Ms Melanie Brown

Ms Melanie Brown
 Position Manager, Teaching Excellence
 Org Unit Division of Academic and Student Engagement
 Email melanie.brown@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone +61 8 8313 1424
 Location Floor/Room 555 ,  Kenneth Wills ,   North Terrace
  • Biography/ Background

    Melanie became Manager, Teaching Excellence in March, 2022. Previously she managed the ADEPT professional development program after commencing at Adelaide as Manager, Curriculum Design in November, 2019.

    In her current role she works with the Teaching Excellence team to support academic and professional staff through a range of programs that develop, recognise, and reward excellence in teaching or support of learning. She collaborates with the ADEPT Academic leads, DASE and Faculty colleagues on the creation of resources and ADEPT activities available to those who teach and support learning at the University.

    In December 2021 she became a Higher Education Academy Fellow (AdvanceHE).

    Prior to coming to the University of Adelaide, Melanie was Senior Academic Developer in the central Learning and Teaching team at RMIT Vietnam. She held this position for five and a half years during which she led and collaborated on curriculum development projects in the areas of authentic assessment, blended learning, and accessible learning materials and supported academic staff to incorporate these approaches into their teaching practice. She also supported great teachers to articulate their approach and be recognised for their positive impact on student learning through campus and university level teaching awards.

    Melanie came to academic development from a teaching position as lecturer and then senior lecturer within the Professional Communication program at RMIT Vietnam where she taught courses in media and public relations and coordinated development opportunities for the team.

  • Qualifications

    BA (Flinders University)

    MA (Macquarie University)

    GC (Tertiary Teaching & Learning), RMIT

    GC (Education), University of Southern Queensland

  • Publications

    Brown, M., Nomikoudis, M., Bouilheres, F., Nkhoma, C., & Akbari, M. (2022). Implementing a strategic campus-wide approach to authentic assessment: considerations and recommendations for implementation. Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning. Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/HESWBL-05-2021-0100

    Brown, M. and Peck, C. (2018). Expanding the landscape: Developing knowledgeability through communities of practice. International Journal for Academic Development, 23(2), 232-243.

    Jenkins, M., Bokosmaty, R., Brown, M., Browne, C., Gao, Q., Hanson, J. and Kupatadze, K. (2017). Enhancing the Design and Analysis of Flipped Learning Strategies. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 5, 1-12.

    Peck, C., Brown, M., and Bouilheres, F. (2017). Teaching Intercultural Competence to Undergraduate International Students in Vietnam. In D. K. Deardorff and L. A. Arasaratnam-Smith (Eds.). Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: International Approaches, Assessment and Application (pp. 229-233). London, UK: Routledge.

    Brown, M. and Peck, C. (2016). Communities of practice as mediators of institutional change. In Melissa Davis and Allan Goody (eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA 2016). Freemantle, WA, Australia. 4-7 July 2016. pp. 33-41.

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