Congratulations to the recipients of 2018 Griffith Grants for Learning and Teaching. We look forward to the contribution that each of these projects will make to learning and teaching at Griffith, and to sharing more about these projects with LF Press readers in the future.
2018 Group Projects Scheme
Arts, Education and Law
Project Leader: Assoc Prof Christine Bond, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Project Title: Improving the delivery and assessment practices in first year
Project Leader: Dr Kylie Burns, Griffith Law School
Project Title: Enhancing the GLS First Year Law Curriculum
Project Leader: Prof Gemma Carey, Queensland Conservatorium
Project Title: Introduction to Pedagogy (1419QCM): A transformative pedagogical approach to developing a new core pedagogy course
Project Leader: Dr David Ellison, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
Project Title: Teaching across the Two Cultures: Designing a learning environment for a combined BSc/BA cohort
Project Leader: Prof Beryl Exley, School of Education and Professional Studies
Project Title: Redesigning the strategic impact of the Masters of Education/Masters of Educational Studies
Project Leader: Dr Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
Project Title: Bachelor of Communication and Journalism Inaugural First Year Delivery and Second Year Development
Project Leader: Assoc Prof David Geelan, School of Education and Professional Studies
Project Title: Developing a transferable model for fully online courses in Masters of Secondary Teaching
Project Leader: Dr Mike McAuley, Queensland College of Art
Project Title: Designing a fully online course model in the B Design: content production and curation
Project Leader: Dr Nico Meissner, Griffith Film School
Project Title: Strategic plan and redesign of GFS postgraduate coursework programs
Project Leader: Dr Dale Patterson, Queensland College of Art
Project Title: The design and implementation of a micro-credential based modular, online and intensive program structure in the Design programs at Queensland College of Art
Project Leader: Dr Louise Porter, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Project Title: Developing innovative online postgraduate learning
Griffith Business School
Project Leader: Dr Amanda Daly, Department of International Business and Asian Studies
Project Title: Student and staff readiness for online learning and teaching
Project Leader: Dr Jennifer Dickfos, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
Project Title: Scoping the Viability of a Pracademic Fellowship Program to improve the Employability skills of Griffith Business School Graduates
Project Leader: Louise Maddock, Learning Futures
Project Title: Developing program excellence via continuous program-led course enhancement
Project Leader: Dr Heather Stewart, Department of International Business and Asian Studies
Project Title: If you squeeze lemons, do you still get lemon juice? Exploring the impact of study choices of undergraduate students
Project Leader: Dr William Vuk Despotovic, Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources
Project Title: Contributions of Peer Mentoring to Development of Employability
Project Leader: Dr Tracey West, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
Project Title: Personal Finance – Developing a Griffith University-wide Elective
Griffith Health
Project Leader: Dr Michelle Bissett and Melanie Roberts, School of Allied Health Sciences
Project Title: Transitioning students through their theory-into-practice journey
Project Leader: Assoc Prof Lynne Briggs, School of Human Services and Social Work
Project Title: Deferred Placement Support Project
Project Leader: Dr Jena Buchan, School of Allied Health Sciences
Project Title: Enhancing Exercise Science Students’ Practicum Experiences and Competencies through Embedding Simulated Learning
Project Leader: Dr Alan Ian Cassady, School of Medical Science
Project Title: The SPAcE Game: Targeted Training in Pre-Analytical Errors for Medical Laboratory Science Students in Preparation for Workplace Challenges
Project Leaders: Andrea Hams and Taryn Jones, School of Allied Health Sciences
Project Title: Clinical Reasoning on physiotherapy placements: the collaborative development of online modules
Project Leader: Dr Sharon Scrafton, School of Applied Psychology
Project Title: Encouraging Self-Regulated Learners: enriching engagement by training students to use internal feedback to facilitate a proactive approach to assignment writing
Project Leader: Dr Menka Tsantefski, School of Human Services and Social Work
Project Title: Trauma Informed Tertiary Teaching Practice Framework
Griffith Sciences
Project Leader: Dr Samantha Capon, School of Environment and Science
Project Title: Seeing the forest and the trees: making the most of Toohey Forest for learning and teaching ecology at Nathan Campus
Project Leader: Dr Guido Carim, School of Engineering and Built Environment
Project Title: Business simulation as a tool to enhance learning experience: preparing future Airport Managers through online business simulation
Project Leader: Dr Guy Castley, School of Environment and Science
Project Title: Preparing work‐ready environmental science graduates: development of PLUS program modules for the environmental sciences.
Running title – Environmental Consulting 101
Project Leader: Dr Jolon Faichney, School of Information and Communication Technology
Project Title: Online Interactive Lab Streaming
Project Leader: Dr Natalie Osborne, School of Environment and Science
Project Title: New Narratives for Planning in the Anthropocene: Reimagining Urban and Environmental Planning education using values-based and transformative pedagogies to assure graduate employability
Project Leader: Dr Lian Wen, School of Information and Communication Technology
Project Title: Integrating MyUniSkills into Griffith Science PLUS
