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Professor Angela Brew

2008 ALTC National Teaching Fellow
Macquarie University, New South Wales

Professor Angela Brew is an internationally renowned researcher and speaker who has worked in the UK and in Australia in the area of higher education for over thirty years. Her research on the nature of research and human knowing and its relationship to teaching has been published widely.

From 1999-2003 she was President of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA). Professor Brew has been elected Fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education and a Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association (UK).

Fellowship completed: Early 2010

Enhancing undergraduate engagement through research and inquiry

Engaging undergraduate students in research and inquiry, develops important graduate attributes, engages students meaningfully in higher education and prepares them for a twenty-first century world of work in which knowing how to inquire and critically evaluate knowledge of increasing importance.

This Fellowship is designed to bring together a team of international experts and leading Australian collaborators to foster student engagement through developing and sharing protocols for good practice in engaging undergraduate students in research and inquiry in different disciplines.

It will bring international scholars and practitioners to Australia to provide opportunities for academic and senior personnel to consider mechanisms to support strategic change in engaging undergraduates in inquiry and to initiate and contribute to strategically important policy debates. It will heighten awareness of critical issues through providing an overview of current practice and funding opportunities and exploring implications for learning and teaching in the future.

ASCED Field of Education: 0701 - Teacher Education

Fellowship Discipline: Arts, Business Studies, Media and Law, Science

The information on this fellow's page was correct as of 1 July, 2010.