Keynote Speaker – Professor Don Markwell

Professor Don Markwell commenced as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) of the University of Western Australia in January 2007. In this role he leads and oversees UWA’s academic programs, focussing strongly on the quality of the student learning experience. From 1997 to 2007, he was Warden of Trinity College in the University of Melbourne, and from 1986 to 1997 was a University Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Rhodes Scholar for Queensland for 1981, he has published widely on international relations, constitutional politics, and education.

The challenge of student engagement

Keynote address by Professor Don Markwell, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), University of Western Australia, at the Teaching and Learning Forum 2007, held at the University of Western Australia, 30-31 January 2007

Keynote Speaker – Professor Owen Hicks

In 2004-5, Professor Owen Hicks worked with Australian Volunteers International as an education development consultant in Timor-Leste, teaching research methods and assisting with the development of the Dili Institute of Technology, a small fledgling tertiary institution. He has recently completed work for the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, was a consultant to the Australian Universities Teaching Committee and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources at the University of Wollongong. Earlier Professor Hicks headed Organisational and Staff Development Services at The University of Western Australia, was a council member of the International Consortium for Educational Development and a past president of HERDSA.

And you will say “what was all that about?” and I will reply “well you tell me”

Keynote address by Professor Owen Hicks, Higher Education Development Consultant, at the Teaching and Learning Forum 2007, held at the University of Western Australia, 30-31 January 2007