Current and recently completed research students
CSHE research candidates come from a wide variety of backgrounds and experience. George Banky - PhD Recently completed research students Angelito Calma - DEd |
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Phone: +61 3 9214 8318 Email: g.banky@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au |
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George Banky is an electrical and electronic engineering graduate of the University of Melbourne who has been teaching undergraduate electronics subjects for the past 29 years at Swinburne University of Technology. His PhD research topic examines the possible provision of over-the-shoulder teaching/learning pedagogy via a local area network connection to students who are physically remote from the supervising academic. George's technical knowledge of the Internet and his hands-on tertiary educational experiences motivated him to research this area, hoping that any beneficial outcome may be up-scaled to an Internet-based platform that could be used to provide future distance education students, who may be anywhere on the globe, with pedagogy that is routinely available to their on-campus counterparts. |
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Catherine Burnheim is a full-time PhD student, supervised by Professor Simon Marginson. Her doctoral research is on universities’ external networks in their local, national and global contexts. Rather than seeing external relations as either conditioned by the intrinsic nature of universities, or determined by macroeconomic and macrosocial factors, Bourdieu’s theory of field is used to examine the specific dynamics of higher education in Australia. Through case studies of three research-intensive Australian universities, this study asks: What is the scope and nature of universities’ external relations? How do these relations fit within the broader dynamics of the field of higher education? Catherine has previously worked in policy development and project management in the Chancellery and the Community & Regional Partnerships group at RMIT University. She holds a BA (Honours) from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Public Policy from the University of Melbourne. |
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Phone: +61 3 8344 9724 Email: a.calma@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au |
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Angelito Calma is from the Philippines and started his Doctor of Education in 2006. His interests include higher education research, policy, and reform. His current research is into research training, the environment of research higher degress, and research supervision, under the supervision of CSHE. He obtained his qualifications in the Philippines and in Australia. He holds a BSc and MM from the University of the Philippines and a GDip Educational Studies from the University of Queensland. He held a number of teaching positions in several undergraduate and postgraduate levels before taking up his Doctor of Education at the University of Melbourne. Publications: Research higher degree supervision in the Philippines: exploring possibilities for research. Paper presented at the International Conference on Research in Higher Education Institutions, Philippines, 24-27 October 2007. |
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Phone: +61 3 8344 8021 Email: kga@unimelb.edu.au |
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Katerina Gauntlett is a part time DEd candidate, looking at the expectations and experiences of international students from the Gulf States who have been sponsored by their government to undertake Australian university undergraduate programs. Katerina's research questions a number of assumptions about Gulf State students who are studying in Australia. Her fieldwork commenced in Muscat in August 2004 and followed twelve secondary school graduates from the Sultanate of Oman through their English Language Intensive Course for Overseas Students (ELICOS) and pathway studies into four Victorian universities. Katerina is frequently invited by universities, foundation programs and English language centres to present seminars on a range of topics related to her research. Katerina currently works for the University of Melbourne in the Academic Programs Management Unit developing, delivering and evaluating training modules for the Student Advice Program, a key component of the Melbourne Model's student-focused academic and support services. |
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Phone: +61 3 9925 5227 Email: cate.gribble@rmit.edu.au |
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Cate Gribble’s research topic is ‘International student mobility and skilled migration: an analysis of government policy from the perspective of sending countries’. She is a part time PhD candidate whose research explores the link between international student mobility and skilled migration. Cate became interested in the area of international education in 1997 whilst working at the University San Carlos in Guatemala City where she was completing an assignment with Australian Volunteers International. She enrolled in a Master of Education (International) at Monash University whilst in Guatemala. Her Masters thesis examined cross-cultural preparation among academic staff teaching in offshore programs in three Melbourne universities. In January 2005 Cate was seconded to work on a DEST funded Offshore Quality project “Improving offshore teaching models to promote offshore-to-onshore equivalence in learning outcomes” which involved an investigation of RMIT’s offshore programs in both Vietnam and Tanzania. The project was submitted in June 2005 and it is envisaged that the outcomes of the project will contribute to the development of a broader framework for quality assurance of Australian offshore programs. In 2005 Cate joined the Globalism Institute at RMIT where she is currently working on an ARC Discovery project “Governing International Trade in Higher Education: A comparative Study of International Education Policy Development”, with a particular focus on international student mobility and skilled migration. In 2007 Cate received an Australia-Malaysia fellowship to undertake research on international student mobility and skilled migration in Malaysia. She has published the following papers: 2007 (Forthcoming): 'Policy options for managing international student migration: The sending country's perspective' to be published in Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. 2007: 'Problems with Singapore's Global Schoolhouses' (co-authored with Grant McBurnie) published in International Higher Education. 2005: DEST-funded offshore quality report – “Improving offshore teaching models to promote offshore-to-onshore equivalence in learning outcomes” (co-authored with Linda Pannan and Daniel Barnes) 2003: ‘Learning to teach offshore: pre-departure training for lecturers in transnational programs’ (co-authored with Chris Ziguras) published in Higher Education Research and Development. |
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Email: g.grigg@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au |
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Gabrielle started her PhD full-time at CSHE in February 2007. Her topic focuses on possible reasons and drivers for universities to institute policies, with plagiarism policies as a case study. She is using concepts from policy analysis to illuminate the process of policy construction in higher education. Gabrielle has a background in linguistic and language analysis. She has BA (double Honours, First Class) in Russian and in German language and literature from the University of Otago, and taught in a first-year language and communication paper in Otago's English Department before working as Assistant Research Fellow at the Higher Education Development Centre (University of Otago) from 2002 - 2006. |
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Phone: +61 3 8344 9724 Email: p.leihy@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au |
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Peodair started his PhD in 2008. He has masters degrees from Melbourne and Oxford and has worked in research and teaching in Australia and England. Peodair’s thesis focuses on vocation and the university. His interests include university boosterism and positioning, the history of higher education, credentialism, the concept of the liberal arts, skills and popular and esoteric views of a good education. |
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Phone: +61 3 8344 9724 Email: vmillar@unimelb.edu.au |
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Victoria started her PhD at the CSHE in February 2008. For her research, she is looking at the link between interdisciplinarity and disciplinarity and how this effects the curriculum and pedagogy of interdisciplinary subjects in higher education. |
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Phone: +61 3 9345 7252 |
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Sarah Richardson is enrolled in a PhD as a part time student. She is looking at the impact of globalisation on higher education in Australia and its impact on students. Having done research with more than 1,000 students at four universities in Melbourne, she is now analysing this prior to carrying out follow-up interviews. A key issue that is arising is the social exclusion of international students, set against the desire of both international and local students to get to know each other better. When she is not working on her thesis, Sarah is the Senior Tutor at International House, where she organises the tutorial programme and the academic and pastoral activities of fifteen other tutors. She also tutors in the School of Politics, Criminology and Sociology and at various colleges. With a thoroughly international background, Sarah gained her bachelor's degree from the University of Liverpool in the UK and her master's degree from the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. She previously taught academic English to international students for 12 years and is also an IELTS examiner. |
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Kate is interested in issues of governance, organisational structure and external engagement in higher education. Her doctoral research project is tentatively titled ‘Beyond the Managerial and Collegial Dichotomy’, and will address the question ‘what comes next?’ for Australian universities in terms of management and governance structures. The project will examine how a university can be structured to engage with its social environment, both local and global, meet diverse goals and demands, and effectively engage its many minds in decision-making processes while still retaining a distinct organisational identity. Kate has been enrolled in a PhD part-time since March 2008, and is a Senior Policy Officer at the University of Sydney in her spare time. She has previously completed a Bachelor of Economics (Social Sciences) (Hons) and Master of Labour Law and Relations at the University of Sydney. Papers: Conference proceedings: |
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Phone: +61 2 9561 8673 |
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Susan holds a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) in International Relations from Ottawa University (Kansas, USA) and a Master of Arts in Soviet and East European Studies from the University of Kansas. Her research, The Internationalisation of the American Academy: a public diplomacy approach to the War on Terrorism explores the role of international higher education as a public diplomacy tool and agent of change in advancing the foreign policy and national security agenda of the United States in the post 9/11 era. Specifically, the research explores the American national character, its tendencies toward exceptionalism, the corresponding link to national security and how international higher education is being used by the US in its War on Terrorism. Towards this end, the research will employ ethnographic case studies of Harvard, Yale and Princeton in an attempt to ascertain to what degree these universities have adapted to, accommodated with, and contributed to advancing the foreign policy and national security agenda of the U.S. in its War on Terrorism. Harvard, Yale and Princeton Universities were selected because they consistently rank in the top three of US research-intensive universities for undergraduate education. In addition, these universities play an important link in producing America’s power elite across all sectors, eg government, industry, media, education et al. For example, since 1900, ten of the past eighteen (and six of the past nine) US presidents have graduated from these three universities. Susan’s principle research supervisor is Professor Simon Marginson. Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. (Albert Einstein) |
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Scott Thompson-Whiteside is a part-time PhD student supervised by Professor Simon Marginson and Professor Richard James. His doctoral research focuses on the effects of massification, diversity and internationalisation on our understanding of academic standards in Australian higher education. Through conceptual and policy analysis supported with case studies of transnational programs, the research aims to provide an understanding of how standards are defined, interpreted, implemented, measured, and controlled. An analysis of academic standards will provide some insight to the core values of a rapidly changing higher education system, which is increasingly scrutinized and accountable for its quality. Scott has a first class honours degree and a MA from the UK. He is currently Associate Dean, International for the Faculty of Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. |
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Kirsty began her DEd coursework studies in 2007, with her planned
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(2008-09) focusing on higher education policy and reform in the
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Angelito Calma is from the Philippines and completed his Doctor of Education in 2009. His interests include higher education research, policy, and reform. His research was into research training, the environment of research higher degress, and research supervision, under the supervision of CSHE. He obtained his qualifications in the Philippines and in Australia. He also holds a BSc and MM from the University of the Philippines and a GDip Educational Studies from the University of Queensland. He held a number of teaching positions in several undergraduate and postgraduate levels before taking up his Doctor of Education at the University of Melbourne. Angelito is currently working as Content Manager, Professional Pathways and Programs at CPA Australia. Publications: Research higher degree supervision in the Philippines: exploring possibilities for research. Paper presented at the International Conference on Research in Higher Education Institutions, Philippines, 24-27 October 2007. |
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Chinh Ba Nguyen was a full-time PhD student who started his PhD at the CSHE in 2005. Chinh's PhD thesis title: From place to place through space: the discursive electronic construction of Australian universities, knowledge and international students. Chinh holds an M.EdST from the University of Queensland, an M.A. (TESOL) from Vietnam National University, a B.Bus. (Int'l Bus) from the Hanoi Foreign Trade University and a B.A. (Arts) from Vietnam National University. Chinh previously worked at Hewlett Packard Vietnam, Taylor Nelson & Sofres Vietnam and Hanoi Foreign Trade University before taking up his PhD studies at the University of Melbourne. Chinh describes himself as a fun loving bloke who can work hard but works harder at having a good time; perhaps simply a person who has travelled a fair bit and has a relaxed attitude to life - someone who lives and works in the city but loves to escape to the tranquility of the bush.
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Phone: +61 3 9214 5884 Email: clang@ict.swin.edu.au |
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The title of Catherine's thesis was "How girls make decisions about education and careers in IT", a subject that has interested her for years. Her Masters thesis was also in the area of gender and technology with a cross-cultural focus. The more she investigated this topic the more it appeared that girls are making positive choices to avoid IT degree courses. These choices are being made well before the end of secondary school, implying that they are not informed choices. Catherine is currently a lecturer in the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies of Swinburne University of Technology. Catherine is strongly involved in Women in IT through the ACM-W committee (she is Australian Ambassador), the Women in ICT - Network (a Multimedia Victoria initiative), and the VicWIC and AusWIT communities. Catherine’s research was closely linked with her work and she made a significant contribution to the current literature in this area. |
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Marguerite's research study, The Nature and Consequences of Alternative Entry Programs for Mature Age Students, explored the policies and practices surrounding equity programs for mature age students. She examined whether and in what ways these programs improved the higher education opportunities and outcomes for these learners. The study was based on interviews with managers, educators and students in four Australian universities. |
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Email: dkdezilwa@ozemail.com.au |
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Deanna's PhD, Academic Units in the era of the Entrepreneurial University, is a study of how academic units in Australian universities have dealt with changes in their operating environments including declining public funding, marketisation, globalisation and developments in information communication technologies. Heads of departments, academics and administrators in sixteen academic units in four universities were interviewed for the study. This data was contrasted with literature on university environments and organisational change to identify attributes that provide academic units with an adaptive capacity and those that impede adaptation. |
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Email: maddy.mcmaster@rmit.edu.au |
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Maddy's thesis study, New Partnerships in University Administration, explored how academic managers and administrative managers work together. It was based on interviews with deans and faculty managers in six Australian universities, through which she identified the key influences on the work behaviours of administrative and academic managers. |
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Kim's background is in language teaching. Her first degree was awarded in Russia where she received a scholarship for the highest excellence. Her second bachelors degree, on English language, was awarded in Vietnam. She previously worked for the University of Pedagogy in Ho Chi Minh City as a lecturer of Russian literature. She received her first masters degree in the Russian-Slavonic language and was granted a national scholarship for developing this research into a PhD thesis. At the same time, she was offered a scholarship to study for a Master of Education, which she completed in 2000. Her masters research was on the quality of teaching and student evaluation of teaching. |
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