An ICALLD Symposium-Over-Time event
Held on Wednesday, 20 July from 8am-9.30am
New Zealand Standard Time. (View the recording on YouTube)
Many academic learning advisors consider engaging in research and higher degree study, but choosing what, when and how to begin this journey may be complex and fraught with indecision.
Starting and remaining on this journey may be even more challenging for those whose roles do not have clear academic pathways, professional development opportunities, or support for study and research.
If a PhD is part of your past, present or future, or you are interested in what this might mean for your career development, join the next ICALLD Symposium-Over-Time.
ATLAANZ (New Zealand) will host three recent PhD graduates who will share their research and experiences, and reflect on what doctoral research means for professional learning advisors and their current work.
A panel discussion will then provide an opportunity for learning advisors worldwide to ask questions and share experiences and practical suggestions to support those contemplating engaging in higher degree study and research.
Our presenters are:
- Dr Mark Bassett: Learning advisor and lecturer collaborations to embed discipline-specific literacies development in degree programmes
- Dr Nigel Gearing: PhD by publication: Factors affecting the motivation of EFL instructors living permanently in South Korea to learn Korean
- Dr Kaaryn Cater: The benefits and challenges of environmental sensitivity for postsecondary learners: Implications for education policy, practice and institutions
Download intro and karakia:
More about Mark
Mark Bassett is a Learning Advisor and Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, with a particular focus on online learning resource creation. Mark has worked as a learning advisor since 2009, and prior to that, taught English for six years. He holds a PhD in Education and Master of Professional Studies in Language Teaching from the University of Auckland, and he is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Mark’s doctoral research sought to identify a sustainable collaborative model for programme-level embedded literacies development. It is a response to more traditional approaches that position literacy development as ‘support’ for only specific groups of students and as adjunct to the core curriculum. The main finding of the research is a proposed collaborative model for literacy specialists (learning advisors and liaison librarians) and discipline content specialists (lecturers): the Programme-wide Collaborative Model of Embedding Literacies Development.
Download Mark’s PowerPoint slides:
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More about Nigel
Nigel Gearing has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Macquarie University, Sydney. He taught ESL for three years in Aotearoa/New Zealand, EFL and TESOL in the South Korean university system for ten years before relocating to Australia where he taught pathway and foundation courses in Australian universities for four years and was a research assistant on a large qualitative study of multilingualism among pre-service teachers in Sydney. Upon graduation he was employed as a learning and teaching development advisor and learning designer at the University of Auckland where he currently works.
Nigel’s research, PhD by publication: Factors Affecting the Motivation of EFL Instructors Living Permanently in South Korea to learn Korean, is a qualitative study of the experiences that influenced 14 speakers of the international lingua franca in a host nation to learn its minority L1 – in the L2 learning classroom and broader sociocultural and ecological settings. Major transferable findings of this research are being drawn on to inform the forward movement of faculty learning design projects at the University of Auckland.
Download Nigel’s PowerPoint slides:
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More about Kaaryn
Kaaryn Cater has been a Learning Advisor at Whitireia Weltec for 15 years. Through her close work with students, she identified a gap in literature and began researching the impact of neurosensitivity on learning. Subsequently, she completed a PhD at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia, investigating the impact of environmental sensitivity for postsecondary learners.
Kaaryn is particularly interested in helping highly sensitive learners to harness their personal strengths and to mitigate the challenges often associated with high sensitivity within the education context. She is also interested in education policy and driving for neurosensitivity to be acknowledged and understood widely throughout the education sector. Kaaryn is currently writing a practical guide for educators, policymakers, caregivers and highly sensitive learners, and is an active researcher on the Sensitivity Research.com website.
Download Kaaryn’s PowerPoint slides: