Academic Profile - Associate Professor Melanie Williams
ASSOCIATE DEAN (SCHOLARSHIP)
Biography
Associate Professor Melanie Williams joined William Angliss Institute in 2016, where her primary role is to lead and support teaching staff across the Institute to take a scholarly approach to improving the quality of their learning and teaching practice. She has held previous teaching, research, academic development, management and project management roles at RMIT University, the University of Melbourne, Kangan TAFE and in the Adult Community Education sector. For over ten years Melanie ran her own consulting business providing specialist services and advice in academic development and scholarship to tertiary education institutions and scenario planning facilitation in a range of organisations. She conducted national seminal research into scholarly practice in mixed-sector educational contexts and has led sectoral discourse in this area. Melanie's doctoral studies investigated worldview transformation through engagement in scenario planning. She continues to build on this work through employing a transformative and futures-oriented approach to academic development and scholarly practice. Originally trained as a secondary teacher, Melanie's career has spanned the school, Adult Community Education, TAFE and Higher Education sectors.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, 2016
- Master of Education (by research), RMIT University, 2004
- Graduate Certificate in Training (Action Learning), Kangan Batman TAFE, 1999
- Diploman of Education (Secondary), University of Melbourne, 1984
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne, 1982
Areas of expertise
- Scholarship of Learning and Teaching
- Curriculum design and development
- Transformative learning
- Action research/action learning
- Scenario planning
- VET graded assessment
FOR MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY SUPERVISORY ENQUIRIES CONTACT:
E: melanie.williams@angliss.edu.au
ResearchGate
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List of research publications
Associate Professor Melanie Williams' research publications
Academic/professional awards
- International Specialist Skills VET Fellow 2018
- Otago University Women’s Prize 1979
Professional Memberships
- Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia
- Australian Vocational Education & Training Research Association
