I have a BA from the ANU (1982) in modern European languages, a Graduate Diploma in Information Systems from the CCAE (now UC) (1988) and a PhD in engineering education from the ANU (2016). My PhD thesis was entitled "Engineering the curriculum: Towards an adaptive curriculum" (https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/110397).

I am an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in software engineering in the School of Computing, ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics and a member of the Software Intensive Systems Engineering (SISE) and the Education Development (EDU) Groups. 

For 5 years prior to the end of 2017 I was the post graduate coursework convenor for the School of Computing. I was also the course convenor and lecturer for Systems Engineering for Software Engineers (COMP3530/COMP6353), and convenor for Managing Software Development (COMP3120), Managing Software Projects in a Systems Context (COMP8110), Managing Software Quality and Process (COMP4130), Professional Practice I & II (COMP6250 & COMP8260). For the period 2006 to 2012 I was course convenor and lecturer-in-charge for the Software Engineering Group Projects for third and fourth year students (COMP3100 / COMP3500 / COMP4500). For a number of years, I also taught Software Analysis and Design (COMP3110 / COMP6311), Managing Software Projects in a Systems Context (COMP8110) and Software Process (COMP4110).

Prior to joining the ANU as a lecturer in 2005, I had 20 years’ experience in the information technology industry in Australia and the United Kingdom, including establishing a very successful small business which provides bespoke software and consultancy services to the Australian Federal Government in Canberra. 

Awards

I was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy of the UK in 2014. In 2012 I received the Australian Council of Engineering Deans National Award for Engineering Education Excellence and in 2007 I received the “WICked Woman of the Year” award from the Canberra Women in Information and Communication (WIC) for my contribution to developing, encouraging and mentoring young women in industry and at university.

PhD (Engineering Education), ANU;

Grad Dip Information Systems, UC;

BA (Modern European Languages) ANU.

My broad research area is engineering education & curriculum design and development in higher education.

My research includes curriculum design and development in higher education, engineering education and the transfer of learning between university and the workplace, experiential and cooperative learning, personality and successful teams in software engineering, open educational resources (OER) and learning object repositories (LOR), and women in engineering.

The interest in OERs and LORs is centred on how we can design and develop repositories of educational resources that can be re-used, re-purposed and re-combined according to the official curriculum to create courseware and adaptive and personalised educational systems.