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Teaching interests
Graduate Convenes the Graduate Research Field of Education and convenes and teaches EDUC 8004 Research Supervision in CHELT’s Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and Masters of Higher Education.
Research interests
Pathways to doctoral study, Honours, The development of skills in research education, The examination of research theses, Threshold concepts in doctoral education, Conceptions of research, and the Mobility of Australian postgraduate students
Teaching interests
Graduate Certificate and Master of Higher Education coursework.
Research interests
Linking research and teaching, and Research-led Education Community of Practice.
Teaching interests
Teaching and learning at university (e.g. Foundations of University Teaching and Learning and EDUC8002), use of educational technologies, enhanced course design in science teaching, formative evaluation
Research interests
Technology-enhanced and flexible learning, research-led science teaching, researcher development, persuasive communication
Teaching interests
Chris has taught on the Grad Cert and Master of Higher Education (eg EDUC8001), but has particular enthusiasm for co-learning 'on the job' with colleagues, especially through production of a professional portfolio. He supervises doctoral candidates in Education, and has previously supervised a number of doctoral candidates in environmental science and management.
Research interests
Professional practice; academic practice; continuing professional learning for practice improvement; assessment for learning; work-based learning; use of portfolios for assessment; action learning.
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ALTC 2011-2012 Building Local Leadership for Research Education
ALTC 2010 I’ve done a coursework Masters, now I want to do a Doctorate: Can I?
ARC Discovery 2011-2012 A cross-national study of the impact of an oral component on PhD examination quality
ALTC Project Officer
Coursework Masters Project
Teaching interests
Evolutionary biology; history and philosophy of science; science teaching; effective teaching practice and student learning; trends and issues in higher education.
Research interests
The higher education curriculum - its purpose, design and outcomes; student learning, effective learning environments and student development; academic standards, accountability and the nature of academic work.
Research interests
Changing work role of academics
Research interests
The nature of academic work, early career academics, and growth and development as an academic, with a particular emphasis on phenomenographic research.
Research interests
ARC Research Capacity Building, PhD programs
Research interests
Academic leadership and management, academic career and context, group dynamics, change management
Thesis topic
Curriculum decision making in higher education and the significance of research
Thesis topic
Towards a conceptual model of continuing professional development (CPD) for the contemporary dentist in Australia
Thesis topic
Importance of health professional education in change management
Thesis topic
The metaphors that research students use to describe their research and what they tell us about the students' attitudes to research
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Towards a multidimensional epistemological mapping of knowledge in mathematics education
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Student evaluation in Australian higher education: a socio-cultural analysis
Thesis topic
Managing risk in higher degree research programs: an Australian perspective
Thesis topic
What do the doctoral supervisors, current PhD students, and successful doctoral graduates suggest are the factors influencing effective supervision in Management in China
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From Conceptions to Capacity: Conceptualising the development of medical practitioners’ sense of professional practice and the implications for medical education
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The application of risk management practices to the PhD process: The definition, management and attainment of success
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Engineering the curriculum: Towards an adaptive curriculum
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English as a foreign language teacher education in Chile: a sociocultural perspective
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Conceptions of teaching and learning in military education
Thesis topic
Researching transformation of students through education
University Education Scholars
Dr Jonathan Powles
School of Music
ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
Jonathan will be exploring the social basis of learning, in a number of contexts. Part is an ongoing restructuring of the curriculum in Music, basing it around authentic and experiential learning. In music, these authentic experiences are always shared - making music with and for others. Musical meaning, like all other types, is socially contructed. From a theoretical standpoint, educational models based on transaction (Dewey) or community (Wenger et al) are compelling in this area. Extending this, one of Jonathan's particular research interests is the use of social media and online learning to capture the "trace" of learning - the messy debris left in the wake of learning as it occurs.
School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Applied Statistics
ANU College of Business & Economics
Michael is interested in broadening the base of people in the Colleges who can contribute to education at the ANU - one way to do this is through the UES initiative. He is also keen to explore how the ANU can enrich its graduate students with university-wide courses that get graduates together and provide a solid base for their studies. Finally, as a statistician, Michael is keen to take a critical look at SELT - the list of statistical issues it raises is formidable.
Research School of Engineering
ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science
Dr Trumpf will re-design the current postgraduate coursework offerings of the Research School of Engineering with a view towards creating a modern two-year Masters program that can act as pathway program for a number of different student cohorts.
Ms Anne Macduff
ANU College of Law
Associate Professor Paul Francis
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Physics Education Centre
ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
In his role in CHELT Paul intends to work on: Pedagogical methods, enhancing learning, use of technology in class and data mining.
Associate Professor Kristen Pammer
Department of Psychology
ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment
In addition to general teaching innovation, one of Kristne's interests in regards to this position is in the area of staff mentoring. She have a firm belief that staff who feel supported and valued will be confident, enthusiastic and more likely to seek new and innovative ways to teach. This is particularly important for early career academics who are most likely to suffer high levels of anxiety, in setting up their own labs, devising new teaching programs, applying for grants, establishing collaborations – all perhaps for the first time, and dealing with the physical reality of a new job in a new university, and most likely in a new city or even a new country. There is a suggestion that there is a high level of early-career burn out that is unique to academia that appears to be characterised by a ‘crisis of faith’, a despondency and lack of confidence in career choice – “I thought I was good, but I’m not, I can’t keep up, I can’t cut it, I think I’ve made a dreadful mistake…”. Kristen's aim is to try and understand this phenomenon, in terms of the extent of the problem, mitigating factors, predictors and possible buffers. When we understand and are sympathetic to some of these challenges, we can develop appropriate mentoring processes to assist the early career academic. Dynamic and resilient academics result in creative and energized teaching and research.
