Alisa is a Senior Lecturer in Academic Language and Learning at the University of Wollongong. Her research interests include: critical studies of higher education history, policy and practice; the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education; and the political, intellectual and organisational deployment of academic language and learning practitioners.
Journal Articles
A new age in higher education or just a little bit of history repeating? : linking the past present and future of ALL in Australia, Journal of Academic Language and Learning (2011)
For those relatively new to the field of Academic Language and Learning, the ‘new’ social...
Tutors’ Forum: Engaging Distributed Communities of Practice (with Jeannette Stirling and Rosemary Beaumont), Open Learning (2009)
The need to engage students studying at a distance in order to reduce isolation, foster...
The casualisation of teaching and the subject at risk (with Rosemary Beaumont), Studies in Continuing Education (2008)
The casualisation of teaching in Australian higher education has come to be problematised as a...
Learning advising practice and reform: a perspective from the University of Wollongong, Australia (with Bronwyn James, Jeanette Stirling, and Ruth Walker), Journal for Educational Reform (2004)
The claim made in this paper is that higher education reform and learning advising practice...
Reports
The RED Report, Recognition - Enhancement - Development: The contribution of sessional teachers to higher education (with Michele Scoufis, Sharron Parry, Allan Goody, Margaret Hicks, Ian Macdonald, Kay Martinez, Nick Szorenyi-Reischl, Yoni Ryan, Sandra Wills, and Lynn Sheridan), Academic Services Division - Papers (2008)
This large-scale study into the recognition, enhancement and development of sessional teaching in higher education...
The RED Resource, Recognition - Enhancement - Development: The contribution of sessional teachers to higher education Sydney (with Michele Scoufis, Sharron Parry, Allan Goody, Margaret Hicks, Ian Macdonald, Julia T. Martinez, Nick Szorenyi-Reischl, Yoni Ryan, Sandra Wills, and Lynn Sheridan), Academic Services Division - Papers (2008)
This large-scale study into the recognition, enhancement and development of sessional teaching in higher education...
Book Chapters
Making sense of learning advising: an historical ontology, University of Wollongong Thesis Collection (2011)
This thesis is concerned with making sense of the discursive complexity of the learning advisor...
Meeting ANESB students' LAS needs in an institutional context (with M. Cargill and A. Bartlett), in Bartlett, A. & Chanock, K. (eds.), The Missing Part of the Student Profile Jigsaw: Academic skills advising for Australian tertiary students from non-English speaking backgrounds (2003)
When considering what needs to be known, changed and developed at the institutional level to...
Refereed Conference Proceedings
The various incarnations of an online academic integrity module, or whose responsibility is it anyway? (with Venkat Yanamandram and Sandra Humphrey), 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI) (2009)
In the development and delivery of a faculty-based online academic integrity module designed to orient...
Exploring student engagement for Generation Y : a pilot in Environmental Economics (with Ann Hodgkinson), Academic Services Division - Papers (2008)
This paper reports on a pilot study involving the redesign of a third year Economics...
Exploring student engagement for Generation Y: a pilot in Environmental Economics (with Ann Hodgkinson), Faculty of Commerce - Economics Working Papers (2008)
This paper reports on a pilot study involving the redesign of a third year Economics...
Stakeholders in academic integrity: Embedding academic literacies into three professional degree programs (with Isla A. Bowen, Bronwyn A. James, Lee C. Moerman, Paul J. Moore, Emily Rose Purser, and Margaret C. Wallace), Academic Services Division - Papers (2007)
Using evidence and avoiding plagiarism e-learning module: Scaffolding academic integrity (with Venkata Yanamandram and Sandra Humphrey), Academic Services Division - Papers (2007)
This paper describes the collaborative design, implementation and evaluation of a discipline-based eLearning module (eLM)....
Other
Conference Program and Abstracts (with Brian Martin), 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI) (2009)
This conference program was originally issued as Martin, B (editor) and Percy, A (compositor), Educational...
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Towards benchmarking AALL practices (with Bronwyn A. James, Joanne Dearlove, Heather L. Jamieson, Paul J. Moore, Emily Rose Purser, Louise C. Rossetto, and Janice Skillen), Academic Services Division - Papers (2007)
The aim of the project was to do some of the initial leg work that...