Live projects:

• Peter is one of a small team of academics to recently rewrite the Australian Curriculum General Capabilities in Critical and Creative Thinking.

• Peter also sits on the ACARA  National Assessment Program for Scientific Literacy (NAP-SL) working group.

• Australian Research Council  linkage grant on Problem Based Learning in STEM with Monash University, Brisbane Catholic Education and Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools.

• Peter is an expert contributor to the European Commission Joint Research Centre's Enlightenment 2.0 project, involving public reasoning in political processes and developing meaningful and ethical communication.

• Thinking Schools India — A project linking leading Indian schools and educators with students and parents to deliver a thinking focussed education.

• The Aspiring Thinkers Network linking thousands of educators and institutions internationally to deliver professional learning in a Teaching for Thinking pedagogy.

• Ellerton, P., & Kelly, R. (2021). Creativity and Critical Thinking. In A. Berry, C. Buntting, D. Corrigan, R. Gunstone, & A. Jones (Eds.), Education in the 21st Century: STEM, Creativity and Critical Thinking (pp. 9–27). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85300-6_2 

• On Critical Thinking and Collaborative Inquiry: Occasional paper commissioned by the NSW Department of Education National Initiatives & Performance

• PREPRINT: On critical thinking and content knowledge: a critique of the assumptions of cognitive load theory. Ellerton, P. (2021, June 18). https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/vy687

• PREPRINT: Critical thinking and the methodology of science. Ellerton, P. (2021, June 29). https://doi.org/10.31231/osf.io/xvwu7

• Working from theory: developing the bases of teachers’ critical thinking pedagogies through action research
  Hegazy, Hind, Ellerton, Peter, Campos-Remon, Hannah, Zaphir, Luke, Mazzola, Claudio and Brown, Deborah (2021). Working from theory: developing the bases of teachers’ critical thinking pedagogies through action research. Educational Action Research, 1-16. doi: 10.1080/09650792.2021.1877757

• Foundations of the DEFT Project: tertiary educators Developing Expertise Fostering Thinking
  Osborn, Judy-anne, Larkins, Jo-Ann, McBain, Bonnie, Ellerton, Peter, Black, Joel, Borwein, Naomi, Breuer, Florian and Roberts, Malcom (2020). Foundations of the DEFT Project: tertiary educators Developing Expertise Fostering Thinking. International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education, 28 (2), 2-15. doi: 10.30722/ijisme.28.02.001

• Reichenbachian common cause clusters
  Mazzola, Claudio, Kinkead, David, Ellerton, Peter and Brown, Deborah (2020). Reichenbachian common cause clusters. Erkenntnis. doi: 10.1007/s10670-020-00269-6

• Reasons: a digital argument mapping library for modern browsers
  Kinkead, Dave, Brown, Deborah, Ellerton, Peter and Mazzola, Claudio (2019). Reasons: a digital argument mapping library for modern browsers. Journal of Open Source Software, 4 (37), 1044. doi: 10.21105/joss.01044

• Critical Thinking in Adolescence
  Ellerton, Peter (2019). Critical Thinking in Adolescence. The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development. (pp. 1-1) edited by S. Hupp and J. Jewell. London, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119171492.wecad370

• Understanding our political nature: How to put knowledge and reason at the heart of political decision-making
  Mair, D., Smillie, L., La Placa, G., Schwendinger, F., Raykovska, M., Pasztor, Z., van Bavel, R. and Ellerton, Peter (Expert Contributor) (2019). Understanding our political nature: How to put knowledge and reason at the heart of political decision-making. Luxembourg, Belgium: Publications Office of the European Union. doi: 10.2760/374191

• Reasons: a digital argument mapping library for modern browsers
  Kinkead, Dave, Brown, Deborah, Ellerton, Peter and Mazzola, Claudio (2019). Reasons: a digital argument mapping library for modern browsers. Journal of Open Source Software, 4 (37), 1044. doi: 10.21105/joss.01044

• Detailed list of studies identified in systematic review of published research examining the critical thinking of higher education students
  Lodge, Jason, Pezaro, Charlotte, Brown, Deborah, Kent, Kirsty, Corbett, Brooklyn and Ellerton, Peter (2019). Detailed list of studies identified in systematic review of published research examining the critical thinking of higher education students. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.964

• Deconstructing climate misinformation to identify reasoning errors
  Cook, John, Ellerton, Peter and Kinkead, David (2018). Deconstructing climate misinformation to identify reasoning errors. Environmental Research Letters, 13 (2) 024018, 024018. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaa49f

• How to read an ethics paper
  Jansen, Melanie and Ellerton, Peter (2018). How to read an ethics paper. Journal of Medical Ethics, 44 (12), 810-813. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2018-104997

• Pragmatic epistemology, inquiry values and education for thinking
  Ellerton, Peter (2017). Pragmatic epistemology, inquiry values and education for thinking. The Routledge international handbook of philosophy for children. (pp. 111-118) edited by Maughn Rollins Gregory, Joanna Haynes and Karin Murris. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315726625

• Settling Science - why the scientific method confuses us
  Ellerton, Peter (2017). Settling Science - why the scientific method confuses us. The Best Australian Science Writing 2017. (pp. ---) Sydney NSW Australia: NewSouth Publishing.

• Metacognition and critical thinking: some pedagogical imperatives
  Ellerton, Peter (2015). Metacognition and critical thinking: some pedagogical imperatives. Palgrave handbook of critical thinking in higher education. (pp. 409-426) edited by M. Davies and R. Barnett. US: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-37805-7_25