Past grant and fellowship recipients
UQ has several grant and fellowship schemes designed to recognise and encourage innovation in our teaching and learning staff.
Previous grant recipients are listed below. To see current grants and fellowship recipients, visit our fellowship and grant recipients.
UQ Teaching Fellowship Scheme
2018
- Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Dr Alastair Tombs, School of Business
Enhancing the student experience within dual program courses: meeting the challenge of the new Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours) program. - Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Dr Vincent Wheatley, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering
Authentic, active and inspired learning – transforming large courses. - Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
Mr Condy Canuto, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit
Embedding Indigenous Knowledge in the Training and Development of the Health Workforce. - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Nicholas Carah, School of Communication and Arts
Platforming with Partners: working with student partners to convert a large first-year course to a blended mode. - Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Dr Owain Williams, School of Public Health
Conversion of a suite of courses to a blended learning delivery mode – a pilot with PUBH7614 Health Systems (Semester 1). - Faculty of Science
Dr Justin Ridge, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
Creating a blended-learning environment in a second level biochemistry course.
2017
- Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Dr Kelly Phelan, School of Business
Mobilising Student Learning: The Utilisation of a Mobile App for Learning and Assessment - Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Dr Greg Birkett, School of Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering: Threaded and unbundled - Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
Dr Eimear Enright, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Students as Partners: A programmatic approach - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Eve Klein, School of Music
Developing Epistemic Fluency through Multidisciplinary Student Collaborations in the Bachelor of Arts - Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Dr Allyson Mutch and Dr Lisa Fitzgerald, School of Public Health
Collaborating with student partners to facilitate the teaching and learning of threshold concepts in a multi-disciplinary curriculum - Faculty of Science
Associate Professor Susan Rowland, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
Mapping and developing Work Integrated Learning (WIL) capacity in Faculty of Science courses and programs - Faculty of Science
Dr Louise Kuchel, School of Biomedical Sciences
Working towards a development and assessment framework for authentic science communication skills
2016
- Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Mr Russell Hinchy, TC Beirne School of Law
Development of an Iterative Module for Statutory Interpretation and Research-intensive, Inquiry-guided Learning in the Digital Age - Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Associate Professor Tony Howes, School of Chemical Engineering
Best Practice in Professional Practice: Revitalising and Redesigning the Major Project in Engineering Coursework Masters Degrees - Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
Associate Professor Blake McKimmie, School of Psychology
Introduction to Psychology Online - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Morgan Brigg, School of Political Science and International Studies
Lateral Pedagogy: Building Cultural Competence and Embedding Indigenous Perspectives and Knowledges in Curricula - Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Dr Michaela Kelly, School of Medicine
Development of a Peer Observation Teaching Partnership Toolkit to facilitate partnerships in a broad range of medical teaching settings - Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Dr Jennifer Schafer, School of Medicine
‘MD Plus’ - Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Dr Tammy Smith, School of Medicine
Towards eExaminations: A pilot of an electronic examination platform in the School of Medicine
2015
- Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Dr Yunxia Zhu, School of Business
Intercultural Competence for Cross-cultural Management Education: Extending the Learning-by-doing Approach - Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Mr Michael Dickson, School of Architecture
Making the Leap: Integrating Advanced Modelling and Prototyping Technologies with Architectural Technology and Engineering Curricula - Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
Dr Marion Tower, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
Establishment of a process of continuous quality improvement through the formation of a community of practice on the scholarship of teaching and learning for nursing staff. - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Associate Professor Julie Ballantyne, School of Music
Problem seeking using mobile technologies: bridging gaps between university classrooms and careers - Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Associate Professor Nancy Sturman, School of Medicine
Programmatic Assessment Blueprinting for the Doctor of Medicine (MD) - Faculty of Science
Professor Michael Drinkwater, School of Mathematics and Physics
Research-based Teaching Practice in the Bachelor of Science - Faculty of Science
Professor Susanne Schmidt, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences
Integrating the First Year Science Curriculum across Core Disciplines
HEA Fellows
2017
Principal Fellows
- Professor Julie Duck
- Dr Gillian Hallam
- Associate Professor Lydia Kavanagh
- Professor Sarah Roberts-Thompson
Senior Fellows
- Associate Professor Saiied Adminossadati
- Dr Emma Bartle
- Dr Jacqueline Bond
- Associate Professor Christine Brown-Wilson
- Professor Michael Drinkwater
- Dr Deanne Gannaway
- Professor Greg Hainge
- Associate Professor Gwen Lawrie
- Dr Allison Mandrusiak
- Associate Professor Tim McIntyre
- Dominic McGrath
- Dr Allyson Mutch
Fellows
- Dr Marissa Edwards
- Dr Lisa Fitzgerald
- Carl Sherwood
- Elizabeth Springfield
- Dr Margaret Wegner
- Peta Winters-Chang
Associate Fellows
- Dr Charlotte-Rose Millar
Teaching Innovation Grants
Previously the Technology-Enhanced Learning Grants and the UQ Early Career Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grants.
2018
- Faculty of Medicine, $179,170
Clinical Educator Professional Development Program: ClinEd2U@UQ
Professor Geoff McColl, Associate Professor Peter Cabot, Professor Stuart Carney, Professor Nigel Perkins, Professor Sarah Roberts-Thomson, Dr Daniel Schull, Professor Nick Shaw - Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation / School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, $178,907
Development and Dissemination of a Student Led Adaptive Learning Platform
Dr Hassan Khosravi, Professor Shazia Sadiq, Professor Annemaree Carroll, Professor Dragan Gasevic, Associate Professor Lydia Kavanagh, Dr Pavla Simerska, Associate Professor Christine Staatz - School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, $136,364
The EDLS Project: Embedding the development of Digital Literacy Skills within undergraduate and postgraduate curricula across multiple disciplines at UQ
Associate Professor Peter Lewis, Associate Professor Pedro Isaias, Dr Christine Slade, Kathleen Smeaton, Noela Yates, Dr Vicente Reyes, Dr Adriana Diaz, Dr Nicholas Carah, Associate Professor Gwen Lawrie, Dr Jack Wang - School of Chemical Engineering, $134,954
Urban Water, Energy, Planning and Design Challenge: a scenario-driven, game-based, UQ-wide tournament to improve future cities
Professor Paul Lant, Associate Professor Steven Kenway, Paola Maria, Dr Ilje Pikaar, Professor Peta Ashworth, Sébastien Darchen, Dr Marguerite Renouf - School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, $133,110
Developing authentic online assessment to support collaborative explanation and critical reasoning in large classes
Associate Professor Gwendolyn Lawrie, Associate Professor Lydia Kavanagh, Associate Professor Vincent Wheatley, Philip Waller, Dr Efpraxia Kartsonaki, Dr Philip Sharpe - School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, $60,996
Lab in the Clouds: Using the cloud to deliver customised computing environments – easily deployed for teaching at scale or remotely
Dr Ingo Jahn, Dr Rowan Gollan, Dr Stephen Hall, Ms Melanie Fleming, Dr Surya Singh, Phil Waller - School of Communication and Arts, $60,000
Developing flexible digital assessment strategies for cross-disciplinary implementation
Dr Natalie Collie, Dr Seb Dianati, Ms Kerry Kilner, Dr Nicholas Carah, Dr Simone Smala, Professor Kim Bryceson, Ms Linda MacDonald, Dr Aneesha Bakharia, Mr Philip Waller, Mr Jack Mason - School of Social Science, $60,000
Microcredentialling, digital badges and the development of effective transdisciplinary professional learning across large degree programs
Associate Professor Andrew Fairbairn, Dr Deanne Gannaway, Mr Christopher Front, Dr Glenys McGowan, Associate Professor Patrick Moss, Dr Janette McWilliam, Professor Lynda Cheshire - School of Civil Engineering, $60,000
LabPass: a flexible online learning tool and management system for practical assignments in large classes
Dr Remo Cossu, Dr Surya Singh, Mr Joseph Nagy, Professor Matthew Davis, Ms Melanie Fleming - School of Dentistry, $53,975
Strengthening capacity for IP work-integrated learning through the development of authentic assessment of IP skills in clinical and simulation contexts
Dr Emma Bartle, Dr Anne Hill, Associate Professor Jodie Copley, Dr Ruth Dunwoodie, Dr Karen Luetsch - School of Social Science, $53,468
Assessment Ideas Factory: Improving assessment practice across The University of Queensland
Dr Mair Underwood, Christopher Frost, Dr Deanne Gannaway, Dr Aaron Herndon, Associate Professor Pierre Benckendorff, Dr Helen Wozniak - School of Biomedical Sciences, $30,000
HistONline: A digital microscopy resource for teaching
Dr Rachel Claire Aland, Associate Professor Glenda Gobe, Mrs Carolyn Cluderay, Dr Charlotte Young, Professor Mark Midwinter - School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering, $15,000 (Early Career Educational Research Grant)
The learning and teaching of complex CFD software: how do students learn to use it and does it promote an improved understanding of Fluid Dynamics?
Dr Stephen Hall - School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, $14,478 (Early Career Educational Research Grant)
Interprofessional Management of Pain (IPMP): preparing health professional students for future practice
Dr Roma Forbes
2017
- School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, $13,000
Innovative work-integrated learning experiences and authentic assessment to support speech pathology students' skill development in management of voice disorders
Dr Anna Rumbach - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit and UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, $85,000
Game-changing educators: Teaching Indigenous health in a culturally safe transformative learning environment
Dr Chelsea Bond, Nell Angus, Leanne Coombe - School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, $125,000
Integrating Digital Argument Mapping into Contemporary Pedagogies
Deborah Brown, David Kinkhead, Peter Ellerton - School of Education, $165,000
Implementation of the Higher Education Learning Framework to improve teaching and learning practices at UQ
Annamaree Carroll, Pankaj Sah, Kelly Matthews, Hassan Khosravi, Julie Duck, Peter Adams, Susan Rowland, Greg Birkett, Polly Parker, Ross Cunnington, Simon Reid - Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology, $165,000
TeachingPlus@UQ: Developing professional practice to enhance the student experience
Lydia Kavanagh, Julie Duck, Peter Adams, Deanne Gannaway, Dom McGrath, Jodie Copley - School of Communication and Arts, $120,000
Taking the Cirrus Teaching and Learning platform beyond the Humanities and beyond the AusLit platform
Kerry Kilner, Natalie Collie - School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, $115,000
CLIPS at Work: Expanding an existing UQ website to help science students communicate for the workplace
Susan Rowland, Louise Kuchel, Kay Colthorpe - Office of Medical Education, $100,000
Pilot of an integrated e-exams software solution for exam creation, delivery, feedback and analytics. Stage 3: Scale-up, feedback and analytics
Tammy Smith, Leanne Coombe, Kate Drinkwater, Shari Bowker - Institute of Continuing and TESOL Education, $47,000
A computer adaptive testing (CAT) platform for discipline-specific, English language screening tests to identify linguistically at-risk students
Stephen Walker, Lydia Kavanagh, Iain Mathieson, Megan Yucel, Matthew Tonks, Jason Steele, eLIPSE Development Team, Lisa Davie, Shaun Chen - School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, $65,000
Authentic, active and inspired learning - transforming large courses
Vincent Wheatley, Peter McAree, David Mee, Paul Meehan, Ruth Knibbe, Greg Birkett
2016
- School of Business, $136,670
Developing Entrepreneurs: An interdisciplinary, experiential learning approach to creating an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset
Associate Professor Martie‐Louise Verreynne, Dr Anna Jenkins, Associate Professor Timothy Kastelle, Associate Professor John Steen - School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, $85,760
Building capacity for interprofessional work-integrated learning through development of authentic assessment of interprofessional skills
Dr Anne Hill, Dr Rebecca Olson, Dr Emma Bartle, Dr Jodie Copley, Ms Ruth Dunwoodie - School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, $14,900
A small private online course (SPOC) to innovatively and flexibly deliver a human development module to first year physiotherapy students
Dr Kristy Nicola - School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, $14,830
Creating game-changing graduates in nutrition and dietetics through active learning, authentic assessment and student partnerships, using Entrustable Professional Activities
Dr Olivia Wright - School of Languages and Cultures, $117,000
Revitalising language assessment: Sustainable change through international benchmarking and knowledge transfer
Associate Professor Marisa Cordella, Dr Juliana De Nooy, Dr Adriana Diaz, Dr Deanne Gannaway, Dr Barbara Hanna, Dr Kayoko Hashimoto, Dr Noriko Iwashita, Dr Paul Moore - School of Communication and Arts, $15,000
A framework for Journalism design
Ms Skye Doherty - School of Communication and Arts, $137,600
Doing Digital Humanities - Expanding AusArts @ AusLit functionality for program level change
Ms Kerry Kilner, Dr Jennifer Clement, Dr Natalie Collie - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, $194,000
Strengthening the gateways: Building pathways to success through active learning
Associate Professor Karen Moni, Professor Julie Duck, Ms Inge Matt - The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, $15,000
Can multiple technologies be used to privilege Indigenous voices in the course materials for first year courses in the Indigenous studies major?
Dr Carlos Rivera-Santana - School of Social Science, $191,640
Developing a database of innovative assessment techniques to promote student engagement and deter academic misconduct
Dr Mair Underwood, Dr Peter Walters, Mr Chris Frost, Mr Dom McGrath, Ms Inge Matt, Ms Anna Richards - School of Medicine, $95,950
Enhancing student learning with 3D Radiology images
Professor Nicholas Hawkins, Dr Andrew Janke, Dr Justine Gibson, Dr Dick Wright, Ms Katrina Garrett - School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, $76,281
TeamAnneal Stage Two - a web service for purposeful student team creation
Associate Professor Peter Sutton, Associate Professor Lydia Kavanagh - School of Mathematics and Physics, $119,200
Increasing student engagement in active learning through feedback on pre-reading quizzes
Professor Michael Drinkwater, Professor Matthew Davis, Dr Greg Birkett, Associate Professor Tony Howes, Dr Surya Singh
Technology-Enhanced Learning Grants
Technology-Enhanced Learning Grants were incorporated into the Teaching Innovation Grants scheme in 2016.
2015
- School of Business, $198,925
Concept videos for BCom students
Professor Karen Benson, Associate Professor Barry Oliver, Dr Jac Birt, Professor Steve Grey - School of Agricultural and Food Sciences, $200,448
The Internet of Things for smart science and agriculture education
Associate Professor Kim Bryceson, Dr Judy Cawdell Smith, Dr Marisa Collins, Dr Bruce D'Arcy, Dr Madan Gupta, Associate Professor Peter Murray, Dr David McNeill, Associate Professor Ron Johnston, Associate Professor Vic Galea, Dr Francois Visser, Associate Professor John Gaughan, Dr Luke Leung, Dr Laura Wendling, Dr Ryo Fufinuma, Dr Rebecca Diete, Dr Miranda Mortlock, Dr Robyn Cave - School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, $50,283
Training students in effective communication strategies via telehealth
Dr Emma Finch, Dr Tanya Rose, Dr Kayla Brown, Associate Professor Jennifer Fleming, Professor Deborah Theodoros, Associate Professor David Copeland - School of Veterinary Science, $143,460
VMF (Vertical Modular Framework) for learning and assessment in the clinical sciences
Dr Justine Gibson, Dr Helen Owen, Dr Dick Wright, Dr Steven Kopp, Dr Katrina Garrett, Dr Ann Thompson - School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, $200,000
Technology-enhanced learning strategies for real-world mathematics
Dr Madan Gupta, Professor Peter Adams, Dr Michael Jennings - Architecture and Information Technology, $54,200
Help! A Blackboard-linked quality assured student communication and response system
Associate Professor Lydia Kavanagh, Dr Poh Hillock, Associate Professor Tony Howes, Dr Michael Jennings, Associate Professor Gwen Lawrie, Dr Liza O'Moore, Associate Professor Carl Reidsema, Dr Margaret Wegener, Dr Chris Landorf - School of Communication and Arts, $121,974
Developing digital humanities student capabilites through the AusLit resource
Kerry Kilner, Professor David Carter, Dr Stephen Carleton, Dr Bernadette Cochrane, Dr Kim Wilkins, Dr Janette McWilliam - School of Music, $100,000
Technology-enabled creative music making: targeting future works skills 2020 in music technology curriculum design
Dr Eve Klein, Associate Professor Julie Ballantyne, Dr Mary Broughton, Dr Robert Davidson, Patrick Murphy, Dr Simon Perry, Dr Liam Viney - School of Mathematics and Physics, $98,233
Dynamic, interactive simulations for enhancing student learning
Associate Professor Tim McIntyre, Associate Professor Tony Roberts, Dr Margaret Wegener, Dr Kelly Matthews - Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, $199,069
A flexible ePortfolio platform for work-integrated learning
Professor Sarah Roberts-Thomson, Elizabeth Waldrop, Jessica Tsai, Dr Samantha McKenzie - School of Biological Sciences, $50,000
Interactive practical manual for the analysis of biological data
Dr Patrick Ward, Dr Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos, Dr Kely Matthews, Marnie Holt
2014
- Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology, $300,000
Student Learning Pathway: Providing students with individually tailorerd maps for planning and tracking learning trajectories
Associate Professor Carl Reidsema - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, $295,200
The Teaching @ UQ Program
Julie Duck, Kelly Matthews, Peter Adams, Lydia Kavanagh, Dominic McGrath - Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation, $280,000
e-Exams for high stakes assessment at UQ
Mathew Hillier - School of Dentistry, $190,000
Virtual patients create a virtuous cycle of learning in a dental curriculum
Pauline Ford, Sandra March, Jessica Tsai, Anne Gilmore - School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, $192,475
CLIPS: Communication learning in practice for scientists
Susan Rowland, Joan Leach, Kay Colthorpe, Louise Kuchel - School of Chemical Engineering, $303,000
TheJourneyMaker: Enhancing curriculum design, program analytics and the student experience
Ian Cameron, Peter Sutton, Sarah Roberts-Thomson, Geoffrey Marks, Deborah Brown, Caroline Crosthwaite, Kim Bryceson, Greg Birktett - School of Architecture, $100,000
Developing an integrated 5-dimensional technology learning experience for architecture students
Christine Landorf, Michael Dickson, Timothy O'Rourke, Kelly Greenop, Peter Skinner - Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, $141,500
Skills-enabled ePortfolio
Professor Sarah Roberts-Thompson - Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology, $97,640
Platypus++: a smart, open, cross-campus randomised assignment peer review system
Dr Surya Singh - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, $92,127
Strengthening the first-year gateways: Aligned, Literate and Flipped!
Associate Professor Julie Duck - School of Mathematics and Physics, $99,000
An innovative, open-access online question and solution generator
Michael Jennings, Gwen Lawrie - School of Mathematics and Physics, $100,000
Enhancing student buy-in: pre-reading and feedback in the flipped classroom
Michael Drinkwater, Matthew Davis - School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, $99,900
Online, virtual and adaptive learning environments: improving the journey through large first year chemistry courses
Gwen Lawrie, Susan Rowland, James de Vos, Lawrie Gahan, Joanne Blanchfield, Phillip Sharpe
Early Career (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) Grants
The Early Career (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) Grants were incorporated into the Teaching Innovation Grants scheme in 2016.
2014
- School of Medicine
Building capacity for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) amongst clinicians working as educators in the UQ School of Medicine
Dr Emma Bartle - UQ Business School
Creation of a virtual business environment to be used as an experiential learning and assessment tool for ACCT 1101
Ms Robyn Parry - School of Biomedical Sciences
Feedback Analytics – developing methodologies to understand the relationships between feedback provision, student feedback use and academic performance
Dr Kirsten Zimbardi
ALTC Grants scheme
2013
- School of Tourism
Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes with Simulation-based Pedagogies
Dr Pierre Benckendorff, Project Team: Victoria University, University of South Australia, Griffith University, LaTrobe University - School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, $220,000
Radical transformation: Re-imagining engineering education through flipping the classroom in a global learning partnership
Associate Professor Carl Reidsema, Professor Phil Long, A/Professor Lydia Kavanagh, UniSyd, RMIT, Purdue, Stanford, Pittsburg - School of Architecture, $220,000
Developing a 4-dimensional interdisciplinary learning environment for construction industry professionals
Dr Christine Landorf, University of Newcastle, University of South Australia - School of Education, $43,000
Improving educational outcomes and opportunities for Indigenous students begins at the cultural interface in the classroom
Dr Kerryn McCluskey, Associate Professor Shelley Dole - Teaching and Educational Development Institute, $50,000
Processes and platform for e-exams in supervised BYOD environments
Dr Mathew Hillier, UTas - School of Education, $44,000
Becoming, belonging and being in the profession: A pilot mentoring program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pre-service teachers
Associate Professor Liz Mackinlay - Teaching and Educational Development Institute, $30,000
Transforming Assessment with local and global online dissemination of e-Assessment resources and exemplary practices
Dr Mathew Hillier - Teaching and Educational Development Institute, $30,000
Extending QS in Science: trialling and disseminating resources to link and build QS across life sciences majors
Dr Kelly Matthews