Associate Professor
Jennifer Clifton
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Biography
Associate Professor Jennifer Clifton is an experienced educator and researcher. She is currently the Academic Director (Professional Experience) in the School of Teaching School of Teacher Education & Leadership. Jen is well renowned for alternative models of professional experience based on school-university partnership, which focuses on shared responsibility and employability of graduates. She has led several national and state-wide projects, including a Supporting New Teachers grant ($1.3M) funded by DET Victoria for $1.3M. She has also led and project managed the Teaching Academies of Professional Practice, where she developed a coaching approach to professional experience. She brings a comprehensive research profile of researching with industry in the fields of school-university-system partnership approaches to professional experience, third space and health education. She is a theme leader for Theme Leader (Educators, teachers and professionalism) of the Digital Learning for Change (DL4C) Research Group.Jen has a strong background and national standing in teacher education. She is currently a representative in the national Australian Teacher Education Association executive and is a nominated AITSL accreditation member.
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor of Teacher Education
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosphy (Central Queensland University)
Professional memberships and associations
Executive Committee Member – Australian Teacher Educators’ Association (ATEA)
Theme Leader (Educators, teachers and professionalism) of the Digital Learning for Change (DL4C) Research Group
Member of the Teacher and Teaching Research Group (TTRG)
Theme Leader (Educators, teachers and professionalism) of the Digital Learning for Change (DL4C) Research Group
Member of the Teacher and Teaching Research Group (TTRG)
Teaching
As Academic Director (Professional Experience) I oversee the scope and sequence of the Professional Experience units. I teach (or have previously taught) a variety of subjects to postgraduate and undergraduate students including health education, social justice, arts education and transition to the profession.
My teaching has been acknowledged in a number of awards and commendations, including innovation in teaching (redesign of first year WIL), university-level teaching award (early-career academic) and for innovated curriculum from the Australian Curriculum Studies Association.
I have also been involved in a number of teaching and learning grants that focused on different innovations including:
My teaching has been acknowledged in a number of awards and commendations, including innovation in teaching (redesign of first year WIL), university-level teaching award (early-career academic) and for innovated curriculum from the Australian Curriculum Studies Association.
I have also been involved in a number of teaching and learning grants that focused on different innovations including:
- Adopting 360-degree videos to develop preservice teachers’ perceptual awareness: Researching opportunities to enhance work-integrated learning in initial teacher education ($10, 000).
- Redesigning a flexible and sustainable Work Integrated Learning Program ($49, 093)
- Industry Partnership for Graduate Futures ($51, 600)
- Alternatives to Traditional Models of Instruction: Interteaching ($50, 000)
- Building and Sustaining Critical Pedagogy and Effective Feedback Strategies within Communities of Practice ($50,000)
Selected publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Jennifer, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Work Integrated Learning (WIL): The architecture profession's view
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Philip Crowther, Associate Professor Lindy Osborne Burton - Early Career Teachers' Knowledge of Working with Teacher Aides in General Classroom Support Roles
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Timothy Lehmann