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Join us for this informal and interactive workshop invites Education-focused and Teaching-focused academics to reflect on their careers and the experience of navigating EF/TF roles in Australian higher education.
Led by Professors Pauline Ross and Kelly Matthews, the session will begin with a peer interview between the two facilitators, drawing on their research, leadership and lived experience. The conversation will then open into a broader peer discussion with participants.
The workshop will also include peer coaching activities, supporting attendees to explore what “navigating well” means in their own institutional and career contexts. Participants will leave with new connections, shared insights, and practical reflections on sustaining and shaping EF/TF careers.
Format and Participation
This will be a conversational and participatory workshop, with no formal presentation or PowerPoint. Participants will be invited to join the discussion, contribute reflections from their own EF/TF contexts, and take part in peer coaching activities.
Kelly Matthews
Kelly Matthews
Kelly Matthews is Pro Vice-Chancellor, Teaching & Learning at the University of Wollongong and an internationally respected scholar in higher education. Her work spans student experience, belonging, teaching-focused academic identity, curriculum development, the scholarship of teaching and learning, students as partners, and students’ experiences of AI in higher education.
She has authored more than 150 publications and delivered over 100 keynote and invited addresses internationally. Kelly has held major leadership roles in the scholarship of teaching and learning, including as Vice-President of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and founding editor of the International Journal for Students as Partners.
Her work is grounded in a commitment to higher education as a public good, and to building institutions where students and staff can thrive through trust, partnership and shared purpose.
Pauline Ross
Pauline Ross
Professor Pauline Ross is Professor of Marine Ecology and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Sydney. She is internationally recognised for her work in marine ecology, academic workforce studies, curriculum innovation, and higher education research.
Pauline is also a leading scholar of academic identity, education-focused roles, workload sustainability, relational pedagogy, teaching excellence, and assessment redesign in response to artificial intelligence. Her work advocates for universities that value connection to learning, place, community and the natural world, alongside human connection, creativity and meaningful educational relationships.
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