Learning and Teaching Leadership Team

Professor Kerri-Lee Krause

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education), Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor
BEd, MA, PhD

Professor Kerri-Lee Krause is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education), Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Western Sydney. Her portfolio responsibilities focus on enhancing the quality of learning, teaching and academic quality across the University. She is internationally recognised for her research on the contemporary undergraduate student experience and implications for quality and standards. At UWS her role connects the quality of the student experience and outcomes with capacity-building for academic staff. Higher education policy is her research focus, including extensive work on the changing student experience, the evolving nature of academic work and implications for quality and standards in higher education.

Associate Professor Bronwyn Cole

Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Arts

Bronwyn Cole is the Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Arts at UWS. Her portfolio responsibilities focus on enhancing the quality of learning, teaching, curriculum design and academic quality across the Schools of Education, Humanities and Communication Arts and Social Sciences and Psychology. Bronwyn has been Associate Head of the School of Education and Head of Primary Education Programs. She continues to teach, research and write about primary curriculum and pedagogy, particularly in the area of Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE K-6), teacher pedagogy and student engagement. She has been awarded a national Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for her Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. 

Bronwyn is a foundation member of the internationally recognised Fair Go Research Team at UWS, focusing on teacher pedagogy and the engagement of students in schools in low socio-economic areas. She is also well known for and committed to her work with Storypath curriculum and pedagogy, a pedagogical approach that is successful in engaging students and enhancing their academic and social outcomes. Her current research projects include comparative studies of the Storypath approach in classrooms in Australia and USA, an extensive study of teachers who 'make a difference' to students in poverty, and an investigation of exemplary beginning teachers working in schools in low socio-economic areas. She has also worked on several significant consultant research projects focusing on teaching and learning.

Associate Professor Craig Ellis

Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Business and Law

A graduate of UWS Macarthur, Craig returned to UWS in 2001 having  previous lectured at the University of Technology Sydney for over six years.  Craig has published in many international finance and science journals including  ‘Chaos Solitons and Fractals’, ‘International Review of Financial Analysis’,  ‘Japan and the World Economy’, ‘Physica A’ and ‘Economics Letters’. His  research interests include non-linear dynamics and forecasting. Craig has  previously held roles within the School of Economics and Finance as Associate  Head of School (Teaching & Learning) and as Associate Dean Academic for the  College of Business and Law.  

Dr Betty Gill

Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Health and Science

Dr Betty Gill is the Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor Education, Health & Science at the University of Western Sydney. As part of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) team she has responsibility for supporting and working with schools in the Health & Science disciplines to enhance the quality of learning, teaching and academic quality.

Betty is chair of the newly formed Student Experience & Engagement Committee, the peak strategic University body charged with development and coordination of an institution-wide, strategic framework for the enhancement of the student experience and engagement across the student life cycle.

A major focus of the committee and of her work in her previous role of Associate Dean (Academic) of the then College of Health & Science has been on the 1st year experience and student transition where she has overseen the implementation of a range of strategic initiatives, characteristically designed to ensure coherence and integration, involving a collaborative approach between academic and professional staff, aiming to make this agenda “everyone’s business”.

Professor Liz Deane

Learning and Teaching Strategic Initiatives and interim Head Learning and Teaching Unit

Professor Elizabeth Deane is Professor Strategic Initiatives (Learning and Teaching) and interim Head, Learning and Teaching Unit. Her portfolio responsibilities include providing leadership in the areas of student learning support; teaching skills development and on-line and blended approaches to education.  

A Biochemist by training Liz has held a number of academic leadership positions in Australian Universities and has an extensive research track record in the areas of marsupial immunology, development and disease as well as in academic management and teaching and learning. In her role at UWS she is focused on developing an holistic framework for supporting quality teaching and supportive learning environments across the broad geographical and disciplinary spread of UWS. This encompasses governance and policy review and formulation as well as development of detailed operational plans. 

Associate Professor Carmel Coady

Head, Maths Education and Support Hub (MESH)

Associate Professor Carmel Coady is Head of the Maths Education Support Hub (MESH) at the University of Western Sydney. Her areas of expertise are in the learning and teaching of mathematics and statistics, specialising in the teaching of these disciplines to first-year students.  This expertise has resulted in national recognition by way of several teaching awards and participation in projects funded by the Office of Learning and Teaching.  Making the student experience in the learning of mathematics and statistics is the focus of her role at UWS.  This is achieved by providing innovative approaches to the learning of mathematics and statistics that results in increased student confidence in their ability to understand and apply mathematical techniques and concepts.

Dr David McInnes

Associate Professor and Head, Hub for Academic Language and Literacy (HALL)

Associate Professor David McInnes is Head of the Hub for Academic Language and Literacy  at the University of Western Sydney. His areas of expertise include the undergraduate pedagogical development and research with interests in the lecture (as pedagogical discourse), engagement and in the development of curriculum responses to the development of academic literacy. David will be providing leadership in a UWS-wide strategic investment in assessing and developing student literacies, including English language proficiency. Improving student literacy skills is an important area of focus for UWS  and David’s wealth of teaching and research expertise in linguistics aligns well with the university’s ambitions.