Hello, and welcome to my personal website. My name is Dr. Phillip (Phill) Dawson, and I am an Australian academic working at Monash University as a Lecturer in the Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching). I teach in the Graduate Certificate of Higher Education. My research explores the connection between research and practice in higher education, with a particular focus on peer learning and educational technology.
I completed my Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Wollongong in 2010 under the supervision of Profs Lori Lockyer and Brian Ferry. My thesis examined online mentoring as a way of supporting geographically dispersed Supplemental Instruction Leaders. This project came out of my work with the National Centre for Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) at UOW. I also attained my Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) at UOW and taught Educational Technology, Computer Science, and Information Technology.
Between mid-2009 and mid-2011 I worked at Deakin University's Warrnambool campus on the design and implementation of the Associate Degree of Arts, Business and Sciences.
I am the Editor of the Journal of Peer Learning (formerly Australasian Journal of Peer Learning), which is a relatively new journal founded by myself and colleagues in 2008. This journal is open access, which means that everyone has free access to the great work it contains. It is the only journal dedicated to peer learning, and it is on the Australian Research Council's Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) list.
Recent publications
Examining how an Online Mentoring Model may support new Supplemental Instruction Leaders (PhD thesis, University of Wollongong, 2010)
Researching Student Contributions to the Read-Write Web: Ethics and Consent in a Public Place (Paper presented at Contemporary Approaches to Research in Mathematics, Science, Health and Environmental Education, Deakin University, 2010)
Networked interactive whiteboards: Rationale, affordances and new pedagogies for regional Australian higher education (Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010)
Editorial (Australasian Journal of Peer Learning, 2010)
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