Building Institutional Capacity

for Student Diversity Building institutional capacity to enhance access, participation and progression in Work Integrated Learning (WIL): An Office for Learning and Teaching Funded Project.

Support for this webinar has been provided by the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The views in this webinar do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching.

Chair: Sonia Ferns, Curtin, ACEN WA

Co-moderator: Dr Deborah Peach, QUT, Project Leader

Tech Support: Dave Spann

Guest Speakers:

Leoni Russell, RMIT

Judith Smith, QUT

Webinar # 3: 29 April 2015

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Where are you?

• Welcome & Introductions: Sonia Ferns, Curtin University • Project Overview: Dr Deborah Peach, QUT • Principles and Guidelines: Jacqueline Mackaway, Macquarie University • Keynote Presentation: Challenges and highlights of promoting and building institutional infrastructure to actualise an

approach to WIL that is inclusive to all students. – Leoni Russell, RMIT

• Keynote Presentation: The ways in which a range of inclusive strategies and resources have been developed and

implemented at institutional level to support students’ access and participation in WIL. – Judith Smith, QUT

• Discussion: Facilitated by Sonia Ferns • Invitation to contribute Examples of Inclusive WIL: Jacqueline Mackaway

• Conclusion: Sonia Ferns • Feedback poll

• Farewell

Overview of Webinar

Project Overview

Dr Deborah Peach Project Leader, QUT

The Project Team

Dr Deborah Peach Project Leader, QUT

Matthew Campbell Project Co-Leader, Griffith/QIBT

Dr Keri Moore Project Co-Leader, Southern Cross University

Dr Theresa Winchester-Seeto Project Team Member, Macquarie University

Sonia Ferns Project Team Member, Curtin University

Jacqueline Mackaway Research Assistant, Macquarie University

Lainie Groundwater Project Officer, QUT

Project Phases

Principles and Guidelines Jacqueline Mackaway

Jacqueline Mackaway is currently a PhD candidate at Macquarie University. Her area of interest is inclusive practice in work integrated learning, particularly from an employer perspective. Jacqueline has previously worked as a Program Research and Development Officer in Macquarie University’s Learning and Teaching Centre, working largely on research based projects related to the university’s Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) initiative. In a prior life Jacqueline worked in Human Resource Management for 15 years, with roles in professional development and change management across a range of sectors in the Asia Pacific region.

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Guest Speaker: Leoni Russell

Leoni is a Senior Educational Advisor within the Office of the Dean Learning and Teaching at RMIT. Her multi-sector experience includes teaching, policy and curriculum development, managing teaching and learning projects and resource development. She provides academic educational support to build staff capability across a range of educational strategies including work integrated learning (WIL). In her previous role at Victoria University, she played a leadership role in the university-wide strategic initiative to make WIL a key feature of all courses, developed and implemented policy and supporting procedures to assist staff and students in their WIL initiatives. Leoni was a lead team member on the OLT project “Assessing the impact of WIL on student work-readiness” and a member of the ‘WIL Leadership’ project.

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• Barriers specific to your institution

• Immovable/movable barriers

• Institutional approach and impact on policy • Strategies for engaging institutional leaders

Guest Speaker: Judith Smith

Judith Smith is Associate Director, Academic – Real World Learning at Queensland University of Technology. In this role she is responsible for providing university-wide leadership to Real World Learning and Work Integrated Learning in strategy, policy, curriculum and pedagogy. She is currently leading a number of cross-institutional initiatives including the Community Engaged Learning Lab, which is enabling and supporting interdisciplinary initiatives in the curriculum across QUT faculties. Previous to this role she was the academic coordinator for the Transition to Professional Environments Program in the Creative Industries Faculty. She has been a chief investigator on an ARC Discovery project researching electronic portfolio assessment in the arts and has received a Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for active and authentic learning

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Institutional strategies supporting inclusive WIL

Judith Smith

Associate Director, Academic - Real World Learning

Queensland University of Technology

Institutional strategies supporting inclusive WIL

Judith Smith

Associate Director, Academic - Real World Learning

Queensland University of Technology

industry and community

projects fieldwork

placements

WIL Curriculum providing flexible options for students

(where possible)

service learning

practicum

internships

virtual placements

study tour

enabling partnerships

Using research and data from stakeholders

to inform change

WIL Community of Practice

Interprofessional collaboration

through committees and working

parties

Students and industry as partners in WIL

curriculum design

Strategies supporting students

Example - financial difficulties

• one website for support instead of many

• more information for students early in their course/program around preparing for WIL

• advice about how to get support with financial difficulties in shared induction materials

• WIL scholarships

For QUT students undertaking placements

Managing your rights, responsibilities and safety

on placement

Extract from student induction slides: Struggling financially?

If you are struggling financially, you can talk about options with a QUT Welfare

Officer by contacting us through:

• The QUT Financial Helpline 1800 209 587

• Emailing welfare@qut.edu.au

• Making an appointment at Counselling Services on each campus.

How might a Welfare Officer be able to help?

• WIL Scholarships

• SFAS loans – no interest loans for unexpected education and living costs. Go

to:http://www.student.qut.edu.au/fees-and-finances/financial-help-and-

support/student-financial-assistance-scheme

• E- bursaries - up to $750 for students experiencing difficulty due to an

unanticipated financial situation

• Centrelink information and advocacy

Strategies supporting staff

Examples:

• The scenario based professional learning activities on WIL Risk management for all WIL staff (academic and professional)

• WIL Community of Practice - hot topics e.g. supporting students with mental health issues Resource: Student suitability for placement - Guide for WIL staff

Strategies supporting industry

Examples:

• Resources and professional development for industry supervisors including supervisors of interns on campus. Resource: QUT Industry Supervisors Information Pack

• Sharing initiatives supporting WIL participation for international students and EAL students – Stories to industry promoting benefits

Inplace System supporting access

• Institutional wide WIL system – supporting suitability of students, placements and partners and partnership management

• Equity Officers being provided access to student placement information through InPlace to assist in the assessment of WIL scholarship applications

• A QUT funded enhancement to InPlace to enable students to see the names and email addresses other students going to the same placement site at the same time. NOTE: This feature is available to all universities with InPlace.

Policy, protocols and practices

Examples:

• Protocol associated with student disclosure to assist with the provision of appropriate adjustments – right to privacy and to be safe in the workplace

– responsibility to minimise risk to yourself or others

• QUT’s Real World Learning 2020 Vision

– WIL

– valuing student diversity

– inclusive pedagogies and practices

Lesson learnt

• Collaboration across boundaries is essential to building understanding and improving practice

• Remember local contexts are very different

• Listen to students, staff and partners and ask questions

• Stories are powerful

Judith Smith

Associate Director, Academic – Real World Learning

QUT Learning and Teaching Unit

je.smith@qut.edu.au

More information: https://www.intranet.qut.edu.au/teaching/course-and-

unit-design/work-integrated-learning-wil/manage-wil-risk

Discussion Prompts

• The challenges of supporting students with mental health issues

• Workable solutions across professional interest areas • Models of student and industry partnerships in curriculum

design • InPlace across the institution

Examples of Inclusive WIL Practice

If you wish to contribute examples of inclusive WIL practice, please contact Jacqueline Mackaway, Project Research Assistant at: jacqueline.mackaway@mq.edu.au. Alternatively, download a vignette template from the project website at: http://tinyurl.com/meh67cx

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Thanks and Farewell

We look forward to working with you in the final phase of the project.