ProjectProject

Gender inclusive curriculum in engineering and construction management

Project Information

Year Funded:
2008
Grant (ex GST):
$193,000
Project Status:
Ongoing
Program:
Competitive Grants
Project Keywords:
Construction management, Diversity, Engineering, Gender, Inclusive curriculum
Project Discipline:
Engineering and Technology

Institutions

  • University of South Australia (Lead)
  • The University of Melbourne
  • The University of Newcastle
  • University of Technology, Sydney

Project Leader

  1. Associate Professor Julie Mills

Project Outcome

This project will develop and promote a more inclusive style of teaching and learning in Engineering and Construction Management (E&CM) in order to accommodate the increasingly diverse student body.

Specific outcomes include:
  1. Improved retention rates of women in E&CM;
  2. Increased awareness of staff in E&CM of inclusive curriculum and consequent changes to teaching and learning practice;
  3. The embedding of inclusive curriculum principles into institutional quality processes for course and program development and approval and into accreditation criteria for E&CM programs with the relevant accrediting bodies.

Project Methodology

The project will adopt an evidence-based, mixed methods approach using tools such as on-line surveys and face to face interviews to benchmark current practice and evaluate the results of interventions. The collection and dissemination of curriculum exemplars, trials and evaluation of inclusive curriculum interventions at both course and program level at the partner universities and work with accreditation bodies will be undertaken using an interactive website, a series of workshops and on-going meetings, in order to embed inclusive curriculum principles into institutional and accrediting bodies’ practices.

The information on this project's page was correct at the time of funding. Changes may have occurred since.

The information on this project's page was updated 1 April, 2009.

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