Professor Sally Varnham is a leading expert in both Australia and New Zealand in law and policy relating to all sectors of education.  Her work is recognised internationally by her invitations to speak at conferences, roundtables and symposia in the UK, Europe and the US.

Sally has researched and written widely on issues in compulsory education relating to educational choice, human rights education, the right to and rights in education, restorative practice and the right to participation and practising citizenship in education.  She has a strong interest in the university/student relationship and she was a Chief Investigator on an ALTC funded project on student grievances. 

Sally will provide a workshop at Murdoch on her Office for Learning and Teaching Fellowship:

Creating a National Framework for Student Partnership in University Decision-making and Governance.

Workshop will begin with a brief presentation, followed by participation in live discussions of a series of prompt questions and opportunity to upload answers to these questions via Survey Monkey.  The “survey” will also be available after the workshop to collect further input from participants and from those who are unable to attend but would like to comment on the issues discussed.

Date:  Friday 2 June

Time: 9.30-11.30am workshop

Venue: 460.2.031 Graduate Suite, Murdoch University

Please register on TCMS.

Sally’s Fellowship builds on the momentum developed in the OLT Strategic Priority Project: ‘Student Engagement in university decision making and governance’. Informed by comparative international research and a national survey of student engagement in university decision-making within Australia, the Fellowship will produce a national framework for student partnership in university decision-making and governance.

Workshop Briefing Document

http://altf.org/fellows/varnham-sally/