Dr. Monique White
PhD, BEd(Hons), CertIV TAE, FHEALecturer - Senior Learning Designer
Learning Design and Innovation Directorate
With a doctorate in Educational Neuroscience and Fellowship in Teaching and Learning Support in Higher Education, I am currently employed as a Senior Education Developer within Learning Design and Innovation team.
Before commencing my work in CQU in 2017, I was a secondary school teacher for approximately 25 years and nearly a decade of those as a Head of Year in a large independent school in, Brisbane. Before teaching I trained as a rehabilitation officer and worked alongside homeless teenagers whilst volunteering in Melbourne correctional centers for several years.
Through personal experience and many hours spent as a volunteer counselor, I was motivated to seek more informed strategies as a professional educator. Recent neuroscientific breakthroughs, coupled with my previous knowledge in education and psychology, inspired me to develop a Neuroeducation Buoyancy Program (NBP) to assist young people to improve their everyday resilience. Passionate to fully understand the program's effectiveness, I based my Ph.D. studies on ascertaining the program’s influence on adolescent buoyancy.
Before developing the NBP program, I wrote several post-Graduate Educational Neuroscience courses and played a primary role in the development of a Masters in Educational Neuroscience and several online Educational Neuroscience programs that have been completed by more than 47,000 people globally.
Background
Along with my passion for teaching and seeing students thrive I also:
· Higher Education - Lecturer and Course Coordinator and Learning Designer 2017-2022
· Secondary Education - School Teacher and Head of Year 1996-2017
· Lead short-term aid & development trips to South Asia · Humanitarian Projects 2014 – 2020
· Mentor and teacher for young women dealing with Mental Health Issues 1997 – 2022
· Volunteer in various NGO projects 1991 – 2021
· Am a "How to Drug Proof Your Kids” Facilitator 1999 – 2001
· Volunteered and assisted with Prison Ministry Melbourne and Brisbane 1989 – 1995
· Counsellor in Teen Challenge Rehabilitation Program 1989 – 1991
Universities Studied At
Queensland University of Technology Kelvin Grove - B Ed Hons
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAFE)
Awards
• Doctor of Philosophy 2022
• Fellowship (FHEA) – Teaching and Learning Support 2022
• Lead role in the funded academic and not-for-profit project:
• Safer Communities Round 6 Early Intervention Grants, funded by the Australian Government. 2022–2024. [Featuring my Neuroeducation Buoyancy Program. Submission on behalf of not-for-profit organisation Fearless Towards Success, $1,151,740].
• Recipient of Suicide Prevention Australia’s National Suicide Prevention Research Fund Scholarship 2019-21
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAFE)
Other Education and Awards
• Australian Future Problem Accredited Coach 2012
• Home Economics Professional Association Prize 1995
• King and Amy O’Malley Trust Home Economics Scholarship 1993
• Teen Challenge Drug Education and Counselling Course 1989-1990
• Rotary Exchange Student Scandinavia 1988
• Senior First Aid certificate (current)
Previous teaching
Senior Educational Developer - Central Queensland University 2019 – Current
Lecturer in Applied Neuroscience - Christian Heritage College (Brisbane) 2022 – Current
• Theory of Applied Interpersonal Neuroscience – NP545
• Applied Neuroscience Skills: Specialised Applications – NP547
Course Coordinator/ Lecturer - Central Queensland University Australia 2017 - 2019
• Theoretical Model for Brain-Based Education - EDED20503
• Applied Brain-Based Education - EDED20504
Citipointe Christian College (Brisbane) 1996 - 2018
• Secondary school teacher (Physical Education and Hospitality) 2001– 2018
• Head of Year 7 2008 - 2017
Scots PGC (Warwick, Queensland) 2001
• Middle School Teaching and Learning Support
Southside Christian College (Salisbury, Queensland) 1995
• Head of Physical Education, teaching Mathematics & Geography
Other Education - Education not elsewhere classified
Educational Neuroscience - Exploring the Neuroscience of Learning and Buoyancy Development
