ERGA Executive
Edward Palmer (Convenor)
Lecturer, Centre for Learning and Professional Development
Edward is a professional educator with years of experience in
developing, implementing and analysing the impact of educational
initiatives on tertiary students. He is the coordinator of Evaluations
and Survey Services and a casual teacher in the Discipline of Physics.
With a background in engineering, physics and medicine his current
interests are evaluation, on-line and electronic education, and
technological teaching aids.
Teaching Awards:
- 2007 Stephen Cole the Elder Prize for Excellence in Teaching
- 2005 Nomination for Apple Educator of the Year
James Botten (Secretary)
Associate Lecturer, Discipline of Microbiology & Immunology
James is an avid microbiologist who has chosen to apply his
knowledge to educating future Microbiologists. His current role is
focused on co-ordinating and delivering practical classes for 2nd and
3rd year undergraduate Science students, as well as delivering lectures
and tutorials. His current research interests focus on understanding
students' perceptions of the courses that he teaches, with the aim of
improving the learning and teaching outcomes of those courses. https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/james.botten
Katrina Falkner (Treasurer).
Lecturer, School of Computer Science
Katrina Falkner has broad lecturing experience, including
undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and off-shore intensive
courses. Katrina's current primary lecturing responsibility is first
year introductory Computer Science, which has a diverse intake of
domestic and international students. Katrina's main research interests
include supporting the transition to university for undergraduate and
international students, and pedagogy for introductory Computer Science
and Engineering courses. She has a particular interest in designing
integrated curriculum that incorporates support services and peer
community development. Katrina currently serves as Learning and
Teaching Coordinator within the School of Computer Science; this role
involves course and programme review, training and mentoring of new
staff, the design of new programmes and convening the School's Learning
and Teaching Committee. http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~katrina/
Teaching Awards:
- 2007 ECMS Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching
- 2007 Executive Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Michelle Coulson (Treasurer)
Associate Lecturer, Discipline of Genetics
Michelle is a keen geneticist whose primary interest is effective
learning and teaching in genetics and molecular and cellular biology. Her educational research interests are evolving and
developing, and include: scientific numeracy, literature research
skills and effective assessmentand feedback.
Teaching Awards:
- 2004 Stephen Cole the Elder Prize
for Excellence in Teaching
Said Al-Sarawi.
Lecturer, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Said
Al-Sarawi is a lecturer with years of experience in the design and
development of highly integrated electronic circuits for
telecommunication and biomedical applications. He has a strong
educational interest in maintaining learning and teaching quality in
higher education, and seeks to achieve this through utilising and
developing innovative learning and teaching techniques for engineering
education. This forms the basis of his current educational research
interests, which also include investigating factors which affect students’ evaluations
of courses in different disciplines.
Bradley Alexander.
Lecturer, School of Computer Science
Brad Alexander is a lecturer in the school of
Computer Science. He has several years experience
in teaching a broad range of computing topics
in a variety of settings. He has a keen interest in developing
processes and mechanisms for fast feedback on programming
assignments, the avoidance of plagiarism, and in
promoting activities to make computing more interactive
and engaging. Brad is currently a member of the SSABSA IT Subject Advisory
Committee, the Computer Science Learning and Teaching Sub-Committee,
acting coordinator of the Computer Science Learning Centre,
Coach of the top Australian team in the 2006 world final of the
ACM Programming Contest.
Peter Devitt
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Peter is a consultant
surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. His interests
focus on undergraduate education and the development and evaluation of
educational tools and assessment processes. He is a member of the
Australian Medical Council and responsible for the production of
materials for the assessment of medical graduates. He has also
published books and CDs for graduating medical students.
Teaching Awards:
- 2007 Stephen Cole the Elder Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Lynn Rogers.
Lecturer, Discipline of Biochemistry
Lynn is coordinator of level 2 Biochemistry and teaches first and
second year science students and first to third year medical students.
Her current educational research involves the implementation of various
learning strategies to improve student engagement and performance. As
the diversity of students has increased she has tried to make the
curriculum more student-focused and self-directed. She begins each year
with the quote from John Ruskin: "Education is the leading of human
souls to what is best, and making what is best of them", to try to
pre-empt complaints from the students.
Teaching Awards:
- 1994 Dean’s Certificate for Excellence in Teaching
- 1995 Stephen Cole the Elder Prize for Excellence in Teaching
- 2001 Richard Pellew Prize for outstanding teaching to medical students
- Nomination by the University of Adelaide for the Prime Minister’s Teaching Prize in 2005
Joy McEntee.
Lecturer, School of Humanities
Joy’s mission in life is to make students laugh – not only because
it makes her popular, but because it helps students learn. The earnest
way of putting is that that her educational research focus is on
trialling methods for maximising students’ engagement with key ideas
and techniques and developing their confidence and autonomy as
self-directed learners. For an example of her work for students, see http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/humanities/pg/english/milestones.html
She is currently participating
in the Research Skills Development Framework project headed by John
Willison (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/rsd/).
Teaching Awards:
- 2006 Carrick Citation
- 2002 Fulbright
American Studies Institute Award
- 2001 Stephen Cole the Elder Prize
for Excellence in Teaching
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