professor Ednie-Brown was also part of a cross institutional OLT project iDARE which developed new approaches to ethics and research integrity training through challenges posed by creative research practice and has developed a suite of entirely new course material and initiated significant online and face to face developments in the coursework requirements for creative practice candidates.​

Another achievement is the development of the Practice Research Portal (practice-research.com). And in mid 2013 Professor Ednie-Brown introduced a new HDR selection process for her school – the “pre-application presentation” which offers an effective support mechanism for supervisors in considering new candidates.

This is just a short snapshot of her contributions and achievements … the list goes on ….