Career Highlights include ...

• Published 50 refereed articles and presented 20 conference papers since 2005 on e-learning; communities of learning; professional practice pedagogies; writing, language and textuality; culture and identities;
  
• Completed or about to complete a total of 20 doctorates to completion;
  
• Until 2018 Team Leader of Victoria University Melbourne’s MTESOL (Vietnam) at Hanoi University;
  
• Worked four years as Discipline Leader and Senior Lecturer in Writing at Swinburne University, Melbourne, as a doctoral supervisor, e-moderator and online course writer;
  
• A decade’s experience delivering innovative educational programs online, and a Certificate in Online Learning from the UK's Open University;
• 20 years’ in tertiary and secondary education in English (Creative and Professional Writing, Literary Studies, Linguistics) and English as an Additional Language
• Local/institutional teaching awards and nominated for national awards;
• PhD and BA (Hons) in English (Minors in Languages, Social Sciences);
• Graduate teaching qualifications in Language Teaching, Higher Education and Cambridge TEFLA;
• Three years as university preparation curriculum designer/manager in foundational industry contexts;
• Experienced in team leadership in tertiary and secondary contexts as Discipline/team leader or assistant principal;
• Published poet, librettist, short story writer, creative writer and journalistic/features writer.
  

Core Beliefs

• Guiding people to maximise their potential, creativity and success in their chosen areas at their particular level is a major life mission.
• Understanding individuals’ desire to affirm their identities and to belong to a wider community both motivates successful learners and adds value to teaching and learning.
• Success in tertiary educative context in the 2010s requires a commitment to quality and innovation in online and flexible delivery of targeted learning packages

Professional Qualifications

• PhD (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)
• BA (First Class Hons.) (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)
• RSA/Cambridge Cert. TEFLA (University of Cambridge, England)
• Graduate Diploma in Language Teaching (GDLT)(Unitec New Zealand)
• Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (GDHE)(Unitec New Zealand)

• Recipient, Unitec Excellence in Teaching Staff Award, 2004
• Nominee, NZQA Tertiary Teaching Award, Excellence in Innovation, 2005
  
• Recipience, Excellence Awardm, Leadership in Transnational Education, Vctoria University, Melbourne, 2016
  
• Recipient, Otago Polytechnic Excellence Award, 2019, Research Supervision
  
• Orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0108-5195