BTeach(Hons), GradDip (Womens Studies) UNE, PhD QUT.
Lecturer, GIHE
Contact details for Dr Lynn Burnett..Dr Lynn Burnett is a Lecturer in Higher Education at the Griffith Institute for Higher Education. Her primary role is to coordinate the First Year Advisors across the four Groups and five campuses of Griffith University. She works across the institution to provide professional development for academic staff, with a particular focus on supporting staff with strategies for engaging students in the first year.
In 2005 Dr Burnett was the First Year Experience Project Coordinator at The University of Queensland for a period of eighteen months. In this role Dr Burnett’s primary tasks were to facilitate and increase communication within, and between, the University’s seven Faculties, various Support Services and The DVC(A) Office. She was actively involved in communication with senior administration and Faculty leaders to assist in the development of Faculty-based Induction programs which expand information and welcome sessions conducted in Orientation week. The position also required robust scoping and the undertaking of institutional-wide activity relating to learning and teaching policy and issues surrounding the first year student experience. Project related actions were disseminated at several National conferences and through a comprehensive 70 page project related report at the end of 2006.
Dr Burnett has over 13 years tertiary teaching and research experience across a range of content areas. Her research experience and interests include first year student experience, student experience, women’s studies, feminist research methods (in particular, Memory Work Methodology) and identity formation.
Professional Development and Postgraduate Supervision
Professional development for academic staff
- Coordinator First Year Advisors
- GIHE Group Contact for Arts Group (Faculty of Arts Learning and Teaching Committee)
- Academic staff workshops: including Teaching Large Classes
- Research higher degree supervision
- Nick Todd (PhD, Associate Supervisor): The first year experience(s): Perceptions from demographic sub-groups and traditional learners at an Australian University
Current and Recent Projects
- On the Outside Looking In: Students of Difference and Practicum Experiences Internal Queensland University of Technology Equity Grants Scheme 2002 – 2004. 1st Chief Investigator – Dr T Aspland. Associate Investigator – Dr J. Carr and Ms Lynn Burnett
- One in Ten: Investigating the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Bachelor of Education students: Internal Queensland University of Technology Equity Grants Scheme 1999 - 2000 Faculty of Education. 1st Chief Investigator – Dr C Eastwood. Associate Investigator - Ms L Burnett and Dr T Aspland
- Pathways into postgraduate programs: Monitoring the steps of students of difference Queensland University of Technology New Researcher Grant, 1998. 1st Chief Investigator - Ms T Aspland. Associate Investigator - Ms L Burnett and Ms P Mackay