Associate Professor Kim Blackmore is a Senior Fellow in the School of Engineering. She is interested in distributed and decentralised systems that support and enable local action for the greater good across a wide range of domains. Kim has a particular interest in the human, technological and ecological systems that constitute higher education. She currently leads the education stream within the ANU Centre for Energy Systems (ACES), where she focuses on translating energy systems research into impactful vocational and professional training to support the workforce required for a decarbonised, net zero energy sector.

Kim has been a leader of educational innovation in higher education and an early adopter of technology to improve teaching and learning. As Convener of the Digital Learning Project in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP), Kim led the team that created the world’s first bilingual MOOC. As an academic in the Research School of Engineering, Kim has taught Signals and Systems, Communications Technologies, Modelling and Optimisation, and Responsible Innovation. Kim established a higher degree research student mentoring program and managed student project-based learning. Kim founded the Educational Development Group for the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science and was a leader of the Engineering Hubs and Spokes project, which included sharing design, development and delivery of courses with the University of South Australia. As Engineering Education Strategist, Kim developed operational and logistical plans for problem-based learning in the Systems Design core of the Bachelor of Engineering degree.

Kim has been Director of Learning and Teaching at the University of Canberra (UC) and at ANU. At UC, Kim managed the education quality, innovation, and technology functions of the university, as well as the library and careers services. Key projects at UC included a whole-of-institution curriculum review and roll-out of a new learning management system. At ANU, Kim led the Interactive Learning Project, a strategic initiative to leverage social interaction to activate on-campus learning, and led the Centre for Learning and Teaching through the pivot to remote learning during COVID-19. Most recently, she has led research-driven education initiatives at ACES, including consumer engagement training for installers, online capacity-building for variable renewable energy deployment in Southeast Asia, and knowledge translation around vehicle-to-grid and distributed energy resource integration. She also leads development of the Virtuous Loop, a feedback platform that makes assessment more meaningful and multi-perspective across students, tutors and conveners.

PhD, BSc, Grad Dip Ed

• Decarbonisation and Just Energy Transitions

• Learning Systems and Knowledge Translation

• Systems Thinking and Applied Cybernetics

• Feedback Systems and Educational Innovation

• Stakeholder Engagement and Participatory Design

• Circular Economy and Localised Systems

Earlier work

• Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition

• Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

• Anomalous change detection in communication systems

• Document image processing