The Deputy Vice Chancellor Education, Professor Romy Lawson, is pleased to announce a new Murdoch University initiative: Students as Change Agents in Learning and Teaching (SCALT).

This ‘students as partners’ program empowers students to lead change in learning and teaching practice at Murdoch. Five Change Agents have been selected to undertake projects in 2017.

Student Change Agents will lead a project of their choice that explores innovative solutions to create change in learning and teaching practice at Murdoch.

Students will be mentored by staff from across the University, including the Centre for University Teaching and Learning (CUTL), School of Law, Careers and Employment, Curriculum and Academic Policy, Guild of Students and Murdoch University Health.

Change Agents will be funded to disseminate their work by presenting the outcomes of their project at Australian based learning and teaching events.

A SCALT Program launch and networking event will be held for participants and their mentors on Wednesday, 22 March 2017. Other interested staff and students are welcome, numbers permitting. For more details please email Denyse MacNish D.Macnish@murdoch.edu.au

If you are interested in finding out more about students as partners in Higher Education see: National Teaching Fellow Dr Kelly Matthews’ fellowship work at the University of Queensland, and National Senior Teaching Fellow Professor Sally Varnham’s work at the University of Technology Sydney.