In 2023 I will become one of two Education Focused Champions for the Faculty of Medicine and Health, succeeding Professors Gary Velan and Patsie Polly. In this role, I will engage with and advocate for EF academics in the faculty and continue the work that has begun in gaining global recognition for UNSW as a leader in educational excellence.

I have taken my commitment to improving the student experience University-wide as Co-Lead of the UNSW Community of Practice (CoP) on Student Wellbeing with Dr Gavin Mount (UNSW Canberra). The CoP has instigated a research project, which I am also co-leading, to assess, audit and report on the current policy and

I am a founding member of the EF Student Wellbeing CoP Curriculum Project Group, alongside Dr Leesa Sidhu, Professor Jacquelyn Cranny, Professor Nalini Pather, Dr Jessica Macer-Wright

The implementation of Phase 1 Medicine in a setting outside the main UNSW campus was not necessarily widely supported. There were some, perhaps many, who believed that students attending Port Macquarie campus would be disadvantaged in their learning experience. I am therefore pleased to report that my inspirational leadership and teaching across all P1 scientific

I successfully applied for UNSW’s prestigious Academic and Professional Women in Leadership (

I am a peer reviewer for UNSW, and have reviewed colleagues in a range of disciplines (Engineering, Science, Mathematics, Medicine), both in person and online, and both synchronously and asynchronously, and both formative and summative reviews. Reviewers are recommended to the post by the Faculty's Associate Dean of Education. Peer review is important not only for promotion, but for colleagues

I lead the biannual induction event for all new staff in the Medicine and Health Faculty, ensuring that they are aware of all professional development opportunities available to them, and that they have relevant health and safety, library, wellbeing and cultural information. In this role I recruit and collaborate with colleagues across the University to ensure that the appropriate experts

Year 4 students Medicine students undertake a year-long independent learning project (ILP) or honours project with a major research component. Traditionally, most rural campus students returned to Sydney1for this year (a costly exercise) due to a perceived

I was invited to participate in the Course Enhancement Program (CEP) as a peer=mentor. CEP provides support and resources to co-ordinators of high priority courses with a student-centred approach to improving student experience, and I felt I was ideally placed to support colleagues through this program as the aims aligned very well

I am the Medicine and Health Faulty representative for the UNSW Education Festival, working with the Education Team Collaboration Group. In 2021 the festival was fully online, while in 2022 we return with a hybrid event. For the 2022 program Medicine and Health have collaborated with the faculty of Science and I worked with Dr Rebecca le Bard to review Expressions of Interest and later