• Expertise-1: Continuously updates disciplinary knowledge
  • Expertise-2: Undertakes professional development in pedagogy and implements new strategies
  • Expertise-3: Improves teaching practice through reflection and feedback
  • Expertise-4: Engages in educational scholarship that informs own teaching practice and influences others
Award for Contribution to the Student Experience 2020

Award for Contribution to the Student Experience 2020

Five days after I started at UNSW academic staff were notified that the pandemic was forcing closure of the campus and teaching was to pivot online. We were faced with the challenge of having to teach and engage our students online, in a subject that is heavily dependent on teaching in the labs with the help of our body donors.

In the few days where we were still allowed access into

Workshop facilitator - International Federation of Associations of Anatomists: Active learning in anatomical sciences education: emerging from the pandemic.

Workshop facilitator - International Federation of Associations of Anatomists: Active learning in anatomical sciences education: emerging from the pandemic.

Source: Anatomy: International Journal of Experimental & Clinical Anatomy . 2022 Supplement, Vol. 16, pS93-S94. 2p.
Author(s): Pais, Diogo; fiengül, Gülgün; Organ, Jason; Balta, Joy; Fogg, Quentin; Flack, Natasha; Hulme, Anneliese; El-Haddad, Joyce; Pather, Nalini
Abstract: The workshop is designed to maximize audience participation and dialogue. The discussion is scaffolded

Building Relatedness and Belonging

Building Relatedness and Belonging

A major component of my teaching philosophy centers around the self-determination theory of motivation and in particular the component of relatedness and belonging. 

Creating a sense of relatedness and belonging within a community of learners helps students have positive relationships, positive experiences, value learning, and engage with their