Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Awards & Achievements
Publications

Dr Linda Westphalen

Telephone	+61 8 8313 3784
Position	Lecturer. Coordinator of 4th Year Programs
Email	linda.westphalen@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 3604
Building	Nexus 10 Tower
Floor/Room	8 05
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Education, School of

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Biography/ Background

Linda completed her teaching qualification in 1985, her Honours in English in 1993 and her PhD in 2002 in Indigenous Women's Life-histories. She has just completed a Graduate Certificate in Online Learning. She has taught in Women's Studies and Australian Studies at Flinders University, as well as worked as a teacher in secondary schools. Her current teaching and research focusses on Cultural Studies issues to do with education, ICTs and reflective practice, and student care.

Qualifications

BA (Adelaide) Hons (Flinders) Grad Cert Online (Adelaide) Grad Diploma in Ed (Secondary) (Adelaide) PhD (Flinders)

Awards & Achievements

Winner of the 2008 Executive Dean of the Professions Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Postgraduate).

Winner of a Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) 2012 National Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Publications

(Recent)

Westphalen, L. (2011) An Anthropological and Literary Study of Two Aboriginal Women's Life Histories: The Impacts of Enforced Child Removal and Policies of Assimilation. Edwin Mellen Press, New York.

Entry last updated: Friday, 8 Mar 2013

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