Adjunct Professor of Literature Awarded

Congratulations to Dr Alice Mills who has been awarded the position of Adjunct Professor of Literature for a three year period. Alice is a prolific researcher in Literature at the University of Ballarat specialising in picture books, myth, Jungian and Kristevan theory. In addition to her academic position with the University, Alice also organizes and participates a range of writing and book reading groups in the local community.

Alice's webpage with publication details can be found here. Use the navigation pane on the left to select 'Mills' from the stff member list.

HERDSA 2009 The Student Experience

6-9 July, Charles Darwin University, Darwin

This year's theme is The Student Experience with keynote speakers addressing three core areas:

• What is the one thing we can do to increase student engagement and success on our campus?
• Diversity and the student experience: targeting specific student needs in a multi-sector university.
• Taking the distance out of off-campus learning.

Lorraine Sim is presenting a poster session on 'First Semester, First Year: Generic Skills Development in the Humanities' on day two of the con. Jane Mummery will be presenting a paper co-authored with Elise Morten-Allen titled 'The development of critical thinkers: do our efforts coincide with students' beliefs?'. I'll be attending the workshop Educating the Net Generation and look forward to sharing resources from the ALTC project with you.