Dr Fred Beven
Fred had twenty-four years experience as a vocational educator and educational administrator within the Queensland TAFE system prior to sixteen years experience as a teacher and researcher in Vocational Education at Griffith University. Fred's Research interests include the cognitive aspects of the acquisition of vocational knowledge. His PhD studies focused on vocational learners metacognitive structuring while learning with hypermedia. Other research interests include the Interaction between social and personal contributions to human development and societal change, Vocational education Policy and practice issues, Work and vocations and the Historical, cultural, situational and individual contributions to work and vocations.
Professor Stephen Billett
Dr Stephen Billett is Professor of Adult and Vocational Education in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University. Stephen has worked as a vocational educator, educational administrator, teacher educator, professional development practitioner and policy developer within the Australian vocational education system and as a teacher and researcher at Griffith University. Since 1992, he has researched learning through and for work and has published widely in the fields of vocational learning, workplace learning and conceptual accounts of learning for vocational purposes. His sole authored books include Learning through work: Strategies for effective practice (Allen and Unwin 2001); Work, change and workers (Springer 2006) and edited books Work, Subjectivity and Learning (Springer, 2006) Emerging Perspectives of Work and Learning (Sense 2008), Learning through practice (Springer 2010) and Promoting professional learning (Springer 2011). He is currently preparing two sole-authored manuscripts entitled Vocational Education and the Integration of Practice-based Learning in Higher Education Programs. He is the founding and Editor in Chief of Vocations and learning: Studies in vocational and professional education (Springer) and lead editor of the book series Professional and practice-based learning (Springer). He was awarded a 2009-2010 Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Teaching Fellowship that identified principles and practices to effectively integrate learning experiences in practice and academic settings. In June 2011, he commences a four-year Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on learning through practice.
Dr Sarojni Choy
Dr Sarojni Choy is a senior lecturer in adult and vocational education in the School of Education and Professional. Her teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate courses includes vocational assessment, research in vocational education and training, curriculum development in AVE, and instructional design strategies. She also supervises higher degree research students. Sarojni has worked as a project manager, researcher and policy officer in the vocational education sector. She has led national research projects in e-learning, professional development, adult and community education, and employment based training. Her main research interests are in adult learning, work integrated learning and workforce capacity building.
Dr Ann Kelly
Dr Ann Kelly is a lecturer in adult and vocational education in the School of Education and Professional Studies. She has worked as a teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and, most recently, a researcher, within the vocational education and training environment. Her particular interest is in adult literacy pedagogical practices and the development of policy at both the state and national levels. Her recent research has focused on the issues of articulation from vocational education to higher education institutions for students and the continuing employment and training challenges facing mature-aged workers.
Ray Smith
Ray Smith is a lecturer in adult and vocational education at the School of Education and Professional Studies. Ray currently teaches into numerous undergraduate and postgraduate teacher education courses within the AVE suite of programs. This teaching focuses on adults’ work, learning and education for lifelong learning and human resource development at personal and organisational levels. His many years in education and business have engendered a deep interest in learning as a socio-personal practice. A particular research emphasis is on learning in and through the everyday practices of work and how workers personally enact their learning as the negotiation of their subjective engagement in vocational practice.