Professor Kerri-Lee Krause
BEd, MA, PhD
Professor and Director of GIHE
Contact details for Professor Kerri-Lee Krause
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 is an international reviewer for the Scottish Quality Assurance Agency and she leads a number of quality enhancement initiatives at Griffith University in such areas as assessment and teaching quality. She currently leads an ALTC funded project on leadership development for program leaders in multicampus universities and co-directs the fourth national study of the First Year Experience with Professor Richard James (Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne). This DEEWR funded study will result in a 15-year trend report on the first year experience in Australian higher education.
She recently completed a national ALTC project examining teaching-research links across the disciplines and at the institutional policy level. Other recent funded projects include a study commissioned by the Queensland State Government on strategies for enhancing participation rates of students from low socio-economic backgrounds in higher education. She has also completed 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.
Her research in the field of technology-enhanced learning and teaching includes contribution to the recently completed 'Educating the Net Generation' (PDF 5.85 Mb) ALTC project and leadership of 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 (PDF 168.7k).
Professor Krause has a commitment to quality enhancement in higher education. Her research informs a significant part of her work which 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 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 nature of academic work 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, Thompson Publishers, 2006, 2nd ed.) and Cyberlines: Languages and cultures of the internet (Gibbs & Krause, JNP, 2000)
Current Projects
- Developing Program Leader Networks and Resources to Enhance Learning and Teaching in Multicampus Universities (PDF 58k)
- The Academic's and Policy-Maker's Guide to the Teaching-research Nexus: A suite of resources for enhancing reflective practice (PDF 525k)(ALTC).
- Enhancing Assessment in the Biological Sciences (ALTC).
- The Influence of Disciplinary Cultures on Approaches to Undergraduate Teaching and Learning: Extending Higher Education Theory and Practice (PDF 526k) (Australian Research Council).
- Educating the Net Generation: Implications for Learning and Teaching in Australian Universities (PDF 526k) (ALTC).