Current Institution: Western Sydney University
Fellowship: OLT National Teaching Fellowship at Western Sydney University
Fellowship Duration: 2014 - 2016
Higher education and academics are under an onslaught of pressures. To create the student and academic success we desire in a reconfiguring higher education landscape, the academic role needs to differentiate. This fellowship will reconceptualise the academic role and create a framework to evaluate academic teaching in the sciences. The lack of differentiation in the academic role is being felt acutely by the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines (STEM) where the pervasive emphasis has been on research. Declining enrolments and perceived falling standards of STEM graduates, both nationally and internationally, raise concerns about the future pipeline of STEM graduates and a public who are well disposed towards science. This fellowship will with work with leaders in higher education, peak bodies, senior leaders in disciplinary research and teaching and early-mid career academics to reconceptualise the academic role in the sciences and create an evaluation framework to ensure Australia has excellent academic teachers of STEM in the future.
Disciplines: Biological sciences
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.