Kerry Bond is an experienced bioscience educator with CQUniversity’s School of Access Education, originally coming from an extensive secondary teaching background. Kerry supports learners as an Academic Learning Advisor, with strengths in supporting students in disciplinary language acquisition and learning skills. Kerry also teaches into the STEPS program, applying student-centred, evidence-based pedagogies informed by educational psychology and brain-based learning principles. From 2026, Kerry holds the Academic Learning Centre’s Discipline Coordinator roles for Science, and Mathematics and Statistics.

A registered Queensland teacher and holder of a Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowship, Kerry brings leadership experience from both secondary and tertiary contexts and has a background providing professional development for educators. As a Unit Coordinator and Lecturer, she has been actively engaged in reflexive curriculum and assessment design, particularly in response to the challenges and opportunities presented by generative AI. Her leadership experience in both secondary and tertiary arenas have honed her pastoral approach to student care. Beyond CQUni, Kerry has co-facilitated the NAEEA STEM SIG throughout 2024-2025, providing professional development and research opportunities to its members. She constructed and continues to manage the SIG’s website.

Kerry is a nationally recognised researcher who has interests spanning educational psychology, with an emphasis on learning strategies, STEM education, technology-enhanced learning (TEL), and disciplinary language acquisition. As an early career researcher, Kerry is completing her PhD with UQ’s Learning, Instruction and Technology (LIT) Lab, investigating learning strategy instruction in Enabling Education. She is a member of AALL and NAEEA and is committed to advancing inclusive, evidence-informed educational practices that support high quality learning, student wellbeing, and student retention.

Kerry values lifelong learning and fosters collaboration across educational sectors to enhance teaching and learning outcomes for diverse student cohorts.

University of Queensland (UQ)

Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

Flinders University 

University of Southern Queensland (USQ)

UQ

JCU

CQU

2020 CQUniversity's Scholarship of Online Learning and Teaching  - Award for Best Presentation in Section

Secondary Education - St Patrick's College, Mackay; Fort Pitt Grammar School, Kent, UK; Holy Spirit College, Mackay 

Post-secondary - University of Queensland (Tutor), James Cook University (Tutor); Coastal Carolina Community College (Tutor/Lecturer), Jacksonville, USA; Central Queensland University (Lecturer)

QCT

AALL

FHEA

Past and present:

STEPS Access Coordinator, STEPS Mackay

STEPS Unit Coordinator

ALC Discipline Coordinator (Science, Mathematic & Statistics)

Cognitive sciences

Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Social learning

Pedagogy/Andragogy 

Engagement; reduction of attrition; help-seeking behaviour

Innovation

Academic anxiety

Positive psychology

Social psychology

Award for Best presentation in theme, CQUniversity's Scholarship of Tertiary Teaching Conference, 2020.

Recipient of a CQUniversity 2021 Learning Teaching Research & Development Grant, valued at $11 962. Kerry is the Chief Investigator of a project aimed at improving bioscience language acquisition in nursing students.