Professor Lynne Hunt is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) and Director, Learning and Teaching Support Unit, at the University of Southern Queensland.
She commenced employment in tertiary teaching in 1970 in an experimental, four-term-year unit in the UK. Since then she has worked in a variety of settings including social science departments in two countries, education faculties and various manifestations of health science departments. She has coordinated units and courses and served as acting head of department. Professor Hunt has worked as an Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) at Edith Cowan University (ECU) and as Professor and Leader of the Teaching and Learning Development Group at Charles Darwin University (CDU).
Professor Hunt has taught at all levels from transition to university to doctoral supervision. In the past decade, she has focused on strategic directions in tertiary teaching, particularly transition to university, work-based university learning, the student journey, graduate attributes and faculty development planning. She is the recipient of three, university-level awards for teaching excellence and she is a nationally acknowledged teaching and learning practitioner. She received the 2002 Australian Award for University Teaching in the Social Science category and the 2002 Prime Minister’s Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year.
She publishes in the fields of health sociology and tertiary teaching. Her co-edited book The realities of change in higher education: Interventions to promote learning and teaching was published in the UK in 2006. She is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (JTLHE) and she is invited regularly to be a guest speaker on the topic of change leadership to promote learning and teaching in higher education.
Professor Hunt was a member of the Board of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education from its inception until March 2008, and she remains a member of two of its sub-committees. She has also served as a HERDSA Fellow and mentor, a member of the Academic Committee of the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (2005-2006) and as examination moderator for the University of Botswana (2003-2005).
Dr Neil Peach is currently General Manager of University Services at the University of Southern Queensland. This involves all corporate services functions including hr, finance, technology and facilities in addition to university planning and quality across the enterprise.
Neil has worked in commonwealth and state governments and in private sector over the past 15 years in senior administration and management roles. Each of these roles has seen him involved in major change and organisational performance improvement projects. Neil completed his doctorate in 2006 in the area of business contribution to sustainable development and the triple bottom line.
In 2005 Neil joined the University of Southern Queensland in the Planning and Quality Office and after undertaking several major organisational reviews has worked in the role of General Manager, for the past year, during a period of substantial and far reaching change. Neil has decided to complete his work at USQ in February 2009 and proposes in the future to take the opportunity of expanding his knowledge of and contribution to assisting organisations to become better corporate citizens.
Neil is married to wife Wendy [since 1973] and has two grown up sons, Tristan and Jordan.
Abstract
Is it an improvement when a cannibal uses a fork?
Critical enquiry into the sustainability of outcomes from first-year experience interventions
Professor Lynne Hunt (Pro Vice-Chancellor),
Dr Neil Peach (General Manager)
University of Southern Queensland
- How easy is it to effect lasting change through first-year experience interventions?
- What have been your successes?
- What have been the barriers to change?
- What needs to happen to address the barriers?
- If you and your first-year team were all to leave your university at the same time, what would happen to the outcomes of your first-year project?
- How useful is a first-year intervention without initiatives associated with pre-entry, second-year and capstone third-year experiences?
- Why is first-year experience an intervention rather than business-as-usual?
- What does sustainable planning mean?
This presentation will critique first-year interventions and provide a case study of sustainable planning for change at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia. It will address change leadership to enhance the student learning journey, defined as a series of actions to smooth students’ experiences of study at university. The argument is that sustainable outcomes in change leadership arise from holistic planning.
