Public speaking and oral assessments are common in higher education, they can be a major cause of anxiety stress for students. This study was designed to measure the student experience public assessment tasks mandatory first-year course at regional Australian university. The research conducted an instrumental case study, with student-centred focus. Surveys were elicit perceptions their emotions before after engaging skill development exercises task. After undertaking desensitisation...

Purpose Responding to increasing external pressure, universities are developing new strategies illustrate the impact of their degrees on graduate employability. This paper investigates how alumni regard development professional networks during tertiary education in relation employability and associated pedagogical implications. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews with 18 business arts from a regional university. Findings The findings reveal...

Effective climate change communication is central to public engagement, self-efficacy, and support for mitigation adaptation policies. Yet, communicators face numerous challenges, such as misinformation, despair, the complexity of science. This study examines views 29 from Australia Aotearoa New Zealand evaluate alignment between practitioner insights research-backed strategies. Findings confirm significance audience segmentation, localized, solution-focused messaging collaborative...

In response to the shortcomings of current assessment feedback practice, this paper presents results a study designed examine students' and teachers' experience engaging in written, reflective dialogic (WRDF) strategy. The strategy was enhance learning students undertaking large first-year core course at regional Australian university semester 2, 2012. evaluation consisted three components: student surveys pre- post-WRDF; focus group teacher survey post-WRDF. Participating perceptions WRDF...

There has been a threefold increase in the employment of casual academics Australian universities within last 20 years, to extent that most teaching and marking is now undertaken by academics, also known as sessional staff. Yet, casualised assessment considered risk student engagement success, report lack professional development increased feelings marginalisation academy. Concurrently, quality assurance higher education become central focus government-funded regulatory organisation,...

This paper discusses a research project that aims to address the binary/irony of central physical and teaching space women casual academics inhabit within Australian universities, against their lack presence in existing discourses around higher education. The invisibility education generally, scholarship sessional staffing more specifically, provoked an arts-informed narrative inquiry into lived experience academics. In this I offer overview investigation present extracts from verbatim drama...

Conference attendance is a feature of contemporary academic work and an accepted way building identities networks through the dissemination promotion ideas, achievements research. However, our personal experiences have caused us to problematise traditional conference consider alternatives which mitigate its associated problems yet achieve aims. In this paper, we use collaborative autoethnography engage in inquiry about roles conferences, their inhabited notions representation, membership...

This paper reports on a research project designed to understand the work experiences and career opportunities of people working in higher education institutions (HEIs) across UK, which received formal recognition for supporting gender equity between 2015 2020. The findings reveal multiple intersecting barriers women's full engagement, inclusion, support success education, despite implementation organization-based plans, institutional inter/national advancing equity. Most axes de/privilege...

Background: Neuroscience is unlikely to produce findings for immediate application in the classroom. The educational significance and practical implications of knowledge about mind brain inevitably require some level interpretation, yet multiplying examples unscientific ‘brain-based’ concepts suggest this process interpretation potentially problematic. Research needed into most appropriate ways developing such concepts. Purpose: This paper reports on an attempt develop a ‘co-construction’...

Almost half of current academic staff will need to be replaced within three years in the Australian workforce. Literature suggests that casual academics are a potential solution, yet they frequently excluded from career development opportunities would allow them fulfil an ongoing role. Most programmes designed for and delivered constructed by developers with little or no input themselves. This paper documents what determine their needs how could addressed using pathways professional development.

This paper provides a rationale for understanding personal/professional identities to support learning and positioning in academe higher education. It explains the importance of women writing speaking out stories their lives (everyday academic), having voices heard responded to, using embodied knowledge question challenge workplace systems structures power sexism invisibility. Importantly, this opens space women's visibility, voice agency academic educational life.

Casual academics form the backbone of learning and teaching practice in higher education many developed countries respects can be considered norm around which academic policy might formed. Yet a narrative inquiry into lived experience women casual within Australian universities reveals that recruitment management staff is generally ad hoc, although they are committed to enjoy teaching, rarely engage professional career development. Consequently, recommendations contemporise development for made.

Abstract Background Healthcare literature describes predisposing factors, clinical risk, maternal and neonatal outcomes of unplanned out-of-hospital birth; however, there is little quality research available that explores the experiences mothers who birth prior to arrival at hospital. Methods This study utilised a narrative inquiry methodology explore women in paramedic care. Results The was underscored by 22 interviews birthed care Queensland, Australia between 2011 2016. data identified...

The paper examines a 'circulatory' system of gender inequity in Australian universities where bias prevents women from accessing senior decision-making roles and stultifies their capacity to act as change agents. It has been mooted that equity quotas for can derail this circuit male privilege academia. Yet plastic reading the shape policy practice over last 40 years reveals an increasing acceptance individualism, which positions women's liberation being achievable through...

Peer review of teaching (PRoT) is recommended to both develop and assure the quality practices in Higher Education. An institutional implementation a peer process can be viewed as genuine desire improve or an instrument accountability performativity. There are many approaches operating. This article documents impact, advantages disadvantages direct participation three processes.

The digital economy with flexible work contexts requires graduates to enter the workplace skills. While studies have examined literacy and skills within domains, attending knowledge, workplace, business skills, these narrow definitions overlook importance of career competencies for lifelong management. This paper reports on measures (DCC) how dimensionality might enable universities, students, other stakeholders ascertain develop. Using a pragmatic, co-created, three-study design, initial...

Abstract Drought has always had a historical presence in ‘rural’ Australia and is predicted to intensify frequency duration due climate change. We argue here that the creeping havoc drought visits upon humans, animals ecosystems an Australian context form of ‘slow violence’ . Such harm hardship are often obscured because they more challenging conceptualise symbolise than sudden, spectacle‐creating disasters. Furthermore, Australia, it discursive prioritising ‘urban’ centres. resist...

Unplanned out-of-hospital birth is generally assumed to occur for women who are multiparous, have a history of short pushing phase labour or experiencing precipitate birth. However, there little research that examines the woman's perspective regarding factors influenced their decision on when access care. This aimed explore women's experience unplanned in paramedic Due size data larger study 'Women's care' [1], this paper will deal directly with narrative concerning her care and how previous...

It is widely understood that climate change transforms rural communities' economic activities have historically relied on farming through off-farm income for stability and mitigation. Entrepreneurship has become a central feature of the diversification labor, but there still need to document how women operationalize entrepreneurship in their communities. We use three narrative interviews examine settler Murweh Paroo Shires outback Queensland Australia mitigated devastating financial impact...

Assuring the quality of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment is an increasingly significant issue in higher education. This article explores potential benefit 'consensus planning', ongoing curriculum development, maintenance monitoring strategy, to achieve consistency academic standards for student learning across multiple campuses. specifically reports on a planning' audit undertaken within School Education at regional university Queensland that engaged full-time staff two Results suggest...