2024 AAUT Assessor Briefing Session
26 September, 2024
This session is by invitation only.
10 September, 2024
You are invited to attend the upcoming T&L Breakfast Session with Associate Professor Kerry Bodle (Griffith University), 2023 AAUT Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Education and 2024 Australian Accounting Academic of the Year.
This session will be delivered in person at the University of South Australia, City West Campus, and livestreamed online via ZOOM.
Why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture is important in business curriculum
- Associate Professor Kerry Bodle (Griffith University) 2023 AAUT Award Winner
- Thursday 12th September 2024 8-9am (Adelaide time), (8:30 – 9:30am AEST)
- Hosted by the Teaching Innovation Unit, and the Australian Awards for University Teaching
Abstract
To enhance students’ cultural competency when engaging with First Australians, a storytelling teaching pedagogy was adopted. My teaching pedagogy is based on “informal yarning, telling stories about my journey” to “engage students to become more conscious of the Aboriginal knowledges, to provide an opportunity for students to embrace what they did not know, what they were already familiar with, and what they can learn to through critical reflection. This was done by acknowledging, valuing and respecting Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing, as well as the students’ own cultural values and beliefs”. To implement this vision, I have adopted a co-designed approach which fostered collaboration and participation from Indigenous and non-Indigenous staff and students developing a mix of authentic and traditional hybrid of resources, assessments, and technology.
Presenter Biography
Associate Professor Kerry Bodle is passionate about empowering young Indigenous people to embrace business as a potential career, embedding Indigenous content into traditional business education curriculum and using community-led research to break down barriers to ensure success for Indigenous people, businesses, and communities. Her mother was born in Cherbourg, Qld – Wakka Nation, and was removed as part of the ‘Stolen Generation’. While studying accounting she witnessed the lack of Indigenous content in any of the business courses. After completing her PhD (2013), Kerry provided leadership in transforming the business curriculum using storytelling and co-design approaches to create a pioneering standalone course bringing about greater understanding of Indigenous history, knowledge and culture across all aspects of Australian business and society. She demonstrates strong strategic, organisational and change management skills and works with and leads a range of academic and professional staff in a demanding and changing environment.
Delivering transformative, immersive, and authentic work-integrated learning on-campus: experiences of the Bridge of Hope Innocence Initiative (BOHII) RMIT
7 August, 2024
This is the second session of the AAUT/UniSA Teaching & Learning Breakfast Series, showcasing the award-winning initiatives of AAUT recipients from institutions across Australia.
- Professor Michele Ruyters (RMIT), 2023 AAUT Program Award Winner
- Hosted by the UniSA Teaching Innovation Unit and the Australian Awards for University Teaching
Abstract
Established at RMIT University in 2014, the Bridge of Hope Innocence Initiative (BOHII), is a multi-disciplinary campus workplace. Student interns collaborate with academics and industry professionals to investigate wrongful conviction claims and raise awareness about errors in the criminal justice system. BOHII’s workplace design enables students to develop and apply transferable employability skills in real-world contexts.
Since 2014, the Bridge of Hope Innocence Initiative (BOHII) teaching team has spearheaded a transformative and immersive work-integrated learning experience for students. BOHII internship students work collaboratively with academics and industry professionals to investigate wrongful conviction claims and raise public awareness about errors in the criminal justice system. BOHII is the only Australian innocence project to be created as an internship model and provides internship opportunities for RMIT students and cross-institutional students. Annually, up to 45 students undertake 50-day or 20-day internships to research the merits of claims and uncover factual errors that might establish a person’s innocence.
BOHII’s workplace design enables students to develop and practice transferable employability skills in real-world situations, including interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, resilience and self-care, critical thinking, collaborative working, and research. The team’s expertise in law, criminology, psychology, and education support BOHII’s multi-disciplinary focus and emphasis on professional skills, while BOHII’s embedded industry linkages provide cross-sectoral experiences that are generally not available in standard internships. BOHII’s strong industry links through legal entities, experts and alumni continuously expand the network of professionals who support BOHII, while media coverage of BOHII’s investigations have raised the profile of wrongful convictions in Australia and of RMIT graduates.
Presenter Bio
Michele Ruyters is the Associate Dean, Criminology and Justice Studies and the founder and director of the Bridge of Hope Innocence Initiative and the Criminal Case Review Project at RMIT University. Michele’s practice and research interests are in wrongful convictions and lived experiences of miscarriages of justice.