HERDSA Notices 22 March 2023

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* Last chance to vote: HERDSA Executive Elections 2023-2025
* HERDSA Webinar - Bringing together psychological influences, social and environmental aspects for improved graduate preparation
* HERDSA Conference Grants available
* Voices of Connection, Healing and Impact
* HERDSA Webinar - Sustainability Development Goals and Higher Education
* Keynote speakers announced
* AI-Powered Tools in Higher Education Series
* Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium
* Join the JANZSSA Editorial Board
* Post-doctoral opportunity for education researcher
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development

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Last chance to vote: HERDSA Executive Elections 2023-2025

Today is your last change to vote for the HERDSA Executive 2023-2025.

To view and cast your vote for the members who have nominated please go to https://www.herdsa.org.au/executive-election-2023 and vote on your selection of NINE (9) candidates for the 2023-2025 HERDSA Executive. 

NOTE: You must log into the HERDSA web site with your email and password to view the ballot form and cast your votes for the candidates you would like to represent you on the HERDSA Executive.

Voting will  close at 5.00pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings time today 22 March 2023.

Members will be advised of the outcome of the voting by Jennifer Ungaro, HERDSA Returning Officer as soon as possible after all candidates have been notified of the election results.

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HERDSA Webinar - Bringing together psychological influences, social and environmental aspects for improved graduate preparation
Thursday 23rd March 2023 - 1.00 - 2.00pm AEDT

Research is emerging on identified functional (how-to) cognitive aspects of employability. Higher education graduates from all disciplines encounter multifaceted and precarious working lives that feature multiple transitions, complex employment arrangements and often a do-it-yourself career management plan to achieve meaningful paid work.

The Australian Government introduced The Job-ready Graduates package that ‘invests in higher education in areas of national priority’ (www.education.gov.au). It is a priority, therefore, for tertiary providers to renew curriculum with value-added Work Integrated Learning (WIL) such as contemporary professional practice internship programs.

Sydney Conservatorium of Music has a program to encourage undergraduate BMus students to develop ‘career readiness’ as Australia’s graduate destinations data report these creative workers as having the poorest graduate employment outcomes of all 40 broad higher education disciplines (Graduate Careers Council of Australia, 2020).

An elective as part of their program, our internships are in collaboration with the 17 NSW Regional Cons plus various Arts industry partners and involve a scaffolded process using the Literacies for Life as a conceptual framework to help students understand their career and study confidence. As a student profile tool with accompanying resources, it aims for students to explore their cognitive dispositions and capacity of professionalism and ‘use them to enhance confidence and make informed life and career decisions in line with values and goals’ (www.employability.com.au).

By exploring the specific employability skills that build potential capacity to engage students as future professionals in all related fields we can begin to determine how students successfully transition from an accomplished student to a beginning and employable graduate.

Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series

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HERDSA Conference Grants available
31 March 2023

The HERDSA Executive is pleased to offer the following travel grants in support of HERDSA members attending the 2023 conference. These conference grants can be used to support travel, accommodation, or subsistence of the successful applicant.

The Early Career Conference grant: FIVE grants up to AUD1000 each.

The HERDSA Student Conference grant: ONE grant up to AUD1000.

Taylor & Francis Conference grant: FIVE grants up to AUD500 each.

Conference grant applications deadline:
31 March 2023

You will know before applications close whether your submission has been accepted for the conference. To avoid missing out, please read the application guidelines on the conference website and complete the application form NOW.

Further information: https://conference.herdsa.org.au/2023/grants/

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Voices of Connection, Healing and Impact

Please register by March 31st 2023; https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/voices-of-connection-healing-and-impact-...

HERDSA Victoria, in conjunction with the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences of the University of Melbourne, invites you to Voices of Connection, Healing and Impact where you will engage with colleagues at the Highlights of the Art of Healing Exhibition and over a walk through Wurundjeri Country on the University of Melbourne’s Parkville Campus. The event is free and is open to staff of all Victorian higher education institutions (non-HERDSA members welcome). Register quickly as capacity is limited.

Further information: puspha.sinnayah@vu.edu.au

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HERDSA Webinar - Sustainability Development Goals and Higher Education
1pm AEST, Thursday 27th April 2023

The United Nations has articulated 17 Sustainable Development Goals. My own pedagogical and research interest commenced some while ago where the UN previously declared the ‘Decade of Sustainability’. SDGs have now become a critical point of action for us all. But understanding what to do as educators is problematic. My own field of music can seem rather remote from the aim of zero poverty, but perhaps closer to the aim of good health and well-being or quality education.
In this webinar we will look at how we can embrace these goals as a focus for learning within our curriculum, look at some definitions and what that means for action, and hear some examples from the field of music.

Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series

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Keynote speakers announced
4-7 July 2023

Join our keynote speakers at HERDSA 2023, where we aim to draw together experience, analysis and insight in what has been a rapidly changing environment.

We are pleased to announce Professor David J Hornsby from Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and Carleton University and Dr Mollie Dollinger from Deakin University as keynote speakers for #HERDSA2023.

More keynote speakers to be announced shortly.

Further information: https://conference.herdsa.org.au/2023/keynote-speakers/

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AI-Powered Tools in Higher Education Series
20 March – 2 June 2023

Co-hosted by the United Board and HKBU, this series includes 3 sessions to explore the positioning of AI tools in higher education from international and Asia-based perspectives. Join us to inspire and be inspired by peers from around the world.

Further information: For details: https://chtl.hkbu.edu.hk/workshops/ai-powered-he-series.html Registration: https://chtl-bu.hkbu.edu.hk/regworkshop

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Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium
27 March 2023

The central purpose of the Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium is to bring together people from a range of communities, settings, and traditions.

We envisage receiving proposals from those employed in the school sector, higher education sector, VET sector, government, and industry.

Measurement topics could include for example school improvement, teaching quality, evaluation of school systems, large-scale assessments, test creation, race and educational measurement validity, psychometrics, measuring 21st century skills. Assessment topics could include theory underlying assessment, feedback, formative assessment, automated assessment and AI, authentic assessment, collaborative/group assessment, learning analytics and assessment, equity in assessment, inclusive assessment, policy, assessment and curriculum reform, leading assessment, teacher data literacy.

Proposals are now invited for research presentations in a range of formats.

The Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium is running for the first time in 2023, and will be hosted by the Centre for Educational Measurement and Assessment (CEMA) at The University of Sydney on Thursday 1 June 2023. It will be held primarily in person (face-to-face) in the Abercrombie Building at the Camperdown/Darlington campus in inner city Sydney, but online participation will be available.

Further information: https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/centres-institutes-and-group...

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Join the JANZSSA Editorial Board
Expressions of interest close 30 April 2023

The Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association (JANZSSA) is seeking an Associate Editor.

JANZSSA focuses on the role of student services in post-secondary education in enhancing student engagement, participation, wellbeing, and success. The journal publishes peer reviewed articles, professional papers, and opinion pieces, primarily for student services practitioners and professionals.

Editorial Board members are critical to the publication of JANZSSA. Board members act as peer reviewers for the journal, assessing the quality of manuscripts before they are published. Board members assist in developing thematic editions and actively seek and promote JANZSSA to potential contributors.

As a member of the Editorial Board, you also can influence discussions in the field of student services, highlight promising research, and boost your own professional profile across Australia, New Zealand, and even internationally.

Please note, no specialist experience or knowledge is required to become a Board member.

Further information: https://janzssa.scholasticahq.com/post/1906-join-the-janzssa-editorial-b...

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Post-doctoral opportunity for education researcher

The Innovation Practice Program in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Melbourne is looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher or almost-finished Ph.D. student, at about 50%, for three-five years, to write a series of papers and co-author a book using existing data, and data they will gather.

This is a fabulous opportunity for a smart, ambitious, and creative researcher who is interested in engineering education, education evaluation, education for employability, work-integrated learning, or similar.

Further information: People who are interested in exploring this possibility should write to Peter Cebon: peter.cebon@unimelb.edu.au

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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development

Validating and applying an adapted OSLQ to examine adult learners’ online self-regulation, Feng Lin, Lyndon Lim, Yan Yin Ho, Bao Zhen Tan & Wei Ying Lim, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2183938

The higher degree research student experience in Australian universities: a systematic literature review, Charlotte Brownlow, Douglas C. Eacersall, Neil Martin & Renée Parsons-Smith, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2183939

Collegiality as collective affect: who carries the burden of the labour of attunement? Giedre Kligyte, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2183940

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In the spirit of reconciliation HERDSA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australasia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.