Category: Blogs

Keeping up to date in higher education

Posted on by

Some recent events have had me reflecting on how we, as academics, and future academics who are PhD students, can keep up to date in higher education. Those recent events were a full day of training on leadership with Amanda Phillips from APA Training, and interviewing candidates for a position at my university. You might think – I’m so busy – I don’t have time to attend a teaching and learning event, or read up about what is happening in the university system right now. But remember, these activities are an investment in your skills as a higher education professional

Continue reading

STARS 2019

Posted on by

STARS is one of my favourite conferences of the year – it brings together academics and students affairs professional staff to showcase practice and how we can improve the student higher education experience. I was excited to present on the academic integrity board game project and we had participants creating questions for the game (this is what they are doing in the 3rd picture below). Of course, the session wasn’t without some hiccups – we lost 10min of time because of technical issues and I almost started my session in the hallway! But it all worked out in the end.

Continue reading

I’ve finally got a website!

Posted on by

Hey Audit Fans! I decided that 2018 was going to be the year that I’d get organised and step 1 is creating my own website. Tick! Step 2 – organise over 100 YouTube videos and supporting resources (like lecture slides and templates) into some sort of program. Step 3 – uuuhhhh … I haven’t really thought that far just yet – when I’m done with Step 2 I’ll get on it. But in the mean time – if you have any ideas on what you’d like to see – pop it in the comments 🙂 Happy auditing! Amanda

Continue reading