B.A. (Monash)
Dip Ed. (Monash)
D.Phil (Oxford)

Evaluation and assessment; indicator frameworks for higher education; professional development for graduate students who teach.

Malcolm’s first love was English Literature. That took him on a curving trajectory from Monash University to a teaching job in Rushworth High School, to Oxford on a travelling scholarship, back to high school teaching at Altona North High School, and on to another trajectory through Canberra, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Sydney as lecturer, senior lecturer, department head and acting Arts Faculty Dean.

Then he moved into Educational Development and life began in earnest.

He was a full-time CEDAM staff member from 1989 to 2001, at which point, for reasons of health and well-being, he went part time into an educational development consultancy. In 2009, the consultancy led him back to Oxford as Invited Director of Studies in the Oxford Learning Institute.

He is now a Visiting Fellow in CEDAM, with an active interest in the Hubs and Spokes Project in the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, and an association with the University of Canberra’s Teaching and Learning Centre.

His research interests lie primarily in:

• assessment and evaluation in Higher Education
• the concept of holistic institutional support for learning and teaching in Higher Education
• the training of graduates who teach.

He is happily married with two children.