Professor Kerri-Lee Krause

Kerri-Lee Krause

BEd, MA, PhD

Professor and Director of GIHE

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Professor Kerri-Lee Krause is Chair in Higher Education and Director of the Griffith Institute for Higher Education. Her research expertise and experience spans broadly across higher education policy areas. Her particular research focus is the student experience in higher education and implications for policy and practice.

She has recently been an advisor to the Scottish Quality Assurance Agency on the first year experience. She also recently led a national ALTC-funded project examining teaching-research links across the disciplines and at the nstitutional policy level. Currently, Professor Krause is leading a Queensland government study on strategies for enhancing participation rates of students from low socio-economic backgrounds in higher education.

She leads the Australian arm of an international project in collaboration with the US-based IMS Global Learning Consortium investigating best practices for online learning in first year university and she is also a member of an ALTC project examining the implications of emerging technologies for learning and teaching among the first year digital generation.

A significant part of her work involves providing policy and practical advice to university academics, policy-makers, administrators and support staff to enhance the quality of policy and practice in higher education settings.

She currently holds a three year Australian Research Council Discovery Grant to examine the effects of disciplinary cultures on approaches to teaching and learning, in collaboration with Professor Richard James, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne.

She leads a national study of the teaching-research nexus (PDF 525k), funded by the ALTC. This project involves extensive collaboration with partners at the University of Melbourne, Queensland University of Technology and UK higher education experts, including Professors Alan Jenkins, Mick Healey and Paul Blackmore.

In 2004/5 Professor Krause led the project team that undertook a national study of the first year experience in Australian universities. This landmark national first year experience trend study extends the outcomes of studies of first year students in Australian universities in 1994 and 1999.

Selected other ALTC-funded project commitments include:

  • Co-director of a 'digital native' phenomenon among first year university students and approaches to effective use of emerging technologies in pedagogy and curriculum development;
  • Co-director of a national team of academics investigating strategies for enhancing the assessment of learning in the Biological Sciences in Australian universities;
  • National project commitments have also included the recent DEST-funded analysis of equity groups in higher education.
  • Professor Krause provides policy advice at the institutional and departmental level on pedagogical issues in higher education, and enjoys working closely with academics to support their teaching endeavours. She is regularly invited to conduct consultancies and to present international keynote addresses and seminars on key policy issues related to student learning, engagement and the changing student experience in higher education.
  • With a disciplinary background in Educational Psychology, Professor Krause has broad experience in teaching in a variety of contexts, including large undergraduate university classes. She supervises research students at masters and doctoral level. Professor Krause is co-author of the award-winning text Educational psychology for learning and teaching (Krause, Bochner & Duchesne, Thomson Publishers, 2006, 2nd ed.) and Cyberlines: Languages and cultures of the internet (Gibbs & Krause, JNP, 2000).

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