Lesley Treleaven
PhD (UTS), GDSE (HAC), BA Hons (USyd)
Senior Lecturer
lesley.treleaven@sydney.edu.au
Room 336
H04 - Merewether Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9036 7159
Fax: +61 2 9351 6620
Dr Lesley Treleaven joined Learning and Teaching in Business in March 2006 as the Senior Academic Adviser. Lesley gained her PhD at UTS for an interdisciplinary study spanning adult education, organisational change and professional development in higher education. She brings over twenty years academic experience with a strong commitment to innovative approaches that enable students to learn deeply, actively and collaboratively. She developed From Specialist Advice to Learning Partnerships, a model of cross-university collaboration for major curriculum innovation, in a large undergraduate core business subject, that was recognised in 2002 UWS Vice Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Awards. She has based her work on research-led teaching, having been awarded three teaching development grants and published widely on collaborative online learning. She has supervised research students and taught a range of business subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels including organisational behaviour, organisational learning and development, organisational change and participatory action research and qualitative research methods.
Lesley is chief investigator on an ARC Linkage Grant (link to Illawarra Forum ARC site) investigating, with an industry partner and several doctoral students, how local and tacit knowledge of community service workers can be brought forward and fully utilised in whole-of-government planning. This research builds on earlier studies into the challenges of managing and sharing knowledge in the domain of Human Services and NGOs. It promises to have wider applications by developing a theoretical basis for theorising tacit knowledge that academics draw on in their teaching practice and for understanding knowledge sharing within and across distributed communities of practice.
Lesley reviews regularly for Action Research, Journal of Organisational Change Management, Organizational Studies, British Journal of Management, Studies in Continuing Education, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal Australian Journal of Educational Technology. She is also a founding member of the Integration and Implementation Sciences Network (www.anu.edu.au/iisn).
Research Expertise
- Applications of postmodern approaches to knowledge in organisations, especially knowledge sharing across distributed networks
- Organisational change and leadership
- Research methodologies: collaborative action research, critical discourse analysis
- Computer-mediated communication and electronic organisational discourse
- Web-based collaborative learning and teaching
- NGOs and public service organisations providing human services