Work Profile

Current Position

March 2009 – present
Senior Lecturer (Academic Development) at Faculty of Business Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Australia

Previous Experience

February 2008 – March 2009
Educational Designer at Faculty of Law and Management, La Trobe University, Australia

January 2006 – January 2008
Research Associate at Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies, The University of Cambridge

October 1997 – January 2006
Educational Designer at Information & Education Services, The University of Melbourne

January 1995 – August 1997
Research Fellow at Science Multimedia Teaching Unit, The University of Melbourne

January 1993 – January 1995
Programmer at Science Multimedia Teaching Unit, The University of Melbourne

Research Interests

I am interested in a broad range of higher education issues, and particularly in e-learning, and have done extensive work on innovations such as online role-plays. My research project at Cambridge used a combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques in order to build a rich evidence base that will inform the University’s teaching and learning policy. A sub-project studied student perspectives on daily technology use in the context of their broader learning experience, and I have recently won a small grant to repeat some of this work in an Australian context. During 2008 I began work on an ALTC funded project about learning and teaching spaces to support students as generators of knowledge.

Specialties

Qualitative research, higher education, e-learning consultancy, project management, development and implementation of innovative educational technologies.

Awards

• Winner of the ASCILITE Research Grant, 2007.
• Winning team in the Education category for the Financial Review Australian Internet Awards, 2001 for LaSWoP Project.
• Winning team of the 1999 ASCILITE Award for Best CD-ROM Project for An@tomedia.
• Four-time winner of Staff Scholarship to attend Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, San Jose, CA, USA (Apple University Developer Fund), 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2003.

Education

University of Melbourne (1997 – 2006)
MA, History and Philosophy of Science, achieved first class honours (H1).

Thesis title: ‘The roles actors perform: role-play and reality in a higher education context’

University of Melbourne (1989 – 1992)
BA, History and Philosophy of Science, Political Science