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Shirley Alexander is Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of Technology, Sydney where she is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor & Vice President (Teaching, Learning & Equity). Her portfolio responsibilities include the quality of courses and teaching, equity and diversity, student services, and the student experience. The University of Technology Sydney is embarking on a major campus redevelopment project which will involve close to $1billion in expenditure and Shirley is leading the teams designing the teaching and learning, and student space projects. She is aiming to drive changes to the student experience of university through the design of spaces. She is currently chair of the “Data Intensive University” project, a university-wide initiative to ensure the university makes best use of data in the full range of its activities.

Professor James Arvanitakis is a lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Western Sydney and a member of the University’s Institute for Cultural and Society. His research areas include hope, trust, political theatre, piracy and citizenship. A former banker James has worked as a human rights activist throughout the Pacific, Indonesia and Europe. James received the prestigious 2012 Prime Minister’s University Teacher of the Year Award, being recognised for his innovative teaching approaches and ability to bring together his passion for community engagement and research activities. He is the lead researcher on an Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant looking at contemporary challenges of citizenship and writing a new edition of his sociology textbook (for Oxford University Press). His work can be found at www.jamesarvanitakis.net.

Professor Warren Bebbington commenced as the ’s 20th Vice-Chancellor in July 2012. A Fulbright Scholar, Professor Bebbington studied at the and in New York at Queens College, Columbia University, and the CUNY Graduate School, completing masters degrees in Arts, Music, and Philosophy, and a PhD. Prior to his role at the University of Adelaide, he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (University Affairs), and previously, Pro Vice- Chancellor (Global Relations) at the University of Melbourne. He also served as a Dean at the University of Melbourne and at the , and before that taught at the Australian National University’s School of Music. As a teacher, he won the University of Melbourne Award for Excellence in Teaching (Humanities) in 2005 and an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for “30 years of outstanding teaching” in 2008. He has appeared frequently as a visiting keynote speaker at universities abroad, including in Dublin and Hong Kong. Professor Bebbington’s publications include the Oxford Companion to Australian Music, and he was, for a decade, the music member of the international Advisory Committee for Encyclopaedia Britannica. His national community roles have included seven years as Chair of Music Committees for the Australia Council, Federal Chair of AMEB, and Deputy Chair of Youth Music Australia.

Andrew Bonnell is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Queensland. His publications include the books The People’s Stage in Imperial Germany (2005), Shylock in Germany (2008) and An American Witness in Nazi Frankfurt (edited 2011), as well as numerous articles, specialising in modern German history. He is a past convener of the History discipline at UQ, and is History editor of the Australian Journal of Politics and History. He has been NTEU Branch President at UQ since 2003 and is currently NTEU Queensland Division President, and a member of the NTEU National Executive. He is also a member of the University of Queensland Senate (academic staff-elected).

With a background in neuroscience, Professor Stuart Bunt is at present researching the physical characteristics of brain for modelling brain movement in injury and surgery, and has grants to research new teaching methods using social media and virtual reality, and supporting research in the bioarts (Scientific Director 2000-2008 and co-founder of SymbioticA, the first art and biology lab situated in a science department). He has consulted and lectured on the nexus between Art/ Science and Technology, exhibited in Ars Electronica and collaborated or helped produce a number of biotech art pieces revolving around emergent technologies in the biosciences. Stuart is a senator at the University of Western Australia for 12 years, chief executive of the biomedical software spin-off company, Paradigm Diagnostics, and founder of the Image Acquisition and Analysis Facility, UWA. He is a former President and now Vice President of UWAASA, a former president and now Vice-President Academic of the NTEU UWA branch. He is also the WA Division President.

Ted Clark is the current University of Melbourne NTEU Branch President and member of branch committee since joining the university. He lectures in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and co ordinates the Learning Area Information Technology. Ted is researching the use of online environments for learning. His doctoral study investigates the contributions of online network social and material connections to learning.

Raewyn Connell is a Professor at the University of Sydney, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and one of Australia’s leading social scientists. Her most recent books are Confronting Equality (2011), about social science and politics; Gender: In World Perspective (2009); and Southern Theory (2007), about social thought beyond the global metropole. Her other books include Masculinities, Schools & Social Justice, Ruling Class Ruling Culture, Gender & Power, and Making the Difference. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages. She has taught at universities in Australia, Canada and the USA, in departments of sociology, political science, and education. A long-term participant in the labour movement and peace movement, Raewyn has tried to make social science relevant to social justice. More about her research can be found at: www.raewynconnell.net.

Stephen Darwin is the Secretary of the NTEU ACT Division. Prior to being elected to this role, he worked as an education academic at the ANU and the University of Canberra, teaching in the areas of learning design, educational leadership and educational research. Stephen was also formerly the Director of Education at the Canberra Institute of Technology, where he led significant reforms of approaches to vocational teaching and learning. Stephen has also undertaken research on student evaluation and the nature of vocational and higher education teaching and learning. p.2

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From her base at Griffith University, Lynda Davies has had the opportunity to contribute to local, divisional and national union policy directions by bringing the experiences of her colleagues to bear on current issues, and the issues that the union has foreseen as developing problems. Over sixteen years she has held both continuing and fixed term general staff positions that have informed her view of the work general staff undertake. She holds a doctorate in creative writing and children’s literature and has designed, written and taught online Masters-level courses as a sessional academic. Her current role as a Curriculum Consultant is squarely within the blurred space of academic/general staff employment. She recognises that over the last five years the context of our positions in universities has changed; we have changed, our jobs have changed. And some of those changes are blurring the boundaries between academic and general staff work requiring some staff to operate in an environment that demands the capability and capacity to successfully straddle both domains.

Professor Glenn Finger is the Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the Arts, Education and Law Group at Griffith University, and provides leadership in learning and teaching. He has held the important leadership position of Deputy Dean (Learning & Teaching) of the Faculty of Education, Griffith University from 2007-2010, and was the Deputy Director of the Centre for Learning Research at Griffith University from 2005-2006. Throughout his academic career, his teaching and research interests have focused on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance and transform learning and teaching. He has published extensively with more than 70 peer reviewed publications, and this research has informed his scholarship of teaching. He is the lead author of the book Transforming Learning with ICT: Making IT Happen, and the Co-Editor of Developing a Networked School Community: A Guide to Realising the Vision. In 2011-2012, he was the Chair, Research and Evaluation Working Group for the national Teaching Teachers for the Future Project involving 39 Higher Education Institutions in Australia. For his university teaching, Professor Finger has won various teaching awards and citations, including the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Award for Teaching Excellence (Social Sciences) in 2009, Australian Teacher Education Association Pearson Education Teacher Educator of the Year in 2008, and an ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2008. Prior to his appointment at Griffith in 1999, Professor Finger served with Education Queensland for more than 24 years as a physical education specialist, primary school teacher, Deputy Principal and Acting Principal in a wide variety of educational settings.

Dr Julie Fletcher is a Lecturer in Foundations (Social Sciences) within the College of Arts, Victoria University. Her teaching role includes responsibility for the development and delivery of first year Foundation units in the social sciences designed to integrate and embed essential academic skills, literacies and discourses within coherent, broad based social science content. Julie has a long standing research and teaching interest in first year experience, transition, foundational and inclusive pedagogies, and the teaching of diverse and non-traditional students. Julie’s PhD (Deakin 2008) is in the interdisciplinary fields of cultural politics and Tibetan studies. She is a contributor to Funston et all’s, Strong Starts, Supported Transitions and Student Success, forthcoming, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Andrew Funston has a background in youth policy and community based arts programs. He has taught in tertiary education for the past two decades, and is currently employed as a lecturer in the College of Arts at Victoria University (VU) Melbourne where he works closely with commencing students. Andrew’s PhD thesis (Uni Melb 2011) reported on a study of ‘non-traditional’ students making their way in higher education; focussing on equity issues and the difficulties some students face both on-campus and off-campus. He also researches young people’s use of ICTs. Andrew is currently co-authoring a book called ‘Strong Starts, Supported Transitions and Student Success’ (for Cambridge Scholars Publishing).

Professor Margaret Gardner was appointed as Vice-Chancellor of RMIT University in April 2005, having previously held the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Queensland. Professor Gardner has provided strategic advice on educational pathways, human resource management, equity and employment and industrial relations to governments, industry and a broad range of institutions. She has also served on the boards of a number of bodies, including in the arts and education sectors. She is currently a member of the Council of Australia Latin American Relations Board and Chair of their Education Advisory Group, a member of the LH Martin Institute Advisory Board, the ANZAC Centenary Advisory Board, and the International Education Advisory Council. Professor Gardner chairs the Museums Board of Victoria, RMIT International University Vietnam Pty Ltd, RMIT Vietnam Holdings Pty Ltd as well as the Strategic Advisory Board, Office for Learning and Teaching and is a director of Open Universities Australia and the Fulbright Commission Advisory Board.

Clare Keyes-Liley is the current National Education Officer for the National Union of Students (NUS). Clare is taking a year out of a Bachelor of Arts at La Trobe University with a double major in Gender, Sexuality & Diversity Studies and English to work for NUS. She hopes to pursue post-graduate study in the history of the Australian suffrage movement. Prior to working as the Education Officer of NUS, Clare was the 2012 President and 2011 Women’s Officer of the La Trobe University Student Union. Having worked within university bureaucratic structures, she has difficulty comprehending that evidence based decision-making is not commonplace in the modern university.

Paul Kniest was a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Newcastle for 12 years, prior to commencing as a Research and Policy Officer with the NTEU. Paul has also worked as a research economist with the Bureau of Industry Economics at the OECD in Paris. His research and teaching interests included industrial economics, international trade and the economics of education. He has published has been published in several academic journals and is also the co-author of two introductory economics textbooks.

Julie Hare is higher education editor at The Australian, where she has been since August 2010, after six years editing the specialist higher education title Campus Review. Before that, Julie was a writer and editor in school and vocational education for the NSW public service. Her early years in journalism were in magazines, as an editor, sub-editor and feature writer. She still occasionally yearns to write about lipstick and floral arrangements. Julie collected a bachelor of arts from Newcastle University in the 1980s, where she majored in English and drama, apparently giving no thought to a future career. She stumbled into journalism via a mixture persistence, chutzpah and sheer blind luck. p.3

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Meghan Hopper is the National President of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA), the peak body for Australia’s 350,000+ postgraduate and Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students and the elected student bodies that represent them. She has served in this role since October 2012 prior to which she was CAPA Policy & Research Advisor (2012), Vice President (Equity) and Women’s Officer (2011). She has also served in a variety of student representative roles at Monash University, including on the Monash Academic Board (2011) and as President of the Monash University Gippsland Student Union (2010). CAPA’s two major publications over the past twelve months have been One Year In: What the Student Services and Amenities Fee means to Postgraduate Students and The Research Education Experience: Investigating HDR Candidates’ Experiences in Australian Universities, both of which Meghan was involved in compiling. She encourages you when you go home from this conference to immediately read both. Meghan is enrolled in a PhD in Political Journalism and Gender Studies at Monash University and completed her undergraduate study at RMIT University. She is also an elected Local Government Councillor in the City of Moreland.

Dr Yuko Kinoshita has been convening, designing, lecturing and tutoring undergraduate Japanese courses at the University of Canberra since 2002, and has also supervised graduate units and taught in the TESOL program. Her education strategies prioritise the development of students’ cultural awareness and intercultural competence alongside language competence. She develops many of her own teaching materials, and has pioneered use of structured video chat with overseas first language speakers as a classroom tool. She is also an active researcher in the field of forensic phonetics and provides voice comparison services for investigators and courts of law.

Colin Long was Director of the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University, and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Heritage until October 2010, when he was elected Victorian Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union. He taught extensively in Asian history, urban studies and cultural heritage preservation at undergraduate and post- graduate levels. He has taught at the University of Melbourne and Victoria University, as well as universities in Germany (where he taught in the World Heritage program at Cottbus University) and Thailand (where he taught units on heritage law and heritage and development at Silpakorn University, and on cultural tourism at Khon Kaen University). He has undertaken aid and development projects in the field of heritage for the Vietnamese and Lao governments, UNESCO and the UN World Tourism Organisation. His recent publications include ‘Cultural heritage and the global environmental crisis’ (with Anita Smith), in Labadi and Long, Heritage and Globalisation (Routledge 2010). Colin is also a board member of Earthworker cooperative.

Terri MacDonald is a Policy and Research officer with the National Tertiary Education Union. She is in the final stages of her PhD candidature and has previously worked within universities as both an academic and member of professional staff. A long time union member and activist, she also a strong interest in international education and student rights, and represents the interests of unions on a federal government consultative body dealing with the international student sector. Terri been has been working for the NTEU since 2003, but has also been involved with the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) and the National Union of Students (NUS) in a number of representative roles.

Dr Steve Mackey is a senior lecturer in public relations at Deakin University where he is Branch President. He is a 22-year NTEU and predecessor union member and before that was a 17-year member of the National Union of Journalists in the UK. He teaches a public relations unit about the use of the internet and two other units to do with public affairs which are delivered online. Deakin University has embarked on an ambitious program of online teaching and Steve this year coordinated an email survey to find out how it and other management ambitions are affecting members. He will be talking about some of the most important findings of that research.

Terry Mason is from the land of the Awabakal language group and works in the Badanami Centre, University Western Sydney in the area of access and learning support. Former Academic Co-ordinator of the BEd. Aboriginal Rural Education Program, currently chair of NTEU Indigenous Policy Committee and of the Board of the Welfare Rights Centre. Terry was a reader of written submissions to the ‘NSW Review of Aboriginal Education’, a key researcher in the “Successful transition programs from prior-to-school to school for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children” project, contributing to Australian and overseas publications and has presented papers in the area of transition, starting school, student support and social media. Prior to this he has been closely involved with Koori community, social and work issues through active involvement with Community Groups, welfare organisations, Commonwealth and State Public Service entities and union representation at member and executive level.

Robyn May is a PhD candidate at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Robyn’s thesis examines the causes and implications of insecure academic employment in Australia’s public universities, and the research is part of a wider ARC project examining gender and employment equity in the university sector. Robyn also works as a casual academic at RMIT University, and holds a casual research position at University of Melbourne. Robyn has previously worked in the trade union movement, in academia and in the public service.

Dr Susan Mayson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University. She is a researcher and a teacher. Along with colleague and co-author Dr Jan Schapper (La Trobe) she has written about and critiqued teaching and research relations in higher education, particularly with regard to the ‘taylorisation’ of academic work and more recently examining senior management discourse on research and teaching relations. She has published (with Jan Schapper) in Higher Education Research and Development Journal and Higher Education. She has been a Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award winner and she is an investigator on a current ALTC project (with Dr John Willison and others) investigating students’ research skill development. p.4

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Dr Kelvin Michael has worked in Antarctic and marine science, teaching and research at the for over 20 years. He is involved in teaching and coordination of teaching at undergraduate, Honours and postgraduate levels, primarily via face-to-face techniques. He is concerned by the various emphases placed upon research versus teaching in the Australian tertiary sector, and believes it is important to both support quality teaching and to ensure that lecturers are given appropriate recognition for their work, both in terms of status and the investment of time.

Aleem Nizari, originally from Goa in India, is studying for his masters of international relations at Monash University. He completed his Bachelors in Economics and International Business at Monash last year. In 2009, he was elected as Director of the Overseas Student Services at Monash University Student Union Peninsula and in the following years took on the role of coordinating and establishing Monash International Students Association across the six Monash Campuses. Aleem joined the inaugural Council of International Students Australia (CISA) team as Treasurer in 2010, and in July 2012 was elected as National President, representing nearly 550,000 international students studying in Australia. Aleem has always committed his time helping his fellow international students and worked to enhance their student experience. His key interest is in improving welfare of the society and advocating for fair and equal rights for all.

Dorothy Peters has been helping to progress reconciliation in Victoria for many years, working within the community to build understanding and respect between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Among her numerous achievements she successfully brought long overdue recognition to Aboriginal servicemen and women. The well-known Yarra Yarra Elder is greeted by all as Aunty Dot. Born in Melbourne in 1930, she grew up in Healesville. Over the years, Aunty Dot has broken down several barriers. She became the first Aboriginal member of the Healesville RSL Ladies Auxiliary and the first Aboriginal board member of the Healesville and District Hospital. Aunty Dot’s work has been acknowledged with many awards, including the Centenary Medal (2001) and was inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2011).

Belinda Probert has worked in Australian higher education for 35 years and in senior leadership roles for the last 12 years – ranging from Head of School to Deputy Vice-Chancellor – at RMIT, UWA and most recently La Trobe University. Belinda’s research has focused on employment policy, gender equity, and work and welfare reform. She was the author of a path- breaking study into academic and administrative university careers in the late 1990s – a study which is currently being replicated through an ARC funded linkage grant. Her most recent research has looked at the growth of ‘teaching-focused’ academic appointments in Australian universities. Jeannie Rea is the National President of the NTEU. A professional educator for over thirty years, she began her career as a TAFE humanities and social sciences teacher, then a teacher union official, before commencing as a women’s studies lecturer at Victoria University, where she won the university teaching award early in her academic career. Jeannie’s teaching and research interests are in gender studies, public advocacy, environmental science and labour history, with a particular focus upon intersectionality and social change. Jeannie has extensive experience teaching local and international undergraduate and postgraduate students and has a deep passion and commitment to enabling access and assuring success for students from different backgrounds. She has actively participating in many levels of institutional governance and management in both union and professional capacities, most recently as Deputy Dean of Arts, Education and Human Development.

Cathy Rytmeister is a lecturer in Academic Development at Macquarie University’s Learning and Teaching Centre (LTC) and the academic convener of the Centre’s evaluation portfolio. This role includes coordination of Macquarie’s Teaching Evaluation for Development Service (student evaluation of teaching and curriculum) and the development and implementation of broader evaluation strategies. Cathy also teaches in Macquarie’s Master of Higher Education Program and conducts a range of teaching and leadership development workshops within the LTC’s professional learning program. Cathy is a long-standing NTEU member and activist and has held a range of Branch, Division and National positions in the Union. She is currently the Macquarie Branch President, NSW Vice-President (Academic), NSW Academic representative on the Women’s Action Committee and a member of National Council.

Paul Turnbull is Professor of eHistory at the University of Queensland. He is internationally known for his research in the field of digital history. His current digital projects include PaperMiner, a service using advanced data mining techniques to analyse the content of the Australian National Library’s Australian Newspapers Online. Paul is a past president of H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, and has held guest professorships in digital humanities in North America and Europe. He is also an expert on the history of evolutionary anatomy and its connections to racial thought in Europe and colonial Australia during the course of the 19th century. Paul was among the first creators of online teaching and learning resources in history. His current focus is on integrating e-research tools and techniques into undergraduate courses in history and heritage studies.

Jade Tyrrell is the National President of the National Union of Students for 2013. Jade will graduate from UTS later this year with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Journalism)/Bachelor of Laws. Before taking up her role with NUS, Jade was the President of the UTS Students’ Association (2012) and Secretary (2011). She has also been editor of the UTS student magazine, Vertigo. Jade is has an interest in international human rights law, with an emphasis on refugee law and practice.

Kyle Webb is a young Dharug man from NSW. He began the University of Melbourne’s Bachelor of Arts Extended program for Indigenous students in 2009. Kyle has previously engaged with cadetship programs and continues with his study today with an interest in psychology and international relations. Kyle is currently serving as an Indigenous student representative for the University of Melbourne Student Union.

Brian Zammit is a Lecturer in Foundation Pedagogies in the College of Arts at Victoria University. His roles include coordinating a foundation unit, sharing course coordinating duties for the Bachelor of Arts as well as responsibilities for student retention. His research interests include foundation pedagogies and the First Year Experience.