At the University of Queensland, I have seven years of experience in teaching politics and policymaking courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Since 2017 I have been requested by staff to teach into their subjects on a regular basis, or take over coordination, thus demonstrating not only my ability to engage and work effectively with students but also with staff. In terms of developing and coordinating courses, the courses include:

• 2017-2018: postgraduate Comparative Public Policy (POLS7113) after tutoring in 2016 and suggesting amendments to the course structure
• 2019-20: undergraduate Principles of Research: Social and Comparative Perspectives (POLS2703) with significant redesign to ground more in practice
• 2020: postgraduate Foundations in Public Policy (POLS7012) (on-line only) incorporating quizzes and padlets to adapt to online delivery
• 2020: postgraduate Knowledge and Evidence in Public Policy (POLS7114) redesigned for online delivery with guest lecturers from across Australia and greater focus on theoretical frameworks.
• 2021: postgraduate Research Methods (POLS7701) incorporating a greater focus on standpoints, values and ethics as well as critical realism
• 2021: postgraduate Dynamics of Governance (POLS7101) merging the online and face-to-face classes to allow for greater flexibility during COVID, and incorporating padlets for analysis of the readings

I have also tutored a range of courses, including:

• 2018-21: Politics, Philosophy and Economics 2 (undergraduate, 2^nd year)
• 2017-21: Dynamics of Public Policy (postgraduate)
• 2017-19: Knowledge and Evidence in Public Policy (postgraduate)
• 2017: Introduction to Political Ideas (undergraduate, 1^st year)
• 2016: Comparative Public Policy (postgraduate)
• 2015-17: Introduction to Politics and Policy (undergraduate, 1^st year)

At the international level, I have developed and taught executive-level short courses for external delivery in public sector agencies in Papua New Guinea (PNG) since 2016 (for UQID). These courses are for senior public servants to develop their policy and policy-writing capacity.  Following this, I was approached by UQID to lead a (successful) tender for a short course (on-line) for mainstreaming Gender Equity, Disability and Social Inclusion in the Philippines public sector in 2020. In developing these courses, I have adapted to the cross-cultural context, ensuring the content is relevant to the context within which they work. For example, I teach Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) which recognises the challenges in developing and implementing policy in the global south.

I have a growing body of experience in developing exclusively on-line courses. In 2019, I developed the Small Private Online Course (SPOC) for POLSIS (Professional Writing for Government) using EdX, in collaboration with the HASS learning support team. The previously mentioned course on mainstreaming GEDSI for the Philippines used a combination of EdX, Zoom workshops and collaboration through Google Docs and Padlets. I have also recently developed online course material to develop the capacity of the PNG public servants working on the review of the GESI policy I am leading using Howspace and Zoom workshops, and lead an online workshop on Writing International Relations for PNG.

In 2017, as a demonstration of my commitment to effective teaching practice, I completed UQ’s professional development course for academic teaching – Teaching@UQ. Even prior to 2020, I committed to the use of technology and innovation to enhance teaching and research. This served me well during 2020 when we needed to pivot to online teaching. Despite the difficulties inherent in moving away from face-to-face contact, for POLS2703 in Semester 1, students agreed very strongly that I used the online learning environment effectively. I now actively incorporate online collaborative tools such as google docs and padlets and have found on-line quizzes to be a useful means of re-engaging with recorded lecture content. Informal feedback from students indicate that they appreciate these approaches, for example:

• I found the weekly padlet exercises very helpful. Taking what we’d just heard in the lecture recordings and read about in the articles and then discussing our perspectives really helped to bed down my understanding of the topics and concepts.

I am regularly asked to deliver guest lectures on a range of public policy and practice topics.