Sydney Workshop

Join the Sydney team for two workshops focused on student partnership & open educational resources advocacy.

Key Information

When

Tuesday 13 September 2022
10am to 3:15pm local time (registrations open at 9.30am)

Where

Australian Catholic University, MacKillop Campus
The Peter Cosgrove Centre
Level 18, Tenison Woods House
8 - 20 Napier Street, North Sydney

Directions

By public transport:

Train:

From the city, take the Sydney Trains T1 North Shore & Northern Line to North Sydney. Walk through Greenwood Plaza Shopping Complex and take the escalator up until you come out at the Miller Street and Pacific Highway intersection. Continue North along Pacific Highway and turn left on to Napier Street.
Follow the road around until you reach ACU Tenison Woods House building on the left, 8-20 Napier Street.

Many bus services to North Sydney stop at Blue Street; adjacent to the train station, or on Pacific Highway. For transport options visit transportnsw.info

Getting here by car and park at own cost at:

Catering

Tea and coffee on arrival
Lunch provided

Sponsor

Program

Leading Student-Staff Partnerships to Co-Create Curricula

Join this practical workshop to expand your knowledge about co-creating curricula with students. Tai and Amani have several years' experience of leading student-staff partnerships and we will share lessons we have learned. We will explore how to design such initiatives, how to overcome common setbacks, and how to establish measures of success. We will share resources that we and others have developed to help shape and enhance your partnership projects, with a particular focus on equity and diversity. The workshop will be interactive and there will be opportunities to gain peer feedback on your own student-staff partnership initiatives.

Associate Professor Amani Bell

Amani Bell is an Associate Professor of Work Integrated Learning in The University of Sydney School of Health Sciences. Her research focuses on students and staff working in partnership to enhance higher education, particularly to improve access and success for students from diverse backgrounds. She recently led a NCSEHE-funded research project Exploring benefits and challenges of online Work Integrated Learning for equity students. Amani is a Senior Fellow of, and accreditor for, the Higher Education Academy (now AdvanceHE).

Dr Tai Peseta

Dr Tai Peseta is a Senior Lecturer in the Learning Futures Team at Western Sydney University and she is a higher education researcher whose scholarly work sits at the intersection of Critical University Studies, the development of academic identities, doctoral curriculum, and the cultivation of learning and teaching cultures. Tai also leads the 21C Transforming Curriculum project, designed to transform curriculum and teaching for the challenges of the 21st century future of work and society. Tai is a Senior Fellow, UK Higher Education Academy.

Planning for Open Educational Resources Advocacy

As open education initiatives continue to gain traction in Australian higher education, the work of advocates has become critical to translate small pockets of good practice into strategically focused, evidence-based activities. This workshop is for staff involved in formal or informal open education advocacy at any level, and especially for those only beginning advocacy work - be it one on one advocacy, or advocacy to groups. It introduces an advocacy planning process, with an emphasis on localising action. Participants will have the opportunity to begin planning, and will have access to a curated collection of supporting open resources after the workshop.

Fiona Salisbury

Fiona Salisbury is currently the Executive Director, Library Services at Western Sydney University. Before joining WSU at the start of 2022, Fiona was the Executive Director Library and University Librarian La Trobe University. At La Trobe, Fiona led major university projects on open access textbook publishing and digital literacies. Fiona is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) and has also received a national Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for her work connecting the library to the curriculum at La Trobe. Fiona is currently a member of the CAUL Board and Director of the CAUL Enabling a Modern Curriculum Program.

Lucy Walton

Lucy Walton is the Scholarly Publishing Consultant for Western Sydney University. Lucy has worked in a variety of roles in both public and private sectors, and in positions such as Senior Librarian, Digital Discovery & Services, Segment Product Manager, Associate Director of Copyright Licensing Services and Associate Director of Information Services. Lucy supports the open scholarship movement and the sharing of knowledge beyond research communities. Lucy is an active participant in the open education and research communities through CAUL working groups, Open Access Australasia, Australasian OEP Special Interest Group (ASCILITE), Creative Commons Australasia Communications Working Group, SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), OE Global Connect, and Society for Scholarly Publishing.