Research @ CEDAM

• Higher Education
• Academic and Professional Practice

Research Focus 1:  Higher Education

•  research supervision policy and practice
•  doctoral education and postdoctoral training
•  aspects of assessment and evaluation

Research Focus 2:  Academic and Professional Practice

•  academic work
•  teaching, learning and curriculum in higher education
•  continuing professional learning
•  the teaching-research nexus

Current External Grants

•  A Threshold Concepts Focus to Curriculum Design
•  Promoting Excellence Initiative
•  The Roles and Practices of Australian Honours Programs
•  Research Skill Development: Questions of Curriculum and Pedagogy
•  Research Capacity Building: The Development of Australian PhD Programs
 

Current Student Research

•  Curriculum Decision making in higher education and the significance of research
•  The impact of a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education on Medical Educators in Canberra
•  Towards a Conceptual Model of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for the Contemporary Dentist in Australia
•  Study of the impact of a student-focussed teaching programme in renal medicine on learning  approaches in Year 3 medical students
   •  Studying the interactions (in developed and developing countries) between universities and governments and how these influence/impact on policy outcomes
   •  Importance health professional education in change management
   •  The metaphors that research students use to describe their research and what they tell us about the students' attitudes to research
   •  Speaking with different voices: knowledge legitimation codes of mathematicians, mathematics education researchers and mathematics teachers

Other Staff Research