I have worked for many years at a variety of higher education institutions, namely TAFE NSW, UTS Insearch and the University of Wollongong. My key interests and research include projects related to (cross-cultural) communication, elearning and ePortfolios, language and literacy, media and multi-modality, teaching, sustainability and writing. I write fiction and maintain an abiding interest in photography.
Presentations
Overseas trained teachers (OTTs): student attitudes and expectations in the context of vocational education (with Jill Murray), Faculty of Education - Papers (2009)
The vocational education and preparation of overseas trained teachers (OTTs) in NSW is a demanding...
Articles
Test candidates’ attitudes and their relationship to demographic and experiential variables: The case of overseas trained teachers in NSW, Australia (with Jill C. Murray Dr and Mehdi Riazi Assoc. Prof.), Language Testing (2012)
One measure of the impact of a high-stakes test is the attitudes that test takers...
From the reflective epractitioner: a pilot model of teacher preparation employing eportfolio, Faculty of Education - Papers (2012)
Literacy is changing significantly alongside the prolific emergence of new technologies. The emergence of these...
Digital images and the z-axis, Faculty of Education - Papers (2010)
This article argues that while a semiotic analysis of composition in thescreen, page and image...
Contributions to Books
Icons as ideology: A media construction, Mediating ideology in text and image: ten critical studies (2006)
Despite mass-produce images being predominantly two dimensional, readers usually perceive them three dimensionally. The direction,...
Other
Figure/Ground Interview with Dr Theo van Leeuwen (with Theo van Leeuwen and http://www.figureground.caGround) (2013)
Textual Realisations (1999)
The images in children's texts are vessels in which meaning is codified. Images are codified...