After a 30-year career in Paramedicine and healthcare, I am now a Senior Learning Designer with the Learning Design & Innovation Directorate.
Having completed all of my university studies through Distance or Online modes, I have a keen interest in ensuring students studying via these modes have a commensurate experience to those of their face-to-face colleagues. I'm also passionate about the appropriate use of technology in learning and teaching. I pursue this passion by guiding academic and teaching staff and creating meaningful interactions within the online learning space.
I have over a decade of writing, reviewing and aligning curricula in Higher Education, particularly within the health sector.
While my career in frontline healthcare is now over, I continue to enjoy working within this space as the Senior Learning Designer for the School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences and the School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Sciences.
Charles Sturt University
CQUniversity
Queensland University of Technology
University of Southern Queensland
CQUniversity
2023 Accessibility in Action Team Award Winner
2016 Opal Award winner for CQUniversity (Australia-wide): Engaged Education and Training Award: Annual Inter Emergency Services Multi-Casualty Exercise 2013-2015
Multiple Student voice awards
PMSC11001 Foundations of Paramedic Science
PMSC11003 Principles of Paramedic Practice
PMSC12003 Special Population in Paramedic Practice
PMSC13001 Mental Health for Paramedics and Other Health Professionals
PMSC13005 Trauma Care in Paramedic Practice
PMSC13006 Environmental Emergencies in Paramedic Practice
Senior Learning Designer Current
Academic Lead Learning & Teaching School of Health Medical and Applied Sciences (Relieving)
Unit Coordinator Multiple Paramedic Science Units
Intensive/Critical Care Paramedic - 13 years.
Flight Paramedic (Rotary and Fixed wing) - 10 years total.
Paramedic experience - 30 years total.
Senior Ambulance Education and Supervisory roles - 10 years.
Member of Clinical Education Community of Practice, CQUniverstiy.
Clinical Education Australia (Clinedaus)
Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)
Adobe Creative Educator program
Transforming Assessment community
University of Kent Digitally Enhanced Education community
All things learning and teaching