Kellie Morrison
Sessional and PASS Staff Development Manager
kellie.morrison@sydney.edu.au
Room 258
H04 - Merewether Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 6989
Fax: +61 2 9351 6620
Kellie Morrison joined the Business School as Learning Adviser in Learning and Teaching in Business. Kellie's primary role is to assist students at risk of failure, improve students' academic performance and their engagement with their studies. The first program she is piloting to support students in traditionally challenging Units of Study is the PASS program (Peer Assisted Study Sessions). PASS involves high achieving students returning to assist the next year's cohort of students and has been successfully implemented at the University of Melbourne and elsewhere.
Coming from the University of Newcastle where she spent 12 years in various roles including Learning Adviser, she brings substantial experience in developing, coordinating and evaluating academic support programs. She has taught a broad range of undergraduate units of study in Education and Arts at Newcastle and worked as a consultant with the NSW Priority Action Schools Program. Kellie has a BEd (Hon) from the University of Newcastle and a Masters (TESOL) from the University of South Australia and is in the final stage of completing her PhD analysing the national policy approaches to students experiencing factors which place them at risk of educational failure. Kellie has researched and published in a range of areas including pedagogy, the push for professional teaching standards in education, educational policy as it relates to social inclusion and exclusion, gender and education, values and multi-faith education curricula, and the PhD examination process. Her current research interests are primarily focussed on education policy analysis as well as supporting tertiary students' critical reasoning abilities and the use of reflective journals in developing these skills. She is also currently research the use of Learning Journals in the development of graduate attributes.