2E - Teaching, learning & student experience
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025 |
1:30 PM - 3:25 PM |
Meeting Room 6 - Level 2 |
Overview
Meeting Room 6 - Level 2
Speaker
Dr Katrine Sonnenschein
BI Norwegian Business School
Norwegian Language Learning—A Catalyst for the Development of International Students’ Career Competencies at a Norwegian Business School?
1:30 PM - 1:55 PMBiography
Katrine Sonnenschein is an Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour. She received her PhD from Griffith University, Department of International Business and Asian Studies, in 2016. The title of her PhD thesis: Diverse Stakeholders' Perceptions of the Attributes needed by Chinese returned Graduates in the Hotel Industry in China. Her research interests: professional socialization; international education; communication, career.
Dr Tiffany Gunning
Deakin University
Guiding the inclusion of First Nations Australians' Science in Higher Education: Co-creation of a curriculum development framework.
2:00 PM - 2:25 PMBiography
Tiffany is a biochemist/plant pathologist, educator and researcher who specialises in STEM curriculum development and academic professional development. She had a particular interest in ensuring students experience authentic learning opportunities that prepare them to be informed and ethical global citizens. While developing her own cultural intelligence, she encourage academics to do same, so that they can consciously and respectfully include First Nations knowledges into their curriculum.
Mr Jordan Ah Chee
Associate Dean Learning and Teaching
Murdoch Univeristy
Co-presenter
Biography
Jordan Ah Chee, is a proud Bindjareb/Paylku man on his mother’s side, and Yawuru/Nyikina man on his father’s side. He is a lecturer for the School of Indigenous Knowledges at Murdoch University, teaching Two-Way Science, with a background in Physics. He works towards ensuring that students at Murdoch develop their understanding and appreciation of Indigenous knowledge systems in STEM, to give them the tools to work respectfully and ethically in their careers, and to support the next generation of First Nations scientists.
Ms Laura Fairbrother
Associate Director Curriculum, Assessment And Teaching Development
Charles Darwin University
Co-presenter
Biography
Laura is a dedicated and highly skilled curriculum and learning specialist who leads collaborative teaching, training, and professional learning across a variety of international contexts. Laura focuses on building capability to enhance quality teaching and learning in higher education, and she is a strong advocate for continued professional learning.
Dr Nicholas Charlton
Learning Adviser
Griffith University
Programmatic assessment and program-level assessment: What it is and what it isn’t?
2:30 PM - 2:55 PMBiography
Dr Nicholas Charlton is a Learning Adviser, at Griffith University Library. Learning Advisers deliver academic skills sessions and develop e-learning resources to support students to succeed in their tertiary studies. Nicholas’ research interests include assessment design, and implementation, rubrics and marking criteria, program-level assessment and academic literacy. Nicholas is currently undertaking a PhD investigating program-level assessment in the Australian Higher Education sector. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3491-5933
Dr Richard Newsham-West
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists - Faculty of Pain Medicine
Co-presenter
Biography
Dr Richard Newsham-West is the Education Programs Manager at the Australian New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and holds an Honorary Associate Professor at Macquarie University, Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Science. Richard has developed and delivered professional post graduate clinical programs within universities and professional colleges across New Zealand and Australia where he has challenged the traditional process of curriculum architecture by designing programs of study through the planning and mapping of assessment, prior to the scaffolding of curriculum content. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8620-4466
Onsite chair
May Kocatepe
Dean of Higher Education
Endeavour College of Natural Health
