Personal Statement
As Head of Academic Development, I lead the Academic Development team to manage quality assurance processes and deliver accredited and non-accredited programmes to provide staff with continuing professional development to enhance academic practice and its impact on teaching, learning and the student experience at the University of Liverpool. Also, I am Director of Studies for the Liverpool Online Academic Practice programmes. I am keen to work collaboratively with colleagues across the University to ensure we deliver the best possible service to academic staff and ultimately our students, and extend our reach through collaborative global partnerships.

Awards and Recognition
2024 National Teaching Fellowship
2024 Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence
2021 Global Academic Development Good Practice Award Finalist University of Liverpool Integrated Approach to Developing Teaching and Scholarship (Team Award)
2018 Australasian Academic Development Good Practice Award with Distinction Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching
(Team Award)
2015 Principal Fellow HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY (ADVANCE HE)
2015 Endeavour Executive Fellowship, AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT ($12,761 AUD)
2014 Curtin Academy Fellow, CURTIN UNIVERSITY, Australia
2011 HERDSA Fellow, Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia
2011 Curtin Excellence in Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for Academic Leadership, Staff Development and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, CURTIN UNIVERSITY ($2,000 AUD)
2011 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence and Innovation: For Providing Inspirational Leadership in the Curtin Business School Peer Review of Teaching Programme, CURTIN UNIVERSITY ($15,000 AUD)
2011 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Leadership and Development Grant, AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT ($215,000 AUD)
2009 International Award for Excellence in the Area of Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, for Authorship of the Top Ranked Article 2008, International Journal for Knowledge, Culture and Change Management

Research Overview
MA Academic Practice Supervision
• Chris Bilboe
Doctoral Supervision
Primary Supervision - Educational Doctorate (Online Professional Doctorate with Liverpool-Laureate partnership):
• Fiona Mayer: An investigation into the progression of St. Lucian male students to and through higher education (Passed, 2020)
• Anas Eljamal: Predictive Grading: A measure for assessing tacit competencies – Master of Philosophy (passed, 2018)

Secondary Supervision - Educational Doctorate (Online Professional Doctorate with Liverpool-Laureate partnership):
• Roland von Euw: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Blended Learning Course in Interview Training for Swiss Career Counselors (passed, 2019)
• Ola Al-Muthadi: Supporting first-year students: Understanding the impact of collaboration between academic advising and student affairs on first-year students’ experience (passed, 2019)
• Zse Zse Hon: Physical Educators’ Lived Experience in Continuing Professional Development in the context of Hong Kong Higher Education (passed, 2020)
• Harib Al-Mahrooqi: Bridging the Gap between Higher Education and the Logistic Sector Needs in Oman: Designing a need-based curriculum (passed, 2021)

Associate Supervision - Doctor of Philosophy (Curtin University)
• Vanette Hordyk Developing Graduate Attributes - Teamwork Skills (passed, 2013)

Funded Research Projects
• Contemporary University Teaching Induction Fellowship (team member) University of Swinburne (2016-2019) https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2019.1612751
• Principal Investigator for Curtin in an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Leadership and Development Grant ($215,000 AUD) for project titled “Developing a culture of peer review of teaching through a distributive leadership approach”;
QUT (lead) other partners - UTS Sydney, University of Adelaide and Charles Darwin University https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2014.935931

Postgraduate Research
PhD - An investigation of professional learning in dynamic environments (2009)
Master of Education (by research) - Teacher identification of significant action learning experiences leading to professional growth (2003)