Associate Professor Kelli Nicola-Richmond is the Associate Head of School Teaching and Learning, in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. Kelli completed her PhD in 2020 with a thesis by publication - Developing Work-ready Graduates: Threshold Concepts in Occupational Therapy. Kelli’s undergraduate degree was in Physiotherapy and she worked in clinical roles for 16 years before joining Deakin in 2012. Kelli is Board director for the Australian Council of Deans of Health Sciences and of a regional Australian health service. Kelli’s current research interests include; program-wide approaches to redeveloping assessment in response to GenAI, evaluative judgement in health placement settings; student and academic perceptions of the impact of GenAI on assessment; student and academic experiences of online proctored exams; teaching feedback literacy; and threshold concept identification and acquisition

Hayley completed her PhD in molecular genetics and has over 20 year teaching experience. Since 2015 she has been an Education-focused academic, completing two graduate certificates in University Education and e-Learning design and adapting her lab-based trouble-shooting skills towards the challenges facing higher education. Hayley’s education research investigates opportunities to improve assessment in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) to increase student engagement towards skills and competencies important for life-long learning. This includes considerations to support assessment reform by understanding the relationship between STEM academics’ beliefs about assessment, how they assess, influencing factors and how this evolves over time. She also has a strong interest in supporting the adoption of program-level approaches to assessment, common in medicine, in STEM degrees. Hayley has previously held education leadership roles in her school and is currently a convenor of the University’s EF Careers CoP supporting the development of EF academics’ career pathways.