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Associate Professor Sheranne Fairley

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Associate Professor (School of Business) - UQ





Topic

Adaptive Capacity in WIL (video)



Bio

Sheranne primarily researches in sport, events, and tourism. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Sport Management Review. She teaches event management in the UQ Business School and is a strong advocate for teaching methods that allow students to gain authentic real-world experience.

Mr. Matthew Campbell

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Senior Lecturer - Work Integrated Learning - QUT




Topic

National Funding for WIL: Current Proposals and Future Opportunities



Bio

Matthew Campbell is a member of the National Board of the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) and is currently Chair of the Advocacy and Engagement Subcommittee. He has a long history in WIL and is currently Senior Lecturer (WIL) at the Queensland University of Technology. His research interests have been around ethical practice and decision making and socio-cultural understandings of learning through work. More recently he has commenced a body of research around quality assurance for WIL practice and understandings of employability policy in Australian higher education.

Professor Susan Rowland

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Deputy Associate Dean Academic (Future Students and Employability) Faculty of Science
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Professor of Science Education of Chemistry and Moleculer Bioscience - UQ




Topic

UQ Ventures International Startup Adventure as part of our WIL in Science



Bio

Susan is a teaching-focused academic who researches and innovates in science education space. She also works on examining how students understand employability in relation to undergraduate research as Work Integrated Learning.



Dr. Roma Forbes

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Lecturer in Physiotherapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - UQ




Topic

Clinical Placements in the Private Practice Sector; Exploring Impacts and Opportunities for Placement Capacity



Bio

Roma Forbes is a teaching focused lecturer and titled musculoskeletal physiotherapist within the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. Her research focuses primarily on graduate readiness for practice and clinical education capacity. She has recently been awarded an early career researcher grant with ACEN to extend her WIL research to explore clinical education capacity in the private practice sector.

Dr. Faith Valencia-Forrester

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Senior Lecturer & Director of the Service Learning - Griffith University




Topic

Connecting, Creating and Innovating WIL for the fourth Industrial Revolution



Bio

Dr Faith Valencia-Forrester has combined her media experience, degrees in Arts, Law and Business, and her PhD in inclusive university-led work-integrated learning to help students gain experience and work toward social impact. Her work focuses on social justice and actively demonstrates inclusion and equity. Her research into WIL has been instrumental in developing engaged connections between the university and the community. She strives to move education beyond the typical classroom practice divide and the advantages stretch much further than students simply gaining practical experience; their work creates real-life impacts and can address disadvantage within the community. Faith specialises in designing and delivering innovative WIL projects, creating a fourth space where students, academics and industry can come together to create change.

Mrs. Carol-Joy Patrick

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Coordinator, Service Learning (Learning and Teaching Academy) - Griffith University




Topic

Shell WIL: a Journey from the ‘Hard Sciences’ to ‘Service-learning'



Bio

Carol-joy has over 25 years expertise in various aspects of design and implementation of work-integrated learning, and service-learning including Griffith University’s Commonwealth Games Internship program. She co-led two large national WIL research projects; achieved three national awards for WIL; and is an inaugural lifelong member of the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN).

Associate Professor Deanna Grant-Smith

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Associate Professor (School of Business)
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Deputy Director, Center Decent Work and Industry - QUT




Topic

Who cares for the careers? Safeguarding the Wellbeing of Academic and Professional WIL Support Staff



Bio

Deanna Grant-Smith is an Associate Professor in the QUT Business School. She is Deputy Director of the QUT Centre for Decent Work and Industry and leader of its sustainable transitions research program. Her recent research has focused on the education-to-employment transitions of early career professionals across a range of disciplines including business, education, nursing, allied health, creative industries, and urban and regional planning. In particular, she has explored the challenges associated with unpaid work experience and the WIL wellbeing of students and their academic supervisors. In 2017 she received an Australian Awards for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Dr. Angie Knaggs

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Senior Educational Designer (Faculty of Business, Economics and Law) - UQ




Topic

WIL Reflection - Open Reflection on WIL in Business, Economics and Law at UQ



Bio

Experienced Teaching and Learning strategist with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry, particularly in the areas of Partnered Curriculum - the nexus between design thinking and pedagogical design - folding students, staff, industry and alumni into the curriculum design process in an authentic way. Skilled in ideation facilitation, partnered curriculum development, Blended Learning Design, Lecturing, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, and Curriculum Development.

Mr. Ashil Ranpara

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Employability Specialist (Faculty of Business, Economics and Law) - UQ




Topic

WIL Reflection - Open Reflection on WIL in Business, Economics and Law at UQ



Bio

Ashil has extensive experience in managing placements and internships. He has coordinated placements and facilitated partnerships in the not-for-profit sector, Public Relations, Marketing, Journalism, Business and Languages & Linguistics. He has co-coordinated international Work-Integrated Learning projects and developed Australia's first Languages internship program.

Associate Professor Barry Oliver

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Associate Professor (School of Business) - UQ




Topic

WIL Reflection - Open Reflection on WIL in Business, Economics and Law at UQ



Bio

Barry has an eclectic career. After studying accounting he embarked on a Masters in Economics, then a PhD in Finance, a post-grad qualification in psychology followed the PhD. Recently he has completed training in hypnotherapy and is currently undertaking Lifeline Crisis Supporter training. His recent research on behavioural biases of CEO’s has been published in internationally recognised A* journals. He was the discipline leader in Finance in the Business School for 5 years.

Shama Hasilker

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Graduate Student (School of Business) - UQ




Topic

WIL Reflection - Open Reflection on WIL in Business, Economics and Law at UQ



Bio

A recent graduate of the University of Queensland with a Master of Business in Information Systems degree and a recipient of Dean's Commendation. Shama has nearly five years of experience as an IT professional, having worked in various roles and projects.

Associate Professor Laurie Murphy

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Associate Professor (College of Business, Law & Governance) - James Cook University




Topic

How Structure and Process Facilitate Agility in WIL



Bio

Dr. Laurie Murphy is an Associate Professor in the College of Business, Law and Governance at James Cook University, Australia. Her research interests focus on improving tourism’s contribution to regional communities with an emphasis on tourism marketing, destination image and choice, destination branding tourism’s contribution to community wellbeing. Laurie has served on the editorial board of both the Journal of Travel Research and the Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing and serves on the Tourism Development and Marketing Strategic Advisory Committee for Townsville Enterprise Ltd. She is the Work Integrated Learning Co-ordinator for the Bachelor of Business and is responsible for establishing industry partnerships to facilitate professional internship and industry project opportunities for students.

Annabelle Neall

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Lecturer - Organisational Psychology -UQ




Topic

Developing an Innovative and Accessible WIL Taxonomy to Support Psychology Undergraduate Students (video)



Bio

Dr Neall is a Lecturer of Organisational Psychology at the University of Queensland. She held numerous roles as a tutor, guest lecturer and course coordinator across the undergraduate psychology curriculum at the University of South Australia, before commencing a Learning and Teaching focussed role at the University of Queensland in 2020. Her teaching portfolio specialises in the application of psychological knowledge and skills to generalised and organisational settings, supported by a program of basic and applied research that seeks to address problems of workplace misbehaviour. She is an experienced exploratory and qualitative researcher, resulting in highly cited papers in the top journals for her field.