About Mike

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I was born in the Australian Capital Territory and grew up near Manchester, England.  I’ve held lecturing and educational leadership positions and supported professional development for educators in the UK, Asia, and Australia since the mid-1990s.  I love music, athletics, philosophy, and literature.

I’m a project director at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales, a teaching associate in the Faculty of Education at Monash University in Melbourne, and a PhD candidate in education at UCL in London. 

 
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CV

Education

  • 2017 – present Institute of Education, University College London, PhD in Education (in progress)

  • 1994 – 1995 University of Leicester, Graduate Certificate in Education with UK Qualified Teacher Status

  • 1991 – 1994 Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, MA English Language and Literature (First Class Honours)

Professional Experience

  • 2023 – present Director, Projects
    Charles Sturt University, New South Wales
    Led a whole-institution learning management system transition project

  • 2017 – 2023 Director, Education Enhancement / Teaching Associate
    Monash University, Victoria
    Responsible for cross-institute education and technology projects and the Learning Transformation initiative

  • 2014 – 2017 Associate Director, Centre for University Teaching and Learning,
    Murdoch University, WA
    Led team focused on academic learning support, educational technologies, pre-university enabling programmes, work integrated learning, research training
    Co-ordinated professional learning programmes for educators in Australia and Singapore; co-led the Murdoch University Learning and Teaching Certificate

  • 2007 – 2014 Vice Principal / Acting Principal, Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, UK
    Led cross-institutional curriculum development, quality improvement, HR, professional learning
    Responsible for two successful inspections by UK national regulator, OFSTED

  • 2004  – 2007 Director of Learning, Luton Sixth Form College, Luton, UK

  • 1998 – 2004 Head of School of English, Runshaw College, Lancashire, UK

  • 1998 Lecturer, Oldham College

  • 1995 – 1997 Lecturer, John Leggott College