SoTL and Higher Education Research: Common Ground or Contested Territory?

SoTL and Higher Education Research: Common Ground or Contested Territory?

What is the relationship between SoTL and higher education research, and why do the distinctions matter? How do universities’ shifting priorities and contexts affect this relationship? 

Hosted by the Adelaide University Higher Education Research Network (HERN), this sector-wide panel brings together Prof Mollie Dollinger (Curtin University), Prof Ed Palmer (Adelaide University) and Prof Bruce MacFarlane (Durham University) to explore different perspectives on where these fields overlap, diverge, and influence academic work across the higher education sector. Open to anyone in Australia or internationally with an interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and higher education research.

Panellists

• Professor Edward Palmer – Adelaide University | President, HERDSA

• Professor Mollie Dollinger – Curtin University

• Professor Bruce Macfarlane – Durham University, UK