Kerry has been teaching biosciences for twenty-two years, having a strong background in science, science education, and the learning sciences. She has both secondary and tertiary education experience, having worked in Australia, England, and the USA, and brings experience in integrating evidence-based approaches to pedagogy and curriculum planning. Kerry has been working with CQUniversity's School of Access Education as an Academic Learning Advisor since 2018 and has also been teaching into the STEPS program since 2020. Kerry is committed to progress in education, particularly in the areas of STEM, cognitive sciences, technology-enhanced learning (TEL), disciplinary language learning, and the impact of wellbeing on learning. Interest areas and experiences also include but are not limited to teacher professional development; science education approaches; learning strategy instruction; optimising student self-efficacy and general self-beliefs; mindfulness, and self-regulated learning. Kerry is currently working towards a PhD in Education with a focus on explicit learning strategy instruction.
Publications
- We were all learning and doing our best: Investigating how Enabling educators promoted student belonging in a time of significant complexity and unpredictability
- Digital Disruption in the COVID-19 Era: The Impact on Learning and Students’ Ability to Cope with Study in an Unknown World
- Embracing Reflexivity
- Is there anybody out there? Educator perception of student social presence and engagement in the zoomosphere
- Mobile applications in nursing science education: A scoping review with snowballing method
- Sell not, TEL not: Minimising uptake failure of Technology-Enhanced Learning pedagogies - a pilot study