In pursuit of teaching excellence
6th October 2006
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| Associate Professor Jacquelyn Cranney |
Associate Professor Jacquelyn Cranney is one of eight Australian academics to be honoured for her excellence in learning and teaching in higher education.
Cranney, of the School of Psychology, has been awarded an inaugural Associate Fellowship with the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
The Fellowships, worth $90,000, are aimed at enabling academics to pursue new initiatives in teaching over a period of 12 months. Cranney, who has been dedicated to improving the student experience at UNSW for the past decade, was awarded the Fellowship for her latest project - Sustainable and evidence-based learning and teaching approaches to the undergraduate psychology curriculum.
“I believe in an evidence-based approach to learning and teaching,” said Cranney. “Moreover, we need to minimise ‘reinventing the wheel’ with regard to the creation of high quality undergraduate curriculum and teaching resources.”
Cranney has played a leading role in the development and implementation of new policy, procedures and structures for learning and teaching at the School, Faculty and University level. In recognition of her work in developing UNSW’s Guidelines for Postgraduate Research, Cranney was awarded a NSW Public Service Management Course Scholarship, a Faculty of Life Science Teaching Award, and a UNSW Innovative Teaching and Educational Technology Fellowship.
She was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005 and was a finalist, with Sue Morris, in the 2005 Australian Awards for University Teaching for their innovative work in improving UNSW’s first year psychology program.
Cranney will use the Fellowship to build curriculum templates that are compatible with Australian and international professional standards, and that reflect educationally and psychologically sound principles. “I am also hoping to establish a process for the selection and sharing of learning and teaching materials that are explicitly associated with the templates, and to facilitate the creation and adoption of evidence-based learning and teaching strategies in psychology.”
Cranney, of the School of Psychology, has been awarded an inaugural Associate Fellowship with the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
The Fellowships, worth $90,000, are aimed at enabling academics to pursue new initiatives in teaching over a period of 12 months. Cranney, who has been dedicated to improving the student experience at UNSW for the past decade, was awarded the Fellowship for her latest project - Sustainable and evidence-based learning and teaching approaches to the undergraduate psychology curriculum.
“I believe in an evidence-based approach to learning and teaching,” said Cranney. “Moreover, we need to minimise ‘reinventing the wheel’ with regard to the creation of high quality undergraduate curriculum and teaching resources.”
Cranney has played a leading role in the development and implementation of new policy, procedures and structures for learning and teaching at the School, Faculty and University level. In recognition of her work in developing UNSW’s Guidelines for Postgraduate Research, Cranney was awarded a NSW Public Service Management Course Scholarship, a Faculty of Life Science Teaching Award, and a UNSW Innovative Teaching and Educational Technology Fellowship.
She was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005 and was a finalist, with Sue Morris, in the 2005 Australian Awards for University Teaching for their innovative work in improving UNSW’s first year psychology program.
Cranney will use the Fellowship to build curriculum templates that are compatible with Australian and international professional standards, and that reflect educationally and psychologically sound principles. “I am also hoping to establish a process for the selection and sharing of learning and teaching materials that are explicitly associated with the templates, and to facilitate the creation and adoption of evidence-based learning and teaching strategies in psychology.”
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