5B - Professional learning
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025 |
3:30 PM - 4:55 PM |
Meeting Room 1 - Level 2 |
Overview
Meeting Room 1 - Level 2
Speaker
Dr Cherie Lucas
UNSW Sydney
Ethical Integration of GenAI into Collaborative Rubric Design – Cross Disciplinary Perspectives
3:30 PM - 3:55 PMBiography
Dr Cherie Lucas, PhD, BPharm, Grad Cert Edu Stud (Higher Educ), FPS, SFHEA is the UNSW NEXUS Fellow at the School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health. She is the recipient of 8 innovation in teaching, learning and research awards including the 2019 Australian Award for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation for the individual category for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.
Dr Lucas is a licenced pharmacist for over 35 years and currently resides on the Pharmacy Council of NSW as the Deputy President, Australia. Her educational research interests include curriculum design and instruction, developing reflective practice tools and assessment strategies to enhance student engagement, experience and learning and building artificial intelligence (AI) capability for educators and students. She has led teams in interprofessional education and reflective practice and published over 85 SoTL papers, with 55 as First or Senior author. Her work has been presented at international conferences (Scotland, Italy, Canada, Manchester, Belgium) or as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Nottingham (UK) and Cardiff University (Wales).
Dr Mark Ian Jones
Nexus Fellow
University of New South Wales
Co-presenter
Biography
Dr Mark Ian Jones is a UNSW NEXUS Fellow, design historian and a Chartered Architect in the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, School of Art and Design. He has extensive experience in systemic approaches to curriculum design and innovation, the affordances of AI in assessment and assurance of learning. Dr Mark Ian Jones has held several academic leadership positions at UNSW since 2015 including Nexus Fellow, ADA Director Education Innovation, Deputy Head of School (Design) and Program Director Bachelor of Design.
Prof Michelle Picard
Pro Vice Chancellor Learning And Teaching Innovation
Flinders University
Teaching in the void: The Emotional labour of Higher Education educators in Online teaching spaces
4:00 PM - 4:25 PMBiography
Professor Michelle Picard serves as Pro Vice Chancellor Learning and Teaching Innovation at Flinders University in South Australia.
Dr Shannon Johnston
Head Of Professional Learning
Murdoch University
Co-presenter
Biography
Dr Shannon Johnston is Head of Professional Learning at Murdoch University in South Australia.
Dr Julie Nyanjom
Senior Lecturer
Edith Cowan University
Co-presenter
Biography
Dr Julie Nyanjom is a senior lecturer at Edith Cowan University. Her research focuses on educator development, mentoring, online learning, and emotions. She serves on editorial boards for HERD and Educational Action Research, and is a TEQSA-registered expert in Quality Assurance, with publications in several high-ranking education journals.
Ms Pengjuan Wang
The University of Hong Kong
Chinese academics' perceptions of the benefits and challenges of journal peer review
4:30 PM - 4:55 PMBiography
Pengjuan Wang is a PhD candidate at The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include the academic profession, journal peer review, science and technology studies, and the internationalization of higher education. She received her Master's degree in Higher Education from Xiamen University in 2021, and her Bachelor's degree in Public Affairs Management (with a focus on Education Management) from Shaanxi Normal University in 2018.
Onsite chair
Russel Kingshott
Curtin University
