Dr Duncan Nulty
BSc(Hons), GradCertEd(Higher Ed), PhD, Senior Lecturer.
Contact Details for Dr Duncan Nulty.
Current Projects
Development of policy and procedures associated with Program development, approval, monitoring and review.
Recognition and Awards
- Duncan was: one of a team of four to win the Pearson UniServ Science Teaching Award 2003
- One of six people to be awarded the 1998 QUT Outstanding Contribution Award for General Staff. Inside QUT, May 5 - May 18, 1998. Page 6) PDF / GIF
Teaching Experience
Duncan has been teaching in universities for over 17 years. This has involved 1:1, small and large group, teaching, plus postgraduate supervision at the masters and doctoral level, guest lecturing in the Graduate Certificate of Education, and many staff development workshops and seminars. These have been predominantly on topics to do with the assessment of student learning, evaluation of teaching, courses, programs, and educational development projects (from small to very large), curriculum design, and postgraduate supervision.
Outside the university context Duncan has taught life skills to adolescent offenders (in the UK) and to homeless adolescents (in Australia), Scuba diving (in the UK) and yacht sailing (Australia).
Research Higher Degree Supervision
- Diane Smith (MHEd Candidate)
- Glen harrison (MHEd Candidate)
- Leonie Short (PhD)
- Rae-Anne Locke (MPhil Candidate)
Research Interests
Duncan's research is focused on quality assurance in higher education. This is sub-divided into two areas:
- Evaluation of Programs, Courses and Teaching
- Assessment of student learning.
The first includes examination of the ways in which students interpret the intention of evaluation processes, the meaning of quality in teaching, course and program design, and the development of policy which ensures that processes for program, course and teaching development and its evaluation are systemic and systematic in their contribution to quality assurance. The second is focusing on ways in which academic staff can ensure the quality of their assessment practices - as mediators of learning, as accountability mechanisms and as part of an evaluation strategy.
Academic and Community Service
Duncan has a significant and sustained record of academic leadership and community service. He has designed and developed software used for student evaluation of programs, courses and teaching in nine Australian universities.
In recent years he has provided academic leadership and consultancy on evaluation, assessment, and curriculum design combined with development, management and delivery of a range of university-wide evaluation services for Griffith, UQ and QUT. His advice on these matters is highly valued and frequently sought out from institutions from throughout Australia.
He has taken a leading role in the development and implementation of a number of strategic university policies. These include: a range of policies relating to evaluation of programs, courses and teaching; Griffith's Course Approval and Evaluation Policy; and Program Development and Approval policies.
He is currently working on the redevelopment of Program Monitoring and Review policy and a Griffith University "Framework for Excellence in Teaching and Success in Learning". He has been an active member of many faculty based large learning and teaching development projects; has provided academic and management leadership as an embedded (ie faculty based) academic consultant and educational development project manager. He has made many contributions through full membership of many faculty-level committees and through regular invitation to participate in university-level committees.
He was the Chair of the 7th First Year in Higher Education Conference; has been a key player in university policy development; manager of a large learning and teaching development grant project in QUT's Faculty of Science targeting the development of students' information literacy skills; the secretary for HERDSA Queensland; and has been active as a reviewer for several academic journals and conferences.
He has also conducted a number of professional consultancies on evaluation of programs, courses and teaching for several universities in Australia and overseas.