He has taught in a number of primary school and university settings (including Australia, Canada, and the United States) over the past twenty years.
ELSA is a play-based digital learning program for children in preschool to explore science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Lowrie has undertaken a number of research projects to develop spatial curriculum for promoting mathematics understanding in both primary and secondary classrooms.
Lowrie's spatial curriculum has consistently led to improvements in mathematics performance for children in primary and secondary school.
The aim of the research was to understand how children learn about general purpose graphical languages that are important in mathematics (such as graphs, diagrams, charts, tables, and maps).
In this day and age, it is essential that all children have the skills to interpret the graphical languages that are such a large part of the mathematics curriculum.
Over the last ten years, he has been a journal referee for a number of national and international periodicals in the field of education and developmental psychology.
In 2005, he won the CSU Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence, and also in 2005, was nominated an Expert Assessor of International Standing by the ARC.
In 2019, Lowrie and the ELSA team won the University of Canberra Research and Teaching Award for Distinction in Engagement and Impact.