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2019 AAUTY Interview at the UA Conference

10 August, 2020

2019 Australian University Teacher of the Year Interview The Psychology of Criminal Justice Click here to watch Professor Blake McKimmie’s interview at this year UA Conference dinner.

2021 AAUT Ceremony Date Change

6 August, 2020

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Universities Australia has rescheduled the AAUT Ceremony to the evening of Wednesday 2nd June 2021, immediately prior to the Universities Australia Higher Education Conference (2-4 June 2021).

2020 Prize Money

4 August, 2020

We are pleased to confirm that winners of both Teaching and Program awards will receive $15,000 prize money in recognition of their contribution to teaching and learning in higher education. The winner of the prestigious award for Australian University Teacher of the Year will receive an additional $30,000.

The Australian Awarded University Teachers’ Network (AAUTN) provides support, promotion and networking opportunities for Australia’s award winning teachers, in order to champion excellence in learning and teaching.

The Network is comprised of outstanding university educators, all of whom have received Australian University Teacher of the Year Awards, Awards for Teaching Excellence or Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

This website is designed to showcase and promote these teachers and provide them with an online resource for networking, professional development, mentoring and career support. It is also intended to be a resource for aspiring award applicants, providing information and advice on preparing for and developing an award application.

For more details on Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT), please visit AAUT-UA website.

UQ School of Psychology Professor Blake McKimmie, Barbara Masser and Mark Horswill transform student engagement and learning in The Psychology of Criminal Justice, which enrols close to 100 students annually.

The team carefully designed learning activities that interleave with the videos so that students are motivated, week by week, to analyse the issues that arise within filmed events. People are intrigued by crime and punishment; this team has tapped into students’ natural motivations to work out ‘whodunit’ and to see justice done, in designing the course learning and assessment exercises around the narrative of the crime drama.

Additionally, the team has outstanding content knowledge in the psychology of law. Blake McKimmie is one of Queens- land’s most accomplished researchers in the area; for instance, one of his policy pieces has influenced jury selection processes in Queensland courts. Barbara Masser is an expert on social processes including prejudice, discrimination and bias, all of which must be monitored during criminal proceedings. Mark Horswill is an expert on human factors, visual perception and decision-making. These complimentary areas of expertise provide exceptional content breadth, from eye-witness validity to police questioning techniques to jury selection and instruction.