Jacky has won a number of awards and fellowships for her work
in education, including:
The University of New South Wales, Faculty of
Life Sciences Teaching Award, 1999
The UNSW Innovative Teaching and Educational
Technology Fellowship, 2002
The UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching
Excellence, 2005
Carrick Associate Fellowship, 2006-2008
Carrick Citation Award, 2007 (with S.Morris,
B.Spehar, & B.Newell)
The Australian Psychological Association
Distinguished Contribution to Education Award, 2008
Australian Learning and Teaching National
Teaching Fellowship, 2010-2012
Apart from the
research areas and
publications that are
relevant to higher education (University student learning and
performance; resilience and well-being; Psychological literacy and
adaptive cognition), Jacky has been involved in the formation and
implementation of policy relevant to education.
Research Training
School, Faculty, and University policy and activities.
See Jacky’s
CV for relevant reports, conference
presentations and activities. In particular, Jacky led the development
of the UNSW Guidelines for
Postgraduate Research Supervision (which remains largely
intact in subsequent revisions;
http://www.chem.unsw.edu.au/postgrad/PhDMScResources/GuidSupvPGR.pdf).
This document was based on a more substantial report,
Optimising Postgraduate
Research Supervision in the Scientific and Technological Disciplines
(http://www.chem.unsw.edu.au/postgrad/models/TOC1.html),
which contains relevant information for all supervisors and research
postgraduate coordinators. Jacky won the UNSW Faculty of Life Sciences
Teaching Award, the UNSW Innovative Teaching and Educational
Technology Fellowship, and the UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for
Teaching Excellence, primarily for her work in this area.
Undergraduate Psychology Education
School, National, and International policy and activities.
Jacky and colleagues won a Carrick Citation in
2007 for their long-standing work improving the quality of learning
and teaching for first year psychology students.
As part of her Carrick Associate Fellowship
(2006-2008), Jacky and colleagues developed the Graduate Attributes of
the Australian Four-year Psychology Program, much of which was
integrated into the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council
Standards (http://www.apac.psychology.org.au/Content.aspx?ID=1083).
She was also instrumental in creating a presence for the Australian
Psychology Educators Network within the Australian Psychological
Society, as the Teaching, Learning and psychology Interest Group (see
http://www.groups.psychology.org.au/tlpig/). Jacky also revived
the presence of APEN at national conferences, and disseminated the
Australian work at international conferences. See Jacky’s
CV for
relevant reports and publications regarding the Fellowship. The Final
Report,
Sustainable and evidence-based learning and teaching approaches to the
undergraduate psychology curriculum is
also available from
http://www.altc.edu.au/resource-sustainable-evidence-based-learning-psychology-unsw-2008
As part of an Australian Learning and Teaching
Council Discipline Initiative on undergraduate psychology education,
Jacky and colleagues undertook surveys relevant to Year 4, graduates,
and psychology high-school teachers, and created a Vision for the
Future of the Psychology Discipline in Australia (which we continue to
pursue!). See Jacky’s
CV for relevant reports and publications
regarding this initiative. The Final Report,
Designing a
diverse, future-oriented vision for undergraduate psychology in
Australia, is available from
http://www.altc.edu.au/project-designing-diverse-future-orientated-unsw-2006
Since 2007, Jacky has served on a number of
national psychology education committees, including the Australian
Psychological Society (APS) Program Development Advisory Committee.
Jacky is currently an Australian Learning and Teaching
Council National Teaching Fellow (ALTC-NTF), working on “National
Standards for Psychological Literacy and Global Citizenship”. Relevant documents include the Green Paper and Final Report.
Jacky received the Australian Psychological
Association Distinguished Contribution to Education Award for these
achievements in national psychology education.
Internationally, Jacky has been fortunate to be
involved in the following activities:
1.
The creation of Diane Halpern’s (2010)
“Undergraduate Education in Psychology: a Blueprint for the future of
the Discipline” book, the writing of which involved travel to the
U.S.A. to write the core of each team-written chapter (Jacky
coauthored McGovern et al.’s Chapter 1, which introduced the concepts
of psychological literacy and the psychologically literate citizen).
2.
Chair of the 4th International Conference on
Psychology Education, Sydney, July 8-11, 2010.
3.
The report “The Future of Undergraduate Psychology
Education”, which involved travel to the UK to facilitate a retreat
that forms the basis for the chapter writing primarily by Annie Trapp
and members of the British Psychological Society, the Heads of
Departments of Psychology Association, and the UK HEA Psychology
Network.
Higher Education
As indicated by her research and by the title of her
ALTC-NTF, Jacky is interested in broad issues in tertiary education,
such as student well-being, student learning, and outcomes such as
global citizenship. As such she attends and contributes to
international conferences such as ISSoTL and AERA, and she is
currently a member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee of the
Academic Board at UNSW. Through avenues such as the ALTC Fellows
Forum, she continues to learn about and contribute to improving
outcomes for university students in general.
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